Dancer Judith Howard rehearsing in the Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute for a new piece choreographed by Laurie Van Wieren. (Provided/Warwick Green)
“Art is coming from my inside. I am working as its servant—I let it out not thinking too much—using my hands and gesture—choosing a material to put it on place. I do not use the art. It is using me.”
— Ann Wolff
The well-attended exhibition has offered many experiences, not least for Laurie Van Wieren. She directs a movement-based interpretation of Ann Wolff’s artwork.
“As she was in the process of creating a dance piece about German-born, Sweden-based artist Ann Wolff, choreographer Laurie Van Wieren sat with her notebook and pondered the way she and six dancers and two musicians were pressing against time and space.
“We are conducting,” she wrote. “We are sliding and flying near where you walk and where you see.”
Van Wieren has been working to bring Wolff’s images of becoming — whether that be becoming a bird, a house or being a state of leaving or remembering — to life with the same fluid play between abstraction and narrative that exists in Wolff’s artwork.
Van Wieren has teamed up with cellist Michelle Kinney for the project. They’ve been collaborating together since the 1980s, when Kinney approached Van Wieren after a show at the Walker Art Center and handed her a cassette tape of her music.”
Quote – Read the full article by Sheila Regan for the Minnesota Star Tribune
