Save the Dates!

CLASSSS: A Pilot Series of Responsive Gatherings

This April, five visionary artists from our movement and dance community have been invited to initiate — to create intentional invitations to come into space together. To process alongside. To lift. To pour into each other.

Each gathering follows its own design, shaped by the artists leading the way.

Mankwe Ndosi | Monday, April 13 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Halie Bahr | Thursday, April 16 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Kealoha Ferreira | Friday, April 17 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Pedra Pepa | Sunday, April 19 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

DejaJoelle | Saturday, April 25 | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

This is a pilot — an experiment that will be shaped by your input and participation. Red Eye invites you to help us form this work, its intentions and practices. Please join us, and connect us to communities you think should know, especially if this is something you want to see flourish. Survey links will be available at each event, and we will be onsite before and after to take your comments and questions.

Location: Red Eye Theater | 2213 Snelling Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404 

Cost: Sliding Scale $0 – $30

Check back for more details and registration info soon!

Announcing the 2026 Red Eye Festival (!!!)

Red Eye presents the 2026 edition of the Red Eye Festival, formerly known as the New Works 4 Weeks Festival: an annual gathering for live performance works that respond to the current moment and imagine collective transformation. Each year, artist cohorts engage in peer exchange, mutual support, and dialogue around creative process that culminates in this public sharing. Over nearly four decades, this incubator of new work has become a cornerstone of the Twin Cities performance landscape.

The 2026 artists bring varied approaches to performance processes—calling on dance, installation, sound, storytelling, textile, devising, satire, meditation, personal narratives and more—with a shared commitment to questioning artistic form and challenging dominant culture. Their works traverse themes including community distress and bodily peace, global conflict, grounding, absurdity, grief, desire, threads and uprising. They explore these themes through dance, sound, assemblage, multimedia installation, celebration and satire.

RED EYE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

May 21-23, 2026:

WIP15 Edna Hand | Gayatri Narayan | Jarek Pastor | Rio Saul Garcia Ramirez

May 28-30, 2026:

WIP30 DejaJoelle | Kat Purcell

June 4-6, 2026:

WIP60 featuring Kenna Cottman

June 11-13, 2026:

WIP60 featuring Leila Awadalla

All performances run Thursday-Saturday, 7 pm.

Friday performances each week include a post-performance engagement.

Red Eye is an artist-led organization where we—artists, staff, and community—form a relational collective, stewarding our shared resources, relationships, and creative potential.