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Perpich Center For The Arts

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Video: Perpich Art Student's Film Debuts at Mall of America

A feature film by Perpich art students will premier Wednesday, May 29, at the theaters of the Mall of America.

Please don’t condescend to the writer/director, actors, dancers or musicians involved in the feature film “Weekend Hat.” They may be teenagers but the production of this 90-minute coming-of-age movie has been a professional project from front to back. Led by its award-winning writer-director, Adam Jacobs of Brooklyn Park, this project came to fruition and completion in the halls of the Perpich Arts High School in Golden Valley. It is a personal project, not a class assignment. Jacobs is a senior about to graduate in media arts. His actors are mostly from the arts high school’s theater program, but also drawn from Champlin-Park and Park Center high schools. The soundtrack is provided by bands whose primary members are students in the school…

Chris Deutsch

3:58 pm on Friday, May 24, 2013

I am pleased to have played a small part in this film. Adam is a talented and driven young director and he assembled a terrific cast! Weekend Hat will be fun to see.   more ›

Monday, January 7, 2013

Students Collaborate with U of M, Professional Dancers to Solve Scientific Problems

Through a method called bodystorming, Perpich Center for Arts Education students will work with University of Minnesota professors and dancers from Black Label Movement to learn more about science.

If you think that science and dance don’t mix, think again. On Tuesday, Jan. 8, professors from the University of Minnesota and dancers from Black Label Movement, will convene at Golden Valley’s Perpich Center for Arts Education to engage in a type of scientific dance called bodystorming. Simply put, bodystorming is a process where, through dance, solutions for scientific problems are formed through various movements. “It’s really a brain storming version of working with the body to work through scientific movement models,” Perpich ArtScience Coordinator Tory Peterson said. “Bodystorming is simply brainstorming, but done with the body.” David Odde, director of undergraduate studies for the University of Minnesota’s Department of Biomedical…

Peggy Rader

8:02 am on Monday, January 7, 2013

Yes, thanks for this great addition to the story, Ann.   more ›

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