Founded in 1995 ARENA DANCES creates and performs original contemporary dance choreography promoting community gathering, dialogue and impact.

ARENA DANCES is a contemporary dance company performing the work of Mathew Janczewski. The work is abstract in form, giving shape to emotions, exploring the depths and the limits of what drives us as humans to connect, to break away, to survive. Just as our emotions can veer wildly, ARENA incorporates a highly kinetic style of movement, a sweeping physicality that takes in a broad range of feelings and the posturings we may make to protect ourselves in the world. The work springs first from Mathew’s own experiences; then, through the movement and structure, ARENA seeks to find a form to give those experiences both truth and commonality.

ARENA DANCES will tour to Northfield, Red Wing & Detroit Lakes in 2018 to present The Main Street Project, an inter-generational residency of performances and community inclusive workshops for Minnesotans of all ages and abilities.