Carl Flink, Artistic Director Black Label Movement: Breaking Ground with Battleground.

Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and special guest, Artistic Director of Black Label Movement, Carl Flink.

In this episode of “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey, join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest, Carl Flink, dancer, choreographer, and academic, discussing his journey into dance, the philosophy behind his company Black Label Movement, and the upcoming performance 'Battleground,' premiering at American Dance Festival.

They explore the intersections of dance and law, the teaching of modern dance, and the thematic depth of Flink's work, particularly in relation to societal issues and the human experience.

Carl Flink is an American choreographer, dancer, director and academic based in Minneapolis, MN USA. He is the founder and artistic director of Black Label Movement, a contemporary dance company based in Minneapolis. He is also the Nadine Jette Sween Professor of Dance and director of the dance program at University of Minnesota. Flink was a member of the Jose Limón Dance Company from 1992 to 1998, among other NYC based dance companies including Creach/Koester Men Dancing, Janis Brenner & Dancers and Nina Winthrop & Dancers. He has been a frequent guest artist with Shapiro & Smith Dance.

Flink's work is focused in choreography, theatrical movement direction, contemporary dance and partnering technique, and dance/science collaborations. His work as a dancer, choreographer and director has been featured in the media numerous times.

Flink's TED talk in 2011 entitled Dance v. PowerPoint has received media recognition. He has been named to the University of Minnesota Theatre Arts & Dance Department Wall of Note and was featured in Dance Magazine in an article entitled "Flying through Space."

Flink graduated in Political Science and Women's Studies from University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts in 1990. He then earned his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2001, where he was a Public Interest Law Fellow and a Skadden Fellowship Alternate.

Through Black Label, he has created commissions for MADCO (St. Louis, MO), the American Dance Festival Footprints Series (Durham, NC), Same Planet Different World (Chicago, IL) and Company C (San Francisco, CA). He has also created presentations for the 2011 TEDx Brussels, 2012 TED: Full Spectrum (Long Beach, CA), 2013 TEDMED (Washington D.C. and the 2020 TEDx Minneapolis). His residencies for college dance programs include University of Florida-Gainesville Brenau University, University of North Georgia, University of Utah, Utah Valley State, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign University of Iowa, Mount Holyoke College and Roger Williams University, among others.

For Information on Black Label Movement

https://www.blacklabelmovement.com/

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