J-Term

For the first three weeks of January each year, J-Term replaces a student’s regularly scheduled academic and arts classes. Students are immersed in daily rehearsals for an arts performance project. J-Term is considered a “how to rehearse” class, giving all students an opportunity to be in a formal rehearsal process. Rehearsals culminate with one or more workshop-style performances for family and peers. J-Term endeavors to replicate the professional experience, introduce students to professional venues and artists, and engages students in the artistic energy of rehearsals/performances under the direction of SPCPA faculty and/or guest professional artists. J-Term is an important part of our training. J-Term is curricular and required as part of SPCPA’s regular academic year. Students earn a full credit for successful participation; grades are Pass or Fail. Students are required to attend daily rehearsals and performances; participation is not optional. The school’s attendance policies do apply to J-Term, but on a condensed scale: two (2) unexcused absences during J-Term puts a student in jeopardy of not passing J-Term. Parents/Guardians are still responsible for reporting attendance matters (Attendance Hotline: 651-222-3200, press 1 to skip ahead to the beep).

J-TERM EXPERIENCES

Here’s a sampling of some of our J-Term performances. Explore more in the photos section of our Facebook page.

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J-TERM archive

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Mixed Blood Theatre
Dance Repertory Concert – E.M. Pearson Theatre

  • Alex Eady
  • Jinza Thayer
  • Laura Osterhaus
  • Megan Mayer
  • New Black City

Arlecchino in the City of Love – Red Eye Theater
Fire Arts – Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center
Form the Band/Write the Songs/Do the Gig – MetroNome Brewery
Found Fashion – MN Museum of American Art
Girls Like That – Park Square Theatre, Boss Stage
Literary Journal – Open Book Performance Hall
Mirror Lab Gallery Exhibition
Ragtime – Southern Theater
Sophisticated Ladies – E. M. Pearson Theatre
Evening of New Plays – Crane Theater
Shivering of Leaves – Jungle Theater

Urinetown – E.M. Pearson Theater
Once – Crane Theater
Songs for a New World – Illusion Theater
I Come From Arizona – Mixed Blood Theater
Men on Boats – Gremlin Theatre
The Song & The Studio – Sonic Edge Studio
Murder Crime – Open Eye Theatre
The Skin of Our Teeth – Park Square Theater, Boss Stage
Soul with a Capital S – North Garden Theater
Dance Repertory Concert – E.M. Pearson Theatre

  • Gabby Abram
  • Bruce DeMorrow
  • Penelope Freeh
  • Chitra Vairavan
  • Julie Warder

Soul with a Capital S – North Garden Theater
Fire Arts – Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center
Digital Art for Public Spaces
Ancestral Alchemy – Mirror Lab Gallery
Hands in Clay
Smartphone Short Film Festival – Film North & Grandview Movie Theater
The Reading Room – Open Book

Elements of Time – Mirror Lab Gallery
Roy Hargrove Project – Landmark Center Cortile
Dance Repertory Concert – Southern Theater
The K of D – Mixed Blood Theatre
Our Town – Boss Stage at Park Square Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors – E.M. Pearson Theatre, Concordia University
Renascence – Mixed Blood Theatre

Be More Chill – E.M. Pearson Theatre, Concordia University
Blood at the Root – Mixed Blood Theatre
Blue Stockings – Illusion Theater
Brooklyn Bridge – North Garden Theater
Dance Repertory Concert – Anne Simley Theatre, Hamline University
Dear World – Conn Theater
Denim – Crane Theater
Latin Imaginacion – Hook & Ladder Theater
The Madwoman of Chaillot – Gremlin Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Crane Theater
Mother Courage and Her Children – The LAB Theater
Wonderland Groove – Hook & Ladder Theater
The World Goes ‘Round – Southern Theater

Anon(ymous) – Illusion Theater
Astronomical – Open Eye Figure Theater
Bright Ideas – Crane Theater
A Chorus Line – E.M. Pearson Theatre
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Southern Theater
Floyd Collins – LAB Theater
Forget-Me-Not – Antonello Hall
Improvestra – Jazz Central
Inherit the Wind – Mixed Blood Theatre
The Little Prince – Gremlin Theatre
A New Music Stew – Studio Z
These Shining Lives – Crane Theater
Sophisticated Ladies – Historic Mounds Theatre
Dance Repertory Concert – The O’Shaughnessy

  • Lisa Berman
  • Karen Long Charles
  • Zoé Emilie Henrot
  • Shapiro & Smith
  • Darrius Strong
  • Pramila Vasudevan

A Raisin in the Sun – Illusion Theater
Dance Repertory Concert – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour – The LAB Theater (Minneapolis)
Girls Like That – Gremlin Theatre
Lake Kelsey – The Capri Theater
Le Rhinoceros – JSB Tek Box, The Cowles Center
Love is Just a Game – North Garden Theater
Myths and Hymns – Studio Z
On the Town – E.M. Pearson Theatre, Concordia University
Promise Land – Red Eye Theater
Romeo and Juliet – Mixed Blood Theatre
The Who’s Tommy – Anne Simley Theater, Hamline University
Vintage – Buetow Music Center Auditorium

Bone Portraits – Phoenix Theater
Breath Boom – Penumbra Theatre
Cabaret – The Capri Theater
Cendrillon – The Minnesota Opera
Dance Repertory Concert – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Everyone-vs-Everyone – Red Eye Theater
Funk 101 – Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University
The Lending Hand – Open Eye Figure Theatre
The Imaginary Invalid – JSB Tek Box, The Cowles Center
Improvestra! – Studio Z
Man of La Mancha– Mixed Blood Theatre
Rock of Ages – Anne Simley Theater, Hamline University
Shipwrecked! – Ritz Theater
The Skriker – Illusion Theater
Snow Angel – New Century Theatre
The Tempest – Intermedia Arts

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Red Eye Theater
Ain’t Misbehavin – Capri Theater
Evening of Dance I – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Evening of Dance II – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Evolution Revolution Reborn – Mixed Blood Theatre
Field Notes on Living – Paikka
Flow – Patrick’s Cabaret
I, Too, Sing America – Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University
Lord of the Flies – Illusion Theater
Murder Crime at Brockingforde Manor – James J. Hill House
New Music Stew – Studio Z
Parade – Anne Simley Theater, Hamline University
Peer Gynt – JSB Tek Box, The Cowles Center
Pippin – E.M. Pearson Theater, Concordia University
The Adding Machine – New Century Theatre
The K of D – Phoenix Theater
The Pirates of Penzance – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Voices of the City: A Vaudeville – Historic Mounds Theater
Welcome to Thebes – The LAB Theater (Minneapolis)

Almost, Maine – Pillsbury House Theater
Anything Goes – E.M. Pearson Theater, Concordia University
Ash Land – Howard Conn Theater
The Crucible – The LAB Theater (Minneapolis)
The Diviners – Red Eye Theater
Evening of Dance I – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Evening of Dance II – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
For Colored Girls – Mixed Blood Theater
Fugitive Songs – Nautilis Music Theater
Macbeth – Cargill Stage, Children’s Theater Company
Once on This Island – Anne Simley Theater, Hamline University
Pop Cabaret – Studio Z
Riders to the Sea – Kilburn Arena, Rarig Center, University of Minnesota
Show Choir – Buetow Music Auditorium, Concordia University
Space Girl – Open Eye Figure Theater
Still Life with Iris – Stoll Thrust, Rarig Center, University of Minnesota
These Shining Lives – Ritz Theater
You Can’t Take it With You – Illusion Theater

30 Plays in 60 Minutes – The Lab Theater
Antigone – The LAB Theater (Minneapolis)
The Boys from Syracuse – The Lehr Theater
Dido and Aeneas – Kilburn Arena, Rarig Center, University of Minnesota
Evening of Dance I – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Evening of Dance II – The O’Shaughnessy, St. Catherine University
Fiddler on the Roof – E.M. Pearson Theater, Concordia University
Good ‘N’ Plenty – Illusion Theater
Hairspray – History Theatre
Hot Comb – Pillsbury House Theater
Illyria – Mixed Blood Theatre
Madrigal Dinner – Landmark Center
New Music Stew – Studio Z
The Skin of Our Teeth – Southern Theater
Twelfth Night – Stoll Thrust, Rarig Center, University of Minnesota
Vocal Jazz – Lehr Theatre
The Wretchedly Uncomfortables – Red Eye Theater

Big Small Things – Open Eye Figure Theater
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin – Illusion Theater
Chicago – Southern Theater
The Devil and Daniel Webster – Minnesota Centennial Showboat
Edwin Drood – Lehr Theater
Evening of Dance I – Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota
Evening of Dance II – Ritz Theater
Innocence Lost – Rarig Center Thrust, University of Minnesota
Intermezzo – Gremlin Theatre
New Play Festival – Penumbra Theater Company
Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL– Intermedia Arts
Pops! Concert – Anne Simley Theater, Hamline University
Romeo & Juliet – Ritz Theater
Show Choir – Anne Simley Theater, Hamline University
Uses of Enchantment – Mixed Blood Theater

Caroline, or Change – History Theatre
Evening of Dance I – The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
Evening of Dance II – The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
Gianni Schicchi – Concordia University
January Jazz – Walker West Music Academy and The Lehr Theater
Manifest Cloaks – Gremlin Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing – Illusion Theater
Night the Improv – Gremlin Theatre
Origin Story – Mixed Blood Theatre
Our Town – Red Eye Theater
Pirates of Penzance – Concordia University
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Lehr Theater
So Long, Johnson Pillock – Forage Modern Workshop
Urinetown – The Lab Theater

The Arabian Nights – The Children’s Theatre
As You Like It – History Theatre
Carousel – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Carousel Orchestra – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Departure Point – Studio Z
Evening of Dance – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Into the Woods – Illusion Theater
The Land of Polished Stones – The Lab Theater
Night at the Improv – The Lowry Lab
Sossy Mechanics Moving Theater – The Lab Theatre
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Lehr Theater
Thingamajig– Open Eye Figure Theatre
Vaudeville – MN Centennial Showboat
Vocal Project – Lehr Theater

Sister Kenny’s Children – Produced in association with the History Theatre
Good ‘N Plenty – Mixed Blood Theater
Little Shop of Horrors – Concordia University
Evening of Dance – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Night At The Opera – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Lovely Bunch of Coconuts – Intermedia Arts
Violet – Illusion Theater
Student Plays – Playwright’s Center
Night at the Improv – Lowry Lab
Original Film – Screened in the Weyerhaeuser Auditorium

All In The Timing – Weyerhaeuser Auditorium
This Is Not A Moustache – Wellstone Theater
Recollect – Wellstone Theater
Footloose – McKnight Theater
Ragtime – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
You Can’t Take It With You – Illusion Theater
Night of Dance – O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Chamber Orchestra Performance – McNally Smith Auditorium
Latin Jazz – Wellstone Theater
Student Plays – Pillsbury House Theater
Improv – Red Eye Theater
Piano Recital – Landmark Center 317

Bat Boy – Concordia University
One-Act Play Festival – Harding H.S. & Weyerhaeuser Auditorium
One-Act Play – The Long Christmas Dinner – Weyerhaeuser Auditorium
Chekov Project – Lowry Theater Lab & Bryand Lake Bowl
Penumbra Project – Penumbra Theater
Student Plays – Weyerhaeuser Auditorium
Spoken Word/Storytelling – Lowry Theater Lab
Brave New Improv – Lowry Theater Lab
Comedy Improv – Lowry Theater Lab
Night of Dance – O’Shaugnessy Auditorium
Swing Choir & Band – Fitzgerald Theater
Chamber Orchestra – McNally Smith Auditorium
Jazz Gig – Artist’s Quarter

Urinetown – Concordia University
The Quilting Project – U of M Showboat
One Act Play Festival – Lowry Lab
Actors/Writers Workshop – Frey Theater
Improv Tonight! – Lowry Lab
Recital – McNally Smith Auditorium
Night of Dance – Fitzgerald Theater
Gospel Chorale – Central Presbyterian

Music Review / Tap & Taiko – Ordway Center McKnight Theater
The Choreography Project/MN Dance Repertoire Experience – Wilkins Studios
The Mini Musical – Weyerhaeuser Auditorium
Good ‘n’ Plenty – Weyerhaeuser Auditorium

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