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“Lumps and Bumps” in the Night: A Kawakubo/Cunningham Halloween
Field Guide
Oct 2012
Last week Hyperallergic posted an excellent blog entitled, “If You Hate Your Children and Love Art, Dress Them Like This for Halloween.” Inside, they shared elaborate ideas from around the web for dressing your little ones up like Frida, Andy, Vincent, or the Guggenheim. After reading it, I realized that the Walker had already […]
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The Animal Human: A SpeakEasy for BodyCartography Project
The Green Room
Oct 2012
A SpeakEasy is an informal audience discussion facilitated by a Walker tour guide and a local performer or choreographer. Today’s edition highlights themes shared during a conversation on Saturday, October 27, about BodyCartography Project’s Super Nature. Described with roots akin to “a documentary on the Animal Channel … about humans,” BodyCartography Project’s Super Nature takes the […]
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Supernatural Star Turns
The Green Room
Oct 2012
To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnight reviews of our performances. The ongoing Re:View series shares a diverse array of independent voices and opinions; it doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of the Walker or its curators. Today, Penelope Freeh shares her perspective on Thursday night’s performance of Super Nature by the […]
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The BodyCartography Project: Exploring Kinesthetic Empathy
The Green Room
Oct 2012
The newest installment of TALK DANCE with Justin Jones highlights the upcoming World Premiere and Walker Commission of Super Nature by Twin Cities based BodyCartography Project with music by Zeena Parkins. Not only is this Jones’s third interview with co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, he is also performing in the work this weekend. In […]
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Super Nature: The Empathy of Performance
The Green Room
Oct 2012
a deep sigh a sleepy yawn a quick breath a playful smile Much as language can elicit empathic responses, so too, if not more intensely, can performers move an audience. After the BodyCartography Project‘s intimate interactions in their installation in the Walker galleries last spring, the Minneapolis-based duo has extended those engagements into the upcoming […]
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Sourcing Dance Through the Body: BodyCartography Project’s Creative Process
The Green Room
Oct 2012
Cutting-edge dance artists “tend to explore anything that transports them closer to the inside, closer to an understanding of how and why they work the way they do,” writes Gill Wright Miller, editor of Exploring Body-Mind Centering: An Anthology of Experience and Method. Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, BodyCartography Project’s co-directors/choreographers, are two such artists. […]
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