Pictured: Sharon Picasso
Photo: Canaan Mattson

About SOLO

SOLO is a commissioning program of the McKnight Fellowships for Dancers. As part of the awarded fellowship, the McKnight Fellowship program commissions a choreographer of each dance fellow’s choosing to create a work expressly for them. These new works are presented every other year on The Cowles Center season as part of an evening titled SOLO.

Join us for the next SOLO concert at The O’Shaughnessy on September 20 & 21, 2024. More details to come soon.

 SOLO 2024 Dancers / Commissioned Choreographers

Sam Aros-Mitchell (2023 Dancer Fellow) & Dante Puleio (José Limón Foundation, NY)
Leila Awadallah (2022 Dancer Fellow) & Alexandre Paulkevitch (Beirut)
Demetrius McClendon/ImagineJoy (2023 Dancer Fellow) & Maurya Kerr (Oakland, CA)
Sharon Picasso (2022 Dancer Fellow) & Ann Yee (MN & London)
Yuki Tokuda (2023 Dancer Fellow) & Jennifer Hart (Austin, TX)
Cheng Xiong (2022 Dancer Fellow) & Denden Karadeniz (Amsterdam)

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Past Solo PerformanceS

SOLO 2022

Solo 2021

SOLO 2018

Solo 2016

SOLO 2014

SOLO 2012

SOLO 2010

SOLO 2008

  • Karla Grotting & Max Pollack (NY)

  • Colette Illarde & Manuel Reyes Maya (Spain)

  • Mifa Ko & Jerry Opdenaker (FL)

  • Tamara Nadel & Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy (MN)

  • Abdo Sayegh & Gioconda Barbuto (Canada)

  • Laura Selle-Virtucio & Colleen Thomas (NY)

SOLO 2006

  • Stephanie Fellner

  • Megan Flood

  • Mariusz Olszewski

  • Toni Pierce-Sands

  • Peggy Seipp-Roy

  • Julia Tehven

SOLO 2004

  • Eric F Boone

  • Susie Bracken

  • Wynn Fricke

  • Joanne Horn Spencer

  • Megan McClellan

  • Leah Nelson