A look at recent dance work presented outside its usual context—including in a private living room alongside performances of poetry, music and informal audience participation.

Lightsey Darst reviews the week in Twin Cities dance with a look at TU Dance’s fall concert, Choreographers’ Evening’s 40th anniversary, and Zenon’s 30th anniversary season.

Stephen Tapscott gives a close reading of bold new photographic work by Tucker Hollingsworth, situating it in the context of Modernist “self-consciousness” about creative process, technique, and materials.

Sitting in on a TU Dance rehearsal, Lightsey Darst gets a fly-on-the-wall view as the dancers and choreographer Uri Sands prepare for the company’s fall concert at the O’Shaughnessy.

For his monthly You Are Hear podcast, Brian Beatty talks shop his old friend, award-winning fiction writer Anne Panning, author of the new novel, Butter.

Katie Czarniecki Hill—mnartists.org staffer and an organizer of the Walker’s Internet Cat Video Festival—seriously considers Jaime Carrera’s recent Dummies exhibition of cat prints at Palmer’s Bar in Minneapolis.

Dance critic Lightsey Darst talks ballet—specifically, the touring performances by New York City Ballet’s MOVES project, recently presented by Northrop Dance.

Two shows—unauthorized performances of famous choreographers’ dance solos and Broc Blegen’s conceptual art recreations—prompt some questions: Is this sort of appropriation plagiarism or homage? Fair use or naked theft?

Music writer Jeremy Walker ponders his teenaged son’s deceptively simple question about making a career in the music industry — not about the money or other practical concerns, but this: “Is being a musician a good life?”