Carl Flink is the founder and artistic director of the Minneapolis, Minnesota based performance group, Black Label Movement (BLM). He is currently a tenured associate professor with the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. For the past three years he has served as the department's Director of Dance and on July 1, 2008 will become the department's Chair.

A Limón Dance Company member and soloist during much of the 1990s, Flink has also danced for Daniel Nagrin, Creach/Koester Men Dancing, Bill T. Jones, Paul Taylor, Shapiro & Smith Dance, David Grenke, Joanna Mendl-Shaw, Nina Winthrop, Paula Mann and Janis Brenner. His choreography has been commissioned by Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, Ballet Arts Minnesota, and Roger Williams University, as well as, presented by the Limón Dancers’ Choreography Project. He has upcoming commissions/reconstructions with the dance programs at Brigham Young University, Carleton College and the University of Iowa. In May 2008, he received a Boomerang Fund for Artists, Inc. Award.

Beyond the dance world, he graduated from Stanford Law School in 2001 and worked as a staff attorney with Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc. protecting the legal rights of low-income family farmers and promoting sustainable agriculture until 2004. Carl also holds a B.A. in Political Science and Women Studies, summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota. Most importantly, he raises his three daughters Willa, Freyja and Iris with his life partner and BLM Artistic Associate Emilie Plauché Flink.

Artist Philosophy
I am an embodied art maker for the simple reason that it has always been the most powerful way for me to attempt to know and understand the world around me and to communicate with others.

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