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The Spirit Moves You To Color The Unseen
By The Winding Sheet Outfit
Created by The Winding Sheet Outfit
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Show Description
Channeled from Spirit, Hilma af Klint's paintings are ineffable, groundbreaking, and absolutely breathtaking. It's our honor to introduce you to the artist and her work through movement, music, color and light.
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Content Warnings
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 7-11 and up
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| Add to Schedule | Date | Time | Ticket Options | Quantity | Purchase |
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| Fri 08/01 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/02 | 8:30 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/03 | 10:00 PM | ||||
| Wed 08/06 | 8:30 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/09 AD | 5:30 PM |
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Cast and Crew
Boo Segersin
Hilma af KlintThis is Boo Segersin's 10th year at the Minnesota Fringe! Woweewow! You may have seen her in past Fringe productions with The Winding Sheet Outfit ("Årsgång", "The Darger Project", "Edward Lear", "Blood Nocturne", "Sisters Fox"), Broken Wing Productions ("The Wind Phone"), Theatre Pro Rata ("The Convent of Pleasure"), Really Spicy Opera ("Game of Thrones: The Musical"), or Ghoulish Delights ("5 prisoners", "Melancholy London"). Outside Fringe she has performed with many lovely companies such as Gnarly Bard Theater, Puppet Lab/Open Eye, Wayward Theatre Company, Transatlantic Love Affair, Nimbus Theater, Stages Theatre Company, Theatre Unbound, Collective Unconscious, Fearless Comedy Productions, Impossible Salt, Swandive Theatre, and Six Elements Theatre. This fall Boo is headed to United Theological Seminary to get her Master's Degree in Theology and the Arts! Boo is a rebel and will not choose one of Hilma's works for her home. Instead she chooses all three of the Altarpieces. @aboointhetheatre
Kristina Fjellman
The SpiritKristina Fjellman has participated in MN Fringe as a performer and designer (and even a director once) multiple times since 2006. Her most recent productions have been with The Winding Sheet Outfit. As a co-founding member, she's been involved in many of TWSO productions since their first in 2012. She was last seen on the Fringe stage in 2023 with Sandbox Theater as a performer and project lead for "Yes. No. Maybe. Please Explain", and in 2024's Horror Fest with TWSO and Reverend Matt for "The Night Parade of a Hundred Demons." You may have also seen her in one of the many Sandbox Theatre productions over the years since she became an ensemble member in 2013, or making artwork, or jewelry, or selling vintage clothes around the Twin Cities (she loves a side hustle). If she could have one of Hilma's paintings, it would be a really difficult choice, but it would be "The Ten Largest, No. 3."
Heather Meyer
Mathilde / EnsembleHeather Meyer has been performing, writing and tearing ACLs in MNFringe since 2006 and did not have the attention span to count them all. This is Heather's first time working with The Winding Sheet Outfit! Other places you may have seen or heard Heather are as improvisor with The Campout at 2024 MNFringe, Let Me Say This About That and The Theater of Public Policy. Heather's favorite Hilma painting is The Ten Largest No. 3 Youth.
Kayla Dvorak Feld
Cornelia / EnsembleKayla Dvorak Feld has performed at the Minnesota Fringe Festival 8 times. Or 9 if you count the virtual thing she did during The Pandemic. The majority of her Fringe experiences have been with TWSO, a couple of her favorites being "Memory Box of the Sisters Fox" and "Blood Nocturne." Kayla has worked on a lot of TWSO shows and is having a hard time figuring out how many, but let's just say it's about 11. Give or take. She has also worked with other local companies such as Walking Shadow Theatre Company, History Theatre, Theatre Pro Rata, Daleko Arts (RIP), among others. Up next, you can see Kayla in Theatre Novi Most's production of "An Ocean Away" this fall. The Hilma painting she would choose for her house is "The Ten Largest, No. 3."
Megan Campbell Lagas
Sigrid / EnsembleMegan Campbell Lagas has been performing and creating with the Winding Sheet Outfit since 2012, and with Sandbox Theatre since 2005. Most recently with TWSO, she was a Tiny Clandestine in The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons at the Twin Cities Horror Festival, and Marie-Jean Valet, Who Defeated La Bete du Gevaudan, also at the Twin Cities Horror Festival. Recent MN Fringe credits include Yes No Maybe (please explain) with Sandbox Theatre and Arsgang: What You Follow Follows You with TWSO. Megan is the mother of two cool humans and she has many pets. She teaches ELL with St. Paul Public Schools Adult Basic Education. If Megan could choose one of Hilma’s paintings to put in her home it would be Primordial Chaos, No. 16.
Peyton McCandless
Anna / EnsembleThis is Peyton McCandless' 7th time participating in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and her second time since returning from 8 years living on the West Coast. This is her first devising process with TWSO, although it's her second show with them--the first being their remount of Marie-Jeanne Valet Who Defeated La Bete du Gevaudan. You may have seen her at last year's Fringe Festival in the Golden Lanyard-winning 5x5 with Transatlantic Love Affair, or last April in TLA's production of Red and the Mother Wild, produced by Illusion Theater. If Peytie had to choose one of Hilma's paintings to hang in her home, it would be Series VIII, Picture of the Starting Point.
Derek Lee Miller
Composer / MusicianThis is the 21st year in a row that Derek Lee Miller has performed at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. You might have seen him there with TWSO in Blood Nocturne (2018), You Are Cordially Invited to the Life and Death of Edward Lear (2019), The Darger Project (2021), Årsgång (2022) or Stabby Stab Stab (2023). Then there are the many other Fringe shows he's been in with Transatlantic Love Affair (including last year's 5x5), Sandbox Theatre ( such as Marie-Jeanne Valet, Who Defeated la Bete du Gevaudan), Perpetual Motion (the Fringe-famous "show in a pool" The Depth of the Ocean) and his own solo shows The Banana Wars and Know Your B-Movie Actors. Next up, Derek will be taking a brand-new one-man show, Bay Creek, to Green Bay Fringe, Twin Cities Horror Festival and Elgin Fringe. If Derek had to choose one of Hilma's paintings, it would probably be something from either her Atom or Swan series.
Andre Johnson, Jr.
SM and General MagicAndre Johnson Jr. is celebrating his 10th Minnesota Fringe this year with this being the 9th consecutive year that he has worked on a show. This is his 8th project with The Winding Sheet Outfit, his first one being The Memory Box of The Sisters Fox. While he has mainly worked in the Twin Cities as a stage manager, he has a little acting and some scenic, props and costume design. He has most recently worked with Walking Shadow Theater Company on Mae West and The Trial of Sex. If he could choose one of Hilma's paintings it would be The Swan no. 1 with The Ten Largest No. 6 at a close second.
Amber Bjork
DirectorAmber Bjork has participated in Minnesota Fringe almost every year since 2009 either as a performer or director, most notably with The Winding Sheet Outfit as its Founding Member, directing and appearing almost every TWSO show since its first appearance at MN Fringe in 2012. Her most recent directorial credits around the Twin Cities include "5 x 5" (Transatlantic Love Affair, Fringe 2024), "The Outsider" (Ghoulish Delights), and "By the Bog of Cats" (Theatre Pro Rata), and she was last seen on stage this spring with Transatlantic Love Affair in "Red and The Mother Wild" (Illusion Theater). This October she'll be in the director's chair again with "Terms" (Four Humors Theater) at the Twin Cities Horror Festival. But DURING Fringe, you can also see her cold reading some hot vampire fanfiction in Special When Lit's "Fangs and Bangs (and Sangs)" over at the Southern Theater! If Amber chose one of Hilma's paintings to put up in her home, it would be "The Ten Largest, No. 9."
Mandi Johnson
Spirit Costume DesignerHilma af Klint
The subject of our show.More Information
We wish we had more than an hour to introduce you to Hilma af Klint , De Fem (the Five), and the beautiful paintings attributed to their timelines. As such, this play is just that:
an introduction.
We invite you to learn more about a woman we've come to love.
Hilma af Klint painted 193 Paintings for the Temple which were meant to be displayed in a temple of Theosophy (it's like Spiritualism, but with more emphasis on science). These paintings were channeled, a commission from spirits, making Hilma known as both an artist and a mystic. According to her and her friends, these paintings were a direct message from the divine and Hilma spent a large portion of her life not only completing them, but trying to find a temple to display them in and someone to interpret their true meaning.
Her faith was strong, but it nearly devistated her that nobody seemed to take her seriously.
This is most likely because of the fact that she was a woman in the art world.
How many famous historical artists can you name?
How many of them are women?
We'll let you in on a secret...not much has changed since then. You're still more likely to see men taken more seriously in the art world today.
Hilma came to understand that the message would not be seen in her lifetime, that humanity still needed to evolve to hear it. So she packed it all away in crates and rolls, put it in her nephew's cellar, all of it to be opened 20 years after her death. They were not to be separated, never sold.
This is important. Never to be sold. The art world doesn't really know what to do with art that is not made for collectors and dealers. And it is only now that women who were painters AND mystics are being brought to the forefront. See: Leonora Carrington. Emma Kunz. Georgia Houghton. Agnes Pelton. Anna Cassel.
So the world is still catching up.
But once Hilma's paintings were revealed? To see them is to be taken by wonder. They are certainly abstract, and yet, their colors, compositions, and signs and symbols hint that there is a deeper, ordered meaning in them, a map to somewhere along our human evolution.
We believe that there are two kinds of people: those who are besotted by Hilma's work, and those who haven't seen it yet.
"The Ten Largest" are brighter than most art from the same time period, and all of them are about 10 feet tall. They were painted on large sheets of paper that were glued together, and the discovery of a small footprint on one of them suggests they were painted on the ground with paints made of eggs and ground plant matter. Her tools were ancient for her time and yet her techniques and style were far ahead of it.
And that's just the story behind her art. To tell you more about her life--a queer female artist in Stockholm at the turn of the 20th century--would need another lifetime.
If you'd like to learn more about Hilma af Klint, we highly recommend the documentary Beyond the Visible which can be found on Kanopy, KinoNow, and Amazon Prime.
This play was made by making movement out of Hilma's paintings, scenes from her notebook writings, and music from the emotion in her work, with the cast and crew's heartfelt admiration of her talent and dedication to science, love, and compassion.
This show wouldn't have been possible without the help of
Mandi Johnson
Jonathan Feld
Beth Bergman
Julia Carlis
Parthty McCandless
Ernie A. Cat
the efforts of the entire cast and crew
the wonderful Fringe technicians
and you.
Thank you.
We can't wait to see you at the show.
In the meantime, please enjoy this selection of Hilma's paintings:
^Altarpiece 1^
^The Ten Largest, No. 5, adulthood^
^The Dove No. 1^
^The Swan No. 1^
^The Swan No. 17^
