HISTORIES FOR AN APOCALYPSE
CHOREOGRAPHY AND DIRECTION BY MARIA GILLESPIE
Performance: Amanda Laabs, Rosa Mohan, Tisiphani Mayfield, Haley Moore, Ariana Northway, Annie Peterson, Maddie Prokop, and guest artist Gina Laurenzi
Music: Svarte Greiner, Johann Johannsson, DrakhaBrakha, Lakker, Lusine | Sound Design and Editing: Maria Gillespie, Andy Miller
Set Design and Concept: Maria Gillespie, Mischa Premeau, with Jay Carlon | Lighting Design: Ellie Rabinowitz
WINTERDANCES: TRANSIT | JAN SERR STUDIO, KENILWORTH SQUARE EAST | MILWAUKEE, WI | FEB. 1-4, 2018
Inspired by science fiction author Octavia Butler’s works, Histories for an Apocalypse is a near future dystopia. In response to climate catastrophe and the current administration’s new arms race of nuclear armament, this work explores an imagined post-apocalyptic realm, but one that is not without hope. This work is based on an imagined but not impossible reality. A box city of lost resources becomes a promise for a new generation. Part surrealism, part near-future, part auto-ethnography, the dancers unite their disparate histories to find hope and possibility in a dystopic world.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DYLAN COLE BERNARD
TO DO:
RESEARCH + CHOREOGRAPHY BY CHELSEY BECHER IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PERFORMERS
Performance: Liam Fleming + Annie Peterson
NEW DANCEMAKERS: BRING TO LIGHT | MITCHELL HALL, 254 | MILWAUKEE, WI | NOV. 29-DEC. 4, 2017
*selected to perform at the American College Dance Association North-Central 2018 Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK FROHNA
ARTIFACTS
WILD SPACE DANCE COMPANY | ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: DEB LOEWEN
Performance: Chelsey Becher, Julia Edwards, Angela Frederick, Shirley Gilbert, Kylee Karzen, Sidney Kidd, Danielle Lohuis, Tisiphani Mayfield, Annie Peterson, Lindsey Ruenger, Tess Rutkowski, Maggie Seer, Nicole Spence, Jimmi Weyneth, Steven Zarzecki
GOAT PALACE | RIVERWEST, MILWAUKEE, WI | SEPT. 14-17, 2017
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PAUL MITCHELL
FINE, ENOUGH.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY DANI KUEPPER IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PERFORMERS
Performance: Chelsey Becher, Emily Bolwerk, Kayla Flentje, Alexandria Kaufmann, Chanteé Kelly, Haley Moore, Annie Peterson, Jenni Reinke, Kate Slezak
Poetry: Jennifer Kohnhorst
SPRINGDANCES: ALCHEMY | KENILWORTH SQUARE EAST GALLERY | MILWAUKEE, WI | APRIL 27-MAY 1, 2017
Jennifer Kohnhorst's writing knit the casts' fragments of thoughts - about inequality, apathy, and helplessness - into a poem, and ultimately a dance, of perspective and empowerment.
MARK FROHNA PHOTOGRAPHY