Flying Foot Forum

FFF is a vibrant and bold percussive dance/theater company that fuses percussive dance and music to tell unusual tales, create a wild variety of characters and explore universal ideas in inventive and exciting ways. 

Flying Foot Forum will produce a dance concert featuring a world premiere, DANDELIONS (working title). In this piece, FFF will collaborate with our rhythmic sister companies; Susana di Palma & Zorongo Flamenco, and Rita Mustaphi  & Katha Dance Theater. In addition, FFF will present original works with Nordic, Celtic, and British Isles folk influences. Performances will be at Park Square Theatre (May 8-18, 2025). Audiences will also get a sneak peek at our latest short film!

PC: Aleutian Calabay

 

KEEPING TIME: The Duet Show 

Founding members Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting are continuing work on their duet show, KEEPING TIME featuring dances from over 35 years of dancing together. Dancing together requires both remembering and forgetting, focusing and letting go, negotiating and surrendering, creating and imagining. At its center, it is about Keeping Time, which just happens to be the title of this new show!  We premiered a version of this complex and delightful show at the Door Kinetic Arts Festival in Door County, WI. Keep your eyes open for upcoming performances! 

PC: V Paul Virtucio, Karla Grotting

CELEBRATING 2023 MCKNIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER FELLOW: JOE CHVALA

Congratulations to Joe on this wonderful recognition and to all the other incredible McKnight Choreographer and Dancer Fellows!  

pc: Loco f/x  Photography

     I SAW ESAU

In January 2025, we will release our second short film, I SAW ESAU; making ridiculous rhythms and magical mayhem in several of the Twin Cities famous homes, including the Turnblad Mansion, the James J Hill House and the Van Dusen Mansion.  We are deep in the process of making six short films based on landmark works in the FFF repertory that will eventually come together to make one evening-length film!         PC: Loco f/x Photography

THE DANCING LESSONS: A PROJECT

Longtime FFF'er Karla Grotting, and her one-time student, tap master Kaleena Miller, and renowned local dance filmmakers, Caitlin Hammel and Michele Blanchard are continuing work on a MN project. Beginning with interviews of Minnesota dance teachers, of any dance form, with a special focus on women who have started their own dance schools in the 1930's-70's, we are collecting stories and teasing out the threads that will form conversations around dance, teaching dance, women in business, risk-taking, sparking creativity, and looking at generations and family trees in dance.  We know these stories will be about so much more than dance.  We can't wait to pull on the threads and see how they all tie together.  

We're grateful to have you on this journey, 
and we appreciate any support you can give; 
to help us support our artists, and our creative work
as we navigate the challenges of making art and sustaining artists 
in a changing world. 

 Thank you!

FFF is grateful for the support of the following:

The Archie D and Bertha H Walker Foundation
The Minnesota Regional Arts Council
The Minnesota State Arts Board
The McKnight Foundation