Collected Works
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Wreck
Set inside the last watertight compartment of a recently sunk ore boat resting at the bottom of Lake Superior, Wreck explores the depths of physical and psychological endurance and human fortitude in the face of impending and inevitable destruction. The piece plunges towards the ragged edge of movement and stamina as it seeks the physical event horizon where violence and cooperation, obsession and compassion and the ultimate question of how we will enter death at the edge of the Abyss.
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Lost Lullabies
In this physical and fluid octet choreographer Carl Flink was inspired by the stark dichotomy of holding his infant child in his arms late at night while watching the initial images from the United States’ current war in Iraq on the television.
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A Duet for Wreck
This deceptively simple duet on two benches is both a part of Carl Flink’s in-progress evening length work Wreck and a stand alone piece. The duet reveals an intimate relationship frayed at its edges moving inexorably towards a final moment that could be resolution or resignation.
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Bleeding Heart
This octet is a cubist self-portrait by choreographer Carl Flink on eight bodies, female and male. The piece captures the daring and athletic movement emblematic of Flink’s choreographic style, while revealing moments of riveting tenderness and shadowy violence through the harsh white light of a light box held by a faceless operator.
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A Fractured Narrative for a Sad Ending
A dance for ten, A Fractured Narrative for a Sad Ending is a movement collage of the collision of choreographer Carl Flink’s memories of his sister Pamela Flink’s untimely death due to unknown causes and their childhood days spent swimming in an aboveground pool their father set up in their home’s backyard.
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Spill
A solo, Spill was initially inspired by a magazine photo of a person who had fallen into a well. Later, while traveling with the Limon Dance Company to Alaska after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Plauché Flink was moved by the photographs of sea life, birds in particular, covered in oil. Their innate nobility and natural instincts were at such odds with what was being done to them by outside forces.
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Compartment Cell
The work captures the moment when seven people find themselves in the final watertight compartment in an ore boat that has just sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior. They careen back and forth against both the structure of the cell and each other as they struggle to come to grips with or deny the inevitable final moment that awaits them.