Sally Rousse and Megan Mayer

A 2001 McKnight Dancer Fellow, Sally Rousse performed as a leading dancer with the Royal Ballet of Flanders and Ballet Chicago before co-founding Minneapolis’s James Sewell Ballet in 1990. Drawing from a wide palette of movement and an appetite for extreme theatrical moods, Paramount to My Footage dives into historical fiction and the worlds of celebrity and privacy.

From her curious site-specific bathroom choreography to prestigious commissions and performances around the Twin Cities and beyond, Megan Mayer’s recent work employs her dry wit with the nuance of gesture. Her new work explores that fine line between the risk of intimacy and the comfort of companionship, where clumsy first encounters meet the quiet splendor of vulnerability.