• A dancer in dark pants and a light striped top and dark hair stands with a left leg stretched out behind and arms spread like wings, faces a bright window in a white room in the American Swedish Institute.

    In Collaboration with the exhibit “Ann Wolff: The Art of Living”

    American Swedish Institute, February 2025
    Performers: Dexter Carlson, Judith Howard, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Judee Shui Xian, Laurie Van Wieren
    Music: Michelle Kinney
    Photo credit: Warwick Green

  • jules bither, Laurie Van Wieren, Jinza Thayer in mid-dance. Phot credit: Brian Lambert.

    10 x 10 Solo/Ensemble

    Red Eye Theater, April 2024
    Ensemble: Jules Bither, Dexter Carlson, Judith Howard, Eva Mohn, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Anat Shinar, Jinza Thayer, Laurie Van Wieren.
    Photo: Brian Lambert

  • Laurie Van Wieren, arms over her head, dressed in black with white shoes, kicking her left leg over her head on the Southern Theater stage.

    because you came here and sat down

    Southern Theater, February 2024
    Kaleena Miller and Laurie Van Wieren present and perform an improvised, sound-focused work.
    Photo credit: Dan Norman

  • jules bither, Pramila Vasudevan, Anna Marie Shogren, Alys Ayumi Ogura, & Laurie Van Wieren, all masked, taking a group portait photo in a mirror

    Precarious Disclosure

    Southern Theater, April 2023
    Ensemble: jules bither, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Anna Marie Shogren, Pramila Vasudevan, Laurie Van Wieren.
    Music: Michelle Kinney

  • A dancer all in blue in a green field standing facing the camera, looking out fo the corner of her eye at a white llama sitting on the ground next to her

    Just Between Ewes and Me

    Galewoods Farm, August 2023
    Ensemble: Dexter Carlson, Judith Howard, Kaleena Miller, The Ewes of Gale Woods, Mardi Gras the Llama, & Tim Reese. Produced by Jennifer Glaws.
    Photo: Bill Cameron

  • Michelle Kinney in the back waering black, seated playing the cello, and Laurie Van Wieren wearing blue standing in a crouch with her fists clenched in front of her yelling, in a gymnasium

    Where is our tomorrow, now?

    Frogtown Rec Center, December 2022
    Solo: Laurie Van Wieren
    Cello: Michelle Kinney
    Photo credit: Tom Corcoran

  • Dancers in the SooVAC gallery

    4 Portraits 4 SooVAC

    Soo Visual Art Center, November 2021
    Ensemble: jules bither, Lauren Coleman, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Laurie Van Wieren.
    Photo Credit: Tiffany Lange.
    Within exhibition "Put It In the Chat," sculpture "Pāvam" by Prerna.

  • Six dancers in white in a line on the dock of a lake under the full moon

    South of You: The Full Moon

    Silverwood Park, October 2020
    Ensemble: jules bither, Charles Campbell,  Lauren Coleman, David Donovan, Non Edwards, Dana Kassel, Michelle Kinney, Megan Mayer, Alys Ayumi Ogura.
    Photo credit: Chris Holman

  • Jules Bither in tuquoise shirt and bright yellow pants dancing on a round floating pier on the Mississipi River

    Shoreline Project: On the River

    Mississippi River, September 19, 2020
    Ensemble: jules bither, Michelle Kinney, Jinza Thayer, Pramila Vasudevan, Captain Greg. Produced by Alyssa Baguss.
    Photo credit: Laurie Van Wieren

  • Alys Ayumi Ogura dressed in white with long black hair, standing on and holding onto a large tree trunk

    Physiophenology

    Silverwood Park, August 2018
    Ensemble: jules bither, Charles Campbell, Lauren Coleman, Non Edwards, Megan Mayer, Brenna Mosser, Margaret Ogas, Alys Ayumi Ogura. Naturalist: Noelle Roden. Silverwood Program Coordinator: Alyssa Baguss
    Photo credit: Laurie Van Wieren

  • Five dancers in dark clothing running in a dimly lighted gym towards the camera

    North of Your Foot

    Sports and Recreation Center, Bethel University, Oct 2017
    Ensemble: jules bither, Corinne Caouette, Lauren Coleman, Tim Glenn, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Anna Marie Shogren, Laurie Van Wieren, Pramila Vasudevan.
    Photo credit: Steven Lange

  • Dana Kassel in a black coat and red scarf dancing on ice skates on a frozen lake against bare trees, some with red leaves

    Winter Field Work

    Silverwood Park, February 2017
    Ensemble: Alexandra Bodnarchuk, Charles Campbell, Tom Carlson, Rachel Clark, Hannah Germaine, MC Halasz, Anders Hanson, Chris Holman, Amy Jones, Dana Kassel, Kaya Lovestrand, Laura Levinson, Rene J Meyer-Grimberg, Hoang Uyen Nguyen, Anna Marie Shogren.
    Photo credit: Brian Lambert

  • Laurie Van Wieren in black, clinging to a corner of the old stone proscenium arch

    Temporary Action Theory

    Southern Theater, November 2016
    Solo: Laurie Van Wieren
    Dramaturgs: Barbara Berlovitz, Judith Howard, and Pramila Vasudavan
    Photo credit: Galen Higgins

  • Five dancers in all white move among the oak savanna of Silverwood Park

    Summer Field Work

    Silverwood Park, August 2016
    Ensemble: Corinne Lee Caouette, Angharad Davies, Anna Marie Shogren, Jinza Thayer, Laurie Van Wieren.
    Guide: Alyssa Baguss
    Photo credit: Alyssa Baguss

  • Three dancers in street clothes are visible rehearsing in a recreational facility.

    a quartet for you

    Revere Park, Chicago IL, February 2016
    Ensemble: Julia Antonick, Joanna Furnans, Kristin Van Loon, Laurie Van Wieren.
    Photo credit: Laurie Van Wieren

  • A blurred photo of Laurie Van Wieren in motion, wearing black, in a dance studio with wooden floors

    "...exactly like that"

    Revere Park, Chicago, IL, February 2016
    Solo: Laurie Van Wieren
    Photo credit: Lauren Van Wieren

  • Laurie Van Wieren in black pants and sweatshirt with white stripes on the sleeves on a black stage in front of a black curtain

    Exactly Like This

    Open Eye Figure Theater, 2015
    Solo: Laurie Van Wieren
    Music: Michelle Kinney
    Photo credit: courtesy of the artist

  • 4 x 4 = 100 Choreographers

    Walker Art Center, MN, 2014
    Concept and Direction: Laurie Van Wieren
    Choreography: Berit Ahlgren, Arlys Alford, Gabriel Anderson, Nika Antuanette, Jennifer Arave, Courtney Baga, Emma Barber, Maggie Bergeron, Bonnie Berquam, Olive Bieringa, Blake Bolan, Young-Tse Bolon, Robert Borman, Emma Buechs, Tim Cameron, Charles Campbell, Tom Carlson, Mike Cohn, Miriam Colvin, Beverly Cottman, Kenna Cottman, Angharad Davies, Ryan Dean, Baraka de Soleil, Mary Easter, Torre Edahl, Rachael Freeburg, Penney Freeh, Dylan Fresco, Emily Gastineau, Lazer Goese, Izzi Gorowsky, Susanne Grochett, Robert Haarman, Marilyn Habermas-Scher, Annika Hansen, Erika Hansen, Lara Hanson, Deborah Heltzer, Galen Higgins, Chris Holman, Judith Howard, Alison Hoyer, Colette Ilarde, Jennifer Ilse, Kalila Indiver, Margaret E. Johnson, Justin Jones, Tom Kanthak, Ellen Keane, Robert Keo, Missa Kes, Tara King, Heather Klopchin, Amy Lamphere, Nick LeMere, Jim Lieberthal, Erin Liebhard, Jennifer Mack, Theresa Madaus, Megan Mayer, Dustin Maxwell, Kaleena Miller, Julia Moser-Hardy, Kara Motta, Motion Arts, Billy Mullaney, Blake Nellis, Leah Nelson, Jael O’Hare, Akiko Ostlund, Jane Peck, Sharon Picasso, Pam Plagge, Otto Ramstad, Matthew Regan, Sally Rousse, Stacy Sabin, Sherry Saterstrom, Chris Schlichting, April Sellers, Anat Shiner, Sean Smuda, Darius Strong, Paul Stucker, Deborah Jinza Thayer, Jennifer Theodore, Monica Thomas, Morgan Thorson, Svitlana Shtilman, Michael Sommers, Edna Stevens, Kristin Van Loon, Pramila Vasudevan, Vanessa Voskuil, Jeff Wells, Arwen Wilder, Josie Winship, Christopher Yaeger, and Nan Zosel.
    Photo credit: Walker Art Center, Open Field

  • Laurie Van Wieren after tossing a ppile of colorful clothing in the air, Chris holman sitting next to her with a boombox, both wearing black sheer-sleeved dresses

    1 dancer and a dj

    Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
    Dancer: Laurie Van Wieren
    DJ: Chris Holman
    Photo credit: Sean Smuda

  • Joanna Furnans, Sally Rousse, & Kristin Van Loon smiling for a selfie on the roof

    SOLO/QUARTET

    TekBox, Minneapolis, MN, 2013
    Ensemble: Joanna Furnans, Sally Rousse, Kristin Van Loon, Laurie Van Wieren
    Photo credit: Sally Rousse

  • Joanna Furnans, Laurie Van Wieren, Kristin Van Loon, & Sally Rousse (on all fours) each with an arm held out in front in a studio where two framed pictures of dancers hang on the white wall

    Who Made These Videotapes?

    Studio 206, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
    Ensemble: Joanna Furnans, Sally Rousse, Kristin Van Loon, Laurie Van Wieren
    Photo credit: Theresa Madaus

  • Megan Mayer in a light blue sleeveless dress and dangling earrings from the shoulders up, furrowing her brow in a white room

    like a movie i saw once: The Remake

    The Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, MN 2009
    Ensemble: Diana Grasselli, Chan Holman, Michelle Kinney, Paula Mann, Megan Mayer, Galen Treuer, Laurie Van Wieren. Photo Credit: Warwick Green

  • Anna Marie Shogren in heavy-frame glasses and an orange dress from the neck up looking up and the the right. Behind her right shoulder Laurie Van Wieren, blurry, is looking up and to the right

    like a movie i saw once

    The Ritz Theater, Minneapolis, MN 2008
    Ensemble: Diana Grasselli,, Michelle Kinney, Paula Mann, Megan Mayer, Anna Marie Shogren, Laurie Van Wieren.
    Photo Credit: Warwick Green

Choreography

Photo credit: Megan Mayer

Choreographed Works [Selected]

  • 2024 10 x 10 Solo/Ensemble, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN

  • 2024 because you came here and sat down, Southern Theater, MN

  • 2023 Just Between Ewes and Me, Gale Wood Farms, Minnetrista, MN

  • 2022 Where is Our Tomorrow Now? Frogtown Rec, St. Paul, MN

  • 2021 4 Portraits, Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

  • 2020 Shoreline Project: On the River, Mississippi River, MN

  • 2020 South of You: The Moon and You, Silverwood Park, MN

  • 2018 Solo for Bob, Links Hall, Chicago, IL

  • 2017 North of Your Foot, Bethel University, MN

  • 2017 Winter Field Work, Silverwood Park, MN

  • 2016 Temporary Action Theory (solo Eve.), Southern Theater, MN

  • 2016 Summer Field Work, Silverwood Park, MN

  • 2016 Quartet for Chicago, Revere Park, Chicago, IL

  • 2015 Exactly like this (solo), Open Eye Theater, MN

  • 2015 4x4=100 Choreographers, Walker Art Center

  • 2014 1 dancer and a dj, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN

  • 2013 SOLO/QUARTET, TekBox, Minneapolis, MN

  • 2011 Who Made These Videotapes?, Studio 206, MN

  • 2009 Like a Movie I Saw Once: The Remake, Bryant Lake Bowl, MN

  • 2008 Like a Movie I Saw Once, Ritz Theater, MN

  • 2007 Antonia, Good-Bye Mania, Fabrik, Potsdam, Germany

  • 2006 Our Lady of Sorrow, Anthony, Yaroslavl, Russia

  • 2006 5 dancers and 1 dj, Red Eye Theater, MN

  • 2004 Too!/ Cake Dance, Southern Theater, MN

  • 2004 Out of Character (Five Solo’s), The Tin Shed, MN

  • 2002 Contemporary Spectacle, Weisman Art Museum, MN

  • 1999 Lives and Death of Cinderella (Trio), O’Shaughnessy Theater, MN

  • 1996 Augenblicksgott, Walker Art Center, MN

  • 1995 Icehouse Tango: A Winter Pageant, Lake of the Isles, MN

  • 1993 Mania, Memory, Melancholy; Melody, Space Space Studio, MN

  • 1992 B-Specifics with Exploding Head Trick, Hennepin Center, MN

  • 1991 Foccacia, Max, Maurice & ; LaLa Danspace/St. Marks, NYC

  • 1991 Anthony, Walker Art Center, MN

  • 1990 Gertrude, Danspace/St. Marks, NYC

  • 1990 Weak in the Knees Hennepin Center, MN

  • 1988 Struggle with an Angel, Resort McKnight Theater, MN

  • 1986 TV/Memoir, Walker Art Center, MN

  • 1985 Your Dog’s Gonna Like This, Walker Art Center, MN

  • 1984 It Had to Be You (Group Piece), Antiques Ballroom, MN

  • 1983 Bark at the Moon (Solo), Roulette Studio, NYC

  • 1981 Mask (Solo), Walker Art Center, MN

  • 1980 Group Piece with Film Loop, Walker Art Center, MN

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