Mission Statement:

 

WALRUS sustains

dedicated performing artists

and choreographers

so that they can produce

vulnerable, risky, and poignant work.

Photo© Jay Chen and Walrus Performance Productions

 

 

Who are we and what do we do?

 

WALRUS Performance Productions is a dance and

performance art not-for-profit based in Seattle, WA.

WALRUS seeks to create works that question, challenge, and

touch audience members. We draw from the expertise of

our six company members to create a rich and varied approach

to the topics of performance and story telling. We encourage

innovative new performances in our community through the following:

 

WALRUS Performance Productions runs The Walrus Theater located in the

arts center of Seattle Capitol Hill. We provide inexpensive, long term

rehearsal rentals for over a dozen dance or theater companies in the

Seattle area through our Resident Partner Program. Current resident

groups in The Walrus Theater include: NorthWest Dance Syndrome,

Outsiders Inn Theater Collective, Manifold Motion, and Nathan Dryden.

 

WALRUS produces promising break-through artists in the performing arts

fields of dance, performance art, theater, film, and music whose works

due to their genre or philosophy might have difficulty being aired.

 

WALRUS Dance Company is dedicated to creating works of performance

that shed the skin of popular convention. We deliberately present

performances that challenge our audiences; we invite our

audiences to engage their sense of aesthetic and to connect

with characters and stories on a physical, mental, and emotional

level. By blending familiar techniques in unfamiliar ways, we

seek to disorient prejudice and to free our performances of the

boundaries customary in spectator/spectacle relationships.

 

Our Board of Directors is our fuel, and the members of WALRUS

Performance Productions thank them for their dedication to the

company. We also would like to send out our most heartfelt

gratitude to our corporate and individual sponsors.

 

 

 

 

 

Contact us at: movementintimeandspace@ gmail.com

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Last Updated: January 27, 2008