Axis Dance Company
With a unique style featuring dance created for performers with and without disabilities, the award-winning Oakland-based group has been featured on "So You Think You Can Dance." It will perform repertory work including Marc Brew's "Divide," Sonya Delwaide's "Dix minutes plus tard" and Joe Goode's "to go again," about issues facing U.S. veterans. Friday's performance will include a post-show discussion about veteran issues. (8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., Cowles Center528 Hennepin Av. S., Mpls. $25-$30. 612-206-3600 or thecowlescenter.org)
'Covering Dance'
How do you form into words something that is created by bodies in space? Writing about any art form has challenges, but dance writing in particular takes a kind of alchemy. Star Tribune freelance critic Caroline Palmer will be joined by other local dance writers, including Penelope Freeh, Rob Hubbard, Judith Brin Ingber, Camille LeFevre, Susannah Schouweiler and Linda Shapiro for a talk about the difficulty of documenting movement and the relationship between language and the body. (2 p.m. Sun., Cowles Center. Free.)SHEILA REGAN
