Zenon Dance Company's Spring Concert

Marsha Palmer just so happens to be joined at the hip with Jeremy Walker. What’s interesting about this is that Palmer is Zenon Dance Company’s managing director, and local jazz impresario Walker is best known as proprietor of the dearly departed Brilliant Corners; their own relationship facilitated an otherwise unlikely union between Zenon’s hoofers and Walker’s new Jazz Is NOW! Composers’ Ensemble. With their respective organizations solidly odd-coupled, Palmer and Walker asked some of their favorite brilliant East Coast artists to brighten our corner of the world. So it is that Ted Nash (jazz composer and Wynton Marsalis collaborator) and choreographer Jeanine Durning have put their heads together to create a sometimes jagging, sometimes bopping combination of live music and dance, one that promises to be a high point of Zenon’s spring production. 528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis; 612-339-4944; www.zenondance.org