Performing Arts Season 2019–2020
Experience the daring ideas of diverse artists inventing new work that responds to the now. Intensity, surprise, urgency, humanity, complexity, provocation, joy—these subjects bind the experiences awaiting you in the Walker’s 2019–2020 Performing Arts season.
Acknowledgments
The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through the Doris Duke Performing Arts Fund, the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Producers’ Council
Performing Arts programs and commissions at the Walker are generously supported by members of the Producers’ Council: Nor Hall and Roger Hale; King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury and Henry Pillsbury; Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph; Emily Maltz; Dr. William W. and Nadine M. McGuire; Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; Annie and Peter Remes; Therese Sexe and David Hage; and Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.
Performing Arts Season Sponsor
Music Season media partner
Nature Theater of Oklahoma and EN-KNAP Group: Pursuit of Happiness
KOKOKO!
Lonnie Holley, featuring Nelson Patton and Shahzad Ismaily
Makaya McCraven: In These Times, with opener Astralblak
Teaċ Daṁsa: Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
Bruno Beltrão / Grupo de Rua: Inoah
Ted Hearne: In Your Mouth
Choreographers’ Evening 2019: Curated by SuperGroup
Kate Wallich + The YC x Perfume Genius: The Sun Still Burns Here
Tina Satter / Half Straddle: Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Miguel Gutierrez: This Bridge Called My Ass
Ligia Lewis: Water Will (in Melody)
Back to Back Theatre: The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl and Thumbscrew (Fujiwara/Formanek/Halvorson)
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
Faye Driscoll: Thank You For Coming: Space
Canceled: Annie Dorsen: Yesterday Tomorrow
Canceled: Maya Beiser, Wendy Whelan, Lucinda Childs & David Lang: The Day
Canceled: Kronos Quartet and Terry Riley
Canceled: BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)
Postponed: Danez and the Homies