Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Morgan Thorson Season 1 Episode 3

Since 2000, Morgan Thorson has generated a body of work that investigates theconventions of western concert dance through interdisciplinary collaboration. Engagedin critical dialogue with the form, and inspired by a topic, physical process or point ofview, her work honors the body as a complex means of expression as it relates to thesite in which it is situated. For Morgan, dancing provides communication and connectionto people, silence, rage, space, beauty and itinerant imagination.A composite of original movement, sound and scenic materials, her landmarkproductions include Public Love, Still Life, YOU, Spaceholder Festival, Heaven,Docudrama, Faker and Doppleganger. Her work has been commissioned and presentedby Walker Art Center, Portland Institute of Art’s TBA Festival, PS 122, ICA Boston, ODC inSan Francisco, On The Boards, INOVA gallery, Portland Art Museum, and Legion Arts inCedar Rapids. In 2015, she was featured in Local Time, a three-month exhibition at theWeisman Art Museum.A MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow (2018, 2012), Morgan’s honors include the Doris DukePerforming Artist Award (2016), and United States Artist (2012), Guggenheim (2010),and McKnight (2009, 2002) Fellowships. In 2015 She has received support from TheMaggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (2016, 2011, 2009) and the JeromeFoundation (2002-2007). She twice received the Sage Award for OutstandingChoreography. In 2012, Morgan was in residence at the Centre ChoreographiqueNational De Franche-Comte in Belfort, France.A certified Skinner Releasing Technique instructor, she is a 2016 Creative Campus Fellowat Wesleyan University where she engages students and professors in interdisciplinarypractices, developing pedagogy in Dance, Archaeology, and Religious Studies.