Check back here for more 2021 events and performances for you to enjoy! Thank you for supporting us and we will see you very soon!
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Join us for our first ever Online Gala and Fundraiser Auction because your support means the world to us. We're starting off bidding with a bang! Watch our video release featuring an interview by Kay Hardy Campbell of Cassandra Shore. They discuss Jawaahir Dance Company through the years as well as the many challenges the Company and School has faced throughout the pandemic. FREE & ONLINE!
How do I register to become a bidder and support you, you ask? Click HERE to learn how to register through Bidding Owl. Once registered, find our Jawaahir Dance Company auction site on Bidding Owl and log yourself in. Then, have fun perusing all the interesting and neat items we have for you as well as all of the fabulous gift certificates and special offers, uniquely tailored lessons with Cassandra, Margo Abdo O'Dell, Tim O'Keefe, and Laura Harada, gorgeous belly dance costumes and accessories, vintage jewelry, and plenty of dance music and instructional DVDs.
Bidding ends at 7:30pm CT tonight, September 16!
Reservations for the Gratitude Gala tonight, September 16, are now closed. THANK YOU for your support!
Check out these awesome gift certificates that include:
$30 in advance to get your special gift, or $35 at the door.
Reinventing the Bond themes for belly dance? Why not?! We have a License to Thrill! Our dancers will perform solos and duets with local musicians to reimagined James Bond theme music.
Held at The Hook and Ladder Theater Under the Canopy at 3010 Minnehaha Ave in Minneapolis. Coproduction as part of The Hook's 5th Anniversary show: doors 3pm, music 4pm, 21+, $5 donation.
More info at Hook and Ladder!
Luna of Cairo
Jawaahir’s dancers perform stunning contemporary interpretations, in the third Sparkle concert, choreographed by the Jawaahir dancers for the dancers, with an exciting new choreography by Cassandra Shore, Artistic Director. Live music provided by the masterful musicians of Amwaaj, including Tim O’Keefe and Laura Harada. All of this – all new choreography, AND a breathtaking solo performance by our stellar guest artist, Luna of Cairo, who performed in the top nightspots in Egypt for many years, now residing in Florida.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund; Heidi Heffelfinger Todd and Steven S. Todd Fund; Lisherness Foundation; O'Shaughnessy Foundation; St. Paul & Minnesota Foundation; Target; Employers Matching Grants from Allstate, Conoco Phillips, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Medtronic, and 3M Foundation; and friends of Jawaahir.
Our show is held at Elision Playhouse in Crystal. Parking for Elision Playhouse is shown in green on the pictured map.
through Jawaahir Dance Company. Box office opens one half hour before our show begins.
Reservations coming soon!
$40 for adults. $20 for kids 12 and under.
$10 discount for Guild of Middle Eastern Dance members.
Our Saturday, November 20th matinee at 2pm is a pay-as-able show. This means that you may arrive to Elision Playhouse at 1:30pm and pay what you can (minimum of $5 per person) on a first come, first served basis.
Using your phone? Slide the event line left to select 1 reservation, then fill in your name and email, solve the Captcha, and click Proceed to Payment.
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