Meeting or Meaning 

was a Window Visit + Art Conversation, held outside of Mirror Lab on Sunday October 25th from 3-6pm, 2020, questioning if self care can be paid work and if there is advocacy in end of life planning?

Catharsis + Care agent, No such thing as a perfect circle + Do not resuscitate, Felt face + Exhaustive costs.

Anna Marie Shogren + collaboration with Theresa Madaus. With Alyssa Baguss available as Notary Public.

Work / Lifelong Choreographies was shown September - December 2019 in the Weisman Art Museum’s Target Gallery from Creative Collaboration as part of Walk Back to You Body, the Art and Health Residency show. Audience were invited to try on physicalities common for people of advanced age. A collection of wearable pieces (Shuffle Gait Pants, Neuropathy Gloves and Balance Boots, Dementia Tent, Shoulder Impingement Shirt, Posterior Tilt Pants, Macular Degeneration Glasses) were designed and constructed in collaboration with UMN apparel design alumni and designer Caroline Albers to display opportunities of need and openings for vitality.

Shogren was present within the work twice a week throughout the residency; enlivening the work as a dancing body for those not seeking an immersive experience, learning from the garments, a meditation in embodied empathy, and also serving as host or caregiver, physically caring for, mending, the sculptural bodies, talking with people about the work, listening. 

A soundtrack of cacophonous, disorienting, familiar songs that prompt dancing accompanied the experience, along with voices from senior residential care and the FH90 Elder Care bill hearings.

Photos from Isabel Fajardo. Featuring Anat Shinar, Megan Meyer, Non Edwards.

Caroline Albers www.carolinealbers.com

Full audio of the FH 90 bill Legislative hearings available at www.house.leg.state.mn.us

FALLS for Art in Odd Places

FALLS is a public art dance installation that optimistically re-contextualizes the physical interactions that meet us in moments of illness, trauma, and advanced age. The performance sends individual audience members on a human powered ride, through a chain reaction of assisted falls, ambulations, and lifts, cascading through the landscape of non-medical, public space. On a portion of sidewalk on 14th St. the pace of aging, and of care, will interrupt the usual energy.

Reworked for the Art in Odd Places Festival October 19th, 2019, New York, curated by LuLu LoLo. With performers Laurel Atwell, Natasha Frater, Lucy Mahler, Dustin Maxwell, Londs Reuter, Patricia Mullaney-Loss.

Lifelong Choreographies 

Work made while in residence with the Weisman Art Museum and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing and Center for Aging and Care Innovation. This yearlong collaboration is investigating the use of dance and choreography to boost sustainability and quality of life throughout senior care communities. 

September 2018 - December 2019

With audience and performers Laurie Van Wieren, Mary Lynch, Aarin Urevig, Barbara Sobocinski, Alys Ayumi Ogura, Julia Gavin Bither

Work / Lifelong Choreographies, a renewed approach, is currently on view at the Weisman Art Museum’s Target Gallery, September through December 15th, 2019. Shogren invites individuals to try on physicalities common for people of advanced age. A collection of wearable pieces (Shuffle Gait Pants, Neuropathy Gloves and Balance Boots, Dementia Tent, Shoulder Impingement Shirt, Posterior Tilt Pants, Macular Degeneration Glasses) were designed and constructed in collaboration with UMN apparel design alumni and designer Caroline Albers to display opportunities of need and openings for vitality.

Join Shogren in performances within the installation, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12-4pm through December 2019.

Photos Micheal Curran, Molly Blomgren, Boris Oicherman

FALLS is a public art dance performance that optimistically re-contextualizes the physical interactions that meet us in moments of illness or trauma. Anna Marie Shogren uses the language of contact in care facilities to send individual audience members on a ride, through the chain reaction of assisted falls, ambulations, lifts, and cascades through the Minneapolis Central Library lobby. Anna’s recent work stems out of her personal experience of working in elder care facilities, and the realization that came with it: her knowledge of a dancer and a choreographer concerning interaction with someone’s human body has a great value in those settings. This work is an ongoing process of re-imagining the kinds of embodied interactions typical to the nurse-patient relationships in elder care, that at once combine the power relations of caregiver/care-receiver with the fundamental need for the empathic human touch that becomes so acute as we grow old.

Photos Boris Oicherman

Professionals, a video work, projects dancers into the role health care workers, underlining overlapped skills, and questioning how those skills are approached in each field. Filmed Sunday January 7th at 3pm in the performance space at the A-Mill Artists Lofts in Minneapolis. Duration 1 hour

From Anna Marie Shogren

with the help of collaborators Alan Yu Wah Tse Alys Ayumi Ogura Emily Michaels King Julia Gavin Bither Linden Baierl

Music credit Hildegard von Bingen Filmed by Tamara Ober

Human Anatomy

Presented October 20-23, 2016 as part of the Vital Matters Festival at the Southern Theater, Minneapolis. From Anna Marie Shogren, made in collaboration with the dancers Anat Shinar and Laura Holway. Original music from Tim Glenn.

Video from Ben McGinley and Kevin Obsatz

Sundowning

Dance made for the Made Here series Radical Recess. Performed at 12pm on February 5, 2016 at the IDS Center Crystal Court, Minnepaolis.

Performed by Jessica Cressey and Anna Marie Shogren.

Music, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Sound of Music 1959 Original Broadway Cast.

Video, Tim Glenn

Dong

Choreography, concept, design from Anna Marie Shogren

Performance by Jacqui Cornetta, Stephen Eakin, Heather Garland, Megan Gerlach, Lillie Jayne, Don Mabley-Allen, and Anna Marie Shogren.

With music from Machine, Pearl Jam, Mazzy Star, The Byrds, Nirvana, and Sam Cooke.

Dong is sponsored by Stussy (™)

Dong (3:00), part of an episodic series, is a postfolk, pure and energetic admiration towards dance’s dear friend, music. Having been reared in a generation of western dance that often stands on its own, in silence, Dong is a personal recommitment to music and dance so indivisible that that they are called by the same name. This is the third edition to an episodic work. Dedicated to Drew Gordon.

The Want

A new, old-fashioned, postfolk dance to be.

For Aunts Timeshare, Arts@Renaissance, St. Nicks Alliance, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, May 11th, 2013.  Full montage at, https://vimeo.com/76662631

Danced by Laura Bartczak, Isaac Gillespie, Laura Grant, Carolina Lindoff, Yasmin Reshamwala, Galen Treuer, Katie Urban, Marisa Lark Wallin, and guests.

With DJ, Lisa Loew.

Photos by Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Anna Marie Shogren, and Lisa Loew.

Dong (2:00)

Created by Anna Marie Shogren, with Eloise DeLuca

Joined by musicians, Jacqui Cornetta, Heather Garland, Lillie Jayne, Lisa Loew, and Katie Rose Sardelli

Music from Daktaris, Val Bennett, and Machine

Eloise DeLuca was born in Long Beach, California and recieved B.A. in dance from California State University of Long Beach.  Since relocating to NY she has worked with many artists including, Zoe Scofield of Zoe/Juniper, Loni Landon, Mike Esperanza, and Jordan Isadore.

Full version, https://vimeo.com/66828939

Dong (3:00) will happen Saturday, October 19th.  http://danspaceproject.org/calendarandtickets/detail.php?id=244

Dong

At Catch take Aunts at the Invisible Dog on February 22, 2012.  

This is Dong (1:00), part of a serial, post-folk work and meeting with dance's dear friend, music.  Performance by Eloise DeLuca and Anna Marie Shogren.  

How to Drunk

  Vinyl tile, acrylic, nail polish, January, 2013

Bachelorette Party, 594 Loft, Bushwick, Brooklyn

Immediately 

A postfolk dance to your mix cds. December 20, 2012, Dixon Place.

Immediately is the final dance in this postfolk series that has chased the essential desirabilty of dance as a medium, through introspection and live corporeal exchange.   

Through much rehearsal with a collection of mix cds from friends and familiars and having layered a new history atop that of my relationship with the music, the time, the contributors, only one disc played this night, chosen by the technician, Rob, for added immediacy.  

Video by Admiral Grey to the music of Bridget Murray.  

  Another track https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uG2647iR6RA

Technology toward the advancement of dance

Peas, taffeta, tape,  December, 2012

Fowler Arts Collective YEAR TWO Postcard Exhibition, Greenpoint, NY

These People in my Immediate Environment

Presented at Dance New Amsterdam, Raw Materials, October 4,5, 2012.  

Featuring Katie Rose McLaughlin, Laura Grant, Caitlin Marz, and Evvie Allison.

Music from Dirty Beaches.

LA Re-do (gray)

Danced at Sunset Rooftops by the Wild Plan, NY,  August 2012

Four in a series of short, environmentally specific, simply structured, introverted solos collected under the title Immediately.  Immediately has an unsophisticated intention to softly note the desirability of corporeal exchange in a shared time and space.

(soundtrack.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELIce729HTU  and  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICR8lmZY1M)