ABOUT THE WORK
In 2015, the Cowles Center for the Arts invited BLM and Contempo Physical Dance (a Twin Cities based Afro-Brazillian Contemporary dance company led by Marciano Silva Dos Santos) to share a season in 2016. Instead of just sharing a season, Marciano and Carl decided they would co-create a work together. Merge, a dance for 10, is the result. Instead of building from a concept, the two artistic directors took turns making physical proposals in the studio often inspired by their company members or elements of each other’s choreographic style, kind of like trying on each other’s clothes to see how they felt. From this process, the two in collaboration with their combined companies created a wildly athletic tour de force that pulses with the combined energies of the two companies and makers. Nominated for a 2016 Sage Award. Original Soundscape: Greg Brosofske.
Nominated for a 2016 Sage Award.