Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Berit Ahlgren - Season 10, Episode 127

Native to St. Paul, MN, Berit Ahlgren trained at Minnesota
Dance Theater with Loyce and Lise Houlton, and was a founding
company member of TU Dance, performing between the years of
2006—2016. Receiving Metropolitan Regional Art Council’s Next
Step Grant in 2011, Ahlgren studied the Gaga Movement Language in
Tel Aviv, and shortly thereafter moved to Israel to pursue an
intensive, yearlong teacher certification. Ahlgren transitioned
to New York City in 2014 to obtain her MFA in Dance from
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, developing ties in the community
while teaching Gaga at both Gibney and Mark Morris Dance Centers.
Returning to Minnesota late 2016, Ahlgren has been working as
dance educator, performer, choreographer, and collaborator across
the U.S. and abroad, using her relationship with Gaga as a lens
to define her artistic process. Ahlgren established the
organization HoneyWorks in 2019 to house her
creative work, and most notably co-created “Live at the Shed” in
2020 with Helen Hatch (Hatch Dance), an annual, summer, outdoor
dance production with a rotating cast of 25+ dancers from the
community.