ABOUT THE WORK
The University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts commissioned Carl and BLM to create a dance to UMN alumni and Grammy award winning composer Maria Schnieder’s Walking by Flashlight set to a poem of the same title by US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for its Century celebration. The quartet premiered in front of the University of Minnesota’s Jazz Ensemble, conducted by Schnieder herself. It is a simple, elegant movement work inspired by the wandering sense of the Schneider’s soundscape and Kooser’s spare poetry.
Original Soundscape: Maria Schnieder