New recipients of the Doris Duke Artist Awards have been named. Among them are artists who have shared our stage (or will), including Ping Chong, Myra Melford, Tere O’Connor, Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper, David Lang, Elizabeth Streb, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and others.

For electronic supergroup Atoms For Peace’s new video, “Ingenue,” Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke (AFP vocalist) delves into contemporary dance, pairing with dancer Fukiko Takase. Like many a Yorke dance move, this one, too, is now available in GIF form.

Contemporary dance pioneer Trisha Brown, 76, has withdrawn from the company that bears her name, citing health concerns. The company will continue to exist, with longtime collaborators Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas as associate artistic directors.

Just announced, Creative Capital’s 2013 project grants winners include several names from our current and most recent Walker performing arts seasons, including Kyle Abraham, Corey Dargel, Trajal Harrell, and Minneapolis’ own Emily Johnson.

“One doesn’t usually know where ideas come from,” says Jasper Johns. But he knows what inspired the set elements he made for Merce Cunningham’s Walkaround Time (part of the Walker collection): looking at a booklet featuring line drawings of Duchamp’s The Large Glass.

The best performance of 2012 was Nadia Beugré’s Quartiers Libres (performed at the Walker as part of Voices of Strength), writes Wendy Perron. Mixing “pleasure and pain, freedom and oppression,” the Cote d’Ivoire artist “shook me to my roots.”

Two works to be performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music late next month will be choregrapher Trisha Brown’s last. Brown, 76, last performed at the Walker in 2008 as part of a yearlong series of exhibitions and events in her honor.

The Vancouver-based Native Arts & Cultures Foundation has named its 12 fellows for 2013. Among them are Minneapolis dancer Rosy Simas (Momentum 2001, Choreographers’ Evening 2012) and St. Paul–based musician Brent Michael Davids.

Alastair Macauley says rhythm is why Deborah Hay’s As Holy Sites Go (to be performed here Dec. 8) “seems never to be just a formal dance but to be a larger image of life. Tempo, meter, dynamics constantly change, giving the sense always of an inner spirit.”