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Goldstar is offering a limited number of tickets for $0 + $8.50 service fee (Reg. $36) to Fierce/Feminine: Dance by Women Choreographers at the Cowles Center.  This is a great opportunity to see professional dance on a “movie ticket budget.”

Minnesota Dance Theatre shines the spotlight on a trio of female choreographers with a program of bold, breathtaking works entitled Fierce/Feminine: Dance by Women Choreographers. Rising star Emery LeCrone returns to MDT for her second choreographic commission. Nuanced, ingenious and fresh from the stage at just 26, LeCrone contributes several works to the show, including a world premiere. Joanie Smith, 2012 Sage Award recipient for Outstanding Choreography, brings her international reputation for “virtuosity, substance, craft, and pure abandonment” to the repertory performance. And Minnesota Dance Theatre founder Loyce Houlton, after 34 years of creating, teaching and producing dance, is renowned for her Nutcracker Fantasy. She’s also one of the first American women to gain international recognition through her distinct aesthetic and a lasting legacy of trademark repertory. Featured in the show is Knoxville, Summer of 1915, one of Houlton’s own personal favorites.

Goldstar is offering discount tickets to Buckets and Tap Shoes: Dreams — Music, Dance and Percussion at the Cowles Center in Minneapolis.  The discount tickets are $14+ 4 service fee (Reg. $28).

Tap shoes, found objects, drums, keyboards, guitars, horns, voices, audience participation and buckets combine to make the high-energy blend of music, dance and percussion that is Buckets and Tap Shoes. Founded in Minneapolis by Rick and Andy Ausland, Buckets and Tap Shoes has thrilled audiences nationally and internationally. For this show entitled Dreams, the Auslands combed through more than 15 years of dream journals, sketch pads and spiral notebooks filled with show ideas that they have always wanted to put into their “dream show.” In a series of 14 vignettes, this engaging performance transports you through a dream portal to a world where rhythm comes to life in unusual and surreal ways.

February 22-23, 2013
The Cowles Center
528 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis

Goldstar is offering super discounted tickets to this weekend’s performances of  La Cathedrale Engloutie and Ancient Air at the Cowles Center for Dance.  Choose from Saturday evening and Sunday matinee times.  Tickets are free + a $7 service fee (Reg. $26).

As part of its 50th Anniversary season, Minnesota Dance Theatre presents a repertory concert featuring the regional premiere of master choreographer Jirí Kylián’s La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral), with music by Claude Debussy mixed with the sounds of waves breaking on a shore. This wild quartet for two men and two women showcases the flexibility, concentration and strength of the dancers, as they clash in a confrontation between control and free will. The evening also includes a restaging of Loyce Houlton’s Ancient Air, with music by George Crumb (including a cycle of songs on texts by Garcia Lorca), and the reprise of Lise Houlton’s playful Point of Departure, set to music by Franz Joseph Haydn.