Don’t Forget You Are Precious (2024)

Photo: Paul Schmidt

Commissioned by Minnesota Dance Theatre

Created in collaboration with the dancers.

Original cast: Maddie Blessinger, Kylie Fox, Emily Pitts, Ken Shiozawa, Zachary Tuazon, Sasha Zitofsky

Music: Patrick Jonsson, Elori Saxl, Scanner, Low

Lighting Design: Jesse Cogswell

Premiere: May 3, 2024

The Southern Theater

1420 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454

Duration: 22:18

The company’s interim artistic director, Elayna Waxse, collaborated with the dancers to create “Don’t Forget You Are Precious.” Perhaps it was Emily Pitts’ arresting solo in a pseudo-nightgown that lent the impression that we were in something of a dream scene, the other dancers products of her subconscious. Zitofsky emerged as the messenger of unbounded exultation, the other five dancers embracing that spirit to a concluding rocker by Duluth-based band Low. And kudos to Jesse Cogswell’s very inventive lighting design.
— Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press
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