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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
Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk

Created for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, the Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller guides viewers through a train station via iPod, blending filmed past and present into an uncanny “physical cinema” about memory and presence.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1973

Songdelay

Songdelay is a black-and-white film performance on the New York waterfront, structured through walking and props. Delays between action and sound, shaped by distance and lenses, reveal space, rhythm, and collective movement.

video 2007  

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience)

C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience) is a multimedia work by A.L. Steiner, robbinschilds, and collaborators, blending video, installation, and performance. The piece explores color, space, and human interaction through dynamic single to 13-channel video formats.

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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walkingevent SWS22  

SCHRITTWEISE – Choreographing City

Katja Münker & Tanzfabrik Berlin
2022-09-29 15:00
Eiserne Brücke, Berlin, Deutschland

SCHRITTWEISE is a participatory performance in and with the city, allowing a choreography to emerge from small experiments with movement and perception, conducted while walking.

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Choreographing City & Choreographing Walking

"SCHRITTWEISE" by Katja Münker is a performance-intervention, using choreography and walking to engage with city environments and create performative walks. It combines physical performances with an audio-guide and a research toolkit available online. The project aims to establish a collective aesthetic space and invites individuals to interpret and co-create within the provided framework, reaching beyond social and physical boundaries imposed by COVID-19.

Walking piece
Walking piece Marŝarto26 2026

Surfacing through Rhythm

In the UK, I expand on the founding purpose of Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge, as a mingling space for people from different backgrounds by including the more-than-human. I assign each solar term a territorial ‘segment,’ equalising time and place.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2010

Walk 2

Walk 2 (Margate, 2010) had 200 participants walk in silence atop the Marine Bathing Pool wall, maintaining one-metre spacing. Exposed to wind and cold, the walk demanded focus and discipline, fostering a meditative, trance-like awareness of body, rhythm, and environment.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1970

Ministry of Silly Walks

A Monty Python sketch where John Cleese plays a serious civil servant at a fictional government office dedicated to inventing and funding absurd, exaggerated walking styles, satirizing bureaucracy through deadpan dialogue and extreme physical comedy.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1975

Seven Ballets in Manhattan

Daniel Buren’s Seven Ballets in Manhattan was an ambulatory performance where five actors marched through New York, carrying striped posters. The work, resembling a protest, engaged the public directly, provoking varied reactions based on the city's neighborhoods.

Walking piece
Walking piece 1970

Seat Belt, Three Points

Seat Belt, Three Points invites viewers to strap into a seat belt attached to three stations, creating a physical interaction with the artwork. Baden’s works explored kinesthetic experiences and neuromuscular memory, altering perceptions of balance and sensory imprint.

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Walking piece 2016

Market Thrum

Market Thrum by Okwui Okpokwasili was a walk in the South Bronx exploring the creation of an “embodied collective.” Participants engaged in multi-sensory exchange and dynamic movement at the Gold Coast Trading Company. No dance experience required.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2001

The Battle of Orgreave

Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave (2001) re-enacted the 1984 miners’ strike clash with 800 historical re-enactors and 200 former miners, staging a living memory “battle” to explore history, collective memory, and the drama of social conflict.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2012

We all walk out in the end

We All Walk Out in the End is a large yellow wall painting with reversed white lettering that transforms movement through space into participation, linking walking, time, and perception of place.

Walking piece
Walking piece 2011

Walk (Square)

Manchot’sWalk (Square) stages 1,000 schoolchildren walking into a Hamburg square, echoing Nauman’s studio piece to explore how collective walking reclaims public space and turns the body into a tool of shared expression.

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What questions are better asked from Prespa than elsewhere? (remote)

HUB Prespa
2021-07-08 16:00
Online

Talk/Walk:A talk filled with many questions followed by a wordless walkThe talk can be given remotely, the walk can only be taken in Prespa. We are animate forms of life, when walking we insert ourselves amongst other animate forms of life as rhythms, we walk in concert. Choreographer Maxine Sheets-Johnstone argues that Movement is our

Walking as a Question
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walkingevent SWS20  

JMW Turner in North Shields/South Shields

Peter Coyte & Dora Frankel
2020-09-20 11:00
North Shields NE29 0BH, UK

Referencing JMW Turner’s Keelman Heaving Coals by Moonlight we will explore the contrast between the rural & industrial. Composer Peter Coyte, choreographer Dora Frankel, musician Martin Elliott & one dancer TBC will be making a gentle ‘dérive’ walk recording sound & responding to the landscape with movement & gestures with the purpose of gathering material

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walkingevent SWS19  

Dancing – Walking with Trees

University of Chichester
2019-09-01 10:00
University of Chichester, College Ln, Chichester PO19 6PE, UK

Sunday 1st September 10 am – 1.30, ‘Sound Walk Sunday’ event ‘Dancing –Walking with Trees’ (meet at Chichester campus outside the main reception building). Free to participate. Join choreographer Vicky Hunter and local artist Rosie Montford for an artistic exploration of Chichester’s tree trail. The workshop will involve walking, drawing, listening and movement improvisation – no

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www.petercoyte.com

The webpage at petercoyte.com titled "Coyte Frankel Music Dance" documents the interdisciplinary work of Coyte Frankel, an artist whose practice integrates performance, choreography, and music to explore spatial and temporal experiences. The site provides detailed visual and textual materials that reflect Frankel’s investigations into the dynamics of walking, rhythm, and bodily movement in relation to urban environments and natural landscapes. It highlights projects that fuse sound and motion, employing soundwalks and performative acts that engage the body as a medium for navigating and interpreting spaces. The page also situates Frankel’s work within a broader context of artistic research, emphasizing its experimental and site-responsive nature. It includes photographic documentation, audio recordings, and descriptive narratives that exemplify how Frankel challenges conventional perceptions of movement and space. This material serves as both archive and insight into the artist's process, revealing a commitment to understanding the interplay between sound, movement, and environment as a form of cultural and spatial inquiry.
Peter Coyte
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LucyFurLeaps

The website "Lucy Furleaps" is a personal blog dedicated to walking art, cultural geography, and creative exploration. It features detailed accounts of walking projects, including urban and rural interventions, site-specific performances, and experimental routes that explore spatial narratives and cultural histories. The blog documents the artist’s interdisciplinary approach, combining elements of choreography, sound, and visual art to investigate the relationship between people, place, and movement. The content includes photographic documentation, reflective essays, and project descriptions, offering insights into the methodologies behind walking as an artistic practice. The site also explores themes such as memory, landscape perception, and the interplay between individual experience and collective geography. Through these entries, the blog contributes to broader conversations about walking as a form of cultural inquiry and artistic research.
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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
Personal websites

scurrifunge

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

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