Walker Art Center’s Of This World: Art + Environment Series Continues with Jennifer Monson Company’s Bird Brain: Ducks and Geese Performances throughout the Twin Cities

Watching homing pigeons swirling in the sky before alighting on the rooftops in her Brooklyn neighborhood,

Jennifer Monson

began to see the similarities between her work as a dancer-choreographer and the bird’s movements. “A bird’s sense of navigation is like a dancer’s sense of location while improvising. Both have to know where they are, where they’re going, and how fast they’re going to get there,” she told AI: Performance for the Planet. From this private observation, Monson and her dance company set out on a migration of their own, a five-year journey tracing the northward migration of geese and ducks, from Texas to Canada, through dance. The project,

Bird Brain: Ducks and Geese

, lands in Minnesota Friday–Sunday, April 30–May 2, for free outdoor dance performances followed by panel discussions with artists, scientists, and activists, as well as a free film screening on May 2, at locations throughout the Twin Cities as part of Monson’s seven-month residency at the Walker Art Center. In addition, residency activities have involved area school children in bird-watching activities and educational programs throughout the school year.

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