Live Action Set
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Live Action Set is a Minneapolis-based physical theater performance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
. It's artistic mission is to create visually poetic, wildly imaginative, and accessible performance experiences that harness the indefinable power of the human spirit. It does so by primarily focusing on ensemble-created, new work and draws from the worlds of dance, drama, music, mime, clowning and visual theater. Founded in 2003, the company has earned great critical praise and become one of the most influential experimental theatre companies in the Twin Cities. Committed to creating original, ensemble-driven performances that dissolve boundaries between artistic disciplines the company's productions have been widely hailed as "courageous", "beautiful" and "daring." Their first standout production, Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban, was the top-selling show at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival
.. In 2011, their original production about myths re-envisioned in the Old West, The 7-Shot Symphony, received an Ivey Award for Overall Excellence.
Joanna Harmon- Executive Director
Megan Odell
Galen Treuer
Vanessa Voskuil
2005 Outstanding Experimental Theatre Work for Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban -Minneapolis Star Tribune
2006 Best Stage Production for Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban
2009 Best of Twin Cities Theater for My Father's Bookshelf
2011 Ivey, Overall Excellence for The 7-Shot Symphony
2004: Before Dark (review)
2005: Ice Cube; Storming of the Bastille; Hello Remember Me; Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban (review 1; review 2)
2006: Zombies on Ice; The Percussionist
2007: Desiderare: Desire the Undesirable
2008: The Piano Tuner; The Rite of Spring; Deviants
2009: My Father's Bookshelf
2010: The Happy Show, April 29-May 14 at the Bedlam Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
2011: The 7-Shot Shymphony, March 10–27 at The Loring Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2011: The 7-Shot Shymphony, July 15–24 at Strawdog Theatre, Chicago, IL
2011: Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus, August 5–14 at Mill City Museum's train shed, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2012: TBD, June 15-22 at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
. It's artistic mission is to create visually poetic, wildly imaginative, and accessible performance experiences that harness the indefinable power of the human spirit. It does so by primarily focusing on ensemble-created, new work and draws from the worlds of dance, drama, music, mime, clowning and visual theater. Founded in 2003, the company has earned great critical praise and become one of the most influential experimental theatre companies in the Twin Cities. Committed to creating original, ensemble-driven performances that dissolve boundaries between artistic disciplines the company's productions have been widely hailed as "courageous", "beautiful" and "daring." Their first standout production, Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban, was the top-selling show at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival
Minnesota Fringe Festival
The Minnesota Fringe Festival is a performing arts festival held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, every summer, usually during the first two weeks in August. The eleven-day event, which features performing artists of many genres and disciplines, is one of many Fringe Festivals in North...
.. In 2011, their original production about myths re-envisioned in the Old West, The 7-Shot Symphony, received an Ivey Award for Overall Excellence.
Current leadership
Noah Bremer- Artistic DirectorJoanna Harmon- Executive Director
Founding company members
Noah BremerMegan Odell
Galen Treuer
Vanessa Voskuil
Awards
2005 Artists of the Year (with director Jon Ferguson)2005 Outstanding Experimental Theatre Work for Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban -Minneapolis Star Tribune
2006 Best Stage Production for Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban
2009 Best of Twin Cities Theater for My Father's Bookshelf
2011 Ivey, Overall Excellence for The 7-Shot Symphony
Shows
2003: Exposure2004: Before Dark (review)
2005: Ice Cube; Storming of the Bastille; Hello Remember Me; Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban (review 1; review 2)
2006: Zombies on Ice; The Percussionist
2007: Desiderare: Desire the Undesirable
2008: The Piano Tuner; The Rite of Spring; Deviants
2009: My Father's Bookshelf
2010: The Happy Show, April 29-May 14 at the Bedlam Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
2011: The 7-Shot Shymphony, March 10–27 at The Loring Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2011: The 7-Shot Shymphony, July 15–24 at Strawdog Theatre, Chicago, IL
2011: Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus, August 5–14 at Mill City Museum's train shed, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN
2012: TBD, June 15-22 at the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, Minneapolis, MN
External links
- Official website
- "Radio mnartists: Live Action Set" mnartists interview
- Skinner, Quinton; "Spotlight: The Percussionist, Holiday House"; City Pages; Vol. 27, Issue 1338; 26 July 2006
- Darst, Lightsey; "Four is Enough: Minneapolis St.Paul Magazine"; July 2006
- Combs, Marianne; "Off to join the circus"; April 2010