CURRENT SEASON
CURRENT SEASON
October 11-13
American Dance Festival
Durham, North Carolina
BATTLEGROUND
It is an illusion to think there are no consequences from the United States's Forever War in our everyday lives, they are buried beneath our skin, within our sinews, the marrow of our bones, the recesses of our amygdala and the ground on which we stand . . .
Carl Flink, Battleground Choreographer & Artistic Director of Black Label Movement
MOVING CELL PROJECT - BODYSTORMING
The Bodystorming System is a flexible and reciprocal research method that benefits scientific and artistic research alike. For artists, the system offers unique improvisatory tools to develop choreographic structure and vocabulary. For scientists and scholars, it offers a low-cost rapid modeling system that can support, supplement and enhance benefitting scientific inquiry that is not reliant on time-consuming and generally more costly computer simulations. It supports collaborative research in which bodystormers contribute observations on their embodied experiences, leading to multifaceted understanding of resulting data.
Bodystorms are held on a semi-regular basis on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus.
CANARY, CRIMSON, THEN EMERALD
Canary, Crimson then Emerald, a vibrant, technicolor piece explores three energies of the pandemic experience - before (Canary), during (Crimson), and emerging (Emerald). Black Label’s unique brand of ballistic movement and intricate partnering captures the tempest of many different emotions and the shifting, sometimes competing, realities that continue to swirl and surge through our society since the pandemic. Canary, Crimson, then Emerald imagines and manifests a renewed and rejuvanated community of support and compassion. An evening length movement poem, the work offers a lifeline to hope, healing, and human touch.
Fall 2024 Schedule
Wednesday, October 16 from 4-6 pm
Wednesday, November 13 from 4-6 pm @ UMN Rec & Wellness Center
Friday, December 13 from 1 - 3 pm @ UMN Rec & Wellness Center
January 30, 2025
University of North Texas Fine Arts Series
Denton, Texas
2nd Annual Movers Make
March 2025
Minneapolis, MN
In this exciting new initiative from Black Label Movement, choreographers are invited to share their own voice while utilizing Black Label's distinct, highly physical, movement aesthetic through the creation of a short new dance work. Experience fresh takes on wildly physical, naturally virtuosic, intellectually and emotionally engaging movement from talented choreographers in the Twin Cities dance community!