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2026-09-15 17:30
Doel, Belgium

A dusk walking performance through Doel, where fading light opens a choreography of attention, memory, fragility and endurance.

Made of Walking
WALC
Sound walk
Sound walk 2017

SUSTAINABLE DANCE FLOOR

SUSTAINABLE DANCE FLOOR is the interactive dance floor that generates electricity through the act of dancing. SUSTAINABLE DANCE FLOOR produces up to 25 watts per module. The generated energy is used to power the lighting and DJ booth.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1964

Parangolés

Oiticica’s Parangolé transforms art into an embodied, participatory event. Worn rather than viewed, it comes alive through movement, merging color, space, and environment. Rooted in Mangueira and experimental theory, it redefines the artwork as a dynamic, lived experience.

video 1981  

Quad I + II

Quad I + II by Samuel Beckett features four hooded figures who walk fixed paths around a square, endlessly avoiding its center, creating a ritual of rhythm and repetition.

video 2014  

The Sissy’s Progress

After surviving a homophobic attack, Nando Messias transforms trauma into defiant joy in The Sissy’s Progress: a hyperflamboyant dance-theatre march with live band that floods city streets, confronting gendered violence and celebrating sissies everywhere.

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Dancing Landscape x Presentscape

2022-07-09 06:00
Vic, Spain

A walkshop about shadow and sound, and how the breeze may shift your perception of distance and color. Capturing a moment and sharing it multiplies personal enjoyment of the amazing wealth of experience every landscape holds. With Sin Wah (Hong Kong) - Lise Brenner (US)

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
post Featured 06 May, 2021

Beat, to the dance

Ove Holmqvist is the creator of Holon.ist, a mobile app that synthesises sensory data, like movement, temperature and weather, converting it to sound and music.

post Curated news 19 Sep, 2023

Can you wance? Dancing while walking has become a regular sight in St. Paul

Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond. Source: Can you wance? Dancing while walking has become a regular sight in St. Paul

Walking piece
Walking piece 2002

It’s a Draw

Trisha Brown performs a series of actions that are recorded on paper by charcoal and other drawing materials that she holds on her hands and feet.

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS25 2025

Sunset Bay Soundwalk

Sunset Bay Soundwalk combines a binaural soundscape recording made while walking the rocky, crescent shaped beach at low tide. The instrumental score reflects the carefree summer Sunday morning mood.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2017

The Hidden Choreography of the Everyday

This commission for Depot Erbe considers the paths and journeys that the citizens of Freiburg take on a daily basis.

video 1967  

Satisfyin’ Lover

Created in 1967, Satisfyin’ Lover challenges choreographic conventions by placing walking and everyday actions on stage. Through simple instructions and collective movement, the work highlights natural posture, bodily diversity, and redefines what can be considered dance.

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Walking pieces

Sound walk
Sound walk SWS23 2022

Πεζό (Pezo)

In this piece, the act of walking appears in a participatory form, pre-designed walk in urban space. During the walk the participants follow auditory instructions that invite them to activate their senses.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2021

Schritte

One step - one year. A look back at the big and small moments that have shaped a life’s journey. And a look ahead.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2014

Watch out!

Watch Out! is an interactive walking experience where participants carry a backpack playing a sound composition that blends with ambient city sounds, allowing them to listen, perform, and compose in real-time. The project was commissioned by Vrijstaat O for the Expeditie Dansand! 2014 dance festival and documented by Canvas for the Atelier De Stad Oostende program.

Sound walk
Sound walk 2018

Treads

This collaborative walking art project features a live multi-channel sound and movement installation based on simultaneous remote walks across global cities, translating these into a layered performance space in Athens. Drawing on soundscape storytelling, movement, and historical-philosophical references, it explores urban memory and social inclusion through collective dérives and sonic localization aligned with the tradition of Plato’s Academy.

Articles on WLC

post Curated news 28 Sep, 2020

Dance & Tech Forum: 8 – 29 Oct, 2020 – Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW)

PDSW presents a selection of UK artists working within the various fields of dance and technology today. Source: Dance & Tech Forum: 8 – 29 Oct, 2020 – Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW)

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Meaningful Gestures: Book Read and Performance at City Reliquary Museum, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Meaningful Gestures: Book Read and Performance at City Reliquary Museum, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Saturday, November 1st, at 2pm FREE admission https://withfriends.events/event/9mVUi0qn/book-launch-learning-dance-through-meaningful-gestures/ Anabella Lenzu will be reading passages from her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, show short dance videos from the ALDD repertory, and have a Q&A session. Teaching and Learning Dance Through […]

Anabella Lenzu
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Art, Walking and Embodied Ecology: Three voices in resonance

It’s a great pleasure to see the conversation between Rui Antunes, Bruno Caracol, Soazic Guezenec and I published today in … More

Jo Scott
Anabella Lenzu�... 40

Book Launch, Reading & Performance at La Mama!

Book Launch, Reading & Performance: “Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures” by Anabella Lenzu Saturday, May 10th, 2025 at 4pm Community Arts Space @ La MaMa FREE Admission RSVP HERE: https://www.lamama.org/teaching-and-learning-dance-through-meaningful-gestures/ Anabella will be reading passages from her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, show short dance videos from the ALDD […]

Anabella Lenzu
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Book Launch and Reading: Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures by Anabella Lenzu

Book Launch and Reading:Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gesturesby Anabella Lenzu Sunday, February 23rd at 2pm at Peridance Center, #nycFREE Admission, RSVP required: info@anabellalenzu.comhttps://www.anabellalenzu.com/meaningful-gestures From her NEW book Teaching and Learning Dance Through Meaningful Gestures, Anabella will be reading passages and showing short dance videos from the ALDD repertory.A Q&A session will follow. Teaching […]

Anabella Lenzu

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Argamassa, Emotion, Place and Substance.

2022-07-05 17:00
Girona, Spain

Experience walk at the confluence of the rivers Ter and Onyar with Jordi Mas Balado

Walking Art and Relational Geographies (2022)
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Secrets of the Stour

Wimborne community Theatre and Millstream Theatre
6 - 9 Jul, 2022
Wimborne, Dorset, UK

A promenade, site-specific theatre performance that engages the audience in traversing a floodplain near the River Stour in Wimborne, on a quest to find out the rivers secrets. On the way, you will meet a series of colourful characters who can open portals and allow glimpses into the secret world of a river, provided you

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Walking into Dancing

HUB Prespa
2021-07-05 04:00
Psarades, Greece

Every walk, even the one from bed to stove, is a complete journey, a narrative filled with a dizzying variety of events, locations, people, creatures, most of which we overlook. For our bodies, walking is a series of controlled forward falls, a dance of conscious and unconscious choices. How do “I” and where I am

Walking as a Question
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Between Being and Doing (remote)

HUB Prespa - HUB Chile
2021-07-08 12:00
Multiple locations

Audio guides for Walking: There will be two Audio Walk Events on the 4th (Spanish) and 8th (English) of July for 30 minutes each. These are invitations to have a walk together, at the same time but from wherever we are in the city and in the world, while one person is audio guiding the

Walking as a Question

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HERE

HERE (the Harvard Experimental Research Ensemble) is a multidisciplinary arts organization that focuses on the intersection of urban environments, performance, and public space. Founded in 1993 and based in New York City, HERE produces original theater, dance, and multimedia performances that often explore social, political, and spatial themes through experimental forms. The organization emphasizes site-specific and immersive works that engage audiences outside traditional theater settings, drawing attention to the ways environments shape cultural and individual experiences. Moreover, HERE collaborates with a diverse range of artists, including emerging and established voices from various disciplines, fostering innovative artistic practices that challenge conventional narratives. Its projects frequently incorporate live music, technology, and visual art to create hybrid performances that reflect contemporary urban realities. As a research-driven institution, HERE supports artistic experimentation and critical inquiry into the relationship between space, identity, and storytelling.
HERE
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Dora Frankel

Dora Frankel trained at Rambert School of Ballet 1967-71 and later, as choreologist at Benesh International, London. She joined Rambert Company as choreologist, also performing in Cruel Garden chor. Christopher Bruce, among other works. During her 50 year career here and abroad, mainly America and Scandinavia, she has combined choreography and dance and theatre performance with education and outreach work, including most notably, the design and leadership of Angered Gymnasium’s dance programme(s), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dora Frankel
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scurrifunge

To work or walk hurriedly. from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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