Home > Dance Program > Dance Faculty : Carl L Flink
Department Affiliations
Specialties
- Choreography
- Performance Direction
- Dance
- Dance Composition
Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts Summa Cum Laude: Political Science & Women's Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities , 1990.
Creative Activities
- Artistic Director of the Twin Cities based professional dance company Black Label Movement (BLM). BLM website: http://blacklabelmovement.com/
- 2008 McKnight Artists Fellowship for Choreographers Recipient ($25,000)
- Recipient of a 2008 Boomerang Fund for Artists Award ($3,000)
- Premiered first evening length work entitled "Wreck" at he Southern Theater, Mpls, MN in January 2008. : In Wreck "The powerful dancers, risk-takers all, deliver the combination of buoyant athleticism and feral intensity that is a hallmark of Flink’s style. . . . Sometimes it’s like watching a display of cascading fireworks: carefully sculpted forms filled with volatile explosions of light.” Dance Magazine Online, February 2008.
- "Field Songs" - An choreographic examination of the boundaries where rural and urdan landscapes collide. Premiered at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN on May 29, 2009. For more information and reviews visit blacklabelmovement.com
Professional Activities
- Artistic Director, Twin Cities based professional dance group Black Label Movement (BLM). Website: blacklabelmovement.com
- Shapiro & Smith Dance, Minneapolis: Dec-03 - present
- Limón Dance Company, New York: 1992 - 1998
Awards
- Best Dance Performance of the Past 12 Months, City Pages, 2007
Courses Taught
- Dnce 1500 - Men's Modern Dance
- Dnce 3010 - Modern Dance Technique 5
- Dnce 3602 - Dance Composition 2
- Dnce 3700 - Performance
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