Performing Arts Season 2025–26
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Performing Arts Season 2025–26

Deep inquiry and daring innovation converge to expand perceptions and ignite hope during the Walker’s 2025–26 Performing Arts Season. Music, performance, and movement artists courageously interrogate urgent issues defining our world today. Their work invites audiences to uncover new realms through immersive live performances rich with light, sound, projection, text, and unforgettable stage images.

  • Photos of two musicians are placed side-by-side. On the left, Wadada Leo Smith holds a silver trumpet. On the right, Amina Claudine Myers rests her head on her hand.
    Performance
    Sat, Sep 13, 2025

    AACM@60!

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  • One hooded performer dressed in black poses in front of a lighted platform.
    Performance
    Sep 18–19, 2025

    Aszure Barton & Ambrose Akinmusire: A a | a B : B E N D

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  • A musician with dark skin and long hair sits on a leather chair, looking forward with a neutral gaze.
    Performance
    Thu, Oct 2, 2025

    Jlin: n! = 3! (Permutation of Three)

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  • A person with medium skin rests their chin on their hand in front of a tan, rocky landscape.
    Performance
    Fri, Oct 10, 2025

    Shahzad Ismaily: Bitterness Is Not a Bridge

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  • Seven people sit on-stage against a brick backdrop, with one person holding a book up that reads Candida.
    Performance
    Oct 28–29, 2025

    Tiago Rodrigues: By Heart

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  • Six people in dark clothing stand and gaze at the viewer against a dark background.
    Performance
    Sat, Nov 8, 2025

    An Evening with Gabriella Smith & yMusic

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  • A dancer with light skin jumps, looking downward, in front of three other dancers.
    Performance
    Tue, Nov 11, 2025

    Trisha Brown Dance Company: Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown, and Cunningham Onstage

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  • A dancer with light skin and a mustache holds his right leg behind his back.
    Performance
    Sat, Nov 22, 2025

    Choreographers’ Evening 2025

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  • Nine musicians perform on a stage in front of a multicolored video projection.
    Performance
    Fri, Dec 5, 2025

    Exploding Star Orchestra

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  • A light-skinned woman wearing a rooster head hood stares in shock at the viewer.
    Performance
    Jan 8–10, 2026

    Alex Tatarsky: Sad Boys in Harpy Land

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  • A dark-skinned man in a costume poses on stage with artwork in the background.
    Performance
    Jan 22–24, 2026

    Nile Harris: this house is not a home

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  • A light-skinned man throws a white sheet at a light-skinned man sitting down, against a red curtain.
    Performance
    Feb 5–7, 2026

    Bert and Nasi: L’Addition

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  • Five performers with light skin pose in a dark, cluttered set with a blackboard, table, and speakers.
    Performance
    Feb 25–28, 2026

    The Wooster Group: Symphony of Rats

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  • Abstract image of people in motion, overlain with swirling red patterns.
    Performance
    Mar 20–21, 2026

    Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Marks of RED

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  • A light-skinned woman stands against a black wall facing a person with a cello.
    Performance
    Apr 3–4, 2026

    Meg Stuart & Doug Weiss: All the Way Around

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  • A person with medium skin and long grey-black hair stares to the left of the camera.
    Performance
    Thu, Apr 16, 2026

    Mali Obomsawin: Sugarcane with Live Score

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  • A light-skinned woman with long dark brown hair holds a cello.
    Performance
    Sat, Apr 18, 2026

    Mali Obomsawin Sextet

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  • A dark-skinned man in a white-grey hoodie and pants stands against a white backdrop.
    Performance
    Apr 24–25, 2026

    Jeremy Nedd: from rock to rock... aka how magnolia was taken for granite

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  • A musician with dark skin and long hair holds a microphone.
    Performance
    Sat, May 2, 2026

    L’Rain – Live at the Walker

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  • A dancer wearing all black extends her arm backward against a black background.
    Performance
    May 13–16, 2026

    Rosy Simas: A:gajë:gwah dësa'nigöëwë:nye:' (i hope it will stir your mind)

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  • Silas leans forward while sitting on a collapsible table, like you would see at a picnic or a meeting room. Rashaun kneels on the floor beside the table, and has wrapped an orange extension cord around Silas.
    Performance
    May 29–30, 2026

    Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: Open Machine

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Acknowledgments

  • The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs and commissions are made possible by donors and Producers’ Council members: AJT Fund, Christina Evans and Weston Hoard; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; Judith Brin Ingber and Jerome Ingber; Neal Jahren; the Jerome Foundation; King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury; Knox Foundation: Susanne Lilly Hutcheson, Zenas Hutcheson IV, Henry Hutcheson, and Perrin Hutcheson; Sarah Lutman; Emily Maltz; the David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; National Performance Network; Rebecca Rand; Lois and John Rogers; the Serendipitous Leverage Fund; Therese Sexe and David Hage; Elizabeth and Mike Sweeney; John L. Thomson; Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation; Sue and Jim Westerman; and Frances and Frank* Wilkinson.

    *deceased