Walker Art Center Announces 2024–2025 Performing Arts Season
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Walker Art Center Announces 2024–2025 Performing Arts Season

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Events Include Performance and Installation by Cross-Disciplinary Artist Ralph Lemon; Works Inspired by Upcoming Exhibition Sophie Calle: Overshare

The Walker Art Center’s 2024–2025 Performing Arts season brings together leading live art provocateurs of our time, from Abidjan to London and Minneapolis to Seoul. 

“It is with optimism and profound gratitude to the artists, our audiences, and Walker staff that we invite the Twin Cities to join us for this series of wild rides across uncharted terrains,” said Philip Bither, McGuire Director and Senior Curator, Performing Arts. “By offering opportunities to question preexisting structures, we hope to generate conversations that will ultimately shift the ground beneath us.” 

The season welcomes back longtime partners and innovators whose creative inquiries explore today’s most pressing issues. Politically minded American choreographer Ralph Lemon will debut two large-scale commissions in collaboration with artist Kevin Beasley; Japanese movement artist Eiko Otake joins forces with acclaimed Chinese dance luminary Wen Hui to ask “what is war?”; and UK theater iconoclasts Forced Entertainment remount one of their most iconic works just for the Walker as part of their 40th anniversary. 

In dialogue with the Walker’s major fall exhibition Sophie Calle: Overshare, which showcases the art of the French conceptualist, two distinctly different performances are presented: the site-specific TRACES by Rachel Jendrzejewski and Wax Factory, and Forced Entertainment’s interpretation of Exquisite Pain. TRACES is an immersive, participatory play that invites a lone audience member to follow an actor through a series of encounters around downtown Minneapolis. 

Kicking off music programming in September, poet/performer Moor Mother presents The Great Bailout, an excoriating meditation on colonialism and commerce. The brilliant Meshell Ndegeocello honors the writings of James Baldwin in a gospel/jazz/hip-hop song cycle. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-musician Caroline Shaw partners with Sō Percussion for a mesmerizing mix of electronic, folk, and rock. Jazz oracle Shabaka Hutchings melds his signature sax wanderings with transcendental flute work, while experimental rock heroes Deerhoof celebrate their 30th year of noisy pop rebellion with songs from each of their 18 records. 

Heading into the fall election, this season spotlights new forms of social inquiry and resistance. Ivorian French director/choreographer Nadia Beugre works with a group of dancers and hairdressers to explore themes of injustice and freedom. Humorous interdisciplinarian Jaha Koo works with video and talking robotic rice cookers to examine the generational impact of unchecked capitalism in South Korea. Belgian collective Ontroerend Goed probes free will and politics with their experimental theater work, turning the audience into the electorate.  

A complete detailing of upcoming events follows below. 

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Music
Moor Mother: The Great Bailout
Saturday, September 14, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $15, fees included
US Premiere 

“The poet laureate of the apocalypse.” —Pitchfork 

Moor Mother’s (Camae Ayewa’s) raw delivery is incendiary. In a blistering new song cycle, she confronts colonialism, slavery, and commerce in Great Britain and their historical parallels in the United States. Nodding to jazz, hip-hop, and Beat poetry, The Great Bailout springs from Ayewa’s wide-ranging practice of art and activism. Layers of instruments, voices, and electronics coalesce in this live rendition, performed with a hand-picked, seven-piece ensemble including composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid, bassist and guitarist Melvin Gibbs, and revered Minneapolis musician Douglas Ewart. 

Presented in association with Liquid Music. 

 

Dance/Music/Performance
Tell it anyway, 2024
Friday–Saturday, October 4–5, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $15, fees included
Walker Commission/World Premiere 

“As relevant as any living American artist. His art speaks directly to the moment that we find ourselves in.”  Mpls.St.Paul Magazine 

Among the most influential cross-disciplinary artists of his generation, MacArthur Fellow Ralph Lemon returns to the Walker with an explosion of sound and movement. Tell it anyway, an ambitious new performance, arrives 10 years after his landmark premiere of hybrid lecture-performance-musical Scaffold Room. Brimming with artistic fury (and grace) befitting our times, Lemon and his multidisciplinary collaborators—including artists with backgrounds in performance, sculpture, acting, and music—examine issues of memory, race, and impermanence. Concurrently, Lemon’s hypnotic sound and video installation Rant redux (2020–2024) is on view in the Perlman Gallery.  

Tell it anyway, 2024 is an event/performance involving the participation of Kevin Beasley, Dwayne Brown, Lysis (Ley), Paul Hamilton, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, April Matthis, Roderick Murray, Mariama Noguera-Devers, Okwui Okpokwasili, Angie Pittman, Samita Sinha, and Mike Taylor. 

Commissioned by the Walker with support provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Zena Hutchinson. Program support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.   

Theater
Ontroerend Goed: Fight Night
Thursday–Friday, October 10–11, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $15, fees included 

“Funny, revealing, and very invigorating … You will encounter things that no US company would dare do.” —Chicago Tribune   

Five contenders. Five rounds. You decide. As US democracy hangs in the balance, Belgian theater collective Ontroerend Goed offers an interactive, provocative examination of free will and politics in which the actors’ fates hinge on the audience’s live votes. This experimental hit is a sharp, often ironic, analysis of how democracy works (if it works). It marks Ontroerend Goed’s return to the Walker following their presentation of the ingenious climate parable Are we not drawn onward to new erA in 2023. 

 

Music
Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
Saturday, October 19, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25, fees included 

“An audaciously uninhibited approach to music-making.” —New York Times 

Straddling the worlds of classical and pop music, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw composes radiantly exploratory music. She joins forces with the Sō Percussion quartet for an evening of transcendent rhythm and vocals drawn from their collaborative albums Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part (2021) and Rectangles and Circumstance (2024). With inspirations from Emily Dickinson to ABBA, these songs journey between tightly crafted orchestrations and inspired spontaneity, creating a sonic world that feels fresh and ecstatic.   

Copresented with Schubert Club Mix. 

Program support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.   

 

Theater
WaxFactory | TRACES (after Sophie Calle) 

Monday–Sunday, October 28–November 10 

Downtown Minneapolis 

Tickets on sale September 4 

“Mesmerizing theatre for the 21st century.” —Flavorpill   

Spy thriller meets participatory performance art in this immersive, site-specific work. Co-created by Brooklyn-based theater artist Ivan Talijancic and Minnesota-based playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski, TRACES unfolds in real time across downtown Minneapolis. This roving theater piece is based on the opus of French conceptual artist Sophie Calle and follows a fictional character through a series of public locations. In intimate, one-on-one encounters, lone audience members trace her journey, documenting their experiences via audio, photo, and video—ultimately leading to a reflection on the nature of mortality and human connection. 

TRACES is a related event for the Walker exhibition Sophie Calle: Overshare (October 26, 2024January 26, 2025). Presented in association with the Playwrights’ Center, University of Minnesota, Hennepin County Libraries, Hewing Hotel, and Hotel Emery.  

Limited number of individual tickets on sale September 4. Support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation.   

 

Dance
Nadia Beugré: Quartiers Libre Revisited
Friday–Saturday, November 1–2, 8 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $35, fees included 

“[Beugré] knows how to knock the air out of people. She’s wild, like the wind.” —New York Times 

The promise of personal freedom beckons. A planetary plague of waste threatens to smother. In an unbridled experience that bends the boundaries between performer and audience, the iconoclastic choreographer Nadia Beugré commands the stage, piled high with disposed plastic water bottles, and roams beyond it. This expanded version of Beugré’s solo Quartiers Libre (Free Rein), seen on the Walker stage in 2012, features the artist alongside two performers from her home country of Côte d’Ivoire. Together, they navigate spaces of restriction and possibility. 

Support provided by Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation. 

 

Dance
Choreographers’ Evening 2024
Saturday, November 30, 4 and 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $15, fees included 

“Dance that inspires, challenges, and entertains . . . from a variety of Minnesota choreographers and companies.” —Star Tribune  

Now in its 52nd year, this annual dance showcase celebrates Minnesota’s vibrant and diverse dance community. Powerful performances by a roster of local choreographers and movement artists will draw from Audre Lorde’s writing on the necessity of creative practice. The intention comes from this year’s curator jess pretty, returning to the Walker following her 2019 appearance in Claudia Rankine and Will Rawl’s What Remains. Through Lorde’s writing, the performers will reflect on art-making as a means of tending to the self and to others.  

“I am grateful for the invitation to curate the 52nd annual Choreographers’ Evening at the Walker.  

I am moved by work that considers pleasure, joy, memory, archive, liberation, risk, vulnerability, reorientation, and transformation.” 

—jess pretty 

Choreographers’ Evening is supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation. 

 

Music
Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Saturday, December 7, 6:30 and 9 pm
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $25, fees included 

“A fierce tide of feeling—rage and despair, love and hope and exaltation.” —New York Times 

A conversation between two Black luminaries unfolds in this musical performance, the latest evolution of Grammy winner Meshell Ndegeocello’s study of writer and activist James Baldwin. A forerunner of the neo soul movement, Ndegeocello traverses genres in her work. Jazz and gospel come to the fore as she delivers a theatrical live rendition of No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, her 2024 album released on its namesake’s 100th birthday. Her songs pose existential questions about love and collective understanding. Experience a celebratory and transformative musical experience as Ndegeocello draws on traditions of worship and testimony. 

Presented in association with the Dakota. 

Program support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.   

 

OUT THERE 2025
What new ways do we have to tell stories?  How can theater be re-imagined? What are the urgent questions that live performance is uniquely positioned to confront? These are the questions that Out There, our diverse, two-month international spectrum of live art experiences, is built upon.  This year, they span minimalist spoken tales of loss, failure, and heartbreak (by UK’s Forced Entertainment); multi-layered meta-theater on cultural appropriation, family drama, and dementia told through kitchen-sink drama, puppetry, video, song and dance, and pre-show karaoke (all conjured by LA visual artist Edgar Arceneaux); a solo monologue with video and talking rice cookers that links the personal with the geo-political (Jaha Koo); and a Walker newly commissioned genre-bending live art-cinema experience by a theater/psychology-trained performance/filmmaker whose work reshapes perceptions of race, gender, and authority (Autumn Knight). 

 

Theater
Forced Entertainment: Exquisite Pain
Thursday–Saturday, January 9–11, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $15, fees included 

“A show that prods at what it means to be human.” —The Guardian  

A red telephone on a hotel bed. A subway station. A green Mercedes. These vivid images, both ordinary and not, become emblems of heartbreak. In this production from the experimental theater company Forced Entertainment, a man and a woman tell and retell stories, unwittingly finding new ways to remember and forget what really happened. Based on a project by the French conceptual artist Sophie Calle, Exquisite Pain is about love, loss, and the tales we tell ourselves when things go wrong.  

Exquisite Pain is a related event for the Walker exhibition Sophie Calle: Overshare (October 26, 2024–January 26, 2025). 

Part of Out There 2025. 

Program support provided by Nor Hall and Roger Hale.   

 

Theater
Edgar Arceneaux: Boney Manilli
Thursday–Saturday, January 23–25, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $15, fees included  

“Mixes pop music, a burial ceremony, and great dance performances … a reflection on the impossible truth that artists are seeking.” –PARIS LA 

Featuring original music and puppetry, this surreal dark comedy from interdisciplinary artist Edgar Arceneaux considers family trauma and histories of racial appropriation. The story centers around Sunny, a troubled playwright who struggles to finish his script about the infamous pop duo Milli Vanilli while coping with his mother’s declining memory. Meanwhile, his brother wrestles with his own adaptation of the controversial Disney film Song of the South. Each performance opens with a disco and 1990s-themed karaoke party in the Walker’s Cityview Bar. 

Part of Out There 2025. 

 

Theater
Jaha Koo: Cuckoo
Thursday–Saturday, February 6–8, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $15, fees included   

Cuckoo feels like a peculiar kind of dream, a communication from your subconscious, offering some truth you’ll never be able to translate into words.” —Exeunt Magazine 

Three intrepid—and talkative—robotic rice cookers join forces with Jaha Koo, a celebrated playwright and charismatic performer, to paint an incisive portrait of Koo’s native South Korea. Following a major economic crisis in 1997, the country has grappled with youth unemployment, inequality, and rising suicide rates. Koo bears witness to these crises in humorous but poignant dialogues with the machines, combining personal experience, politics, and reflections on happiness and mortality. 

Part of Out There 2025. 

Program support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.  

 

Theater/Film
Autumn Knight: New work
Thursday–Saturday, February 20–22, 7:30 pm 
Walker Cinema 
Tickets start at $15, fees included 
Walker Commission / World Premiere 

Boundaries between screen and stage dissolve in this new work by New York–based artist Autumn Knight. Building on her experiments with streaming during the COVID-19 lockdown, Knight and her production crew will film, edit, and transmit a real-time performance from the Walker’s McGuire Theater to the Walker Cinema, calling into question the nature of “liveness.” New work flows from Knight’s interdisciplinary performance practice, which strives to unsettle entrenched power dynamics and probe perceptions of race and gender. 

Part of Out There 2025. 

Co-commissioned by the Walker Performing Arts and Moving Image departments with support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts 

 

Music
Dreamers’ Circus
Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $25, fees included
“[Dreamers’ Circus’s] ideas are transmitted from imaginations to fingertips to ears with devilish virtuosity.” —The Herald  

The Nordic indie-folk trio Dreamers’ Circus bridges the gaps between the traditional and the contemporary, the vanguard and the popular. However you classify them, audiences around the world are mesmerized by their swirling melodies and expansive improvisations on fiddle, accordion, piano, cittern, and more. Hailing from Sweden and Denmark, the inventive musicians draw from both roots music and classical influences to create songs at once refreshing and invigorating. 

Copresented with Schubert Club Mix in association with the American Swedish Institute.   

Program support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.     

 

Dance
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
Thursday–Saturday, March 6–8, 8 pm
Onstage Seating Only  
Northrop, 84 Church St SE, Minneapolis 
Tickets: $38 

“Virtuosic and unrelenting” —LA Dance Chronicle  

Two fighters step into the ring. Instead of sparring, they perform an intimate duet of strength and softness. Fueled by boxing footwork, nightclub rituals, and the expressive Gaga movement technique, Touch of RED upends perceptions of Black masculinity. Audience members are seated onstage (with scenic design by MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien) for an up-close view of a gladiatorial exchange that ultimately yields compassion and reconciliation. This is the second performance in the Walker’s three-year engagement with choreographer Shamel Pitts, following his 2024 presentation of BLACK HOLE. 

Copresented with Northrop. 

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

 

Music
Shabaka Hutchings
Thursday, March 20, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $25, fees included 

“[Shabaka Hutchings] made music that … sounded entirely new and intriguingly unbound.” —Wall Street Journal  

Allow Shabaka Hutchings to reintroduce himself. Noted for the intensity of his playing, the Mercury Prize–nominated saxophonist (Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming) has operated at the center of London’s red-hot new jazz scene for a decade. At the height of his acclaim, he set aside the saxophone and took up the flute. Embodying the spirit of artistic adventure, Hutchings brings his new instrument and a six-member ensemble to the Walker for an evening of next-era global jazz. 

 

Dance
Eiko Otake & Wen Hui: What Is War
Friday–Saturday, April 11–12, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Tickets start at $15, fees included
Walker Commission / World Premiere 

“Otake’s oeuvre reflects upon finality through a continuous invocation of the power, passion, and transient performance of life.” —Denver Art Review 

Eiko Otake’s (Eiko and Koma) austere, haunting movement work has often commemorated death, time, and place. Joining forces with radical dance-theater artist Wen Hui (Living Dance Studio), she returns to the Walker to premiere a poignant new work forged through deep and total collaboration. This new performance explores how both performers’ lives have been affected by war—Otake grew up in postwar Japan and Wen in China during the Cultural Revolution. Together, the collaborators embody fierceness tempered by forthrightness. Their formidable performance combines movement, text, and video as it excavates personal memories of war and its global resonances.   

Program support provided by King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury in honor of Henry Pillsbury, actor, theater director, and leading figure in Franco-American cross-cultural exchange in dance, theater, and music; and by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.  

 

Music
Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Tyshawn Sorey Trio & Greg Osby
Saturday, April 26, 6:30 pm (Trio) & 9 pm (Trio + Osby)
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $25, fees included 

“Sorey continues to defy classification, constantly evolving and astounding with his versatility and range.” —All About Jazz 

A celebrated drummer and composer, Tyshawn Sorey also acts as jazz archivist in his Walker debut. With a crate digger’s ear for the underappreciated, he surfaces little-known gems and makes historical material fresh—and thoroughly his own. The Pulitzer Prize winner is joined by two longtime collaborators, pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist Harish Raghavan, for the evening’s first concert, which draws on their albums Mesmerism (2022) and Continuing (2023). In the later program (ticketed separately), venerated alto saxophonist Greg Osby joins the trio for a mesmerizing set. 

Program support provided by Therese Sexe and David Hage. 

 

Music
Deerhoof @ 31
Thursday, May 1, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater 
Tickets start at $15, fees included 

“Ambassadors for the power of anarchic creativity.” —Pitchfork  

Thirty years and counting. Nineteen albums. One career-spanning performance. Art-rock heroes Deerhoof celebrate three decades together by playing one song from each of their records. Guided by an unwavering avant-garde spirit, the band has moved from noisy roots into expressionist minimalism and the outer reaches of contemporary classical and free jazz. The magical live chemistry of Greg Saunier (drums), Satomi Matsuzaki (bass, vocals), John Dieterich (guitar), and Ed Rodriguez (guitar) shine in this release show for the band’s 20th studio album. Complete with stunning visuals designed for each song, Deerhoof’s one-night-only show highlights their journey.    

 

Dance
Mathew Janczewski/ARENA DANCES: Only the perverse fantasy can still save us  
Friday–Saturday, May 16–17, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater  
Tickets start at $15, fees included 
Walker Commission/World Premiere
A major new work from Minnesota-based choreographer Mathew Janczewski interrogates the gender binary and asks how creative repression changes us. After receiving a diagnosis of leukemia, Janczewski learned that his condition was caused by the mutation of a single chromosome. For him, the experience brought new resonance to artist Matthew Barney’s epic five-film Cremaster cycle (1994–2002), which considers the embryonic stages of sexual differentiation—another biologically determined process that shapes our lives. Only the perverse fantasy can still save us takes inspiration from Barney and features a score by Minnesota-based composer Joshua Clause. 

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

 

Exhibition
Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant redux 
October 3–13, 2024
Perlman Gallery
Booming, frenetic, and highly energetic eruptions characterize the Rant series, created by choreographer Ralph Lemon and multimedia artist Kevin Beasley. Collaborators for more than a decade, the artists bring the moving image installation Rant redux (2020–2024) to the Walker for its premiere. This hypnotic and percussive work features footage from a live performance of rave-like movement, set to a sound mix by Beasley and accompanied by Lemon shouting excerpts of texts by Fred Moten, Angela Davis, Kathy Acker, Saidiya Hartman, and himself.  

Marking a decade since the Walker commissioned Lemon’s influential interdisciplinary work Scaffold Room, this exhibition is presented in tandem with the premiere of the performance Tell it anyway, 2024 on October 4–5, 2024, in the Walker’s McGuire Theater.   

 

TICKETS 
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ACCESSIBILITY 
For more information about accessibility, visit our Access page. 

For questions on accessibility or to request additional accommodations, call 612.375.7564 or email access@walkerart.org. 

STUDENTS COME EARLY 
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GET TOGETHER 
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ABOUT LIQUID MUSIC
Liquid Music is a leading producer of special projects in contemporary music, an internationally recognized laboratory for artists from across genre and disciplinary spectrums. This creative institution nurtures and realizes bold ideas from performers and composers, inspiring audiences to discover, learn and be transformed. Founded at the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2012, Liquid Music became independent in 2020, owned and operated by artistic director Kate Nordstrum who has been widely praised for her programmatic vision, panoramic tastes and “storied matchmaking” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Through Liquid Music, Nordstrum has built a boundary-defying platform for collaboration and earned her reputation as “the most adventurous music curator in town” (MinnPost), “a presenter of rare initiative” (Star Tribune), and “Twin Cities’ curatorial powerhouse with international pull” (Minnesota Public Radio). www.liquidmusic.org 

ABOUT SCHUBERT CLUB
Since 1893, Schubert Club has invited the world’s great recital soloists and ensembles to the Twin Cities and has promoted the superb musical talents of our community through performances, education, and museum programs. One of the first arts organizations in the country, Schubert Club remains today one of the nation’s most vibrant, relevant, and respected music organizations. 

ABOUT NORTHROP
Situated at the heart of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus and a state historic landmark, Northrop has served as the University’s primary gathering place for the performing arts, world-renowned dance performances, concerts, academic ceremonies, and major civic events for nearly 100 years. From touring international and favorite local dance companies, musicians, and film screenings to the hottest comedy acts, renowned speakers, celebrated authors, and prestigious UMN lectures, Northrop offers opportunities for all ages to explore, learn, and engage. 

ABOUT THE WALKER ART CENTER
The Walker Art Center is a renowned multidisciplinary arts institution that presents, collects, and supports the creation of groundbreaking work across the visual and performing arts, moving image, and design. Guided by the belief that art has the power to bring joy and solace and the ability to unite people through dialogue and shared experiences, the Walker engages communities through a dynamic array of exhibitions, performances, events, and initiatives. Its multiacre campus includes 65,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, the state-of-the-art McGuire Theater and Walker Cinema, and ample green space that connects with the adjoining Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Garden, a partnership with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, is one of the first urban sculpture parks of its kind in the United States and home to the beloved Twin Cities landmark Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Recognized for its ambitious program and growing collection of more than 15,500 works, the Walker embraces emerging art forms and amplifies the work of artists from the Twin Cities and from across the country and the globe. Its broad spectrum of offerings makes it a lively and welcoming hub for artistic expression, creative innovation, and community connection.

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Acknowledgments 
The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by generous support from the Doris Duke Foundation through the Doris Duke Performing Arts Fund, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Producers Council 
Performing Arts programs and commissions at the Walker are generously supported by members of the Producers’ Council; Christina Evans and Weston Hoard; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury; Sarah Lutman and Rob Rudolph; Emily Maltz; Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; Therese Sexe and David Hage; and Mike and Elizabeth Sweeney.   

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