The Walker Art Center and Northrop Present
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
Marks of RED
Fri, Mar 20–Sat, Mar 21, 7:30 pm
McGuire Theater, Walker Art Center
For the final work in a three-year artistic partnership with Northrop and the Walker Art Center, MacArthur Fellow Shamel Pitts and multidisciplinary arts collective TRIBE present the world premiere of the Walker and Northrop Centennial Commission Marks of RED, an Afrofuturistic meditation on the “womb space.” Pitts and TRIBE as collaborators are exploring perceived spaces of regeneration, enfoldment, implosion, rupture, and potential. This next chapter in the RED Series delves into the nuanced multiplicity and deep complexity of self-expression and shared human experiences. Marks of RED continues Pitts’ research to share the colorfulness within Blackness.
In 2025, Northrop and the Walker Art Center copresented Touch of RED and in 2024 BLACK HOLE – Trilogy And Triathlon with Shamel Pitts and TRIBE. Please join us for the final performance in this valued creative collaboration.
Top image: Shamel Pitts | TRIBE in Marks of RED. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Articles & More
“An Afrofuturist Trip to the Lunarverse”—The New York Times
“Why Shamel Pitts Is Setting a New Work in a Boxing Ring”—Dance Magazine
“Shamel Pitts and Tushrik Fredericks Negotiate Human Instinct In ‘Touch Of RED”’—LA Dance Chronicle
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You might enjoy this performance if you love(d):
- AIM by Kyle Abraham
- Batsheva Dance Company
- Shamel Pitts | TRIBE BLACK HOLE and Touch of RED
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- Performance Location: The Walker Art Center
725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403 - Performance Begins: 7:30 pm
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Acknowledgments
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Marks of RED was developed at a Summer Stages Dance @ The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston residency in 2024.
