Tate’s live “performance room”— works performed in real time on YouTube—launches Thursday with a 1997 piece by choreographer Jérôme Bel. Future participants: Pablo Bronstein, Harrell Fletcher, Joan Jonas, and Emily Roysdon.

Unlike Naked, presented in the Walker galleries in 2010, Eiko and Koma’s Fragile will be performed to a live soundtrack by Kronos Quartet at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend.

Last week the Minnesota State Arts Board announced recipients of $1.2 million in arts funding. The 140 grantees include choreographer Penelope Freeh, poet Bao Phi, artist Liz Miller, and painter (and former Walker Teen Arts Council member) Luke Tromiczak.

“The irony is not lost on me,” writes photo mag editor Melissa Harris, “that I should be equally consumed by another medium, one that defies any notion of ‘capture,’ that I am seduced by dance’s very impermanence, especially in the case of Merce Cunningham.”

Activist, artist, and performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph can add another title to his CV: director of performing arts at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Bamuthi brings his red, black and GREEN: a blues to the Walker in March.

The Twin Cities’ “dance ecology unites buoyant individualism with an ardent sense of community, echoing the populist streak that runs through Minnesota’s history, from its socialist Scandinavian roots to its current multicultural profile,” writes Linda Shapiro.