Raw Physicality and Collective Improvisation: Meg Stuart and Doug Weiss Present a US-Exclusive Performance of All the Way Around
“A reputation for unfailingly imaginative, provocative avant-garde theater dance … vivid in its own brainy, sometimes unruly way.” —New York Times
Meg Stuart returns to the Walker with an exclusive dance–jazz collaboration. Born in New Orleans and based in Berlin and Brussels, Stuart is one of Europe’s most in-demand contemporary choreographers. For this rare US presentation of All the Way Around, she joins avant-jazz bassist Doug Weiss and pianist Mariana Carvalho. Together, they build an intimate, shifting landscape shaped by shared somatic knowledge, live improvisation, and close listening.
For Stuart, the body is a memory palace. Known for her punk spirit and raw physicality, she explores bodily consciousness through collective improvisation. With limited seating, this performance offers audiences an intimate window into the emergence of a new body of memories, created in the live dialogue between Stuart, Weiss, and Carvalho.
In addition to the performance, Stuart will lead a three-hour workshop on April 1. Designed for dancers, movement practitioners, and anyone curious about energetic embodiment, the session offers focused, in-depth exploration beyond the performance. More details to be announced soon.
Meg Stuart & Doug Weiss: All the Way Around
Friday–Saturday, April 3–4, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater
ABOUT MEG STUART
Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. Her work is driven by a sense for experimentation and artistic cross-pollination, challenging the limits of the body and expanding our perception of reality. She has received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018.
With her company Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, moving freely between the genres of dance, theater, and visual arts. In 2010, Damaged Goods published Are we here yet?, a book spanning the first twenty years of Stuart’s career. In the follow-up book Let’s not get used to this place, she reflects on more than a decade of works. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she exposes the scripts that are written on our bodies and on the spaces and landscapes that we move in. Stuart’s work questions how we can rewrite these histories of ourselves and others by harnessing the potential of the moment.
ABOUT DOUG WEISS
Doug Weiss was born in Chicago and raised musically in New York City. Over a 30-year career, he has followed the belief that musical virtuosity is about playing what the music needs. From his root teachers Al Foster, Eddie Henderson, George Coleman, Lee Konitz, Clifford Jordan, Lew Tabakin, Joe Williams, Norman Simmons, and Harold Mabern, he soaked in the lessons of how to speak the language. Weiss brings himself with open ears and heart, along with his experiences with those masters, to the table when he plays. Following in the footsteps of his mentors Rufus Reid and Todd Coolman, he became an active educator and advocate, teaching workshops around the world. He currently teaches at the Conservatory of Music in Maastricht. He was previously a Professor at SUNY Purchase College and The New School University, and a guest Professor of Kontrabaß at the Jazz Institut Berlin.
ABOUT MARIANA CARVALHO
Mariana Carvalho (São Paulo/Berlin) is a performer, improviser, pianist and sound artist. She works with body, voices, listening, relation, distance, gender, inner sounds, nylon, and eutony.
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ABOUT THE WALKER ART CENTER
The Walker Art Center is a renowned multidisciplinary arts institution that presents, collects, and supports the creation of groundbreaking work across the visual and performing arts, moving image, and design. Guided by the belief that art has the power to bring joy and solace and the ability to unite people through dialogue and shared experiences, the Walker engages communities through a dynamic array of exhibitions, performances, events, and initiatives. Its multiacre campus includes 65,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, the state-of-the-art McGuire Theater and Walker Cinema, and ample green space that connects with the adjoining Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Garden, a partnership with the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, is one of the first urban sculpture parks of its kind in the United States and home to the beloved Twin Cities landmark Spoonbridge and Cherry by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Recognized for its ambitious program and growing collection of more than 16,000 works, the Walker embraces emerging art forms and amplifies the work of artists from the Twin Cities and from across the country and the globe. Its broad spectrum of offerings makes it a lively and welcoming hub for artistic expression, creative innovation, and community connection.
Program support provided by AJT Fund and the David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.