Performing Arts Season 2024–25
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Performing Arts Season 2024–25

Societal inquiry, resistance, and artistic innovation define the Walker’s 2024/25 Performing Arts season. Embrace shape-shifting live performances that broaden definitions of genre and captivate with poignant explorations of 21st-century living.

  • Overhead close-up photograph of a dark skinned performers nose and lips.
    Performance
    Feb 20–22, 2025

    Autumn Knight: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker, 2025

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  • An accordionist, violinist, and citternist with light skin play together on a stage with dramatic lighting.
    Performance
    Tue, Mar 4, 2025

    Dreamers’ Circus

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  • Two adults with dark skin stand with their forheads touching while holding hands, wrapped in boxing tape.
    Performance
    Mar 6–8, 2025

    Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED

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  • A person with dark skin leans to the left with their arms outstretched.
    Performance
    Thu, Mar 20, 2025

    SHABAKA

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  • One performer with medium skin leans backward, one arm supported by another performer.
    Performance
    Apr 11–12, 2025

    Eiko Otake & Wen Hui: What Is War

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  • Three musicians dressed in black stand in a diagonal line in front of a wooden background.
    Performance
    Sat, Apr 26, 2025

    Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Tyshawn Sorey Trio & Greg Osby

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  • Four performers stand facing the camera in pink light.
    Performance
    Thu, May 1, 2025

    Deerhoof @ 31

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  • A dancer with light skin lies underneath a sheet of clear plastic.
    Performance
    May 16–17, 2025

    Mathew Janczewski/ARENA DANCES: Only the perverse fantasy can still save us

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  • Logo: Ralph Lemon and Kevin Beasley Rant redux
    Exhibition
    Oct 3–13, 2024

    Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant redux

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  • A person with dark skin stands in front of a cloudy sky with their eyes closed and arms outstretched.
    Performance
    Sat, Sep 14, 2024

    Moor Mother: The Great Bailout

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  • Two people dance onstage with their backs to the audience.
    Performance
    Oct 4–5, 2024

    Tell it anyway, 2024

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  • Three performers stand at three wooden podiums.
    Performance
    Oct 10–11, 2024

    Ontroerend Goed: Fight Night

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  • A group of five musicians stand on stage, awash in purple light. A woman in a jumpsuit plays the keyboard and sings in the center of the photo.
    Performance
    Sat, Oct 19, 2024

    Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

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  • A performer wearing a shiny black jacket and dark sunglasses leans against a waterfront railing. She holds a cigarette in one hand and a red notebook in the other; behind her is the New York City skyline. The image is framed by tree branches and brush, as if taken by someone hiding and observing her from afar.
    Performance
    Oct 28–Nov 11, 2024

    WaxFactory: TRACES (after Sophie Calle)

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  • A performer with dark skin grabs strings of plastic bottles suspended from above.
    Performance
    Nov 1–2, 2024

    Nadia Beugré: Quartiers Libres Revisited

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  • A group of several adults wearing various shades of blue denim are piled on a photo sweep, some smile at the viewer some are raising hands or legs.
    Performance
    Sat, Nov 30, 2024

    Choreographers’ Evening 2024

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  • An adult with dark skin looks away from the viewer while wearing sunglasses and a black knitted cap on a beach
    Performance
    Sat, Dec 7, 2024

    Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

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  • One performer with light skin speaks while another looks on.
    Performance
    Jan 9–11, 2025

    Forced Entertainment: Exquisite Pain

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  • A performer with medium dark skin sneers at a puppet of himself.
    Performance
    Jan 23–25, 2025

    Edgar Arceneaux: Boney Manilli

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  • A performer with medium skin holds a rice cooker on his lap.
    Performance
    Feb 6–8, 2025

    Jaha Koo: Cuckoo

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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: Christina Evans and Weston Hoard; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; Judith Brin Ingber and Jerome Ingber; Neal Jahren; 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; Therese Sexe and David Hage; and Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.

Media partner

  • Logo: Minnesota Public Radio