BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//artshound.com//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.6// VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar of artshound.com X-WR-CALDESC:In this calendar you will find information about events that y ou did save X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20120211T083054CET-88023kdzvU@artshound.com DTSTAMP:20120211T073054Z CATEGORIES:Personal CLASS:EVENT DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Morgan Thorson: Heaven\nEvent Url: http://www.artsh ound.com/event/detail/30379/Morgan_Thorson_Heaven\nEvent Date Begin: 2009- 10-16\nEvent Date End: 2009-10-17\n\nDiverseWorks is thrilled to debut the world premiere of Heaven\, an extraordinary collaboration between Minneap olis-based choreographer\, Morgan Thorson\, the band\, LOW (Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker)\, Lighting Designer\, Lenore Doxsee\, and Visual and Cost ume Designer\, Emmet Ramstad\, that explores emotional and physical manife stations of ecstatic perfection.\nCulling forms and concepts from religiou s practices as strategies for creating the same state through dance\, Heav en's reverential spectacle will exert an extreme force of attraction on al l&mdash\;believers\, non-believers\, dance enthusiasts and music lovers. P erformances take place Friday - Saturday\, October 16 - 17\, 2009\, 8pm in the DiverseWorks Theater.\nMorgan Thorson's three year developmental resi dency with DiverseWorks has featured trips to landmark institution Lakewoo d Church in Houston and collaborations with national and local designers t o create a piece that employs methods that are both serene and sweaty to s tartle and seduce. Lenore Doxsee\, lighting designer of Heaven\, worked cl osely with Thorson to achieve the feeling of an intermediate sanctuary bet ween terrestrial and celestial. Indie rock band\, Low\, has created the or iginal score for the piece that is influenced by Shape-note singing\, an A capella singing tradition that celebrates song as an ecstatic expression\ , as well as the band's minimalist sensibility.\nTo create the work\, Thor son and her collaborators have developed a devotional practice from which she has cultivated movement\, vocal work and lighting design to embody ide as of perfection\, ecstasy and paradise in the performance work.\nABOUT MO RGAN THORSON\n Morgan Thorson is a 2009 fellow at the Maggie Allesee Natio nal Center for Choreography and is the recipient of the 2009 McKnight Foun dation Fellowship in Choreography. Last season\, Thorson was named &ldquo\ ;Best Choreographer of 2008&rdquo\; by the Minneapolis-St. Paul City Pages \, and received a 2007 Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography for Docudra ma.\nIn 2006\, Thorson was awarded the Music in Motion commission to creat e No Feeling for Harmony and received a Sage Award for Outstanding Perform ance for her full-evening work\, Faker. She has received fellowships from the Bush and Jerome Foundations\, and in 2004 she received The Bessie Scho enberg Memorial Fellowship to support her work at the Djerassi Resident Ar tist Program in Woodside\, CA. Thorson has created many commissioned works for universities\, companies and independent artists\, including Lisa D'A mour\, Split Britches Theater Company\, Barnard College\, University of Mi nnesota\, and James Sewell Ballet Company.\nThorson's work has been presen ted by venues worldwide\, including Jacob's Pillow\, The Kitchen (NYC)\; P erforming Arts Group (Seoul\, South Korea)\; LIP (London)\; and Link/Vosto k (Yarislovl\, Russia). In October\, 2009\, she will premiere Heaven\, co- commissioned by the Walker Art Center\, DiverseWorks in Houston\, and P.S. 122 in New York City.\nHeaven is a National Performance Network (NPN) Cre ation Fund Project co-commissioned by Diverseworks (Houston) in partnershi p with PS 122 (New York) and NPN. Major contributors of NPN are the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\, Ford Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency)\, the MetLife Foundation\, and the Nathan Cumm ings Foundation. This project is also commissioned by the Walker Art Cente r with residency support from the Maggie Allesee National Center for Chore ography in Tallahassee\, Florida.\nAdditional funding provided by: New Eng land for the Arts' National Dance Project (NDP)\, with generous support by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\, the Ford Foundation\, the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation\, and the MetLIfe Community Connections Fund of the Me tLife Foundation\; and by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board\, th rough an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature\, a grant from t he National Endowment for the Arts and private funders.\nABOUT DIVERSEWORK S ARTSPACE\nKnown for its groundbreaking artistic and education programs\, DiverseWorks is one of the premiere contemporary arts centers in the Unit ed States. DiverseWorks has been a hub for the presentation of daring and innovative work\, a commissioner of major artistic projects in all discipl ines\, and an advocate for artists worldwide. Founded by artists for artis ts\, DiverseWorks continues its commitment to bold artistic exploration\, creative risk-taking\, and building audiences for contemporary art.\nImage courtesy of Cameron Wittig.\n\nStart time: Friday-Saturday\n8pm DTSTART:20091016T000000 DTEND:20091017T000000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Morgan Thorson: Heaven TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR