Alternative Motion Project

Moving BIG into What's Next... 
All Donations will be MATCHED for Give to the Max Day 2026

Alternative Motion Project believes in the power of contemporary dance to create connection, challenge perspectives, and make space for new and empowering ways of experiencing the world.

In 2024, we made the intentional decision to pause our programming to make space to rest, reflect, and reconsider what comes next. Since February 2026, we've begun gradually and intentionally returning to company activities, reconnecting with our community and rediscovering the possibilities of creating together.

Now, we're looking toward the future.

Earlier this year, Artistic Director, Joanna Lees returned to her creative practice and we are excited to bring Shadowland, her new long-term choreographic project with Sound Artist Dameun Strange, to Alternative Motion Project. We will continue its development and rehearsal with plans to perform the work on stage at The Southern Theater (December 2027) as a Performance Partnership Program Featured Artist.

Shadowland is a new collaborative contemporary dance work featuring a cast of 8 and an original sound score that investigates physical concepts, sonic environments, and emotional states related to mental well-being. We are creating an artistic landscape of ‘both/and’ by exploring the seemingly invisible relationship between thoughts and nervous systems and developing physicalities inspired by vulnerability, regulation, shame, and healing. Dancers traverse the paradoxical spectrum of contrasting movement concepts such as organization and chaos, lightness and darkness, heroism and villainy.

Creating new contemporary dance takes time, care, collaboration, and resources. It requires space to experiment, opportunities for artists to work together, and the freedom to develop an idea into something fully realized.

This Give to the Max Day, we're inviting you to double your impact and help make that future possible: all donations we receive will be matched. Our goal is to raise $10,000 in 2026 to support the next rehearsal period (Winter/Spring 2027) for Shadowland and the continued growth of Alternative Motion Project.

Your contribution is more than a donation toward a future performance. It is an investment in the creative process, in the artists who bring new work into the world, and in the future of contemporary dance in the Twin Cities.

After making space to rest and renew, we're ready to make space to Move BIG into what comes next.

Will you join us?

OUR MISSION

Alternative Motion Project (AMP) empowers and connects communities through highly physical, evocative, and collaborative contemporary dance experiences. 

AMP engages with artists & audiences alike through performance & education programs to promote an open environment that fosters creativity, curiosity, and understanding. 

AMP’s creative work encourages the sharing of perspectives to reflect a variety of current themes and issues through showcasing and supporting new dance works by an array of different artists.

Move BIG.

Photos: Bill Cameron.