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.
Marking the 45-year anniversary of Pauline Oliveros’s Cheap Commissions, historic video footage explores Oliveros creating original works for anyone who approached her in Downtown Minneapolis.
Marking her newest Performing Arts Commission, we look back at Eiko Otake 44th years of collaboration with the Walker through behind-the-scenes images, interviews, and video documentation.
In the lead up to their new improvisational work that blurs live performance and film, Autumn Knight discusses their history with drama therapy, the power of group dynamics, improvisation, and nothingness.
The day after the South Korean president declared martial law, artist Jaha Koo sat down to discuss how art, performance, and hacking rice cookers can address the inescapable past that casts shadows across our lives today.
Explore the work of genre-defining, revered Black jazz figures through essays and archival materials in Creative Black Music at the Walker: Selections from the Archives, the fourth volume of the Walker’s Living Collections Catalogue.
“In biological terms, movement is the foundational element of survival,” write the members of SuperGroup, the Minneapolis-based performance trio and guest curator of Choreographers’ Evening 2019. To introduce the 15 Minnesota dancemakers selected for this year’s edition, we present a portrait of participants through photography, video, and text in which each artist considers the source of this movement and their relationship between the body—its power, vulnerabilities, and aliveness—and possibilities for performance.
Presenting and commissioning innovative performances since 1940, the Performing Arts program offers a season that spans contemporary dance, experimental theater, new jazz, avant-folk, new global and alt-classical music, and the multiple hybrids of forms in between. Dive deeper at Fourth Wall, where you’ll find in-depth articles, interviews, and videos about the season.
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