Chris Schlichting with Jennifer Davis and Alpha Consumer: Stripe Tease
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Chris Schlichting with Jennifer Davis and Alpha Consumer: Stripe Tease

Named Best Choreographer in 2013 by City Pages and steadily gaining national attention, Chris Schlichting creates beautifully designed, meticulously constructed dance worlds combining movement, visual art, and music. Building on a commission for the Walker’s 25th-anniversary celebration of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in 2013, he collaborates with rock/pop guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker (Andrew Bird) and his band Alpha Consumer, which includes Mike Lewis and JT Bates, whose repetition of musical phrasing is a perfect foil for Schlichting’s movement art. The collaboration also features Minnesota-based visual artist Jennifer Davis, whose collages and paintings strike a magical balance between childlike playfulness and dark yearnings.

Crafting a deeply satisfying mix of patterns and set structures, large-scale spectacle and delicate intimacy, recurrence and surprise, Schlichting’s newest work Stripe Tease embraces and slyly subverts dance history. Copresented with the National Performance Network (NPN).

Meet the Artists

Postshow Reception

Thursday, February 19
Meet the artists after the show at a reception in the McGuire Theater’s Balcony Bar.

Postshow Q & A

Friday, February 20
Stay after the show for a Q&A with the artists and performing arts curators.

SpeakEasy

Saturday, February 21
After the performance, head to the Balcony Bar to join a discussion or just listen in as others hash it out. SpeakEasy conversations are hosted by a tour guide and members of the local performing arts community.

Funding

  • Commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Performance Network (NPN). Stripe Tease is an NPN Creation Fund project created in partnership with the Walker Art Center, Legion Arts, American Dance Institute’s Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, and NPN. Additional project support provided by the Jerome Foundation and the McKnight Foundation.

    In honor of Dale Schatzlein (1948-2006) and his important work in dance and jazz in the Twin Cities, additional support is provided by Emily Maltz.