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Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 27, 28 and 29 at 7:00 pm (6:00 doors)
$12-$18 pay what you can
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! 

Performers bios:
 
Megan Mayer is thrilled to appear in like a movie I saw once 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 He Woke Up In A Strange Place Called Home And Athough Looking For Bed He Kept Finding Death Instead in May. She is currently in rehearsals for her newest work, 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.


 

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, Meatloaf and Desmond Child. 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 with Rouge members, Maria Vidal and Myriam Valle in the hit Broadway show, Gilda Radner - Live From New York at the Wintergarden Theatre, which was adapted to film by director, Mike Nichols and titled, Gilda Live!, and is a now a regular on The Comedy Channel.


 
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.
 
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.
 
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 and has shown a revamped Desiderare 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.

 
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

... the crowd-pleasing achievement of Van Wieren's ”Like a Movie I Saw Once” ... there's pleasure enough in recognizing fragments of our own truths in these quirky little vignettes. I like contemporary work best when it abstracts these kinds of unusual, but universally recognized, stories. ”
-Christy DeSmith

“…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

Choreographer

the remake of like a movie i saw once
like a movie I saw once
5 Dancers and a DJ
Good bye Mania, choreographed and performed by laurie Van Wieren
Anthony
Patrick's Cabaret,Dec. 2006
Antonia,Shadow Cabaret,Mpls