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Art Walks

November 5, 2022

Art Walks is an immersive dance and theatre performance staged in the alleys of Carlisle, Pa. No ticket purchase is required.

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The Dickinson College Department of Theatre and Dance presents Art Walks, an integrative dance and theatre performance featuring an immersive production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1939 play Mother Courage directed by Prof. Karen Lordi-Kirkham takes place throughout the alleys of Carlisle.  The audience will follow Mother Courage and her wagon as the story of her struggle to survive in wartime enfolds.

 “War, which is a continuation of business by other means,” Brecht wrote, “makes the human virtues fatal even to their possessors.” 

Interspersed throughout the play route are site-specific dance works that erupt out of seemly nowhere and serve to interrupt, intervene and disrupt the action of the play. In true ep ic theatre fashion, Art Walks walks the tightrope between illusion and reality, suspension and persistence and asks us to confront the real world. Joining dance professors Sarah Skaggs and Erin Crawley Woods is guest choreographer Emie Hughes '13, Olga Ulturgasheva, and Sayan Ulturgashev. The dance pieces will be performed at various locations along the route but can also be viewed independently of the play.   

Performances will take place Friday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 5 and 6, at 3 p.m.
Starting location: Britton Plaza
Reserve tickets here (no cost).

Audience members should be prepared to walk more than a mile.

Further information

  • Location: Mathers Theatre
  • Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Calendar Icon
  • Cost: Free