Carl Flink
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Black Label Movement Artistic Director
Stanford Law School (JD)
Stanford University
Carl Flink | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Choreographer, dancer, director and academic |
| Title | Nadine Jette Sween Professor of Dance Black Label Movement Artistic Director |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Minnesota (BA) Stanford Law School (JD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota Stanford University |
Carl Flink is an American lawyer and dancer. He is the founder and artistic director of Black Label Movement, a contemporary dance company based in Minneapolis. He is also the Nadine Jette Sween Professor of Dance and director of the dance program at University of Minnesota. Flink was a member of the Jose Limón Dance Company from 1992 to 1998, among other NYC based dance companies including Creach/Koester Men Dancing, Janis Brenner & Dancers, and Nina Winthrop & Dancers. He has been a frequent guest artist with Shapiro & Smith Dance.[1]
Flink's work is focused in choreography, theatrical movement direction, contemporary dance and partnering technique, and dance/science collaborations. His work as a dancer, choreographer and director has been featured in the media numerous times.[2][3][4]
Flink graduated in Political Science and Women's Studies from University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts in 1990. He then earned his Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2001, where he was a Public Interest Law Fellow and a Skadden Fellowship Alternate.[citation needed]
Career
Flink's work is focused in choreography, movement and performance direction in theater and dance and collaborations between science and dance. Over the past decade his creative work has expanded to include multiple TED Talks, music videos and other internet and film content. Upon completing his bachelor's degree he moved to New York City, where he joined the José Limón Dance Company from 1992 to 1998, in addition he worked with Paul Taylor, Creach/Koester Men Dancing, Janis Brenner & Dancers and Joanna Mendl Shaw, among others. In 1998, he attended Stanford Law School where he also served as a guest lecturer with the Stanford University Dance Division until graduation in 2001. In 2001, he joined Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc.[5] as a staff attorney and also the University of Minnesota Dance Program as an affiliate instructor. In 2005, he joined the dance program as the Endowed Nadine Jette Sween Professor of Dance. He was appointed as an associate professor at the university in 2004 and was promoted to professor in 2017.[1] Flink chaired the University's Theatre Arts & Dance Department from 2008 till 2014 and was appointed as director of the Dance Program from 2005 – 2008 and 2017 - present.
Flink is the artistic director of Black Label Movement, which he founded in Minneapolis.[6][7]
Since 2009, he has worked with University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor David Odde in a collaboration called The Moving Cell Project (Moving Cell). Through Moving Cell, Flink and Odde created their bodystorming rapid modeling system that uses choreographic strategies, human bodies and space to rapid model scientific research.[8]