mnartists.org: Laurie Van Wieren

the remake of like a movie i saw once

Laurie Van Wieren — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:47:12 GMT

[size= 13px; font-weight: bold]Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 27, 28 and 29 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors) $12-$18 pay what you can[/size] [size= 13px]The Remake! With the cast: Megan Mayer, Michelle Kinney, Diana Grasselli, Paula Mann and Laurie Van Wieren and special guest Galen Treuer as Anna Shogren! First seen April, 2008 at the Ritz Theater in Paula Mann's series UNBRANDED! Inspired by the stage, being on the stage or wanting to be on the stage. "like a movie I saw once" is about copying each other. It's about wanting to be like someone else. It's the story of a dancer who moves to New York and her replacement! The story of an opera singer who is auditioning for Cirque Du Soul-lay, The story of a dancer who is obsessed with documenting everything around her... a debutante escaping her own cotillion, an accordion player who keeps trying to break into a dance audition and a choreographer who can't stop talking. It's like trying to re-member something you saw once ... Re shot scenes! Better then the Original? Re-made to make more money at the box office? Find out! Don't miss it!

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[size= 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black] [/size] [size= medium]Megan Mayer[/size] is thrilled to appear in [i]like a movie I saw once[/i] for the second time. She is a performing artist, choreographer and photographer based in Minneapolis. Her work has been presented at the Walker Art Center, The Soap Factory, Bryant-Lake Bowl, MN History Center and in NYC's CATCH Series. She also directs the Bathroom Dancing Project, an ongoing body of dancework videotaped in public bathrooms. Megan has had the pleasure of working with many talented artists including Laurie Van Wieren, Karen Sherman and Kevin Obsatz, and looks forward to performing in Charles Campbell's [b][i]He Woke Up In A Strange Place Called Home And Athough Looking For Bed He Kept Finding Death Instead [/i]in May. [/b]She is currently in rehearsals for her newest work, [i]I Could Not Stand Close Enough to You, which will premiere as part of The Southern/Walker Art Center's Momentum series July 23-25, 2009. [/i][i][size= medium] [/size][/i]

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[size= x-small] [b]Diana Grasselli [/b]has lent her shimmery sound to major recording artists such as Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross, Cher, John Waite, Bonnie Tyler, Alice Cooper, Belinda Carlysle, Phoebe Snow, G.E. Smith, The Smithereens, Chynna Phillips, Bonnie Spector, Paul Stanley, Meatloaf and Desmond Child. Ms. Grasselli recorded two albums for Capitol Records with the popular East Coast recording group, [i]Desmond Child and Rouge[/i]. Their Top 50 Single, "Our Love Is Insane", with its funky bass beat and Diana's soaring lead vocal rocked the air waves and dance floors throughout the East Coast. After a successful national tour and appearances on several contemporary television shows including [i]Saturday Night Live!,[/i] Diana appeared with [i]Rouge[/i] members, Maria Vidal and Myriam Valle in the hit Broadway show, [i]Gilda Radner - Live From New York[/i] at the Wintergarden Theatre, which was adapted to film by director, Mike Nichols and titled, [i]Gilda Live![/i], and is a now a regular on The Comedy Channel. [/size]

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[size= 11.0pt; font-family: Arial]Cellist and composer MICHELLE KINNEY is currently the Musician in Residence in the University of Minnesota Dance Program. As a composer she has received awards and grants from The Bush Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, NEA/Rockefeller, Harvestworks/Studio Pass, and the American Composers Forum. Michelle has composed for dance, theater and film throughout her career, in both The Twin Cities, (Laurie Van Wieren, Stuart Pimsler Dance Theater), and New York City, where she lived for 13 years. She performs frequently with Jelloslave, co-led with Jacqueline Ultan, and with her husband Chris Cunningham in his project Mississippi Peace. Michelle has recorded, performed and toured throughout Europe and the United States with some of the most respected innovators in new music today including Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, Myra Melford and many more. She has also worked extensively in pop music, with artists such as Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow, Lou Reed, John Cale, Hal Wilner and Richie Havens.[/size][size= 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black][/size]

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[size= 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black]PAULA MANN has created 35 new works. She is now co-artistic director of TIME TRACK PRODUCTIONS whose mission is to explore the relationship between media and humanity using live performance as a foundation. Mann's work has been presented by many performance venues both in New York--at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S 122, Danspace, Off Broadway at the Douglass Fairbanks Theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and the Lower East Side Dance Festival--and in the Twin Cities, by the Southern Theater, the O' ShaughnessyDance Series and the Women of Substance series, The Walker Art Center, and the MN Dance Alliance. Her solo work has been presented throughout the U.S. and Canada. Mann has been recognized with several consecutive awards from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation; Meet the Composer, the MN State Arts Board, MRAC Arts Activities and Community Arts, two Sage Cowles Chairs at the University of Minnesota and a Bush Artist Fellowship. 1999 she traveled to Germany to study with DV8 Physical Theater. She is a graduate of New York University and is currently affiliate faculty at the University of Minnesota Department of Theater and Dance.[/size]

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[size= 11.0pt; font-family: Arial]GALEN TREUER has been performing and choreographing in Minneapolis since 2001, after graduating from Oberlin College with a degree in economics. As a co-artistic director of Live Action Set, a performance company that draws on dance, theater, clown, and visual art, he is exploring collaboration and the use of character in movement. Live Action Set has been recognized as an important emerging presence in the Twin Cities performance community. The company has presented work most recently at The Southern Theater, has collaborated with Ballet of Dolls on Rite of Spring[/i] and has shown a revamped Desiderare [/i]at the Soap Factory in August as part of the MN Fringe Festival. Galen has performed with ARENA Dances, Christopher Watson Dance Company, Zenon Dance Company, Jazzdance by Danny Buraczeski, Gerry Girouard, Noah Bremer, David DeBlieck, TimeTrack Productions, and Vanessa Voskuil among others.[/size] 

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[size= 11.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black]LAURIE VAN WIEREN has been arranging and rearranging individual's idiosyncratic movements on and off stage since 1980. She grew up on the west side of Chicago, and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1975 she moved to Mpls where she studied Hanya Holm technique with Nancy Hauser. While working at the Walker Art Center she studied and performed with many visiting artist's including: Eiko and Koma, Dana Reitz, Deborah Hay, Stuart Sherman and Jonathan Stone. As a solo performer, and with her company, the B-Specifics, she has performed in many venues, including the Walker Art Center, the Southern Theater, O' Shaughnessy, Dancespace, DTW, First Avenue, and on the Lake of the Isles Skating rink. Laurie is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome, Bush and NEA/Rockefeller foundations. Her solo's "Anthony" and "Our Lady of Sorrow" were performed in the Art of Movement Festival, Yarolslavl, Russia, Aug 2006. "Antonio" and "Goodbye Mania" were performed at the Fabrik: International Center for Dance and Movement, Potsdam, Germany January 2007. She is the founder and producer of a monthly choreographers showcase and discussion, the "9x22 Dance Lab", a meeting-place for dancers and dance-makers in Minneapolis. She teaches both privately and a class called "Out of Character" at the University of Minnesota. lvw@visi.com[/size]

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like a movie I saw once

Laurie Van Wieren — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:02:04 GMT

a new work by Laurie Van Wieren in: UNBRANDED, at the Ritz in Minneapolis. April 9-12 , 2008 All shows 8:00 PM (photo: Anna Shogren & Laurie Van Wieren by Warwick Green) with Performers: Megan Mayer, Anna Shogren, Diana Grasselli, Michelle Kinney, Paula Mann and Laurie Van Wieren , " Let's see...you could say it's like a story of a videographer who follows an opera singer, an accordion player and 3 dancers around trying to capture their stories...but that's not quite it. It is about the stage, being on the stage or wanting to be on the stage, it is about copying each other, it is about the gestures of women. It's also about re-membering.Like trying to re-member a movie I saw once..." LVW UNBRANDED, a performance event of alternative work by local iconoclasts including Michelle Kinney of Jelloslave, Paula Mann and Steve Paul of Time Track Productions and Charles Campbell, Gülgün Kayim and Sean Kelley-Pegg of Skewed Visions. Tickets available at the Ritz Box Office or by phone: 612-436-1129 Ritz Theater Box Office www.ritztheaterfoundation.org The Ritz Theater is located at 345 13th Avenue NE, Minneapolis MN 55413 Performers bios: Anna Marie Shogren loves working with Laurie Van Wieren and loves Nicollet Village Video. A product of the University of Minnesota's dance and art programs she has also performed with Karen Sherman, Justin Jones, Morgan Thorson, Chris Schlichting, Sarah Jacobs, and Katie Rose McLaughlin, and has performed in New York, Chicago, Boston, Jacob's Pillow in Massachusetts. Her choreography has been presented at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, the Red Eye Theater, the Walker Arts Center, the Old Arizona Theater, and soon in New York as part of the Catch Series. Various weekends this spring and summer she will be performing Trisha Brown's Planes in the Medtronic Gallery at the Walker, gallery sitting at the Soap Factory, and, come July 24-26, will be presenting a piece as part of the Momentum series the Southern, please come. MEGAN MAYER is a performing artist, choreographer and photographer based in Minneapolis. She makes dances in the kitchen of her northeast apartment and has an ongoing video project dancing in public bathroom stalls (youtube.com/boyscoutgirl). Her choreography has been commissioned by the Minnesota History Center and has premiered at Bryant-Lake Bowl, Walker Art Center and in NYC's CATCH series. She has had the pleasure of dancing for many talented artists including Laurie Van Wieren, Body Cartography, Hijack, Karen Sherman and Shawn McConneloug. Megan played a monster in the 2007 short film The Birthday Party and also creates photo duets with her television (flickr.com/photos/meganmayer/). With Mark Abel Garcia she is co-directing socktesting which premieres June 2008 in the illustriously gritty Soap Factory. Megan looks forward to performing in San Francisco this summer and celebrating her 40th birthday. mnartists.org/Megan_Mayer DIANA GRASSELLI has lent her shimmery sound to major recording artists such as Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross, Cher, John Waite, Bonnie Tyler, Alice Cooper, Belinda Carlysle, Phoebe Snow, G.E. Smith, The Smithereens, Chynna Phillips, Bonnie Spector, Paul Stanley, Desmond Child, Jelloslave, Prudence Johnson and Gary Rue. Ms. Grasselli recorded two albums for Capitol Records with the popular East Coast recording group, Desmond Child and Rouge. Their Top 50 Single, "Our Love Is Insane", with its funky bass beat and Diana's soaring lead vocal rocked the air waves and dance floors throughout the East Coast. After a successful national tour and appearances on several contemporary television shows including Saturday Night Live! Diana appeared in the hit Broadway show, Gilda Radner - Live From New York at the Wintergarden Theatre. The show was adapted to film by director, Mike Nichols and titled, Gilda Live! and is a now a regular on The Comedy Channel. She has appeared as a backing vocalist on Late Night with David Letterman and on several film sound tracks, including Disney Pictures, Sister Act. Diana has written hundreds of songs including a gold-selling single in the Far East for Vaze Publishing. As a producer with Chanson D'or Productions, Diana has produced and co-produced her original music in collaboration with Greg Wells, Desmond Child, Marsha Malamet, Eric Borg, Michael Sherwood, Terpsichore and Tony Axtell. Diana offers vocal instruction and coaching in Miami, New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. As a composer, MICHELLE KINNEY has received awards and grants from The Bush Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, NEA/Rockefeller, Harvestworks/Studio Pass, and the American Composers Forum. Her work appears on various compilation recordings including the recent "Sonic Circuits X" from the Innova label.In addition to performing in her own bands (now Jelloslave), Michelle has recorded, performed and toured throughout Europe and the United States with some of the most respected innovators in new music today. Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, Myra Melford, George Cartwright, Leroy Jenkins, Elliot Sharp, Brandon Ross, Steven Bernstein and Steve Tibbets are among the artists calling on Michelle's contributions as a cellist. She has also worked extensively in pop music, including many recordings and appearances live and on TV (Tonight Show, Letterman, VHS Storytellers) with Natalie Merchant, several recordings with Sheryl Crow, performance projects with producer Hal Wilner, The Letterman Show with Lou Reed, recording with John Cale, and Richie Havens' recent release "Wishing Well". Since her arrival in the Twin Cities fifteen years ago PAULA MANN has created 35 new works. She is now co-artistic director of TIME TRACK PRODUCTIONS whose mission is to explore the relationship between media and humanity using live performance as a foundation. Mann's work has been presented by many performance venues both in New York--at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S 122, Danspace, Off Broadway at the Douglass Fairbanks Theater, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and the Lower East Side Dance Festival--and in the Twin Cities, by the Southern Theater, the O' Shaughnessy Dance Series and the Women of Substance series, The Walker Art Center, and the MN Dance Alliance. Her solo work has been presented throughout the U.S. and Canada. Mann has been recognized with several consecutive awards from the McKnight Foundation, the Jerome Foundation; Meet the Composer, the MN State Arts Board, MRAC Arts Activities and Community Arts, two Sage Cowles Chairs at the University of Minnesota and a Bush Artist Fellowship. 1999 she traveled to Germany to study with DV8 Physical Theater. She is a graduate of New York University and is currently affiliate faculty at the University of Minnesota Department of Theater and Dance. LAURIE VAN WIEREN has been arranging and rearranging individual's idiosyncratic movements on and off stage since 1980. She grew up on the west side of Chicago, and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1975 she moved to Mpls where she studied Hanya Holm technique with Nancy Hauser. While working at the Walker Art Center she studied and performed with many visiting artist's including: Eiko and Koma, Dana Reitz, Deborah Hay, Stuart Sherman, David Gordon and Jonathan Stone. As a solo performer, and with her company, the B-Specifics, she has performed in many venues, including the Walker Art Center, the Southern Theater, O' Shaughnessy, Dancespace, DTW, First Avenue, and on the Lake of the Isles Skating rink. Laurie is the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome, Bush and NEA/Rockefeller foundations. Her solo's "Anthony" and "Our Lady of Sorrow" were performed in the Art of Movement Festival, Yarolslavl, Russia, Aug 2006. "Antonio" and "Goodbye Mania" were performed at the Fabrik: International Center for Dance and Movement, Potsdam, Germany January 2007. She is the founder and producer of a monthly choreographers showcase and discussion, the "9x22 Dance Lab", a meeting-place for dancers and dance-makers in Minneapolis. She teaches both privately and a class called "Out of Character" at the University of Minnesota. lvw@visi.com

image: like a movie I saw once, photo: Warwick Green

image: like a movie I saw once, photo: Warwick Green

image: like a movie I saw once, photo: Warwick Green

Good bye Mania, choreographed and performed by laurie Van Wieren

Laurie Van Wieren — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:59:27 GMT

Performed : Patrick's Cabaret, Mpls.,Mn, USA -Dec. 2006 Fabrik,Center for Dance and Movement, Pottsdam ,Germany- Jan. 2007 A DaDa homage to Hannah Hoch

image: Goodbye Mania, Tom Carlson

Patrick's Cabaret,Dec. 2006

Laurie Van Wieren — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:42:50 GMT

pre show, warm up, Patrick's Cabaret Dec.6,2006

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Antonia,Shadow Cabaret,Mpls

Laurie Van Wieren — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:09:01 GMT

First performed at Patrick's Cabaret Dec. 2006. A solo choreographed and performed by Laurie Van Wieren. A Miniature landscape of yearning performed in the stream of a single light.

Anthony

Laurie Van Wieren — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:28:58 GMT

."Anthony", solo, performed by Laurie Van Wieren first appeared in an "Out There" series produced by the Walker Art center and the Southern Theater in 1981.This solo is a character rhythm dance performed to the tango music of Jelloslave.( Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ferrer-Ultan and Tom Hambleton.) "Anthony" was influenced by the clown work that I was doing at the time, the fool Kyoami in Kurosawas film Ran and the movement style that I had learned working with Eiko and Koma in a piece called "Canal", performed at the Southern Theater in Mpls. I tried on a suit that was in my costume closet, looked in the mirror and I saw a familiar face: Anthony was the name of many of the young men and boys that lived in the neighborhood that I grew up on the west side of Chicago. I added a mustache and there he was in all his dark glory. Since then he has performed with his own band...slurring the words of every song. He has undressed to reveal his love of women's underwear and when very drunk he believes that he is the famous tango dancer: Juan Carlos. In August 2006 Anthony performed in Yaroslavl, Russia where he was very much at home. Speaking of home... In March he will be going home to Chicago. Anthony will be performing at Links Hall, March 3, 4, & 5th 2007. He is very much looking forward to it and hopes that some of his old friends will be there. Laurie Van Wieren has been performing, choreographing, producing and teaching dance in Minneapolis since 1980. She is originally from the Austin neighborhood of Chicago and Alum of the Art Institute of Chicago. Quote: "...Laurie Van Wieren is a master of the small exquisite movement, deftly employed to compose characters that become indelible in the mind." -Camille LeFevre, Minneapolis StarTribune

5 Dancers and a DJ

Laurie Van Wieren — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:01:44 GMT

"5 dancers and a dj" "5 dancers and a dj" is a very formal dance collage of idiosyncratic movements and gesture. This work has been seen as a half hour performance, and is in progress to be performed as a full evening show in 2008. created in part, in Red Eye Isolated Acts Performance Process 2006 www.theredeye.org seen: Tramp Dances curated by Hijack, Links Hall, Chicago March 2,3 2007 Patrick's Cabaret 20th Anniversary Show, April 28th 2006 The Red Eye Theatre, Isolated Acts, May 2006 With performers: Tom Carlson Corinne Caouette Chris Holman Judith Howard Pam Plagge April Sellers Tom Carlson began his performing career at the age of 7, as a trumpet player outside of his grandfather's mission in downtown Minneapolis. He began his dance career with ContactWorks Dance Company as a teacher and company member in the early 80's. Mr. Carlson has also appeared in the work of Georgia Stephens at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC. Tom has performed with Laurie Van Wieren and the B-Specifics since 1984. He is a trumpet player with the infamous Brass Messengers (aka The Gypsy Comb-Overs). Corinne Caouette has studied classical ballet for 12 years, classical violin for 15+ years, and singing for as long as she can remember. She performs and records song/dance/comedy frequently with Le Cirque Rouge de Gus/Burlesque Show and is a member of Faux Jean, a Minneapolis-based rock band that performs and records original music. She is currently composing, producing, and recording her own music project in hopes of stumbling across a large sum of money to finance a life of international tour, performance and romance (and who isn't?) Chris Holman is a fifth-generation San Franciscan who moved to Minneapolis temporarily, 25 years ago. He has no dance or musical training, yet he knows what he likes. This is his final performance. Judith Howard is a choreographer and performer whose work has been widely presented in the Twin Cities and beyond. She is on the Dance/Theater faculty of Macalester College and was se lec td "Twin Cities Best Choreographer" in 2005 by CityPages. Judith has joyfully appeared in the work of Laurie Van Wieren since 1990. Pam Plagge is an independent choreographer and dance educator at North High School. She has danced in work by April Sellers, Gerry Girouard, and William Atchouelou. Her dream of becoming a B-Specific has finally been realized, thanks to Laurie. Her passions are dance and travel, especially when she co mbines the two...such as her recent trip to study salsa and Afro-Cuban dance in Havana, Cuba. April Sellers moved to Minneapolis in 1997 after graduating with a BFA in dance from Ohio State University. In addition to appearing as a dancer in original works of Liz Lerman, John Munger, Judith Howard, and Laurie Van Wieren, Sellers has established herself as an innovative choreographer and dance educator. She founded the April Sellers Dance collective in 1999. Ms. Sellers work has been seen at the Walker Art Center, Minnesota Fringe Festival, RedEye Theater, Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, and the Varsity Theater. She is currently on faculty at St. Cloud State University.

image: 5 Dancers and a DJ