Artistic Collaborators
Daniel Grove
Photo by Eric BurlingMA Roles: Managing Director, Stage Manager/Production CoordinatorMA Pieces Worked On:
Inner Labyrinth (2026)
From Tokyo to Brooklyn (2025)
Daniel Grove is a multidisciplinary movement artist, arts administrator, and life-long questioner. They graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in Dance and a Certificate in Hip-Hop Studies, and became a credentialed Facilitator through Turning the Wheel, an organization that uses movement-based activities to foster communal connection and expression.
They have also stage managed for a number of local projects, including TRACES (after Sophie Calle), presented by the Walker Art Center and From Tokyo to Brooklyn, presented by Movement Architecture at Northrop at the University of MN. In addition to their work with MA, they co-founded DynAmic Dance Collective with Aileen Norris, and look forward to continuing their work of choreographing and offering workshops rooted in dynamic disability theory and practice.
Erika Hansen
Photo by Bobby RogersMA Role: DancerMA Pieces Worked On:
From Tokyo to Brooklyn (2025)
All Hail the Queen (2018)
Erika Hansen is inspired by the unconventional. For the past 20 years, she has performed in a variety of distinctive spaces including a parking garage, a clock tower, various living rooms in the Twin Cities, an old glue warehouse, and the skyways in downtown Minneapolis. She received a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota. Locally, she has performed in works by Laura Holway, Sandbox Theatre, Sandy Silva, and April Sellers among others. Her solo, COVER THIS, was presented in Choreographer's Evening 2019.
Erika also lived and danced in New York City for nearly a decade, performing works by Rebecca Davis, De Facto Dance, Willi Dorner, Shannon Hummel, and Noémie Lafrance’s Bessie Award winning Descent. She toured in Bogotá and Paris with Johan Amselem - La Halte Garderie.
Currently, she is a member of Dance Rec Pickup League and continues to perform with Movement Architecture, Charles Campbell and in JG Everest’s Sound Gardens. In addition to her performance career, Erika has worked in various roles as an arts administrator and is the mother of two young children.
Erin Thompson
Photo by Randy KarelsMA Role: DancerMA Pieces Worked On:
All Hail the Queen (2018)
Erin Thompson is a dance artist, educator and choreographer based in Minneapolis, MN. She recently retired from the University of MN where she was a Senior Teaching Specialist in contemporary dance for 31 years. Erin is an Alexander Technique International (ATI) certified Alexander Technique teacher. Her dance performance career spans over 50 years.
She was a 2019 McKnight Dancer Fellow, received a Sage Outstanding Dance Educator award in 2008, was awarded an NEA Choreography Fellowship in 1993 and a New York Dance and Performance Award, ‘Bessie’, in 1986. Erin continues to teach advanced level contemporary dance classes at Zenon Dance School, volunteers for the homeless at Sanctuary Supply Depot and volunteers with the immigrant led organization UNIDOS on Climate and Equity for the city of Minneapolis.