Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Berit Ahlgren - Season 4, Episode 56

Native to St. Paul, MN, Berit Ahlgren trained at Minnesota Dance
Theater with both Loyce and Lise Houlton. A founding member of TU
Dance under the artistic directorship of Toni Pierce-Sands and
Uri Sands, Ahlgren performed with the company 2006—2016.
Receiving Metropolitan Regional Art Council’s Next Step Grant in
2011, Ahlgren had the opportunity to study the Gaga Movement
Language in Tel Aviv, and moved to Israel to pursue a year-long
Gaga teacher certification. Returning to the U.S. in 2012,
Ahlgren established Gaga classes in the Twin Cities, while guest
teaching across the U.S. and abroad. Ahlgren obtained her MFA in
Dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts in 2016, where she
expanded her interests to film and technology, actively
collaborating with NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program
(ITP). Since then, Ahlgren has diversified her work through
freelance projects, performing works by Jerome Bel, Merce
Cunningham, Ashwini Ramaswamy, Carl Flink, Anna Rose, Helen
Hatch, Elena Hollenhorst, as well as collaborating with film
makers Katie Sadler, J.J. Kaiser and Robert Uehlin, and theater
directors Nathan Keepers, Randy Reyes, and Luverne Seiffert.
Ahlgren established HoneyWorks in 2019, a dance organization to
house interdisciplinary work.