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Charly Santagado Charly Santagado

trickpony

2002, 2008 Southern Theater, Mpls; The Old American Canning Factory, Bklyn; MASS MoCA, N. Adams

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Choreographic Commissions and Residencies

  • 2024 A Wake (choreographer/performer/vocals) ICI-CNN, Montpellier, FR - MFA thesis solo about death and the aliveness it provokes

  • 2024 Forty Pairs for Red Eye (choreographer/performer) Red Eye Theater, Mpls - commissioned solo to celebrate RedEye’s 40th anniversary

  • 2023 Viewing/Remembering (choreographer/performer) Home, Mpls - Research As Action experiment exploring death positivity, ritual, and memorialization

  • 2021 MEADOWLARK (curator/choreographer/performer) Cowles Center, Mpls - free outdoor promenade performances in Bryn Mawr Meadows with 20+ performing artists

  • 2019 Threefold: Reckoning Agents (choreographer/dancer) Southern Theater, Mpls - commission by St. Paul Ballet to create an evening inspired by our shared influence of dance luminary Bonnie Mathis

  • 2018 ICON SAM: Temple Dances (Artist-In-Residence/producer/choreographer/performer) Cowles Center, Mpls - award-winning promenade performance comprising 50 artists, 45 scenes outside and throughout 8 floors of the historic building; community engagement, workshops, fundraising, tours, art installations with the themes of transition, inclusion, and belonging

  • 2018 DangeRousse (choreographer/performer/Artist-In-Residence) Open Eye Figure Theater, Mpls - site-specific/roaming solo with live music and puppetry

  • 2015 Print Culture (choreographer/dancer/Artist-In-Residence) Jewish Community Center, St. Paul - second iteration of Rachel Perlmeter’s original work inspired by artist Eva Hesse

  • 2014 Pier Windows (choreographer/dancer) Kwun Tong Pier, Hong Kong - 5-week residency with Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren creating and performing a new show each of four nights

  • 2014 KOM HIT! (choreographer/dancer/co-director/vocalist/Artist-In-Residence) American Swedish Institute, Mpls - museum exhibit, community engagement, award-winning immersive show with Noah Bremer, 20 performers in 33 rooms of castle, inspired by August Strindberg

  • 2014 A Sally Jubilee! 50th Birthday Gala and Tribute (curator/performer) Cowles Center, Mpls - my NYC and Twin Cities communities gathered to perform and celebrate my departure from JSB and the launch of SALLY ROUSSE, Unlimited

  • 2012 Freemartin Twins (choreographer/dancer) Tek Box, Mpls - Montreal/Minneapolis Exchange

  • 2011 By the Gypsy River Bank (choreographer) O’Shaughnessy, St. Paul

  • 2009 Petrouchka (choreographer) Southern Theater, Mpls

  • 2004 Floorshow (co-choreographer/performer) Southern Theater, Mpls

  • 2002 Protective Colouring for Pointe and Cello (choreographer/performer) Walker Art Center, Mpls)

A complete list of choreographic work is available upon request.