Shapiro & Smith Dance performs tales of beauty and biting wit that run the gamut from the provocative to the hilarious. Dancing with breathtaking physicality and emotional depth, we tell stories driven by human passion, courage, and absurdity. Located in Minneapolis we have performed all over the world from New York City to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Joanie Smith founded Shapiro & Smith Dance in New York City with husband Danial Shapiro. Smith’s works and their collaborative works have been commissioned by companies as diverse as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Repertory Dance Theater of Salt Lake City, Utah and the PACT Dance Company of Pretoria, South Africa. S&S Dance has toured all over the world from Toledo to Tashkent and over 600 dancers in professional and university dance companies have performed “To Have And To Hold,” aka, Bench. Smith holds the Barbara Barker Endowed Chair in Dance and the John Black Johnston Distinguished Professorship at the University of Minnesota and has an M.A. in Dance from UCLA.
DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
Ferdouganal is a call to arms—a women’s march.
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FEATURED ARTIST PERFORMANCES
May 5 – 7:30pm
May 6 – 7:30pm
May 7 – 2:00pm & 7:30pm
The women of “Ferdouganal”
Photo by V. Paul Virtucio
Hands of the marching women of “Ferdouganal“. Music written and recorded by Soozie Tyrell (vocals & violin).
The women of “Ferdouganal”
Photo by V. Paul Virtucio