Carl Flink’s Black Label Movement

Further proof of the vitality of the local dance scene, Carl Flink, the director of the University of Minnesota’s dance program, debuts a new company whose name refers to the no-nonsense ethic conveyed by 70s-era generic food packaging. As such, one of the company’s goals is to take down walls between dancers and non-dancers—and between the University community and the rest of us rubes, for that matter. The BLM style is built on gut instinct and the old-fashioned, bootstraps-and-shirtsleeves American can-do spirit; the music, much like the choreography, is based around an aesthetic of de- and re-construction—listen for pieces by Phillip Glass, Sigur Ros, and the like. Images draw from witches’ covens, sinking ships, and, more poignantly, the fractured emotions Flink felt after his sister’s recent death. 612-340-1725; www.southerntheater.org