HIJACK
Guest Artist
HIJACK is the Minneapolis-based choreographic collaboration of Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder. Van Loon & Wilder each grew up in Chicago and met at Colorado College in 1990. In 1993, they moved to Minneapolis and named their collaboration HIJACK. Specializing in the inappropriate, they insert dance where it is least expected. HIJACK is best known for “short-shorts”: pop song-length miniatures designed to deliver a sharp shock and football field-scaled spectacles for 15-50 performers.
The duo has taught and performed in Japan, Russia, Central America, Ottawa, Chicago, Colorado, New Orleans, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Austin,TX, and Maine. HIJACK choreograhy has been supported by Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Bush Foundations, MRAC, and Forecast Public ArtWorks as well as residencies at Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Colorado College, and Bates Dance Festival. They were voted best choreographers by City Pages 2004 and their show at PS122 with Scott Heron was given special notice in The New York Times' Year in Art 2006.
Photography credits: Sean Smuda, Megan Meyer and Morgan Thorson
