Photo by Bill Cameron Rhythmically Speaking is excited to announce a call for choreographers for our 9th annual production! We present some of the Twin Cities’ best jazz and American vernacular choreography each year, and also support these forms by welcoming new ideas from guests from other cities. We always look forward to seeing what […]

GTMD 9:00am UPDATE: RS donors, please note that the GiveMN.org website is currently operating on a bare bones format given tech issues. Direct organization links are not working, so for now, please visit the GiveMN.org main page to donate. Thank you for your generosity! Rhythmically Speaking community: Minnesota’s annual giving holiday, Give to the Max Day […]

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It’s here! Rhythmically Speaking 2016 opens the Thursday, August 18th, at 7:30pm at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis. For details on directions, to buy tickets and more, visit our show page. AND . . . meet Laura Selle-Virtucio, our seventh feature out of the seven choreographers who are presenting work in this weekend’s show: Photo […]

Meet Karla Grotting, our sixth feature out of the seven Rhythmically Speaking 2016 choreographers! The show is next week, people! Karla Grotting | is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and producer working with a unique blend of jazz, tap, modern, and percussive dance techniques. She is founding member, principal dancer, and artistic associate with Joe Chvala’s The […]

Now less than a month away, Rhythmically Speaking 2016 is really ramping up! Like what we do and want to directly support the 2016 choreographers who are offering this year’s thought-provoking, rhythm-driven work?  Visit our GiveMN page and make a quick, easy and secure donation! All proceeds go directly to our 2016 choreographers. Now, meet […]

Modern meetings.                     Our 2016 Rhythmically Speaking choreographer orientation/ program kick-off meeting pretty much totally looked like this (except those people are models and not actually us, and there were four rather than seven people video chatting in, AND we were using Google Hangouts not Skype, […]

Meet Pat Taylor, our fourth feature of the seven choreographers of RS 2016: Pat Taylor is the founding artistic director of the Los Angeles-based JazzAntiqua Dance & Music Ensemble, a concert jazz dance company dedicated to celebrating the jazz tradition as a vital thread in the cultural fabric of African American history and heritage, and […]

Meet Rush Benson, our third feature of the seven choreographers of RS 2016: Rush Benson | Rush Benson is an actor, dancer, teacher, musician, and choreographer originally from Minneapolis, MN. In 2013, Rush graduated with a B.A. in Theatre and Dance from Gustavus Adolphus College and is currently a company member with the Flying Foot Forum […]