Performing Arts Season 2023–24
Skip to main content
Closed for the day
Calendar
Event Series

Performing Arts Season 2023–24

Logo: 2023–24 Performing Arts Season

Experience the uniquely transformative power of live performance. Exploring Black American dance, healing, community, and a range of urgent topics seen through the lens of acclaimed global artists, the Walker’s Performing Arts season returns with a mix of genre-defying theater, music, and dance.

  • Logo: Zorn@70 on the Stage
    Performance
    Sat, Sep 9, 2023

    Zorn @ 70: On the Stage

    View Details
  • A person with light skin and short brown hair is standing outdoors, gazing to the right, and wearing a black shirt with two long necklaces.
    Performance
    Thu, Sep 14, 2023

    Alabaster DePlume

    View Details
  • Three dancers, all with dark skin and dark hair and wearing black, face to the right. A fourth dancer is partially obscured in the background.
    Performance
    Oct 5–7, 2023

    DIANNE McINTYRE Group: In the Same Tongue

    View Details
  • Three adults stand next to one another in a photo studio with one looking away from the viewer and the other two looking at the viewer.
    Performance
    Tue, Oct 10, 2023

    An Evening with Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, & Shahzad Ismaily Trio: Love in Exile

    View Details
  • A woman stands on a darkened stage hold her arms out and looking at the viewer.
    Performance
    Oct 27–28, 2023

    Nacera Belaza: L’Onde

    View Details
  • A dancer stands on a stage, with their right hand moving in front of them. They have dark skin, a shaved head and are wearing a black toga. Five other performers of various skin tones and hairstyles sit behind them, on small black benches, wearing black togas as well.
    Performance
    Nov 7–8, 2023

    Trajal Harrell: The Köln Concert

    View Details
  • A group of 13 people are arranged on a stage with a black floor and a black curtain behind them.
    Performance
    Sat, Nov 25, 2023

    Choreographers’ Evening 2023, Curated by Darrius Strong

    View Details
  • Four people with light skin and dark hair play percussion instruments on a small stage lit with green vertical fluorescent lights.
    Performance
    Wed, Nov 29, 2023

    Sandbox Percussion: Seven Pillars by Andy Akiho

    View Details
  • Against an all black background, a person with light skin, dark brown curly hair, a striped crop top and shiny underwear poses with one arm straight up and the other arm resting against their thigh.
    Performance
    Dec 8–9, 2023

    Beth Gill: Nail Biter

    View Details
  • A performer dances on a dramatically lit, foggy stage of reds and purple. The dancer is facing away from the audience and wearing a white puffy wig. Four silver skulls lay on the stage.
    Performance
    Jan 11–13, 2024

    Ligia Lewis: A Plot/A Scandal

    View Details
  • A performer with light/medium skin, dark hair pulled back, a white blouse and black jeans stands at the edge of the stage looking toward the audience. In the background, a performer sits on a chair facing away from the audience.
    Performance
    Jan 25–27, 2024

    Aya Ogawa: The Nosebleed

    View Details
  • Four performers, each wearing a different, tan, intricately layered dress, dance in unison with their left arms raised, on a carpeted stage.
    Performance
    Feb 8–10, 2024

    Big Dance Theater, The Mood Room

    View Details
  • A person with light skin and short dark brown hair, wearing a suit coat and white button-up shirt, gives a lecture in front of a background of a detail of a medieval tapestry.
    Performance
    Feb 22–24, 2024

    Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor

    View Details
  • A person with medium-dark skin and long, twisted locks sits wearing a brown dress with yellow and red triangles. They hold their cello with their left hand.
    Performance
    Sat, Mar 2, 2024

    Tomeka Reid Stringtet

    View Details
  • A shadowy, black-and-white image of two people on a small stage. Both stand and sing into mics. The person on the left plays electronic instruments on a table in front of them.
    Performance
    Sat, Mar 16, 2024

    Avant Joik: Katarina Barruk, Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, and Matti Aikio

    View Details
  • Against an all-black background, a monochromatic image of three dancers with dark skin who are entwined and holding each other.
    Performance
    Mar 21–23, 2024

    Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: BLACK HOLE – Trilogy And Triathlon

    View Details
  • A collage shows 12 Black musicians compiled together, overlapping. All are shown from the waist up. Some sing at a microphone, others play the drums. Others still do neither.
    Performance
    Sat, Apr 20, 2024

    Damon Locks’s Black Monument Ensemble

    View Details
  • Three dancers on stage against a black background, all with light skin and short hair, are mid-air as they jump with their arms pushing downwards.
    Performance
    May 15–18, 2024

    Abby Z and the New Utility: Radioactive Practice

    View Details

Acknowledgments

  • The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation through the Doris Duke Performing Arts Fund, 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; Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph; Emily Maltz; Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; Jon Oulman; Therese Sexe and David Hage; and Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.

Media partner

  • Logo: Minnesota Public Radio