Today the Walker Art Center announced its upcoming 2018-19 Performing Arts Season. This year, the Walker pays tribute to historically important artists Sarah Michelson, Meredith Monk, Thurston Moore, Rabih Mroué, Meg Stuart, and Henry Threadgill. Hailu Mergia, Kaneza Schaal and Wadada Leo Smith, to name a few more. They are among the master and mid-career artists creating unprecedented performances free of disciplinary boundaries.
“We embrace the bold, complicated, idiosyncratic brilliance of these diverse creators—their tenacity and their lease on our collective imaginations—as they conjure worlds for us,” says Philip Bither, William and Nadine McGuire Director and Senior Curator, Performing Arts. “I think hope lies with creators such as these, the fellow humans destined to wake us up, turn us on, push us forward, and enthrall, provoke, and challenge us with their creative work.”
Experience the joy of the cerebral and the intimacy of the global. The ancient made ageless. Culture as communion. This season, the future of performance is at the Walker Art Center.
“Questions and themes swirl through and across the season’s works—nature under assault; transdisciplinarity; human conflict/war and its aftermath; anger, activism, identity; shifting social and political terrains; collective healing; reimagined language, form, and gesture. In their live performances, the artists offer us the power of the collective experience in an increasingly individualized, even atomized world.”
This season features commissions by Sarah Michelson, Morgan Thorson and Alan Sparkawk, Rabih Mroué, Kaneza Schaal, and Meg Stuart, and world premieres by Sarah Michelson, Morgan Thorson, Rabih Mroué, Ben Frost and Angélica Negrón and a US premiere by Meg Stuart. Other season highlights include Wadada Leo Smith, Claudia Rankine, Hailu Mergia, Meredith Monk, Pramila Vasudevan, Pekka Kuusisto, Lola Arias, Berlin, Ate9, Thurston Moore, Henry Threadgill, ModernMedieval, Le Patin Libre, and global artists—including Matana Roberts, Craig Taborn and Camille Norment, Christine Sun Kim, Walter Kitundu, Tarek Atoui, Haroon Mirza, and others—performing in a sound art festival to close the season.
WALKER ART CENTER’S 2018–2019 PERFORMING ARTS SEASON
Music/Theater
MEREDITH MONK & VOCAL ENSEMBLE
CELLULAR SONGS
Presented in association with Minnesota Opera
$28 ($22.40 Walker members)
Thursday–Saturday, October 4–6, 8 pm
McGuire Theater
“As [Monk] sang, there was a palpable sense of love and joy between her and the audience that spoke volumes. An antidote to the troubled times we live in.” —Financial Times
When Meredith Monk sings, her voice transports listeners out of time and into a dimension where sound is the currency of communication. In this elaborate music-theater piece, the legendary interdisciplinary artist and the women of her Vocal Ensemble weave some of Monk’s most adventurous vocal music to date with movement, light, instrumental music, and film to evoke a world where cellular activity can serve as a template for human behavior. Playful and humanistic, Cellular Songs is an exploration of the interconnected relationship between people and the natural world, between the basic unit of life and the universe.
Support provided by the Goodale Family Foundation.
Meredith Monk website
New York Times review
The Guardian on Meredith Monk
Dance
SARAH MICHELSON
OCTOBER2018/\
World Premiere
Walker Commission
Friday–Sunday, October 19–21, 5:30 pm, $5*
Cargill Lounge
“Go see the work. Whatever it is and whatever she calls it, just go.” —New York Magazine
Sarah Michelson has been creating dances of unmatched intensity since the early ’90s. She more recently calls these dances “studio work, to look at and be with, constructed in this time for this time—an attempt to stay fresh and work hard, but invite no celebration, no opinion, no success.” Michelson’s long, close relationship with the Walker, which has included the landmark commissioned works Daylight (for Minneapolis) (2005),
Devotion (2011), and tournamento (2015), continues with October2018/\.
Commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund. Additional support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
*Tickets to this performance are $5 and are excluded from other discounts or package offers.
Artforum on Sarah Michelson
BOMB magazine interview with Ralph Lemon
New York Times on Sarah Michelson
Music
HAILU MERGIA
Friday, October 26, 8 pm
$25 ($20 Walker members)
The Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis
Copresented by The Cedar.
“Seventy-one and flourishing, the keyboard maestro has radically updated an oeuvre that already sounded like the future, and in doing so, he makes it sound contemporary.” —Pitchfork
Hailu Mergia and his band dominated Ethiopia’s nightclub scene, against a backdrop of civil war and revolution in the 1970s. Blending earthy funk with intoxicating Ethio-jazz, they embarked on an early ’80s US tour after which Mergia stayed, fading into obscurity but continuing to compose. Now the global music legend is back for a series of performances spotlighting his unique fusion of lush pentatonic scales, Ethiopian rhythms, and American jazz. His inspiring late-life encore includes songs from his acclaimed new album, Lala Balu.
Pitchfork album review
NPR video
VICE on Hailu Mergia
Music
THURSTON MOORE: MOORE AT 60
Friday–Saturday, November 9–10, 8 pm
$30 ($24 Walker members);
McGuire Theater
Purchase tickets to both performances and receive a $10 discount
“Rock & roll to me is everything. … I see it as a way of life, as a sort of an intellectual liberalism of being in the world.” —Thurston Moore
He cofounded Sonic Youth, altering the course of rock-and-roll by transforming punk, drone, electronic, free jazz, and art rock into thought experiments and spiritual epiphanies. During this celebration, exclusive to the Walker, Thurston Moore curates two distinct evenings of music reflecting his expansive past and current influences. In collaboration with Nels Cline, Anne Waldman, James Sedwards, Steve Shelley, and more to be announced, Moore revives art-rock mashups and reveals rock-and-roll as inner bliss.
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.
Thurston Moore website
Rolling Stone interview
The Guardian interview
Dance
CHOREOGRAPHERS’ EVENING 2018: CURATED BY PRAMILA VASUDEVAN
Saturday, November 24, 7 & 9:30 pm
$25 ($20 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“Call it a Thanksgiving palate-cleanser, a Whitman’s sampler of choreographic bonbons, or a smartly curated revue of movement (or non-movement) makers. … Grab a pal and enjoy this guilt-free indulgence.” —City Pages
From early career to established, Minnesota’s dance change agents often appear here first. Pramila Vasudevan, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, curates this Choreographers’ Evening, now in its 46th year. As the founding artistic director of Aniccha Arts, which produces site-specific performances, as well as a creator of community rooted/routed transdisciplinary work, Vasudevan promises a lineup that brings audiences the joy of the unexpected.
Support provided by the McKnight Foundation.
McKnight Artist Fellowship video
Pramila Vasudevan website
Dance/Music
MORGAN THORSON AND ALAN SPARHAWK (LOW)
PUBLIC LOVE
Walker Commission
World Premiere
Thursday–Saturday, December 6–8, 8pm
$28 ($22.40 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“Complete possession of the dancer by the dance is a rare sight, but it is one that can make watching a [Thorson] performance a
near-transcendent experience for the audience too.” —New York Times
In Heaven (2009), choreographic mix-master Morgan Thorson and the sublime slowcore music of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker (LOW) drew audiences into a meditation on the ambiguities of perfection. In this new commission, Thorson returns with Sparhawk, and an ensemble of crackerjack collaborators to resuscitate power as tenderness and reciprocal touch as a virtuosic alternative to might and control. A soulful dance intervention, and a balm for our divisive time, Public Love embraces the tactile energy of an intimate collective, where consent, agency, and action re-orient the staged dance concert.
Commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, and the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center in partnership with the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
Star Tribune on Morgan Thorson
MinnPost on Morgan Thorson and Guggenheim Fellowship
New York Times on Morgan Thorson
Theater/Film/Music/Interdisciplinary
OUT THERE 2019: Transnational/Transdisciplinary
January 11–February 2
From devastating events—war, prison, Chernobyl—come experimental performances of resiliency, compassion, and originality. Out There 19 features five cross-national, interdisciplinary groups of collaborators Lebanon/Germany, Brussels/Ukraine, Finland/US, Argentina/Britain, US/Rwanda. Throughout January, be inspired by the resourcefulness and creativity of international artists whose work eclipses borders, both real and imagined. Engage with live art that explores transformation with intensity
and necessity, purpose and passion. Take a walk through an exhibition with a one-of-a-kind violinist. Get Out There onstage and in the galleries.
Image: Courtesy of the artist.
OUT THERE WEEK 1
Theater/Visual Arts/Interdisciplinary
RABIH MROUÉ
LET’S FIGHT TILL SIX, AND THEN HAVE A DRINK
Created and performed by Lena Majdalanie, Mazen Kerbaj and Rabih Mroué
World Premiere
Walker Commission
Friday–Saturday, January 11–12, 8 pm
$25 ($20 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“[Mroué’s] understanding of what it is to be human, in all of its beauty and ugliness, burns through with an intensity that, despite—or because of—its theatricality, hits the viewer directly in the gut.” —Frieze
Just as Rabih Mroué synthesizes video and audio, acting and projection, art and theater in his performances, so does he interweave history, testimony, and storytelling to destabilize facts and fictions. Born in Beirut, Mroué often draws material for his work from the Lebanese Civil War of the 1990s and contemporary Middle East conflicts. His new dramatic-comic premiere is created in collaboration with Lebanese actor/writer/director Lena Majdalanie and actor/musician Mazen Kerbaj. Here, the identities and judgements of others shift as the taboos, fears, and failures of their lives and their countries are laid bare. The new work will be presented in parallel with Mroué’s first US-based gallery installation.
Co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund. Additional support provided by Producers’ Council members Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David & Leni Moore Family Foundation.
CNN on Rabih Mroué
Frieze on Rabih Mroué
The Theater Times interview
RELATED EVENTS
The Many Sides of Rabih Mroué: Out There Opening Night Celebration
Thursday, January 10, 5–9pm
Free
With special bonus lecture-performance Sand in The Eyes
7pm, Walker Cinema
Witness other dimensions of Rabih Mroue’s creative output at the Out There 2019 opening-night celebration. Experience his brilliant Sand in the Eyes, a lecture-performance on the image politics of Islamist recruiting videos in contrast to images shot by drones (Walker Cinema, 7 pm), followed by an audience discussion. Then join a reception for the artist and all. The evening also marks the official opening of Mroué’s latest cycle of artworks presented within the exhibition I am you, you are too.
Photo © Christopher Myers
Theater
KANEZA SCHAAL IN COLLABORATION WITH CORNELL ALSTON AND CHRISTOPHER MYERS
JACK &
Walker Commission
Thursday–Saturday, January 17–19, 8 pm
$25 ($20 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“Everything that happens in the space Schaal has carved out for us always feels beautifully, powerfully sacred.” —Artforum
From The Honeymooners and Amos & Andy to debutant balls and prison reentry programs, JACK & is a place of theatrical imagination that inhabits the liminal space between dream and reality. This comedy of errors starring Cornell Alston considers re-entry to society after prison through a prism of baking fiascos, minimalist painters, ancestral ceremonies, and the dreaming one gives to the state while incarcerated. Drawing from diverse social codes, JACK & gives creative dream time its due. Featuring design by artist/author Christopher Myers and live music by Rucyl Mills.
Commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Walker Art Center in partnership with Contemporary Arts Center, On the Boards, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, REDCAT, and NPN/VAN.
Additional support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the NPN/VAN Artist Engagement Fund whose major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
Kaneza Schaal website
Miscellany News on Kaneza Schaal artist talk
BOMB magazine interview
Photo: © Kappo Kamu
OUT THERE BONUS MUSIC EVENT
Music/Interdisciplinary
PEKKA KUUSISTO
TUNING MEDITATION
Saturday, January 19, 3 pm
Free for Walker members, Out There ticket holders, and SPCO Liquid Music subscribers or free with gallery admission
Walker Gallery 3
Copresented by the SPCO’s Liquid Music Series
In a rare solo performance, Finnish violin star Pekka Kuusisto explores themes of the Walker’s exhibition I am you, you are too—citizenship, belonging, borders, and barriers—through Pauline Oliveros’s immersive Tuning Meditation and a series of interactive video and audio collaborations.
The Guardian interview
BBC video
Photo: © Frederik Buyckx
OUT THERE WEEK 3
Theater/Film/Interdisciplinary
BERLIN
ZVIZDAL [CHERNOBYL, SO FAR—SO CLOSE]
Thursday–Friday, January 24–25, 8 pm
Saturday, January 26, 7pm and 9:30pm
$25 ($20 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“Slowly and sensitively, a remarkable portrait is created, offering no simple answers to the questions that arise, even the central one of why Pétro and Nadia choose to stay.” —Irish Times
Thirty years after Chernobyl, an elderly couple still refuses to leave. This portrait of love, stubbornness, and survival in the Ukraine brings audiences into intimate relationship with Pétro and Nadia Lubenoc through an immersive hybrid of documentary film and theatrical installation. Tentative, then trusting, the Lubenocs allowed the Antwerp-based Berlin to document their lives, resulting in a singular portrait of necessity, rather than choice.
Berlin website
Irish Times review
Photo: © Tristam Kenton
OUT THERE WEEK 4
Theater
LOLA ARIAS
MINEFIELD
Thursday-Saturday, January 31-February 2, 8 pm
$30 ($24 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“Unforgettably potent. … Past and present intersect with extraordinary power and eloquence in this deeply affecting show.” —The Independent
From the horrors of the battlefield to today’s global uncertainties, Minefield unveils its truths through brutal honesty, compassion, and startling humor. This enthralling piece of documentary theater is presented by Buenos Aires–based writer, director, visual artist, and actor Lola Arias, who returns to the Walker (The Year I was Born, Out There 2014) with a masterpiece that sold out multiple runs at London’s Royal Court Theatre and has toured globally to wide acclaim. Using a range of experimental techniques, six Argentine and British veterans from both sides of the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War explore the treacherous minefield of their memories—storytelling that conveys a sense of humanity onstage in a rare and moving way.
Support provided by Producers’ Council members Nor Hall and Roger Hale.
Lola Arias website
Women and Hollywood interivew
The Stage (UK) review
Photo: © Cheryl Mann Productions
Dance/Music
ATE9
CALLING GLENN
With live music by Glenn Kotche
Thursday, February 7, 7:30 pm
Northrop, University of Minnesota
Price Level One: $47 ($37.60 Walker members)
Price Level Two: $37 ($29.60 Walker members)
Price Level Three: $27 ($21.60 Walker members)
Northrop
84 Church Street SE, Minneapolis
Copresented by Northrop, University of Minnesota.
“The collaboration between Agami and Kotche produc[es] a stunning and intelligent evening-long work.” —Bachtrack
Ate9 is rooted in the rigorous yet emotionally liberating movement sensibility “Gaga,” originated by Batsheva Dance Company founder Ohad Naharin. Danielle Agami worked with Batsheva for 10 years before moving to Los Angeles and founding Ate9, injecting a distinctive sense of humor and visceral virtuosity into her Gaga-based choreography. Nine dancers inhabit Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche’s aurally colorful soundscape in this full-length work of physical and live rhythmic precision.
Ate9 website
Los Angeles Times on Danielle Agami
Dance Magazine interview
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Music
CELEBRATING HENRY: A THREADGILL FESTIVAL
Friday–Saturday, February 15–16, 8 pm
Friday: $25 ($20 Walker members); Saturday: $35 ($28)
Purchase tickets to both performances and receive a $10 discount
McGuire Theater
“An alto saxophonist and flutist of distinctive fluency, Threadgill is also one of the era’s most inventive—and influential—jazz composers.” —Stereophile
In Pulitzer Prize–winner Henry Threadgill’s compositions, notation and improvisation mesh in sonic expressions of American life. He calls his unique polyphonic language “creative music,” which others revere as musical masterpieces beyond category. On Friday, 20-some Minnesota musicians (curated by cellist Michelle Kinney) perform Threadgill pieces from the past 40-plus years. As potent and prolific as ever, Threadgill, 75, closes the festival on Saturday with his acclaimed quintet Zooid.
Support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Producers’ Council members Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.
The Wire (UK) interview
Henry Threadgill website
NPR on Threadgill’s Music Pulitzer
Photo: © Julieta Cervantes, courtesy of Live Arts Bard.
Dance/Poetry
CLAUDIA RANKINE, WILL RAWLS, AND JOHN LUCAS
WHAT REMAINS
Thursday–Saturday, March 7–9, 8 pm
$28 ($22.40 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“While ‘surveillance’ might conjure images of security cameras, cellphones, and other machines, What Remains considers less concrete, more culturally ingrained kinds of surveillance that shape and have shaped the black American experience.” —New York Times
What Remains unites the exquisite minds of genre-busting and Bessie Award–winning choreographer Will Rawls, poet and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine, and filmmaker John Lucas. In a space representing the entombed imagination, the artists present resonant movement, language, and video inspired by Rankine’s texts on racial violence—Citizen and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press)—in response to black citizens’ visibility and disappearances. Featuring performers Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Leslie Cuyjet, Jessica Pretty, and Tara Aisha Willis.
New York Times on Claudia Rankine and Will Rawls
PBS on Claudia Rankine
CultureBot review
Photo: Quique Cabanillas
Music
MODERNMEDIEVAL
THE LIVING WORD: WORKS BY HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, JULIANNA BARWICK, BEN FROST, AND ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN
World premieres by Frost and Negrón
Friday–Saturday, March 22–23, 8 pm
$25 ($20 Walker members and SPCO Liquid Music subscribers)
Summit Center for Arts and Innovation
1524 Summit Ave, St. Paul
Co-commissioned and copresented by the SPCO’s Liquid Music Series.
“Gloriously clear voices … exquisitely wrought.” —Feast of Music
Experts in both contemporary and early music, ModernMedieval interweaves in The Living Word ecstatic chants of 12th-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen with newly commissioned electronic and vocal music by Australian/Icelandic composer/producer Ben Frost and Puerto Rican-born Angélica Negrón, who perform their new works live with the ensemble. Electronic/pop singer/composer Julianna Barwick, who was featured in the Walker’s Sound Horizon in 2012, also joins ModernMedieval for her new extended work Adder.
Presented in association with Summit Center for Arts and Innovation.
ModernMedieval website
Washington Post on ModernMedieval
Photo © Scott Groller
Music
WADADA LEO SMITH
AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS
Saturday, March 30, 8 pm
$30 ($24 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“Wadada Leo Smith – National Treasure.” – DownBeat Magazine
An innovative, much-admired trumpeter and composer for half a century, Wadada Leo Smith presents an expansive, politically charged suite that pays tribute to America’s national parks as well as cultural zones not yet recognized by the government. Pairing his Golden Quintet (Pheeron Aklaff, Anthony Davis, John Lindberg, and Ashley Walters) with spellbinding video throughout, Smith explores and questions the luminous majesty, cultural histories, and violent realities of our natural areas—whether preserved, unprotected, or under attack.
Support provided by Producers’ Council members Therese Sexe and David Hage.
Wadada Leo Smith website
New York Times on Wadada Leo Smith
Photo: © Laura Van Severen.
Dance/Interdisciplinary
MEG STUART: A REFRACTED PORTRAIT
One of the world’s most influential and acclaimed contemporary choreographers (recipient of the Vince Biennale Golden Lion for Dance Lifetime Achievement 2018), Meg Stuart returns to the Walker for the first time since 2006 for a rare U.S. appearance. This multi-platform engagement and 15-day residency includes the American-born, Berlin-based artist’s newest performance work Celestial Sorrow installed in Walker galleries and a stunning retrospective of solo works built on her own body over three decades.
See both performances in the series and receive a $10 discount.
MEG STUART
AN EVENING OF SOLO WORKS
Friday–Saturday, April 5–6, 8 pm
$25 ($20 Walker members)
McGuire Theater
“How to translate sensations and inner monologues into movement? Is it possible to track the hesitation before speaking, the movements not chosen, the spaces we travel to when we are daydreaming, the memories and projections that cloud our awareness of the present?” —Meg Stuart
With her focus on the body as a vulnerable, uncertain presence, Meg Stuart reconfigures 30 years of evocative solos in a presentation that encapsulates her profound influence on contemporary performance. The evening will include pieces ranging from an excerpt (All songs have been exhausted) from her recent and celebrated Hunter (2014) alongside a selective spectrum of important works, giving a unique look into an oeuvre that keeps growing and transforming.
Support for Meg Stuart: A Refracted Portrait provided by Producers’ Council members Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David & Leni Moore Family Foundation.
MEG STUART & JOMPET KUSWIDANANTO/DAMAGED GOODS
CELESTIAL SORROW
Walker Commission
U.S. Premiere
Thursday–Saturday, April 11–13, 8 pm
$30 ($24 Walker members)
Walker Galleries
“When the lights of Celestial Sorrow are switched on again … all you can say is: this is exactly what I wanted to see onstage, a work like no other.” —Mouvement
Meg Stuart continually invents new presentation contexts and movement languages in collaboration with artists from diverse disciplines. In the first gallery installation of this Walker-commissioned work with Indonesian visual artist Jompet Kuswidananto, Stuart creates a vibrant world of light, movement, and music inhabited by three performers and two musicians.
Imaginary and invisible spaces, and the voices that make them resonate, are just some of the starting points for an adventurous leap into unknown territories.
Celestial Sorrow is co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19, initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Support also provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund.
Support for Meg Stuart: A Refracted Portrait provided by Producers’ Council members Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David & Leni Moore Family Foundation.
Meg Stuart website
Dance Magazine on Meg Stuart
Dance/Interdisciplinary
LE PATIN LIBRE
VERTICAL INFLUENCES
WITH SPECIAL BONUS PERFORMANCE BY MINNESOTA’S BROWNBODY
Thursday, April 25, 6 & 8:30 pm
$28 ($24 Walker members)
Breck School/Anderson Ice Arena
4210 Olson Memorial Highway, Golden Valley
Saturday, April 27, 3 & 7 pm
$28 ($24 Walker members)
Charles M. Schulz Highland Arena
800 Snelling Ave S, St. Paul
Copresented by Northrop, University of Minnesota.
“The wonderfully fresh and inventive quintet of bearded, dreadlocked, baggy-jeaned dancers spark with movement ideas that I’ve never seen on ice before, let alone on stage.” —The Guardian
Former championship figure skaters turned movement innovators, this Montreal-based group invites you onto the ice for a kinetic experience of exhilarating inventiveness. The joyously engaging performers pull off vertiginous spins, tap and hip-hop footwork, and spiraling arabesques in daring, dazzling ways. With exceptional lighting and sound design, Le Patin Libre’s performance showers audiences with elation. Stay for a new work by Twin Cities–based Brownbody led by Deneane Richburg, called Tracing Steps, inspired by Chicago-style stepping.
Support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Producers’ Council members King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury and Henry Pillsbury.
Le Patin Libre website
The Guardian review
Image: Ben Schwartz
Music/Visual Arts/Interdisciplinary
RESONANCE: A SOUND ART MARATHON
Saturday, May 18, 12 noon–10 pm
Free
Cowles Pavilion, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Sculpture sings and sound takes shape as the visual (instruments, sculpture) and the aural (sonic landscapes, jazz, found sound) are layered in conceptual confluence. An ear freshener and eye opener, the day is inspired by the Walker’s 1980 New Music America festival and the trajectory of jazz experimentation at the Walker. Global artists—including Matana Roberts, Craig Taborn and Camille Norment, Christine Sun Kim, Walter Kitundu, Tarek Atoui, Haroon Mirza, and others—perform in auditory and visual accord with the audience.
Support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.