CURRENT SEASON
CURRENT SEASON
July 10 - 11, 2025
Barbara Barker Center for Dance
Movers Make 2.0
In this exciting new initiative from Black Label Movement, choreographers are invited to share their own voice while utilizing Black Label's distinct, highly physical, movement aesthetic through the creation of a short new dance work. Experience fresh takes on wildly physical, naturally virtuosic, intellectually and emotionally engaging movement from talented choreographers in the Twin Cities dance community!
The Mother
In a riotous and heart-felt collaboration between Black Label, Sod House Theater, and composer Annie Enneking, The Mother brings to life the struggles of workers during the Bolshevik Revolution. Through a potent mix of dance, theater, and original music, the production confronts the enduring forces of oppression and corporate greed in a way that feels urgent, raw, and deeply human.
Rules of Life (World Premiere)
Rules of Life is a boundary-defying collaboration between cancer researchers and Black Label Movement that explores the aggressive complexities of glioblastoma through dance, science, and human connection. An evening-length stage work set to premiere in January 2026 will fuse the cutting-edge biomedical work of David Odde and Paolo Provenzano with Carl Flink’s visceral choreography, asking what “the rules of life” mean across biology, relationships, and society. The performance will reimagine scientific research not just as data - but as embodied experience and radical inquiry.
September 3 - 6, 2025
January 16 - 17, 2026
Barbra Barker Center for Dance
Sokol Hall
April, 2026
Huntington Bank Stadium
July, 2026
Barbra Barker Center for Dance
The Battle
A spectacular fusion of art and science, will bring together choreographer Carl Flink, Black Label Movement, the University of Minnesota Marching Band Led by director Betsy McCann, cancer researchers David Odde and Paolo Provenzano and their labs, and hundreds of Twin Cities students to launch a full-scale, live-action model of groundbreaking cancer research. Happening April 2026 at Huntington Bank Stadium, this epic scale working research model aims to decode “the rules of life” hidden within deadly tumors like glioblastoma by visualizing how t-cells might better fight cancer. Powered by the innovative Bodystorming system (www.bodystormingsystem.com), this dynamic project won’t just communicate science—it will do science, pushing the boundaries of research and performance alike.
Movers Make 3.0
Experience fresh takes on wildly physical, naturally virtuosic, intellectually and emotionally engaging movement from Choreographers within the Black Label Mover community. Between 4-8 artists will present premieres of short, new works in Black Label’s 3rd iteration of this choreographer development initiative.
Other places to see Black Label during the 2025-2026 season:
Duet for Wreck and an excerpt of Rules of Life will be performed at the Midwest Arts Xpo Dance Showcase in Milwaukee on September 16, 2026.
Setting 'An Unkindness of Ravens' at the UMN Department of Dance
Setting 'This Bleeding Heart...' on Crash Dance Productions 2
Black Label will perform at the Northrop Auditorium as a featured guest at the American College Dance Association North-Central Regional Conference in March 2026
Plus, Join us for…
Monthly BODYSTORMS as part of the Moving Cell Project. Visit www.bodystormingsystem.com for more information about this initiative.
Company Classes at Hot House on Fridays, 9:30-11am
Summer Intensive - July 2026 - more details coming by early spring 2026