Momentum: New Dance Works

Related Content

• Sistah Solo
  April 2, 2013
• Walker Art Center's 2013-14 music lineup
  May 17, 2013
• Rock the Garden 2013 lineup
  April 16, 2013
• Videotect 3: The City of the Future
  March 6, 2013
• Fondly, Collette Richland
  May 15, 2013

More About

• Maia Maiden
• Ellena Schoop
• Walker Art Center
• Crime and Law
• Visual Arts

Each July the Walker Art Center features four emerging choreographers in a two-week celebration of new work from a fresh perspective. Chris Schlicting's "love things" is filled with childhood references to movement (remember the TV shows or musicals that rocked your world when you were growing up?), but viewed through the lens of contemporary movement, maturity, and a joyful mash-up of technique and pedestrian forms. Maia Maiden and Ellena Schoop's "The Foundation, et cetera" draws upon Maiden's DNA (literally, she had it analyzed) which shows her family heritage in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea Bissau. Her dance and spoken-word work, created in collaboration with Schoop, a performer with experience in theater and Caribbean and Senagalese dance, explores the dynamic interplay of ideas between what Maiden calls the African generation, the Civil Rights generation, and her own hip-hop generation. For tickets call the Walker at 612.375.7600.
July 17-19, 8 p.m., 2008