Families can take in a day of dance as the Walker Art Center’s Year of Trisha continues, honoring legendary dance icon Trisha Brown, at the Walker Art Center’s Free First Saturday event
A Moving Spectacle
from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, July 5. Highlighting the day’s events and part of Year of Trisha festivities, Trisha Brown Dance Company members re-mount four important site-based dance works from the 1970s. In their exploration of space and gravity, these early movement experiments are now viewed as both highly influential and remarkably inventive. For the first time in the U.S. since its original performance in SoHo in 1970, the spectacular Man Walking Down the Side of a Building will be staged on the facade of the Walker’s seven-story Barnes building. Company members will also restage Spiral (1974) on trees in Loring Park and Group Primary Accumulation on Rafts on Loring Park Pond, the location of the original premiere during a Walker-sponsored Trisha Brown residency in 1974. Finally, five of the company’s leading female dancers will perform one of Brown’s most popular early works, the witty and sensual Spanish Dance (Line Up, 1979) in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Other related events include two movement workshops for families to try out pieces like Line-Up and Drawing the Wall with former Trisha Brown Dance Company member Wil Swanson; an art-making opportunity to create prints using a steamroller with ArtOrg’s Dave Machacek; and an architecture project inspired by the outdoor exhibition Design for the Other 90%.
Activities are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis from
10 am–3 pm. Gallery admission is free from 10 am–5 pm on Free First Saturday.
Free First Saturdays are for Families!
Activities recommended for kids ages 6–12.
A Moving Spectacle
Saturday, July 5, 10 am–3 pm, Free
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Art-making for the Entire Family: The 1000 Print Summer, 10 am–3 pm
Tent near Spoonbridge and Cherry
Pull your very own print with a little help from a steamroller! Join Dave Machacek, Executive Director of ArtOrg, as he leads this unconventional printmaking workshop and be a part of the 1000 Print Summer.
Art-making for the Entire Family: Adventurous Architecture, 10 am–3 pm
Tent near Spoonbridge and Cherry
Get inspired by the architecture projects in the outdoor exhibition Design for the Other 90%, then make your own dwelling unit using recyclable materials. Led by artist-instructor Christopher Aaron Deanes.
Performance: Trisha Brown Dance Company, 11 am and 1:30 pm
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and Loring Park
Watch the Trisha Brown Dance Company walk down a building, circle trees, and float on rafts during several unexpected performances.
Movement Workshop: Inspired by Trisha, 12:30 and 2 pm
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Test your skills and try out some of Trisha Brown’s dance pieces with former Company member, Wil Swanson.
