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Calendar
July 24-26, 2008
BLM mover Eddie Oroyan performs his new work Brown Rocket with BLM mover Laura Selle-Virtucio as a part of the Walker Art Center’s Momentum Series at the Southern Theater. For specifics go to: Brown Rocket and Southern Theater
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BLM in Utah
BLM Artistic Associate Emilie Plauche Flink and I will travel in the minivan with our three daughters (yes, do pray for us.) to teach a summer residency at the Brigham Young University dance department in Provo, UT from July 21 – August 1. Emilie and I will also set my piece “A Duet for Wreck” on the department’s student company.
McNight Artist Fellowship
l was named a recipient of a 2008 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreographers, administered by the Southern Theater and funded by the McKnight Foundation. McKnight Fellowships for Choreographers. The fellowship comes with a $25,000 cash award that will help BLM tremendously in the coming year.
Southwest HS Program
The Southwest High School Dance Program students premiered a new work by Carl called “We Who Are About To . . .” during their spring concert at the Lake Harriet Band Shell. The 6 minute piece for 30 dancers was created in five 50 minute rehearsals and was danced with grace and beauty by the Southwest dancers.
Boomerang
The Boomerang Fund for Artists, Inc. surprised BLM with a $3,000 award “in recognition of [Carl and BLM’s] creative vision and the excellence with which [we] express that vision.” BLM thanks the Boomerang Fund and its president Joe Morra for this wonderful recognition. For information about the Boomerang Fund go to www.boomerangfund.org.
Wrapup of busy winter
January 20, 2008, BLM closed its enormously successful run of Carl Flink’s first evening length work Wreck at the fabulous Southern Theater in Mpls, MN. Dance Magazine critic Linda Shapiro wrote “The powerful dancers, risk-takers all, deliver the combination of buoyant athleticism and feral intensity that is a hallmark of Flink’s style. They often move in tight formation—either within shifting groupings of wooden benches that define the compartment in which they are trapped, or careening through space, colliding and rebounding off of one another. Sometimes it’s like watching a display of cascading fireworks: carefully sculpted forms filled with volatile explosions of light.” Dance Magazine Online February 2008.
On January 30 & 31, 2008, BLM teamed up with the Twin Cities based dance company TU Dance to perform a new commission by Carl Flink and Uri Sands for the Minnesota Orchestra’s Young People’s Concert series performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. This marked the first time Sands and Flink and their respective performing groups collaborated. This commission was made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Minnesota McKnight Endowment for the Arts and Humanities.
In June 2007, BLM was awarded 501 c3 nonprofit corporation status, a major step in evolving the company into regular touring company with an annual contract for its movers. Our nonprofit corporation application was generously researched and completed on a pro bono basis by Barbara J. Wood, an attorney with Lindquist & Vennum, PLLP. BLM can not thank Barbara and Lindquist & Vennum enough for their investment in helping BLM work to establish itself as a sustainable and ongoing arts organization in the Twin Cities.
