Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Philip Bither - Season 7, Episode 92

Serving as the Walker’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts since 1997, Philip Bither spearheads one of the country's leading contemporary performing arts programs. He oversaw the 2005 building of the McGuire Theater, an acclaimed theatrical space and production laboratory; raised the Walker’s first dedicated performing arts endowment; commissioned of more than 180 new works; and hosts the annual residency and presentation support of dozens of contemporary performing arts creators. Prior to this, he was Artistic Director for the Flynn Center in Burlington, VT and served as Associate Director/Music Curator for BAM’s Next Wave Festival. In 2011, he co-founded the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) graduate program at Wesleyan University. He regularly sits on foundation and governmental arts panels, writes about interdisciplinary curatorial practice and travels globally to research new performance and to speak about trends in the contemporary performing arts.