Minnesota Dance Theatre, the Glossary
The Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) dance company and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded by Loyce Houlton in 1962 as the Contemporary Dance Playhouse.[1]
Table of Contents
10 relations: City Pages, Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, Dance, Loyce Houlton, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Public Schools, Prince (musician), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker, Theatre de la Jeune Lune.
- 1962 establishments in Minnesota
- Arts organizations based in Minneapolis
- Arts organizations established in 1962
- Dance in Minnesota
- Theatre companies in Minneapolis
City Pages
City Pages was an alternative newspaper serving the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
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Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts (formerly the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center) is a performing arts center and flagship for dance in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Minnesota Dance Theatre and Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts are dance in Minnesota.
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Dance
Dance is an art form, often classified as a sport, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected.
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Loyce Houlton
Loyce Houlton (13 June 1925 – 14 March 1995) was an American dancer, choreographer, dance pedagogue, and arts administrator centered for most of her adult life in Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
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Minneapolis Public Schools
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) or Special School District Number 1 is a public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Minnesota Dance Theatre and Prince (musician) are Culture of Minneapolis.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.
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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker (Щелкунчикъ in Russian pre-revolutionary orthography spelling|Shchelkunchik), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination.
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Theatre de la Jeune Lune
The Theatre de la Jeune Lune was a celebrated theater company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minnesota Dance Theatre and Theatre de la Jeune Lune are Theatre companies in Minneapolis.
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See also
1962 establishments in Minnesota
- Blakeslee Stadium
- Danny's Reasons
- Fergus Falls Wetland Management District
- Fort Snelling State Park
- Hazeltine National Golf Club
- Michael and the Messengers
- Minnesota Dance Theatre
- Minnesota Music Hall of Fame
- PepsiAmericas
- Shingle Creek Crossing
- The Electras (band)
- The Trashmen
Arts organizations based in Minneapolis
- All My Relations Arts
- Altered Esthetics
- Apollo Club of Minneapolis
- Arts Midwest
- Firehouse Theater
- Guthrie Theater
- HUGE Improv Theater
- Handicraft Guild
- Hennepin History Museum
- Iran's House of Art
- James Sewell Ballet
- Jewish Women Artists' Circle
- Midway Contemporary Art
- Mill City Summer Opera
- Minneapolis Arts Commission
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery
- Minnesota Center for Book Arts
- Minnesota Dance Theatre
- Minnesota Opera
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Minnesota Sinfonia
- National Association of Artists' Organizations
- Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association
- Open Book Minneapolis
- Really Spicy Opera
- Red Eye Theater
- Save the Boards
- Somali Museum of Minnesota
- Tapestry Folkdance Center
- The Loft Literary Center
- The Playwrights' Center
- The Southern Theater
- Women's Art Resources of Minnesota
Arts organizations established in 1962
- Association of Norwegian Theatres and Orchestras
- Bronx Council on the Arts
- Children's Book Circle
- Children's Orchestra Society
- Contemporary Irish Art Society
- Council of Fashion Designers of America
- Craigmillar Festival Society
- Grand Teton Music Festival
- Minnesota Dance Theatre
- National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
- Nepal Art Council
Dance in Minnesota
- Ballet Minnesota
- BodyCartography Project
- Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
- James Sewell Ballet
- Live Action Set
- Minnesota Ballet
- Minnesota Dance Theatre
Theatre companies in Minneapolis
- 15 Head Theatre Lab
- Blackout Improv
- Children's Theatre Company
- Firehouse Theater
- In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
- Joking Apart Theater
- Live Action Set
- Minnesota Dance Theatre
- Mixed Blood Theatre Company
- Off-Leash Area
- Sandbox Theatre
- Skewed Visions
- Theatre Pro Rata
- Theatre de la Jeune Lune
- Theatre in the Round Players
- Walking Shadow Theatre Company
- Workhouse Theatre Company
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Dance_Theatre
Also known as The Dance Institute.