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Performing Arts Season 2024–25

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Societal inquiry, resistance, and artistic innovation define the Walker’s 2024/25 Performing Arts season. Embrace shape-shifting live performances that broaden definitions of genre and captivate with poignant explorations of 21st-century living.

All Events

Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant redux
A dark-skinned performer wearing a striped shirt and hair curlers stands in profile behind a microphone stand.

Oct 3–13, 2024

Exhibitions

Ralph Lemon & Kevin Beasley: Rant redux

Moor Mother: The Great Bailout
A person with dark skin stands in front of a cloudy sky with their eyes closed and arms outstretched.

Sat, Sep 14, 2024

Performances

Moor Mother: The Great Bailout

Tell it anyway, 2024
Two people dance onstage with their backs to the audience.

Oct 4–5, 2024

Performances

Tell it anyway, 2024

Ontroerend Goed: Fight Night
Three performers stand at three wooden podiums.

Oct 10–11, 2024

Performances

Ontroerend Goed: Fight Night

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
A group of five musicians stand on stage, awash in purple light. A woman in a jumpsuit plays the keyboard and sings in the center of the photo.

Sat, Oct 19, 2024

Performances

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

WaxFactory: TRACES (after Sophie Calle)
A performer wearing a shiny black jacket and dark sunglasses leans against a waterfront railing. She holds a cigarette in one hand and a red notebook in the other; behind her is the New York City skyline. The image is framed by tree branches and brush, as if taken by someone hiding and observing her from afar.

Oct 28–Nov 11, 2024

Performances

WaxFactory: TRACES (after Sophie Calle)

Nadia Beugré: Quartiers Libres Revisited
A performer with dark skin grabs strings of plastic bottles suspended from above.

Nov 1–2, 2024

Performances

Nadia Beugré: Quartiers Libres Revisited

Choreographers’ Evening 2024
A group of several adults wearing various shades of blue denim are piled on a photo sweep, some smile at the viewer some are raising hands or legs.

Sat, Nov 30, 2024

Performances

Choreographers’ Evening 2024

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
An adult with dark skin looks away from the viewer while wearing sunglasses and a black knitted cap on a beach

Sat, Dec 7, 2024

Performances

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Forced Entertainment: Exquisite Pain
One performer with light skin speaks while another looks on.

Jan 9–11, 2025

Performances

Forced Entertainment: Exquisite Pain

Edgar Arceneaux: Boney Manilli
A performer with medium dark skin sneers at a puppet of himself.

Jan 23–25, 2025

Performances

Edgar Arceneaux: Boney Manilli

Jaha Koo: Cuckoo
A performer with medium skin holds a rice cooker on his lap.

Feb 6–8, 2025

Performances

Jaha Koo: Cuckoo

Autumn Knight: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker, 2025
Overhead close-up photograph of a dark skinned performers nose and lips.

Feb 20–22, 2025

Performances

Autumn Knight: Autumn Knight Live at the Walker, 2025

Dreamers’ Circus
An accordionist, violinist, and citternist with light skin play together on a stage with dramatic lighting.

Tue, Mar 4, 2025

Performances

Dreamers’ Circus

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED
Two adults with dark skin stand with their forheads touching while holding hands, wrapped in boxing tape.

Sat, Mar 8, 2025

Performances

Shamel Pitts | TRIBE: Touch of RED

SHABAKA
A person with dark skin leans to the left with their arms outstretched.

Thu, Mar 20, 2025

Performances

SHABAKA

Eiko Otake & Wen Hui: What Is War
One performer with medium skin leans backward, one arm supported by another performer.

Apr 11–12, 2025

Performances

Eiko Otake & Wen Hui: What Is War

Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Tyshawn Sorey Trio & Greg Osby
Three musicians dressed in black stand in a diagonal line in front of a wooden background.

Sat, Apr 26, 2025

Performances

Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Tyshawn Sorey Trio & Greg Osby

Deerhoof @ 31
Four performers stand facing the camera in pink light.

Thu, May 1, 2025

Performances

Deerhoof @ 31

Mathew Janczewski/ARENA DANCES: Only the perverse fantasy can still save us
A dancer with light skin lies underneath a sheet of clear plastic.

May 16–17, 2025

Performances

Mathew Janczewski/ARENA DANCES: Only the perverse fantasy can still save us