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.