Berlin’s Veritable Bonanza: a Documentary for Five Screens
Bonanza is the smallest official town in Colorado. Only five residents live there permanently, with another two residents cycling in and out, including a reputed witch, a mayor, a priest, “metaphysical...
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Berlin’s Bonanza Re:View-Overnight Observations
Bonanza—A Documentary for Five Screens by Berlin is five films side by side underneath a miniature replica of the town Bonanza. The model includes the five houses of the seven permanent inhabitants,...
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The Heartbreaking Rumba of Staff Benda Bilili
Staff Benda Bilili are a group of musicians whose home base was originally the Kinshasa zoo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They even rehearsed on the grounds of the zoo, until they were...
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This week: don’t miss “African punk rock”
photo by Agathe Poupeney This Thursday is an especially rich Target Free Thursday Night for Performing Arts, with a free poetic/performative lecture-demonstration at 6:00 pm by Congolese choreographer...
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Oscillating Absurdities: Beirut’s Rabih Mroue responds to a “traumatized...
Rabih Mroué— Lebanese visual and performance artist, actor, director, and playwright—is performing Looking for a Missing Employee during the second week of next month’s Out There 2012: Global...
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chelfitsch: Mumblechoreography
chelfitsch will return to the Walker three years after their January 2009 presentation of Five Days in March, which was a piece about twenty-somethings shacking up at love hotels at the beginning of...
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Vijay Iyer’s Venn Diagram: Community, Politics, and Activism
In trying to get a clear picture of pianist Vijay Iyer, it’s hard to know which direction to look. His series at the Walker this Thursday and Friday, however, is a start. The two nights reveal a large...
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Songwriting with Abraham: Minneapolis Artists Collaborate with Cruzvillegas...
Roe Family Singers will perform on August 5. For a band accustomed to old-time standards like “King Kong Kitchie” and its own original bluegrass numbers, the task might’ve been a head-scratcher:...
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Season Parallels || Last Year / This Year
Did you see a show at the Walker this past season? Are you wondering which you’d like to see this season? As interns in the department, we had the unique opportunity to see most of the 12-13 season....
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Bucky Fuller Night: A Quirky Guy with a Dymaxion Sphere of Influence
Filmmaker Sam Green and the Walker’s Ashley Duffalo chat with guests on Bucky Fuller Night. Photo: Lydia Brosnahan Set against the backdrop of Fritz Haeg’s thought-provoking Domestic Integrities...
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A Basic Guide to All Things Scaffold Room
April Matthis during a residency at MANCC, February–March 2014. Photo: Chris Cameron Ralph Lemon’s new work, Scaffold Room, is truly interdisciplinary. Blurring the line between performing arts and...
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Data Swarms and Physical Sound: The Cerebral and Bodily Art of Ryoji Ikeda
superposition, 2012. Photo: © Kazuo Fukunaga / Kyoto Experiment in Kyoto Art Theater, Shunjuza “Somebody said something very interesting. That if you listen to a Ryoji Ikeda CD, you feel minimalist but...
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Like Brothers, Lovers, Proto-Humans: Miwa Matreyak on Still Standing You
Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido. Photo: Phile Deprez In her film/performance works, Los Angeles–based artist Miwa Matreyek interacts live, through her projected shadow, with carefully crafted videos,...
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Keeping Score with Mark McGee
Mark McGee. Photo: Gene Pittman Mark McGee, also known by his performance name, MAKR, is a Renaissance man. A Twin Cities transplant by way of Richmond, Virginia, McGee is a key creative contributor...
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