wend (verb): to go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route; to find one’s way.

WENDER is an international arts & performance collective with a decades-long history of generative experimentation.  Originally a site-specific theater company in Chicago known as “WALKABOUT" with a dedicated laboratory ensemble focused on the creation of new works, WENDER is now a pluralistic collective engaged in various artistic, cultural, social and ecological actions in Chicago and beyond (learn about our name change here).  As a group, we work to restore the confluences of these artificially-channelized streams of human activity, applying many years of shared somatic practice and inter-disciplinary performance research to cultivate enchantment through and beyond art.