Dérive

Always up for an experiment, Flaneur Productions distributed a top-secret passage from an obscure work of literature to a group of six local performers earlier this year. Each was instructed to use the text (still secret as of press time), along with the show’s creepy venue (a former coffin factory), as inspiration for the beginning of a twenty-minute “situationist stroll,” or dérive in the French—the result being that the collected works will share a point of origin but drift from there on. The iconoclastic imaginations tapped for this showcase include a veritable who’s-who of the local experimental-theater scene: John Bueche of the Bedlam Theatre company, Charles Campbell from the site-specific performance troupe Skewed Visions, and Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder of the renegade dance duo HIJACK. 1707 Jefferson St. N.E., Minneapolis; 612-203-9560; www.flaneurproductions.com