For Immediate Release February 20, 2014

Black Label Movements 7^th Minnesota Season Features the Premiere of Carl Flinks Hive and a Live Performance of the Companys 2012 TED Talk Lets Talk About Sex

March 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis-St. Paul based professional dance theater Black Label Movement (BLM) presents the premiere of Artistic Director Carl Flinks Hive and a live performance of BLMs 2012 TED Talk Let's Talk About Sex created with Science Magazine correspondent and Dance Your PhD Contest founder John Bohannon (Bohannon wiki & Bohannon website). Lets Talk About Sex also features local musicians Jello Slave performing their original soundscore created for the Talk.

These are BLMs first Twin Cities performances since being featured in theJanuary 2014 issue of Dance Magazine.). The magazine declared, Black Label Movement gives new meaning to risky behavior. . . . Onstage, [Flinks] dances explore wildly physical action and dramatic subjects, such as the fate of people trapped in an airtight compartment of a sinking ship. Offstage, his collaborations with scientists have used dance to simulate molecular processes and navigate zero-gravity environmentsand have become a sensation at TED Talks, the global big ideas conferences. This is exemplified by the diverse repertoire of this years Cowles season.

Long-time BLM collaborator Bohannon shares the inspiration for Lets Talk About Sex, which will receive its Minnesota premiere, Working with BLM, I wanted to create the in-motion Talk about sex that I needed when I was 15 and never heard. A frank, poignant and, at times, humorous conversation about the actual science around why humans have sex. The Talk was commissioned by TED.com for its 2012 TED: Full Spectrum Conference at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center in California.

In this years premiere Hive, Flink and the 9 BLM movers explore transitions between light and shadow and the intense physical proximity associated with bees moving in a hive. I am fascinated with the way insects in a nest or hive appear to move without any regard to other individuals space. What can that idea bring to a human community?

The evening will be completed with restagings of Flinks kinetic and subtle anti-war eulogy Lost Lullabies (2006) performed to a new soundscore created by local composer Greg Brosofske and the autobiographical A Fractured Narrative of a Sad Ending (2006).

Other items of interest related to this season: 1. April 24, 2014, BLM will present a live performance of its 2013 TEDMED presentation If Truth Is Beauty, Can Art Be Science as a part of the events coinciding with the Northrop Auditorium Grand Re-Opening, sponsored by the UMN Institute for Advanced Study (), 2. Flink has been commissioned to create a new work for the 2014 American Dance Festival at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina with funding provided in part by the McKnight Foundation, and 3. The Guthrie Theater presents BLM performing Flinks evening length work Wreck July 11-20, 2014.

BLM is a professional movement theater company based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN dedicated to exploring Carl Flinks uniquely athletic and ballistic approach to choreography and the pursuit of new applications of dance to the human experience.

Cowles Center Performance Information:

March 27 - 29 at 8 pm

Ticket Range: $20 - 30

Available online @ Cowles Tickets or by phone at 612-206-3600

Contact Information:

Crystal Edwards, BLM Managing Director 321-720-0677

Website: www.blacklabelmovement.com Email: blacklabelmovement@gmail.com