Carl Flink

Carl Flink is the Artistic Director of the dance company Black Label Movement (Minneapolis, MN) and the Director of Dance at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Featured in Dance Magazine's January 2014 issue, Flink's dancemaking is noted for its intense athleticism and physical risk taking, compositional intelligence and humanistic themes for both contemporary dance and theater. He was a member the Limón Dance Company during much of the 1990s. His commissions and invited presentations include the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME), The Minnesota Orchestra, MADCO (St. Louis, MO), University of Florida Performing Arts (Gainesville, FL), Same Planet Different World (Chicago, IL) and Urbanity Dance (Boston, MA), among many others. Carl has received significant recognition for his innovative collaborations with scientific researchers through his Moving Cell Project with University of Minnesota biomedical engineer David Odde and the creation of multiple embodied TED talks, including Dance v. Powerpoint: A Modest Proposal. Their Bodystorming System, a rapid modeling technique using human bodies and choreographic strategies, has been highlighted by Science Magazine, Dance Magazine, Twin Cities Public Television's Minnesota Original and TPT TV Takeover and TED Talks for TEDx Brussels and TEDMED 2013 (Washington D.C.). During COVID, he moved into the realm of filmmaking for dance and created two award winning films in 2020: A Dream of Touch When Touch Is Gone and cage(d) Carl holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School JD and was a Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. attorney (St. Paul, MN) from 2001-2004.