“ERS … stands out, not only for its humor and intelligence, but for its defiant theatricality.” —Artforum Elevator Repair Service, creators of the six-hour Gatz sensation, return to the Walker with a preview performance of their latest play, an exciting… More
Presenting and commissioning innovative performances since 1940, the Performing Arts program offers a season that spans contemporary dance, experimental theater, new jazz, avant-folk, new global and alt-classical music, and the multiple hybrids of forms in between. More
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Gatsby Without the Glitter
May 17 - PA
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Truthful Ambiguities: Sibyl Kempson and ERS at the Walker
May 15 - PA
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Sympathetic Spaces: Grouper at Sound Horizon
May 10 - PA
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LISTENING MIX // Grouper
May 7 - PA
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Masterful Taborn’s Magical Homecoming
Apr 29 - PA
Dialogue / Interview
Craig Taborn in Conversation with Philip Bither
Apr 25 - PA
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Magnetic Force: Remembering Tim Carr
Apr 18 - PA
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Fatou: A Voice of Mali’s New Generation
Apr 15
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The Green Room
Gatsby Without the Glitter
May 17 - PA
The Green Room
Truthful Ambiguities: Sibyl Kempson and ERS at the Walker
May 15 - PA
The Green Room
Sympathetic Spaces: Grouper at Sound Horizon
May 10 - PA
The Green Room
LISTENING MIX // Grouper
May 7 - PA
The Green Room
Masterful Taborn’s Magical Homecoming
Apr 29 - PA
The Green Room
Magnetic Force: Remembering Tim Carr
Apr 18 - PA
The Green Room
Fatou: A Voice of Mali’s New Generation
Apr 15 - PA
The Green Room
Immersive and Surreal: Julia Holter at the Walker
Apr 15
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Dialogue / Interview
Craig Taborn in Conversation with Philip Bither
Apr 25 - PA
Audio
Kyle Abraham on Live! The Realest MC
Mar 12 - PA
Dialogue / Interview
Cynthia Hopkins in Conversation with Philip Bither
Mar 6 - PA
Trailer
Cynthia Hopkins: This Clement World
Feb 4 - PA
Audio
Cécilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, and Trajal Harrell on (M)imosa
Jan 24 - PA
Trailer
Out There 25: Reality/Identity/Myth
Dec 2012 - PA
Performance
DIRTY BABY: Nels Cline/David Breskin/Ed Ruscha
Dec 2012 - PA
Audio
Jeanine Durning on Deborah Hay
Dec 2012
Featured Performance
New Season
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Press Releases
Walker Art Center Announces 2013-2014 Performing Arts Season
“Music and dance in the Twin Cities at the Walker Art Center continues to not only be the best source for witnessing and experiencing incredible talent from around the world but also remains as one of the top institutions around” —City Pages … More
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Julie Caniglia
The Plot Thickens
You’d think that among theater people, the biggest control freaks would be an artistic director and a playwright—those responsible for the company’s aesthetic vision and the text used onstage. But when Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins and playwright… More
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Jeff Severns Guntzel
Bob Mould’s Unbroken Line
“Where did punk rock start? Who cares? It’s not where did it start, it’s why did it start?” said Bob Mould in 1981. Before the Bob Mould Band and Sugar, before a prolific solo career, Mould was part of punk mainstays Hüsker Dü. Jeff… More
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Paul Schmelzer
Wild Man, Iconoclast, Dreamer: 60 on John Zorn at 60 (Part 2)
“One cannot categorize [John] Zorn,” says cellist Fred Sherry, who dubs the New York music icon “a big subject: friend, composer, wild man, confidante, connoisseur, dreamer, idealist.” In a two-part online… More
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Paul Schmelzer
Visionary, Mensch, Dude: 60 on John Zorn at 60 (Part I)
When we asked an array of musicians and artists—including Laurie Anderson, Nels Cline, and Bill Frisell—to share their reflections about John Zorn on the occasion of his 60th birthday, three… More
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Philip Bither
Trisha Brown: From Falling and Its Opposite, and All the In-Betweens
Philip Bither highlights some of Trisha Brown’s less-recognized but tremendously influential dance innovations, from aerial movement inventions to equipment-based performance. More
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Julie Caniglia
Sibyl Kempson: The Push and Pull of Playwrighting
Elevator Repair Service became an international sensation with Gatz—part of a trilogy involving onstage readings of classic dead-guy literature: Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway. So what happens when they co-create their next… More
