InRez at 206
Karen Sherman
One With Others (working title)
One With Others (working title) is a dance/performance project that extracts, co-opts, steals, exalts, bastardizes, fetishizes, relies upon and makes up the biographies of other people.
It takes inspiration and instruction in form and content from writing and writers – the trustees of so much biography and the documentarians of relationships between people.
It considers how dance and language are forms we are taught by others yet ways we communicate our individuality to the world; we wrest our singularity from common material.
It deems live feelings a live art and dance a real experience.
It is reactionary.
And has nothing to do with any of this.
The beast makes itself. We secure our valuables.
Karen Sherman moved to Minneapolis in 2004 from NYC. Her work has been presented nationally by P.S. 122, The Walker Art Center, The Southern Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Fusebox Festival, ODC, Dixon Place, Improvisation Festival/NY, Highways Performance Space, Red Eye Theater, Links Hall and many other spaces around the U.S. and Canada.
She has received numerous awards for her work as a choreographer, performer, and designer including a 2007 Bessie Award for her work in Morgan Thorson's Faker, McKnight Foundation Fellowships in Choreography (2006) and Dance (2009), a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship (2009), Sage Awards for her work as a Performer (2006) and Scenic Designer (2008, for her show, copperhead), City Pages Best Artist Awards as a Dancer (2007) and Choreographer (2009), two MacDowell Colony Fellowships (2003, 2010), a Movement Research Artist Residency (1999-2000), Jerome Foundation grants (2005, 2007), and a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship and residency in Liguria, Italy (2010). She holds a BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (with a double major in Women's Studies) and is also a singer, fifth-generation lasso spinner and former student of the flying trapeze. Her background in these areas as well as her work in nearly every facet of arts production as a producer, curator, production manager, technician and designer informs each aspect of her work. Her writing, including essays and poetry, has been featured on many live stages, web and print forums including The Movement Research Performance Journal, minnesotaplaylist.com, the live-cast Culture Bodega and a forthcoming anthology from Off The Park Press.
photo by Karen Sherman
Founded in 2007 by Robert Rosen and Shawn McConneloug, 206 is a creative workspace committed to supporting artists in exploring new ground in performance and art...a place to ask questions and take risks.
InRez is a year-long residency project designed for artists that show exceptional rigor for, promise in, and commitment to their artistry and craft.
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