WHEN I SEE YOU
CHOREOGRAPHY BY DAWN SPRINGER
Performance: Chelsey Becher, Chanteé Kelly, Nekea Leon, Haley Moore, Annie Peterson, Abby Skowronski, Amy Sutheimer
Music: Nick Sanborn | Made of Oak | Sylvan Esso
Costumes: Leslie Vaglica
Lighting Design: Ellie Rabinowitz
SPRINGDANCES: joyUS MOMENTUM | KENWILWORTH SQUARE EAST | MILWAUKEE, WI | APRIL 26-29, 2018
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
Lighting Design: Ellie Rabinowitz
Set Design and Concept: Maria Gillespie, Mischa Premeau, with Jay Carlon
Music: Svarte Greiner, Johann Johannsson, DrakhaBrakha, Lakker, Lusine
Sound Design and Editing: Maria Gillespie, Andy Miller
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
BELOW THE INK
Choreography BY Maggie Seer with contributions from the performers
Performance: Brett Cox, Kylee Karzen, Amanda Laabs, Annie Peterson
NEW DANCEMAKERS: RESHAPING PERCEPTIONS | MITCHELL HALL, 254 | MILWAUKEE, WI | NOV. 29-DEC.3, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK FROHNA