Rhythmically Speaking

Rhythmically Speaking presents Reppin’ – A Collection of Favorite RS Repertoire and Dancer-Created New Works. This concert jazz dance production showcases Rhythmically Speaking’s signature groove, interaction and improvisation-forward approach that honors the African diasporic roots of the art form. This 18th-season performance will revisit fan-favorite dances Confronting Consonance (2024) by RS Artistic and Executive Director Erinn Liebhard, Groove: A Communal Love (2023) by Carlos R.A. Jones and BASSline (2022) by Kathleen Doherty, as well as debut new works by company dancers for the first time. Audiences will experience the unique vibrancy and connectedness of jazz dance.

Rhythmically Speaking is a Twin Cities-based 501(c)3 nonprofit dance organization with a | MISSION | to spark vibrancy and connectedness through jazz and American social dance ideas. Using the rhythm that is at our shared human core to groove together, the| VISION | of our work – since our founding in 2008 – has been cultivating vibrant, embodied human connection in the Twin Cities and beyond. Our creative work emphasizes the concepts of groove, interaction and improvisation – key among jazz and American social dance forms including hip-hop styles and tap – and is inspired by both social and concert dance movement and driven by classic and contemporary jazz music alike.