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Featured Performance
Merce Cunningham: Talking Dance
Mack Lecture Sunday, September 7 Legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham joins friend and patron/dancer Sage Cowles for a conversation on his relationship to the Walker during his 50-year career as a dance maker. Stories about innovative artistic collaborations for which Cunningham is known set the stage for a discussion about... read more » |
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Merce Cunningham: Talking Dance
Sunday, September 7 - 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm  Legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham joins friend and patron/dancer Sage Cowles for a conversation on his relationship to the Walker during his 50-year career as a dance maker. Stories about innovative artistic collaborations for which Cunningham is known set the stage for a discussion about... read more » |
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Commissions
 the break/s Marc Bamuthi Joseph April 10-12, 2008 Discipline: Verse/Dance/Film Marc Bamuthi Joseph upends the phrase "think globally, act locally," striving to inject core community values into his work as an international hip-hop artist. "I'm not a stereotypical emblem for what hip-hop culture is or how it gets broadcast around the planet," he says. "Hip-hop is definitely in... read more » Artist-in-Residence
 Artist-in-Residence May-November 2007 Faustin Linyekula, dancer and choreographer, lives and works in Kinshasa. In 2001, after eight years of self-imposed exile, Linyekula returned to his native Congo with a renewed desire to create art there. He quickly established a company and art center, Les Studios Kabako, which is the only space... read more » Department Information As a leading national force since its founding, the Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts Department has been built successfully on a foundation laid by five visionary directors and a level of institutional commitment rare for a contemporary arts center.
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Blog
Momentum Weekend 2Justin Jones Fri, 15 Aug 2008 Anna Shogren - LA BREA "...the animals might become trapped like a fly caught on flypaper...not likely to pass on a free meal, a pack of dire wolves or a sabertoothed cat would attack the mired animal... After an intense struggle over the helpless prey, some of the attacking predators would become trapped as well. [...] read more » Articles
 Trisha Brown Draws on Her Muse—on Paper and Onstage Matt Peiken March 2008 In the 1970s, Trisha Brown created notational drawings as road maps for her dancers. Today, one of the founding innovators of postmodern dance draws with abandon, largely as a personal, impulsive expression unto itself. That is, of course, when she can muster the time. If she isn't steering the... read more » In The Shop
Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center CollectionsA primer on contemporary art, the Walker’s new catalogue captures the institution’s multidisciplinary history and reflects many of its commissions and extensive collections of paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, design, film/video, new media, and performing arts. The 616-page volume includes some 350 artist entries coauthored by the Walker’s curators and alumni as well as contributions from a select group of novelists, poets, and critics. $45 ($40.50 Walker members). read more » Related Performing Arts Links
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