Photo of performance taken by Kristen Abhalter.

The Cosby dance.

Photo from performance taken by Kristen Abhalter.

I'm looking at 2 people at once.

Photo taken by Kristen Abhalter.

Group Improvisation. Photo Feratures The Brass Messengers, Anna MArie Shogren, Pam Plagge, and Suzanne Costello.

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Piece created for the show, Pam Plagge Laurie Van Wieren Judith Howard Eva Mohn Suzanne Costello Anna Marie Shogren, an assignment based performance at the BLB Theater on April 29th. "Don't have calf muscles" grew out of some terrific instructions from Laurie Van Wieren.

"Don't Have Calf Muscles or Eyebrow" a remount of the first was perfromed at the Walker Art Center at the 2007 Choreographers Evening and featured special guests, Chris Schichting, Joanna Furnans, Laurie Van Wieren, Monica Thomas, Theresa Madaus, And Tara King.

Anna Marie Shogren¹s "Don¹t have calf muscles," based on Van Wieren¹s
instructions, got the loudest laughs of the night. Shogren wears a certain
expression of silly, blank-check conviction, which somehow makes everything
that she does amusing, particularly when each movement is executed in
task-fashion, without physical conviction. Shogren¹s absurdity left me
wondering what exactly I was laughing at; she milks the oddity of
performance for all (and a little bit more than) it¹s worth.
-Lightsey Darst

Choreographer, Dancer

La Brea (or I'm a jerk or Upstairs Bathroom)
excerpts from "i'm a jerk" (work in progress)
Thanks
"Don't have calf muscles"
"Nursing Home Whore House"
Truck and Chair
"I always wanted to paint a wall green"
"This is the only part, alright?"
"I was in 3rd Grade in 1991"