Arena Dances

CANDY BOX Dance Festival

ARENA DANCES
Presents the 6th annual
CANDY BOX Dance Festival 2022

Minneapolis- Mathew Janczewski’s ARENA DANCES presents the 6th Annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, a dynamic sampling of featured performances, masterclasses, and public showings. This year’s festival features the work of local Twin Cities artists Body Watani and Shapiro & Smith Dance with a sweet homecoming for choreographer’s Chris Yon/Taryn Griggs headlining at the Southern Theater.

CANDY BOX is a significant platform for the Twin Cities dance community - and unique in its kind - with a wonderful assortment of choreographers, dancers, genres and completion stages of work shown. It is an opportunity for diverse, emerging and established artists to share the performance stage, hold intimate workshops, and gather a range of audiences. From the Featured Performances to the Work-in-Progress showings, question and-answer sessions offer additional insight and rare sneak peeks into the brand new work created by each artist for the Festival. Audiences will see a wide array of local work, each with something different to offer - a unique flavor in every bite.

FEATURED ARTISTS
Body Watani Shapiro & Smith Dance Chris Yon/Taryn Griggs
May 5 | Thursday 7:30pm
May 6 + May 7| Friday + Saturday 7:30pm
May 7 | Saturday 2pm MATINEE show (Pay-as-able)

HAPPY HOUR ARTISTS | $25 Five-Show Pkg (sold online); $12 single
(cash/check/card at the door)
Work-in-progress showings, 5:30-6:30pm
Alys Ayumi Ogura (5/2), Margaret Ogas (5/3), Ayumi Shafer (5/4), Alexandra Bodnarchuk
(5/5), and Emily Michaels King (5/6)
HAPPY HOUR ARTISTS
MASTERCLASS ARTISTS | $20 Five-Class Pkg (sold online); $10 single class
(cash/check/card at the door)
Workshops taught by CANDY BOX artists, 4:00-5:15pm
Alexandra Bodnarchuk (5/2), Leila Awadallah (5/3), Ayumi Shafer (5/4) Chris Yon/Taryn
Griggs (5/5) Laura Selle Virtucio of Shapiro & Smith Dance (5/6)

CANDY BOX Dance Festival
The Southern Theater
1420 Washington Avenue, Minneapolis
Tickets: $21 in Advance/$25 (starting 5/2) General Seating
$18 student/senior (with ID)
www.arena-dances.org

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