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Laurie Van Wieren – Happy Hour Artist

LAURIE VAN WIEREN (she/her) grew up on the west side of Chicago and moved to Minneapolis where she fell in with a pack of dance and art makers. Van Wieren has created solo, ensemble, and site-specific works throughout the Twin Cities with many collaborators. This work has been presented at the Walker Art Center, The Southern Theater, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, The O’Shaughnessy, Carlton College Arena Theater, First Ave, The Fitzgerald Theater, Loring Park, Open Eye Theater, Red Eye Theater,  Lake of the Isles Ice skating rink and Patrick’s Cabaret. Her dances have also been seen in Chicago, Fargo, New York, Potsdam, Germany, and Yaroslavl, Russia. She is an artist advocate and has curated and produced performances at the Southern Theater, Ritz Theater, SOO Visual Art Center, and 9×22 Dance/Lab, the monthly inclusive performance/discussion platform that she created (2003 to 2019). Her work has received awards from McKnight, Jerome, Bush, NEA, Rockefeller Foundations, MRAC, MN State Arts Board, MN Sage Awards, and an Artists of the year in City Pages.  In 2022 she was in residence at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography as part of a McKnight Artist Fellowship.  

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

Precarious Disclosure is a structured improvisation and set choreography looking back on our lives and into the future with Alys Ayumi Ogura, Anna Marie Shogren, Pramila Vasudevan, and Laurie Van Wieren.

IF YOU WERE A TYPE OF CANDY, WHAT CANDY WOULD YOU BE AND WHY?

COMING SOON!


HAPPY HOUR ARTIST PERFORMANCES

Daily, 5:30 – 6:30pm 

  • Monday, April 24- Nic Lincoln
  • Tuesday, April 25 – Cheng Xiong and Javan Mngrezzo
  • Wednesday, April 26 – Shane Larson and Rachel Lieberman
  • Thursday, April 27 – Laurie Van Wieren
  • Friday, April 28 – Lily Conforti

Tickets:

$25 Five-Show Package | $12 per show

Walk-ins welcome. Cash/check/card accepted at the door.

All Happy Hour ticket income and Happy Hour donations goes directly to the artists.

Purchase Happy Hour Artist Tickets HERE

Photo by Warwick Green
Photo by Galen Higgins
Photo by Laurie Van Wieren
Photo by Ben McGinley
Photo by Sandrine Harris

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