Northrop announces 2021-22 ‘collage season’ of in-person performances, music and films
Every arts organization that stayed active during COVID had to adapt to strange, shifting realities: no live performances, no live audiences, evolving safety protocols and no end in sight. Seasons were announced, revised and announced again. For Northrop, which presents a dance season and a music season each year, COVID meant canceling big-name events at the end of 2019-20, delaying its 2020-21 announcement, moving several previously scheduled events from stage to screens and lighting a fire under a commissioning program.
Because we’re writing this during the Olympics, an image comes to mind: Northrop on the uneven bars, swinging, turning, flying through the air, grabbing and letting go, all while juggling a lot of balls. Announcing the 2020-21 season in Aug. 2020, Kristen Brogdon, director of programming, told MinnPost, “This is the third or fourth iteration of what we thought we would be announcing.” Even that wasn’t the final-final.
Brogdon calls Northrop’s 2021-22 season her “collage season … put together from components of three different seasons.” Some events are carryovers, some are new, some have changed. In among the nine in-person dance performances that will start in October are several dance films and a small series of concerts on Northrop’s restored Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.
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