Name: Minotaur
Start: 2022-07-14T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2022-07-17T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Tek Box at the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts

Minotaur

Off-Leash Areahas been creating award-winning original productions of contemporary performance for eighteen years.For more, visit our website atwww.offleasharea.org.

Off-Leash Area

Minotaur is Off-Leash Area's newest performance work exploring gender power and inequality.

Tek Box at the Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts

Inspired by the ancient myth of the violent, labyrinth bound half-bull and half-man creature, Off-Leash Area&#x27;s new production Minotaur reimagines the story as a metaphor for destroying patriarchy and its overlapping systems of oppression.With Minotaur, OLA Co-Artistic Directors, choreographer Jennifer Ilse and production designer Paul Herwig, lead a gender-diverse, multi-generational, and fiery cast to take audiences on a thoroughly interdisciplinary and utterly imaginative journey exploring the possibilities laid bare by the metaphorical beheading of the patriarchy. With this production, the artists ask: Once we’ve chopped off this monster’s head, can we really avoid its seductive power and finally be free of this labyrinthine system of oppression?Dancers Nieya Amezquita, Gabby Garcia, Jennifer Ilse, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, and Joseph Wurm will perform Minotaur with contemporary dance and mask performance. Accompanying the performers and immersing the entire audience will be a live music and sound score by Dameun Strange, and a live animated projection design by OLA Co-Artistic Director Paul Herwig, with costuming by long time OLA collaborator, Kym Longhi. All together, Off-Leash Area will take the audience to an otherworldly space where memories of ancient myth, our urgent present, and dreams of an uncertain future collide.WHO			Off-Leash Area: contemporary performance worksWHAT			MinotaurWHERE		Tek Box at the Cowles Center 528 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403DATES		July 14-17, 2022 TIMES		All performances 7:30pmTICKETS		Admission is $10-$30 MORE INFORMATION	http://www.offleasharea.org/on-stage-now COVID PRECAUTIONS: Masks required; N95, KN95, or other high-filtration masks encouraged. Audience will be required to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test within 72 hours at the door.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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