Events
Spring 2025 Events
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Events presented as part of the Walker Art Center’s residency with Eiko Otake and Wen Hui
Movement Workshop
Sunday, March 30, 1-4pm
The Body as Landscape with Eiko Otake and The Body as Archive with Wen Hui
Macalester College Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
Fox Dance Studio (free parking)
Session Info:
Movement Workshops taught by Eiko Otake and Wen Hui are designed for all people who love to move or who want to love to move with feelings. You don’t have to be a dancer to enjoy the experience. The workshops are emphatically noncompetitive and appropriate to all levels of training and ability. Please come with a water bottle and wear layers of clothing. You will be asked to take your shoes off and lay down on the floor.
No Rule Is Our Rule (2023)
Monday, March 31, 4:45-6:30pm
Film screening followed by a talkback with Eiko Otake and Wen Hui. Moderated by Mina Kinukawa
Macalester College Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Art Commons 102 (free parking)
Session Info:
No Rule is Our Rule is a 73-minute film telling the life history, artistic interactions, and friendship between Asian female artists Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, born in postwar Japan (1945-) and during China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) respectively. Their distinct cultural memories intersect in the shared trauma of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and the Covid pandemic beginning in early 2020 China.”
Dance Dramaturgy: A Conversation on Practice
Thursday, April 3, 7:00pm
Panel discussion with Liz Engelman, Iris McCloughan, and Talvin Wilks
Moderated by Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
Walker Art Center, Garden Terrace Room
Session Info:
Please join us for a conversation around the practice of dramaturgy as it applies to dance. Traditionally associated with theatrical practices, the role of the dramaturg is fluid and context-dependent. In this conversation, practicing dramaturgs will discuss their individual approaches to working with choreographers, the differences between dramaturging dance and theater, and what dramaturgy can offer dancemakers. The panel will include Liz Engelman (past president of LMDA, Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater, April Sellers Dance Collective), Iris McCloughan (Eiko Otake, Joan Jonas, Alex Tatarsky), and Talvin Wilks (Bebe Miller, Camille A. Brown, Urban Bush Women), moderated by Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento (Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Chair of Theater and Dance at Macalester College). A self-select playlist of films created by Eiko Otake and Wen Hui will be available for view before the panel in the Walker’s Mediatheque.
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THDA Community Lunch
Thursday, April 10th, 11:30 am
Join the Macalester Theater and Dance Department for our second Community Lunch of the semester April 10th. We will be focusing on giving advice, finding advisors, and the audition process. Eat some good food and get to know what’s up!
Mainstage Spring Dance Concert: In Communion
Fri,April 11, 7:30 pm
Sat,April 12, 2:00 pm and 7:30pm
Venue: Mainstage Theater (T121)
The Macalester Theater and Dance Department presents its 2025 Spring Dance Concert, featuring original choreography by faculty and professional choreographers Wynn Fricke, Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez, and Marciano Silva Dos Santos, along with student choreographers Kai Illig ’25, Ren Lindberg ’27, and Cassandra Wright ’25. It explores themes of survival and adaptation, anxiety and discontent, permanency and legacy, festivities and loss, community and its divisions, rigidness and fluidity. Tickets reservations available here.
Performance trip to “What is War”
Sat,April 12, 7:30
Venue: Walker Art Museum
The Macalester Theater and Dance Department will be going to the Walker to see Eiko Otake and Wen Hui’s performance art. Sign up using the form below.
Eiko Otake’s (Eiko and Koma) austere, haunting movement work has often commemorated death, time, and place. Joining forces with radical dance-theater artist Wen Hui (Living Dance Studio), she returns to the Walker to premiere a poignant new work forged through deep collaboration. This new performance explores how both performers’ lives have been affected by war—Otake grew up in postwar Japan and Wen in China during the Cultural Revolution. Together, the collaborators embody fierceness tempered by emotional honesty. Their formidable performance combines movement, text, and video as it excavates personal memories of war and its global resonances.
Description from walkerart.org.
Serious Money Screening
Sun, April 13, 1:00 pm
Venue: John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
The Macalester Theater and Dance Department presents a screening of King Edward VI College’s production of Serious Money, a rhyming satire about corruption in the British stock market written by Caryl Churchill.
More information on additional THDA events coming soon!