Rootstock 21 is a mix of Rootstock 20 and curated artists. Due to the postponements from Rootstock 20 we were unable to hold an open call. We will be holding an open call for Rootstock 22 in 2021.

While Chloe’s residency is postponed until 2022, this year The Croft Residency will be recording sounds in nature and walking in nature for the ‘Space Cadet” audio score/landscape. The recordings will be from The Croft property and the surrounding areas.

Black Light__mysteries and manifestations of the creative life force

Morris-Van Tassel is currently developing Black Light, a collaborative, kaleidoscopic and multidisciplinary production, directed, choreographed and performed by Alanna Morris-Van Tassel and featuring 10 Black  dancers, musicians, and poets, who are prominent practitioners in contemporary traditional performance and healing arts.

Black Light re: Search ventures into the nobility of black-ness; the divinity of feminine creative energy; and the harnessing of sensual expression.  It investigates manifestations of Caribbean masquerade as a lens for Self realization, survival and community connection.  It exalts mythographies of life and death, birth and creation.  It venerates the legacies of ancestors who have paved the way.  Black Light is a clarion call to uplift indigenous healing arts in our society at a time when this magic is needed most.

Black Light__mysteries and manifestations of the creative life force  premieres at The Great Northern Festival, a 10-day mid-winter festival that celebrates the Twin Cities' cold, creative winters through unique cultural activities and creative social experiences, in February 2022, produced by Kate Nordstrum.

slowdanger’s memory 6, is a multidisciplinary performance work turned dance-for-film, fusing dance frameworks, generated sound/vocalization, corporeal mime techniques and original garment design by MAD RECITAL. The dance-for-film will be created during slowdanger’s Croft Residency in collaboration with Maine based filmmaker, Juliette Sutherland. While traversing a purgatory of their own fragmented memories, two bodies combine to build a new form//being. This work explores mythological creatures that house fluid gender identities, examining how non-binary beings have always existed within society through the construction and interpretation of divine creatures. Through this mythologizing we ritualize inherited familial pains and fears, transforming them by providing them voice and form through the body. memory 6 is the 7th installment in slowdanger’s episodic body of work, the memory series.

During their residency, Led by choreographer/director Hannah Garner, 2nd Best will continue the development of the new evening length dance theatre ensemble piece, Slumber (working title), the creation of which was halted by the pandemic. Additionally, they will begin the creation process of a new solo work set on company dancer Will Noling." 2nd Best...believes in art-making that is exploratory, empathetic, and goofy. values feeling over reality and seeks truest sensations over absolute truth. blends humor and tragedy while tackling “topics like death and queer identity through rigorous, inventive movement and wit” (Dance Magazine). plays very seriously and invites audiences into the play to ask: what does it mean to be alive?