ORIGINAL RUN DATE: May 26, 2009 Carl Flink was a dancer in Minneapolis and New York before he became a lawyer. He has since straddled both lines, in a sense, infusing the dances he makes with themes of social justice. Field Songs is the newest work he’s put on his Black Label Movement, which premiered [...]
Archive for December, 2009
30 Dec
Best of 2009 No.3: Solo competition winners
ORIGINAL RUN DATE: January 26, 2009 Each year, the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra invites local vocalists and musicians to compete in its annual Masters Concerto and Aria Competition. Winners of the 11th annual competition performed at Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis. 3-Minute Egg went to the rehearsal earlier in the day.
29 Dec
Skewed Eggs
3-Minute Egg is partnering with Skewed Visions, a local interdisciplinary theater company, to promote each other’s work. 3-Minute Egg is specifically supporting “Cubicle,” a monthly series of video pieces from artists commenting on the office workplace. Skewed Visions promotional spots will appear at the beginning of two to three Eggs every month, beginning in January. [...]
29 Dec
Best of 2009 No.4: Composing for Women
ORIGINAL RUN DATE: April 30, 2009 Twin Cities composer Edie Hill has created everything from solo pieces to symphonies. One of her latest is a short work for the Twin Cities Women’s Choir. 3-Minute Egg met with Hill and the choir’s artistic director, Mary Bussman, during a rehearsal for performances at St. Mary’s Greek Orthodox [...]
28 Dec
Best of 2009 No.5: Dance a capella
ORIGINAL RUN DATE: April 2, 2009 James Sewell Ballet, the male choir Cantus and composer Mary Ellen Childs collaborated on new work, titled Air as part of a larger Sewell Ballet program at The O’Shaughnessy. 3-Minute Egg went to a run-through and talked with the three masterminds behind this engaging premiere.
18 Dec
An EGGSellent 2009
3-Minute Egg is taking next week off and finishing out our year Dec. 28-Jan. 1 by running our five most-viewed videos of 2009. Will you or an artist you know make the most-popular list? And what a 2009 it was! 3-Minute Egg became a weekly program on the Minnesota Channel of Twin Cities Public Television [...]
17 Dec
The worldview of Chris Baker
Chris Baker applies his engineering education and mindset to contemporary art, creating installations that comment on our social identities, expressions and attachments in the digital world. Baker dissects his current exhibition at Franklin Art Works for 3-Minute Egg.
16 Dec
Media Mike Hazard
Mike Hazard has made documentaries for 35 years, many of them airing through public television. His newest, created on a commission, took him to China to bring forward the story and surrounding color of poet Han Shan. Cold Mountain — this one without Heath Ledger — airs 10 pm Jan. 3 on TPT2. 3-Minute Egg [...]
15 Dec
Rosy Simas: Nomadic Dancer
Rosy Simas grew up in Minneapolis and formed her first company here in 1992, but she has also made San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Montreal her geographic and artistic homes. Winter/Hiver, which Simas produced last week at the New California Gallery, is her first public work since moving back here from Montreal, In [...]
14 Dec
Monster Drawing Rally
Midway Contemporary Arts asked 75 artists to each spend an hour drawing, painting, making collages on paper and producing anything else the center could sell — for $35 each, first-come first-served — for its second annual Monster Drawing Rally. 3-Minute Egg soaked up Saturday night’s frenzy of community and art-making.
