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Category: Performing Arts

Four people with dark skin are lit on dark stage. One is sitting with mouth open, one is reaching, one is looking up, and another is embracing the others.
1Leslie Parker Dance Project, Call to Remember, 2020. Pictured, left to right: mayfield brooks, Amara T. Smith, Vie Boheme, Leslie Parker. Photo: Adriana Foreman.

Call to Remember Methodologies: Reflections

Naimah Petigny, Leslie Parker

On methods for conjuring Black Space and dance improvisation as a way to access collective memory and ancestral wisdom

Tags: activismcollaborationdanceimprovisationlineageMemorypedagogy
Many bodies entwined and bathed in green light.
1ORGIE, Entrenar la Fiesta, 2017. Photo: Nicolas Dodi. Editing: Julián Dubié.

Eruption of the Possible/Erupción de lo Posible

Pedra Pepa

A conversation with Buenos Aires-based choreographer, stage director, and cultural agitator Silvio Lang: on seismographies of the present, counter-hegemonic and sex-disobedient practices, and the resensualization of the social fields

Tags: activismcommunitydanceinstitutionspublic artqueertheater
Collage with rectangular cuts of pink roses and fractal patterns over blue and white waves.
1Akiko Ostlund, Umi No Uta 1, 2022.
Performing Arts Visual Art
7-1-2022

Song of the Sea/うみのうた

Akiko Ostlund
Person with light skin covers their face with their hands, while image of face is projected onto their hands.
1Maddie Granlund, By the Glimmer of a Half-Extinguished Light, 2020. Photo: Mark Granlund.
Performing Arts
5-23-2022

The Frisson of an Unfamiliar World

Maddie Granlund
Person with dark skin performs duck walk on runway, with crowd and purple lighting behind them.
1Vogue Night, Walker Art Center, 2018. Photo: Bobby Rogers.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts
4-25-2022

You Can’t Have One Without Giving Side Eye to the Other: On the Entanglement of Gender and Genre

George Hoagland
Two people and shopping cart stand at the end of a long aisle of big box store with tall orange shelving.
1(Not our Costco, not 100% certain if another, or other similar big box store.) Credit: Stephen Downes, Costco. Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic CC BY-NC 2.0.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art

Costco, Jayco, Yamaha, words are cheap

Moheb Soliman
Five repeats of the same brown photo of compost, with a photo of white cloud, blue sky, and white airplane wing in lower right corner.
1Image courtesy the author.
Performing Arts
4-12-2022

B Generic Appendix

Emily Gastineau
Panel of Google shopping search results, including banana headband, pillow, bookends, earrings, air freshener, stress reliever, t-shirt, jeans.
1Google shopping results for "warhol banana merch," served to Emily Gastineau in Chrome, March 16, 2022.
Performing Arts
3-31-2022

A Generic Dance Essay

Elizabeth June Bergman
Bright blue print of kitchen faucet with two spigots on white background.
1Nancy Julia Hicks, 2022.
Performing Arts
3-23-2022

Speculative Now

Kat Purcell
Blue patterned blanket lies on bed with gray bedspread with glass of water beside it.
1Photo: Lisa Loew.
Performing Arts Visual Art
12-17-2021

Documenting the End for a Beginning

Anna Marie Shogren
Person with long, dark hair pulled back crosses his arms in front of his body, draping fabric on which a black and white image of a face is projected, with warm lighting in background.
1Sam Aros Mitchell in Rosy Simas’ Skin(s), 2018. Courtesy NAKA Dance LAIR Residency.
Performing Arts
11-27-2021

I Observe You Observing Me: Dance and Performative Utopias

Sam Aros Mitchell
1. Dancer leans on wooden bucket. 2. Group of dancers onstage, one holding a selfie stick. 3. Person sits on bench with head in their hands. 4. Person holds silver laptop in the air.
1Clockwise from top left: 1. Tumelo Khupe performs in Just Her Time choreographed by Wynn Fricke at Jacob's Pillow in 2018. Courtesy Tumelo Khupe. 2. Megan Mayer, This is supposed to be my Fertile Window. Photo: Sean Smuda. 3. Emily Michaels King, DIGITAL, 2021. Photo: Tyler Michaels King. 4. Arneshia Williams. Photo: Stan Waldhauser.
Moving Image Performing Arts
11-25-2021

When the Beings in the Room Come Alive

Kayva Yang
Digitally manipulated photo of a person with dark skin floating on their back in aqua water.
Performing Arts
11-24-2021

For All Your Life

Leslie Cuyjet
Black and white photo of herbs, paper, charcoal wrapped in plastic.
1Julie Tolentino, SENDING OUT THE SMOKE FOR FUTURE FIRES: across the ether, 2021. Photo: Julie Tolentino.
Performing Arts Visual Art
11-23-2021

Re: Writing for the Walker/Mn Artists

Julie Tolentino

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