Meet Rae Charles, our second feature of the seven choreographers of RS 2016: Rachel (Rae) Charles made her professional performance and choreographic debut in 2011 as a Guest Artist & Choreographer for the Threads Dance Project in Minneapolis, MN. The following year, Charles was awarded a BFA in Dance with honors from the Tisch School of the […]

As we lead up to the show, we are excited to share with you more about each of the Rhythmically Speaking 2016 choreographers! First up: Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner! Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner is a teaching specialist and creative practitioner in the areas of both contemporary post-modern dance and American concert jazz technique.  Gutierrez-Garner received her B.F.A. Summa Cum Laude […]

Looking to get your rhythm on, Minnesota dancer-types? Come out to Rhythmically Speaking’s audition for dancers! RS Artistic Director Erinn Liebhard and 2016 choreographer Rae Charles are looking for folks for their work in this year’s RS annual production, running August 18-20 at the Southern Theater. Audition details: When: Sunday, May 29th, 1-3pm Where: The […]

Thank you to all who submitted choreographic work for Rhythmically Speaking 2016. Each year, we receive many solid, thoughtful, intriguing and high-quality submissions, which makes for a lot of difficult decisions. Like a creative puzzle, the show has been curated as a whole to represent a wide, diverse range of work while fitting together as […]

Big thank you to all who submitted choreographic work for consideration for inclusion in this year’s Rhythmically Speaking annual production. Please note that announcement of this year’s selected choreographers will now happen on May 6th rather than May 1st (posted to this site). The selection committee looks forward to viewing your work! — Erinn Liebhard […]

Rhythmically Speaking is excited to announce a call for choreographers for our 8th annual production! We present some of the Twin Cities’ and Minnesota’s best jazz, vernacularly-inspired and rhythm-driven choreography each year, and also support these forms by welcoming new ideas from guests from other cities! We always look forward to seeing what people have […]

**The following is RS Artistic Director Erinn Liebhard’s editorial-style review of the Dorrance Dance show at Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota on November 19th, 2015. It spilled out passionately, so forgiveness for any lack of eloquence and conversation are requested! Share comments below. Photos from northrop.umn.edu.** So much to pull apart that I […]

Photo by Calabay Productions RS Community: Thank you for your kind contributions! Whether you experience our work as a choreographer, performer, viewer or learner, we are grateful for your engagement with and belief in the power of our programming. Your support allowed us to take in a record high in donations: $4,630.00 to be exact! […]

Visit our GiveMN Page to support our work now or on upcoming Give to the Max Day (Minnesota’s largest yearly day of charitable giving), happening November 12th! Thank you again for an awesome annual production, MN and beyond jazz and rhythm-driven dance community! As we look back in gratitude, we also look forward with enthusiasm about the […]

RS 2015 Community: Thank you for attending, being in, working on and supporting Rhythmically Speaking 2015! We beat our ticket goal, funded our GiveMN, had excellent press, and most importantly, enjoyed connecting with each other through rhythm-driven movement. Photo by Calabay Productions Patrons, your opinions are important to us: they help us write grants and […]