Walker Art Center Announces 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season Featuring Major New Commissions, Global Premieres, and Interdisciplinary Masterworks
Highlights include a season-opening solo performance by Laurie Anderson, an artist portrait series dedicated to Suzanne Bocanegra, a multi-part celebration for Philip Glass’s 90th birthday, and world premieres by Moriah Evans and Faye Driscoll. Tickets on sale to General Public July 22.
The Walker Art Center today announced its 2026–2027 Performing Arts Season, an annual convergence of boundary-pushing contemporary dance, music, and experimental theater. This season’s programming offers a profound examination of collective processing, historical reclamation, and the intersection of visual art and performance.
“We are proud to unveil a new season of vanguard dance, music, and adventurous theater, each carefully curated event beckoning us together in different ways,” said Philip Bither, McGuire Director and Senior Curator, Performing Arts.
Our commitment to connecting our community with world-class innovators has never been more vital. We and the artists look forward to sharing space, ideas, and energy with you throughout the 2026–2027 season.
Among the initial highlights are two new major Walker dance commissions. Conceptual artist and choreographer Moriah Evans explores labor and rest through a movement—architectural reimagining of the McGuire Theater and spaces across the Walker campus, featuring a group of nine dancers with Twin Cities dancers Benny Olk, jess pretty, and Carlo Antonio Villanueva (October 9–10). Performance-maker Faye Driscoll investigates projection, desire, and the plurality of the human body in a new work as part of the Out There series (January 21–23).
The Walker continues to spotlight artists with two portrait series spanning the theater and galleries. A three-part look into Suzanne Bocanegra’s work features lecture-performances Farmhouse Whorehouse starring actress Lili Taylor (January 7–9) and the new Walker-commissioned Motherhood starring young actor Judah Lang (May 21–22)—along with Valley, a large-scale video installation (on view from April 3–August 22, 2027). Additionally, Embodying Lost Histories centers Black speculative fiction and “critical fabulation” confronting colonial legacies. Rwandan British artist Dorothée Munyaneza shares an intimate, limited-capacity on-stage seating presentation reviving the historical narrative of Tituba (October 28–30), followed in the spring by Nigerian American choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born’s adaku, part 2 (May 7–8), a Walker commission following a speculative near-future West African lineage.
After a decade’s hiatus, the iconic Laurie Anderson pays tribute to Minnesota’s legacy of solidarity with a season-opening solo set of songs and stories looking at contemporary American life (September 9–10). The season’s carefully crafted concerts include music innovators Nels Cline and Yuka Honda’s River Mouth, Unseen Green—a two-night exclusive collaboration featuring musicians Julian Lage, Shara Nova, and a live score to Yoko Ono’s avant-garde film Fly (September 24–25). Upper Midwest debuts include the ambient-folk trio HUG, a collaboration between longtime friends Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley, and Noah Georgeson (October 14); and South Korea’s Leenalchi on their first US tour combining psych-rock, funk, and ancient Korean pansori (November 7). New York trio Harriet Tubman and LA soul singer/producer Georgia Anne Muldrow meld psychedelic fusion, jazz, and doom metal in a live staging of their latest LP Electrical Field of Love (November 11); and Ben LaMar Gay brings his 2025 LP Yowzers to life through unconventional instrumentation featuring bell choir and tuba (December 5). LA experimental quintet SML merges polyrhythms, house, techno, and afrobeat chaos in a special in-the-round performance setup at The Cedar (April 1); and Sandbox Percussion with pianists Matthew Aucoin and Conor Hanick perform a revival of the Dutch minimalist masterwork Canto Ostinato (April 9).
A two-part series honors composer Philip Glass’s 90th birthday and his longstanding history with the Walker dating back to 1970. The Philip Glass Ensemble performs the live score to Godfrey Reggio’s landmark collage film Koyaanisqatsi (March 9); and chamber group Brooklyn Rider embarks on a comprehensive three-part retrospective of the Complete Glass String Quartets, copresented with Schubert Club (March 18–20).
As part of the Walker’s daring annual theater series Out There, French theater-maker Philippe Quesne’s Le Paradoxe de John offers a tender visual theater and absurd comedy playing off of everyday life (Feb 4–6); and a choreographic satire by Leslie Cuyjet takes aim at the life insurance industry and the slave trade in For All Your Life (February 18–20).
Additional dance offerings showcase international and regional dance traditions. Dancer/choreographer Kimberly Bartosik brings bLUr to the Twin Cities to explore collective trauma and community care (March 5–6). Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is reimagined with a contemporary choreographic spin by Belgian formalist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Moroccan Belgian rising star Radouan Mriziga (April 16–17). Cross-disciplinary artist Alessandro Sciarroni transforms the choral experience with an immersive Italian polyphonic choral tradition layered with static choreography in U. (un canto), copresented with Cantus. To tie it back to the local scene, Choreographers’ Evening returns, curated this year by Ashwini Ramaswamy to celebrate Minnesota’s movement artists through a classical Bharatanatyam lens (November 21).
A complete detailing of upcoming events follows below.
Music
Laurie Anderson: Republic of Love (Solo)
Wednesday–Thursday, September 9–10, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
“For half a century, [Laurie Anderson] has taken the things we know best—our bodies, our rituals, our nation—and shown us how strange they really are.” —New York Times
Creative luminary Laurie Anderson presents a collection of songs and stories about contemporary life in America. Inspired by the Twin Cities’ historic demonstrations of resistance, she reshapes her touring show, Republic of Love, into a space for solidarity and healing.
Music
Nels Cline & Yuka Honda: River Mouth, Unseen Green
Thursday–Friday, September 24–25, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Daring experimentalists Nels Cline and Yuka Honda present an exclusive two-night Walker collaboration. Perhaps best known for their ensemble work—Cline with indie rock band Wilco and Honda with ’90s art-pop duo Cibo Matto—they innovate continually as solo artists. For River Mouth, Unseen Green, they bring a stacked lineup of friends and collaborators for a one-of-a-kind musical blowout.
On Thursday night, Cline is joined by leading musicians, including guitar virtuoso Julian Lage, vocalist Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), drummer Glenn Kotche (Wilco) and more. Rotating through varied configurations, they produce a kaleidoscope of sounds and textures, spanning punk, jazz, electronica, and pop.
On Friday night, producer and multi-instrumentalist Honda presents a two-part performance dedicated to longtime friend and collaborator Yoko Ono. Accompanied by a full band, Honda performs excerpts from her and Glenn Kaino’s forthcoming I Am Yoko opera. She also invites notable collaborators, including Theo Bleckmann and Jason Lindner, onstage to perform an improvised live score to Ono and John Lennon’s 1970 avant-garde film Fly.
Dance
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Friday–Saturday, October 9–10, 7:30 pm
Various Walker Locations
Walker Commission
“[Moriah Evans’s] method of framing everyday actions and amplifying them is emotional, joyful, earthy and even humorous.” —New York Times
In her new Walker dance commission, conceptual artist and choreographer Moriah Evans questions how our bodies serve as sites of political and existential conundrums. The work unfolds within the Walker’s winding interior and spills into a dramatically reimagined McGuire Theater. In }[…/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^]{, a cascade of physical entanglements, mesmerizing choreography, and a deliberately unsayable title keeps us attuned to the present moment. Three esteemed Twin Cities dancers, including past Choreographers’ Evening curators Benny Olk and jess pretty, as well as dancer Carlo Antonio Villanueva join performers Cyril Baldy, Malcolm-x Betts, Chloë Engel, Kris Lee, João dos Santos Martins and Varinia Canto Vila.
Music
HUG featuring Devendra Banhart, Gyan Riley, and Noah Georgeson
Wednesday, October 14, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented with Liquid Music
HUG is a collaboration between three longtime friends: indie folk innovator Devendra Banhart, multifaceted guitarist Gyan Riley, and musician/record producer Noah Georgeson. In Minneapolis, they bring to life their self-titled debut album, transforming the McGuire Theater into an ambient-folk dreamscape. Here, simple metallophone melodies shimmer over soft washes of synth, and wooden rasps punctuate lilting guitar lines. It is music intended as much for a Sunday morning as it is for a starry night.
Dance
Dorothée Munyaneza: Toi, moi, Tituba…
Wednesday–Friday, October 28–30, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Part of the Embodying Lost Histories Series
“One of the most impressive voices of contemporary performing art in Europe today.” —Zürcher Theater Spektakel
In Toi, moi, Tituba…, Rwandan British dancer/singer Dorothée Munyaneza revives the troubled spirit of Tituba, an enslaved woman who was one of the first accused in the Salem Witch Trials. Surrounded by neon beams of light, Munyaneza slowly activates the space between audience and performer, employing deft movement, shadow play, and emotive vocals. The work investigates not just the archives that Tituba inhabits but also the archives that inhabit Tituba herself.
Music
Leenalchi
Saturday, November 7, 8 pm
The Cedar
Copresented with The Cedar
“Leenalchi has changed the way I think about music, dancing, and Korea. I have never heard anything quite like this.” —Brian Eno
Leenalchi spins epic tales of love, death, and virtue. Melding psych rock and funk with pansori, the group reimagines the ancient Korean art form for the 21st century. Rooted in Korean shamanism and folk traditions, pansori historically features three players: a singer, a drummer, and the audience. Leenalchi expands that triad outward into a seven-piece band whose rhythmic backbone includes bass funk and hi-hats and whose voices mimic everything from burbling streams to cackling crows. Having garnered widespread praise within South Korea, the group now sets out on their first-ever US tour.
Music
Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow: Electrical Field of Love
Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 & 9 pm
Icehouse
Copresented with Icehouse
“Georgia Anne Muldrow, a forward-thinking vocalist and producer, joined Harriet Tubman for a new album of immersive psychedelic fusion.” —New York Times
Like their abolitionist namesake, the band Harriet Tubman pursues freedom with dogged resolve. The longtime New York trio weaves modern jazz, hard rock, and doom metal into dense thickets of sound. On stage as on their latest LP, Electrical Field of Love, they partner with LA soul singer and producer Georgia Anne Muldrow. A close collaborator of artists such as Erykah Badu and Madlib, Muldrow wields her voice like a lightning rod, channeling the band’s electric energy through her singular vessel. Together, the quartet embarks on a journey into the far reaches of human consciousness.
Dance
Choreographers’ Evening Curated by Ashwini Ramaswamy
Saturday, November 21, 4 & 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
The Walker’s annual dance showcase celebrates Minnesota’s vibrant and diverse dance communities. Each year, a roster of local choreographers and movement artists delivers powerful performances curated by a notable Minnesota dancemaker. This year’s program is curated by dancer/choreographer Ashwini Ramaswamy. A founding member of Ragamala Dance Company, Ramaswamy maintains a rigorous, multidisciplinary practice rooted in classical Bharatanatyam dance.
Music
Ben LaMar Gay: The World of Ben LaMar Gay
Saturday, December 5, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
“The remarkably distinctive and individualist style of Ben LaMar Gay places this Chicagoan multitasker at the forefront of adventurous jazz (and ritually folkloric electronica). … No one is making music like this.” —DownBeat
Ben LaMar Gay is a folklorist as much as he is an instrumentalist. By reexamining the narrative threads that connect musical traditions across the Americas, the Chicago Southsider redefines notions of “Americana.” At the Walker, Gay brings to life his stand-out 2025 LP Yowzers. His music integrates musical styles—from Delta blues to Tropicália—using unconventional instrumentation such as bell choir, tuba, and diddley bow. Along with his core quartet and three showstopping vocalists, Gay blurs the line between the ancient and the future, creating an entirely new kind of musical mythology.
Theater / Performance
Farmhouse Whorehouse, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor
Thursday–Saturday, January 7–9, 2027, 7:30 pm
Part of Out There 2027 & Suzanne Bocanegra: Intersections
McGuire Theater
Walker Commission
World Premiere
“An illuminating theatrical portrait of the mind of an artist at work.” —New York Times
Farmhouse Whorehouse begins on a small farm across the street from a brothel. The farm belongs to Suzanne Bocanegra’s grandparents, and the brothel is the Chicken Ranch, better known as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (of the eponymous musical and film). The performance plays out in Bocanegra’s signature “artist lecture” style. Sitting stage right, she feeds scripted lines via in-ear monitor to an onstage orator—in this instance, actor Lili Taylor (Mystic Pizza, Six Feet Under). Equipped with historical footage, a PowerPoint, and wit, the pair delivers a theatrical essay examining American notions of rural utopia and urban imagination.
The Walker exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Valley, a poignant and meditative large-scale video installation featuring eight actors, opens April 2027.
Theater / Performance
Faye Driscoll: Chimera (Walker Art Center)
Thursday–Saturday, January 21–23, 7:30 pm
Part of Out There 2027
McGuire Theater
“Ms. Driscoll is fascinating in that she makes such utterly original work. It doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, nor can you imagine thinking it up.” —New York Times
Chimeras contain multitudes. They exist across fantasy, biology, and metaphor, combining disparate creatures, DNA, and ideas. Choreographer Faye Driscoll explores the human body as a kind of chimera, molded by a mix of genetics and experience. Using choreography to investigate perception, she decentralizes our usual understanding of the body, expanding her dancers’ physical forms through objects, light, and prolonged touch. Driscoll’s Chimera (Walker Art Center) sifts through the layers of what is seen, sensed, implied, and inarguable, attempting to answer its central question: When we project ourselves onto the world, does the world project itself back onto us?
Theater / Performance
Philippe Quesne: Le Paradoxe de John
Thursday–Saturday, February 4–6, 7:30 pm
Part of Out There 2027
McGuire Theater
“A piece of wild, melancholic poetry, served by Laura Vazquez’s sumptuous texts, a flawless troupe, and an impeccable visual sense … flowing tranquilly along the path of tender absurdity.” —Cult.News
French theater-maker Philippe Quesne’s work occupies the tender space between humor and melancholy. As a sequel to his beloved play L’Effet de Serge (Out There 2011), Le Paradoxe de John (John’s Paradox) examines the role of art and community in everyday life. The piece follows a group of friends whose attempt to build an art gallery leads to a strange series of experiments. There is insulation-foam headwear, a prolonged exchange with linoleum flooring, and an oddly serene sense of dissociation. Accompanied by writer Laura Vazquez’s poetry across several digital ticker displays, Quesne demonstrates the quiet power of small creative acts.
Theater / Performance
Leslie Cuyjet: For All Your Life
Thursday–Saturday, February 18–20
Part of Out There 2027
McGuire Theater
“For All Your Life was a tour de force.” —New York Times
Part informational film and part sales pitch, Leslie Cuyjet’s For All Your Life takes aim at the life insurance industry and its connection to the transatlantic slave trade. The show opens with an ironic art film in which the artist plays a suite of glossy corporate shills tasked with selling viewers a “one-of-a-kind investment opportunity.” As she moves from on-screen projection to in-person stage presence, the conceit’s facade begins to crack. Combining powerful choreography with theatrical satire, Cuyjet offers a biting critique of capitalism and society’s valuation of Black life.
Dance
Kimberly Bartosik: bLUr
Friday–Saturday, March 5–6, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Some experiences never leave the body. Recognizing the long shadow of trauma, dancer/choreographer Kimberly Bartosik brings bLUr to the Twin Cities as a space for communal processing. Set to a haunting score by Sivan Jacobovitz (Shamel Pitts/TRIBE), the piece features five dancers navigating the unforgiving topography of grief. Their bodies shake, snake, stumble, and slide as they oscillate between cycles of anguish and hope. With intense physicality, they explore love, communal resilience, desire, and what it means to co-create meaningful systems of community care.
Music
Koyaanisqatsi with the Philip Glass Ensemble
Tuesday, March 9, 7 pm
Northrop
Copresented with Northrop and Liquid Music
“The [Philip Glass Ensemble] represents the most authentic performance practice of my music in our time.” —Philip Glass
Koyaanisqatsi takes its name from the Hopi concept of “life out of balance,” or a way of life marked by moral corruption and turmoil. Released in 1982 and scored by Philip Glass, Godfrey Reggio’s wordless cinematic mast
erpiece spotlights the complex relationship between nature, humanity, and technology. For Koyaanisqatsi, the nine-piece Philip Glass Ensemble performs the entirety of the soundtrack live, with film projection. Moving between time-lapse visuals of urban decay and slow-motion sequences of natural landscapes, the documentary creates a poignant portrait of the beauty and turbulence of our modern world.
Music
Brooklyn Rider: Complete Glass String Quartets
Thursday–Saturday, March 18–20, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented with Schubert Club
“A string quartet of boundless imagination.” —NPR
The chamber group Brooklyn Rider embarks on a live retrospective of all nine of Philip Glass’s string quartets. The three-part series, copresented with the Schubert Club, follows the organization’s previous Beethoven and Shostakovich string quartet cycles.
For their Minneapolis appearance, Brooklyn Rider brings their signature virtuosic precision and deep research to Glass’s oeuvre. From the minimalist dissonance of String Quartet No. 1 (1966) to the neo-romanticism of No. 5 (1991) to the theatrical sweep of No. 9 “King Lear” (2022), Glass’s compositions reflect a lifetime of experimental rigor and profound pathos.
Music
SML
Thursday, April 1, 7:30 pm
The Cedar
Copresented with The Cedar
“The LA quintet is full of freakout code-writers tethered to the madness of kosmische, house, acid, Afrobeat, and techno chaos, where theory and feel get synthesized into mind-melting overtures.” —Paste Magazine
SML is a who’s who of the LA experimental music scene: bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann. Grounded in improvisation, the quintet overlays complex polyrhythms with psychedelic fluidity and telepathic synchronicity. They channel the playful energy of Yellow Magic Orchestra–era techno-pop as much as they do the thronging energy of Sextant-era Herbie Hancock. For this show, the must-see live band will perform in a special in-the-round setup at the Cedar.
Music
Sandbox Percussion with Matthew Aucoin and Conor Hanick: Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt
Friday, April 9, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented with Schubert Club
“A sonically magical combination … the music demanded attention, even as it verged on the hypnotic.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato is a minimalist masterwork of unusual flexibility. It consists of 106 “cells,” or sections, whose duration and dynamics are infinitely variable. As a result, artists are allowed great interpretive latitude, and no two shows are the same. Joined by esteemed pianists Matthew Aucoin and Conor Hanick, Sandbox Percussion performs an original arrangement of the composition for two marimbas, two vibraphones, and two pianos. The ensemble highlights the piece’s subtle harmonic shifts and pulsing musical figures, creating a secular space for sacred experience.
Dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione (Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons)
Friday–Saturday, April 16–17, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented with Northrop
“Vivaldi like you’ve never seen before.” —L’Echo
Belgian formalist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker—one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary choreographers—ignites the stage with her ecstatic collaboration with rising Moroccan Belgian star Radouan Mriziga. Together, the artists breathe new life into one of Western classical music’s most iconic compositions, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. The performance showcases four male dancers in a dazzling work that embraces the many associations and emotions that Vivaldi’s masterpiece has long evoked, while offering a choreographic counterpoint to it.
Theater / Performance
sweat variant–Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: adaku, part 2
Friday–Saturday, May 7–8, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Part of the Embodying Lost Histories series
Walker Commission
“A riveting presence in her own unclassifiable creations, Okpokwasili can leave an audience vibrating, moved by images and incantations that linger long after a performance has ended.” —Dance Magazine
Few conceptual choreographers have crossed over into popular culture like Okwui Okpokwasili. Known for her trenchant explorations of Black womanhood, she has had featured roles in works by celebrated artists across genres, from Carrie Mae Weems to Jay-Z. In her adaku dance trilogy, Okpokwasili and her longtime creative partner Peter Born build a speculative mythology. The story spans time and place, centering on a precolonial West African family who becomes entangled in the transatlantic slave trade. Featuring the artist and a small cast of dancers, adaku, part 2 follows a young woman descendant in a near-future United States. Although she is led to believe she has no history worth remembering, a sudden revelation sparks a torrent of questions around ritual and repair.
Theater / Performance
Motherhood, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Judah Lang
Friday–Saturday, May 21–22, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Part of the Embodying Lost Histories series
Walker Commission
“Suzanne Bocanegra’s art is an antidote to the history-free, prepackaged world that threatens every day to overwhelm us. Her work is also beautiful.” —The New Yorker
In her new Walker commission, Suzanne Bocanegra examines motherhood as a political state of being. Deeply researched and delightfully labyrinthine, Motherhood sheds light on topics often deemed taboo: the history of infanticide, the creation of orphanages, the politics of infertility. In keeping with Bocanegra’s slide lecture style, the work features the young actor Judah Lang as the artist’s stand-in. With sharp humor and sharper insight, the piece exposes the cultural and institutional forces that act on one of the most central yet undervalued cornerstones of human life.
Music
Alessandro Sciarroni: U. (un canto)
Wednesday, June 2, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
Copresented with Cantus
An unmissable work. … Sciarroni’s vision, as always, is one step ahead, calling us to follow, to explore, and to be surprised.” —Dance Art Journal
In a hypnotic exploration of voice, rhythm, and human connection, cross-disciplinary artist Alessandro Sciarroni transforms the typical choral experience into something between concert and rite. For this exclusive US debut performance of U. (un canto), seven brilliant vocalists enliven a range of Italian choral songs from the past 70 years. The a cappella ensemble creates ancient polyphonic harmonies that move in purposeful juxtaposition to Sciarroni’s exactingly static choreography. The result is an immersive sonic ceremony that echoes long after the performance ends.
About Cantus
Cantus is an acclaimed eight-member, full-time, low-voice a cappella ensemble based in Minneapolis. Known as “the premier men’s vocal ensemble in the United States” (Fanfare Magazine), the group is celebrated for its trademark warmth, blend, and versatile programming that spans from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
About The Cedar
The Cedar’s mission is to promote intercultural appreciation and understanding through the presentation of global music and dance. The Cedar is committed to artistic excellence and integrity, diversity of programming, support for emerging artists, and community outreach. Located in the heart of Cedar Riverside, formerly one of the most prolific neighborhoods for live music in Minneapolis, and the home to the largest Somali diaspora in the US, The Cedar plays a key role in maintaining the vibrancy and diversity of the Twin Cities’ arts scene.
About Icehouse
Built in 1868 to store lake ice, Icehouse has been transformed into a lively music club in the heart of Minneapolis famed Eat Street. Since opening in 2012, Icehouse’s mission has been the same; provide a fun and uncompromising space for music fans and bands to come together and do their thing. As the reputation and event calendar grew in the early years, bigger and bigger bands took notice of Icehouse’s unique environment and uncompromising commitment to the live experience.
About Liquid Music
Liquid Music is a leading producer of special projects in contemporary music, an internationally recognized laboratory for artists from across genre and disciplinary spectrums. This creative institution nurtures and realizes bold ideas from performers and composers, inspiring audiences to discover, learn, and be transformed.
About Northrop at the University of Minnesota
Situated at the heart of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus and a state historic landmark, Northrop has served as the University’s primary gathering place for the performing arts, world-renowned dance performances, concerts, academic ceremonies and major civic events for nearly 100 years. From touring international and favorite local dance companies, musicians and film screenings to premier comedy acts, acclaimed speakers, celebrated authors and prestigious UMN lectures, Northrop offers opportunities for all ages to explore, learn and engage.
About Schubert Club
Since 1893, Schubert Club has invited the world’s great recital soloists and ensembles to the Twin Cities and has promoted the superb musical talents of our community through performances, education, and museum programs. One of the first arts organizations in the country, Schubert Club remains today one of the nation’s most vibrant, relevant, and respected music organizations.
About the Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a renowned multidisciplinary arts institution that presents, collects, and supports the creation of groundbreaking work across the visual and performing arts, moving image, and design. Guided by the belief that art has the power to bring joy and solace and the ability to unite people through dialogue and shared experiences, the Walker engages communities through a dynamic array of exhibitions, performances, events, and initiatives. Its multiacre campus includes 65,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, the state-of-the-art McGuire Theater and Walker Cinema, and ample green space that connects with the adjoining Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Garden, a partnership with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, is one of the first urban sculpture parks of its kind in the United States and home to the beloved Twin Cities landmark Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Recognized for its ambitious program and growing collection of more than 16,000 works, the Walker embraces emerging art forms and amplifies the work of artists from the Twin Cities and from across the country and the globe. Its broad spectrum of offerings makes it a lively and welcoming hub for artistic expression, creative innovation, and community connection.
Acknowledgments
The Walker Art Center’s Performing Arts programs and commissions are made possible by donors and Producers’ Council members: AJT Fund; Constance and Fuller Cowles Foundation; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Doris Duke Performing Arts Endowment Fund; Christina Evans and Weston Hoard; Martha Gabbert Women Artists Fund; Nor Hall and Roger Hale; Judith Brin Ingber and Jerome Ingber; Neal Jahren; the Jerome Foundation; Jay Kim and Ann Ruhr Pifer; King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury; Knox Foundation: Susanne Lilly Hutcheson, Zenas Hutcheson IV, Henry Hutcheson, and Perrin Hutcheson; Sarah Lutman; Emily Maltz; Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller; the David and Leni Moore Family Foundation; National Performance Network; the Serendipitous Leverage Fund; Therese Sexe and David Hage; Elizabeth and Mike Sweeney; Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation; Sue and Jim Westerman; and Frances and Frank* Wilkinson. Media partner MPR News, The Current, and YourClassical MPR.
*deceased