FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 22nd, 2022
MEDIA CONTACT: Paula Mann, Artistic Director, Time Track Productions (651) 276-7982 [email protected]
Toward Utopia
A new evening-length work by Paula Mann/Time Track Productions
A rare opportunity to see the newest work from Paula Mann, whose eclectic choreographic vision spans 40 years. The performances offer experiences wrapped in the complexity of an enduring and durable life, lived in motion.
"Toward Utopia" is a contemporary dance performance exploring the conflict between my needs and the greater good.
Five performers interrogate the dynamics of individual struggles and attempt to connect across a chasm of miscommunication and animosity with raw emotion and physicality.
The work explores the desire to create a more perfect world, charting the emotional struggles of individualism vs the group dynamic, seeking a common purpose toward an equitable future. What will it take to create systemic change?
Choreography by Paula Mann
Performed by: Leila Awadallah, Carmen Lucia Lincoln, Erika Martin, Johnathan Surber and Roxanne Wallace
Projection by Steve Paul, Sound score by Tarek Abdelqader
4 performances: Where: The Center For Performing Arts
New Black Box Theater 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis
When: September 22nd 23rd 24th 2022 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 pm. Matinee at 2pm on Saturday September 24th (pay-as-able)
Tickets are $20
For reservations: http://wwwtimetrackdanceorg.ticketleap.com/toward-utopia/
About the Artist
Paula Mann’s journey took her from Appalachian roots to Detroit teenage runaway, through Kent State in the 1970's, to NYU and the downtown dance scene of the 1980's. She studied Humphrey/Limon technique with Ruth Currier and members of the Limon company, Hawkins technique with Eric Hawkins and Cunningham with Merce Cunningham. Her first concert of choreography was produced at the Merce Cunningham Studio in 1980 and later that year she co-founded Dudek/Mann + Dancers with partner Tina Dudek. Mann moved to the Twin Cities in 1987, armed with a BA and MFA in Dance from NYU, and following seven years as co-director of Dudek/Mann + Dancers. Since her arrival in the Twin Cities, Mann has created 50 new works and is co-artistic director of TIME TRACK DANCE with visual artist Steve Paul. She has been a driving force in Contemporary Dance and Performance based out of Minneapolis for the past 30 years; challenging, educating and engaging artists, audiences and communities with passion, inventiveness and rigor. She was full time faculty at the University of Minnesota Department of Theater and Dance from 1993-2013 and is a 2019/2020 McKnight Fellow in Choreography.
For more information: www.timetrackdance.org
Paula Mann is recipient of a 2019 McKnight Choreography Fellowship administered by the Cowles Center and funded by the McKnight Foundation.
July 22nd, 2022
MEDIA CONTACT: Paula Mann, Artistic Director, Time Track Productions (651) 276-7982 [email protected]
Toward Utopia
A new evening-length work by Paula Mann/Time Track Productions
A rare opportunity to see the newest work from Paula Mann, whose eclectic choreographic vision spans 40 years. The performances offer experiences wrapped in the complexity of an enduring and durable life, lived in motion.
"Toward Utopia" is a contemporary dance performance exploring the conflict between my needs and the greater good.
Five performers interrogate the dynamics of individual struggles and attempt to connect across a chasm of miscommunication and animosity with raw emotion and physicality.
The work explores the desire to create a more perfect world, charting the emotional struggles of individualism vs the group dynamic, seeking a common purpose toward an equitable future. What will it take to create systemic change?
Choreography by Paula Mann
Performed by: Leila Awadallah, Carmen Lucia Lincoln, Erika Martin, Johnathan Surber and Roxanne Wallace
Projection by Steve Paul, Sound score by Tarek Abdelqader
4 performances: Where: The Center For Performing Arts
New Black Box Theater 3754 Pleasant Ave., Minneapolis
When: September 22nd 23rd 24th 2022 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 pm. Matinee at 2pm on Saturday September 24th (pay-as-able)
Tickets are $20
For reservations: http://wwwtimetrackdanceorg.ticketleap.com/toward-utopia/
About the Artist
Paula Mann’s journey took her from Appalachian roots to Detroit teenage runaway, through Kent State in the 1970's, to NYU and the downtown dance scene of the 1980's. She studied Humphrey/Limon technique with Ruth Currier and members of the Limon company, Hawkins technique with Eric Hawkins and Cunningham with Merce Cunningham. Her first concert of choreography was produced at the Merce Cunningham Studio in 1980 and later that year she co-founded Dudek/Mann + Dancers with partner Tina Dudek. Mann moved to the Twin Cities in 1987, armed with a BA and MFA in Dance from NYU, and following seven years as co-director of Dudek/Mann + Dancers. Since her arrival in the Twin Cities, Mann has created 50 new works and is co-artistic director of TIME TRACK DANCE with visual artist Steve Paul. She has been a driving force in Contemporary Dance and Performance based out of Minneapolis for the past 30 years; challenging, educating and engaging artists, audiences and communities with passion, inventiveness and rigor. She was full time faculty at the University of Minnesota Department of Theater and Dance from 1993-2013 and is a 2019/2020 McKnight Fellow in Choreography.
For more information: www.timetrackdance.org
Paula Mann is recipient of a 2019 McKnight Choreography Fellowship administered by the Cowles Center and funded by the McKnight Foundation.
