APRIL 29, 30, MAY 1

Morgan Thorson is a Minneapolis-based choreographer and performer.  Her last piece, Heaven, which she created with Low's Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, toured all over the U.S. including the Walker Art Center, DiverseWorks in Houston, and P.S. 122 in New York City, and On The Boards in Seattle.

She was a 2009 fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and was the recipient of the 2009 McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Choreography.  Thorson was named “Best Choreographer of 2008” by the Minneapolis-St. Paul City Pages, and received a 2007 Sage Award for Outstanding Choreography for Docudrama.

In 2006, Thorson was awarded the Music in Motion commission to create No Feeling for Harmony and received a Sage Award for Outstanding Performance for her full-evening work, Faker. She has received fellowships from the Bush and Jerome Foundations, and in 2004 she received The Bessie Schoenberg Memorial Fellowship to support her work at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, CA. Thorson has created many commissioned works for universities, companies and independent artists, including Lisa D’Amour, Split Britches Theater Company, Barnard College, University of Minnesota, and James Sewell Ballet Company.
Thorson’s work has been presented by venues worldwide, including Jacob’s Pillow, The Kitchen (NYC); Performing Arts Group (Seoul, South Korea); LIP (London); and Link/Vostok (Yarislovl, Russia).