Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Singer, songwriter, and mulch-insturmentalist Tori Kelly began singing at age three, took up drums at 12, and asked for the music production software Logic for her fifteenth birthday.

On May 23^rd, at the Joyce Theater in the heart of Manhattan, I saw a performance of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. 

Laverne Cox explores how the intersections of race, class, and gender uniquely affect the lives of trans women of color.

Somali Night is the closing show of our annual weeklong initiative, Somali Culture Week, dedicated to educating the University of Minnesota campus and the Twin Cities community about the rich Somali culture and heritage.

Peppa Pig, the #1 Family show of 2016, is back with an action-packed live show!

In his book, Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis, Chungliang Al Huang asks, “Have we grown so used to the pace that slowing down is frightening?”

Havana-based Malpaso Dance Company will open our Northrop season with a program that celebrates international collaboration.

This stunning repertory program includes ballets by four exceptional choreographers.

The company makes its Northrop debut with boulders and bones, a work inspired by environmental sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.

Margery Williams’ classic tale of a well-worn stuffed rabbit is brought to life through music, dance, and narration.

Join the U of M Marching Band as they perform halftime favorites and more on the Northrop stage.

History and background of Northrop and its relationship with dance and theater.

Tips and advice on how to best experience a live performance.

In what world do we imagine the past to be settled in light of its refusal to perish and allow things to start over anew?

A panel discussion exploring the Washington DC football team, analyzing their use of the derogatory term R*dskins and surrounding issues, and examining the history of Native American cultural appropriation. 

In this talk, Evelyn Nakano Glenn takes the British settler colonial origins of the U.S. seriously by arguing for its foundational importance and continuing significance in American political and social formations.

A panel discussion on race, history, and the current political climate.

A panel discussion on artificial intelligence with Volkan Isler, Michael Maratsos, and Tom Wolfe.

Elaine Evans is an entomologist with the University of Minnesota CFANS Bee Lab working on questions related to wild bee diversity and bee conservation. 

This panel discussion will look at the ODC dance production in Northrop later that evening.

Human rights are often dismissed in a US context both by organizers, policy-makers, and academics alike as an unhelpfully universalizing framework.  However, human rights can also be used as a productive tool for broadening the scope of movements.