Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Wynn Fricke - Season 5, Episode 72

Wynn Fricke, recipient of seven McKnight Fellowships
in Choreography and Performance, produces, according to City
Pages, precise and virtuosic work “guided by extremes of
physicality. Part of the pleasure of watching it is that the
difficult appears effortless; the tiny and delicate,
Herculean”.
 
Wynn danced with Zenon Dance Company from 1992 – 2001 and since
1998 has created eight original works for the company including
her most recent, The Mourning Tree, which premiered in 2015 with
live traditional Bulgarian Folk music performed by Mila Vocal
Ensemble. From 2005 – 2007, Wynn served as
Choreographer-in-Residence with Minnesota Dance Theatre, and in
2008, she was the Dayton-Hudson Distinguished Visiting Artist at
Carleton College. She has had choreographic residences in
Yarlslavl, Russia, at the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary in Moose
Lake, MN, and at the Company Development Residency at The Yard in
Chilmark, MA.

She is the recipient of grants from the Jerome Foundation, the
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, the American Composers Forum,
and Arts International and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
She has been honored with two Minnesota SAGE Awards for Dance in
the category of Outstanding Performance.

Wynn has created work for additional dance and theatre companies
including James Sewell Ballet, Ballet Arts Minnesota, Ragamala
Dance, Frank Theatre, Minnesota Ballet, and Borrowed Bones Dance
Theatre. Her choreography, My Very Empty Mouth, was recently
performed by Zenon Dance Company at the Teatro Marti in Havana,
Cuba. Wynn earned her MFA at New York University, Tisch School of
the Arts.