"The Thank-You Bar" performance installation at Arrowhead Center for the Arts: October 24 & 25th

The Minneapolis-based performance company of Emily Johnson and Catalyst will perform the  "The Thank-You Bar" at Grand Marais’ Arrowhead Center for the Arts on Oct 24 and 25, 2014, with four limited-capacity shows. WTIP's Will Moore spoke with Emily Johnson and James Everest of Catalyst Dance on North Shore Morning.

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THE THANK-YOU BAR

at Grand Marais Arrowhead Center for the Arts:

Friday Oct 24 7pm

Friday Oct 24 9:30pm

Saturday Oct 25 2pm (matinee)

Saturday Oct 25 7pm

**BLACKFISH Concert Sat Oct 25 9pm (45 mins)

Emily Johnson/Catalyst bring their Bessie Award – winning performance installation, The Thank-you Bar to Grand Marais’ Arrowhead Center For The Arts Oct 24-25, 2014 as part of the fall season for the Grand Marais Playhouse. The Thank-you Bar first premiered in 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska, and has toured across the USA to wide acclaim, propelling choreographer Emily Johnson into the national and international spotlight as a visionary contemporary dance maker.  In 2014, Emily Johnson / Catalyst received a MN State Arts Board “Arts Touring” Grant to bring a series of performances and workshops to Grand Marais in 2014 -15.

THE THANK-YOU BAR is an intimate performance experience intended to engage many levels of perception and expression. Through a sophisticated concept of theatrical space, unique and powerfully minimalist dancing, and a multi-layered original soundscore, Johnson’s illusory – yet partly true – stories ride the confluence of truth and myth. Appropriate for ages 6 and up.  Seating limited to 20 per performance.