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Battle Cats and Kenna Sarge perform an evening of hip hop music and movement at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis

After the deluge of holiday shows, followed by a couple of dead weeks as people came to the mind-numbing realization that yes, this 

2010, a new burst of creative activity is hitting Twin Cities stages and galleries. Here's just a sampling...

Local hip hop artists Battlecats and Kenna Sarge

 join forces to create an evening of music and movement inspired by both urban and West African traditions. At the Southern Theater in Minneapolis Thursday through Sunday.

Guthrie Theater hosts a mini-fest of plays by emerging local theater companies, called 

" in the Burnett Gallery at Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis. In it she continues her exploration of the darkness hidden beneath shiny surfaces (check back here Friday for a look at the show and a conversation with the artist).

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra continues its 

 - one of the first comic ballets - about a doll that comes to life.

And Open Eye Figure Theatre in Minneapolis presents "

" a solo performance by Patrick Dewane about the heroics of his grandfather

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A new burst of creative activity is hitting Twin Cities stages and galleries this weekend.

Your Weekend Arts Forecast: Things are warming up

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