Her dances make gentle demands: Look at this. Live in this for a while. Dance is notoriously ephemeral-here and now. But Loewen brings the various “heres” of her performances to charged life. They are never again sights unseen. Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine
Into the Garden Villa Terrace
Her dances make gentle demands: Look at this. Live in this for a while. Dance is notoriously ephemeral-here and now. But Loewen brings the various “heres” of her performances to charged life. They are never again sights unseen. Paul Kosidowski, Milwaukee Magazine
Artifacts
“.… fascinating evening of dance and sound.”-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
From an abandoned car to the loading dock, inside warehouse bays beneath cathedral ceilings and next to a sparking fire pit, site-based dance and theater vignettes unfolded inside and outside the former warehouse, now known in the Riverwest neighborhood as The Goat Palace. Nigerian dwarf goats Apple, Serenity and Pearl from Oak Hollow Acres put the goats into the Goat Palace. Music directed by Olivia Valenza.
Into the Garden
“a performance of such magnitude and complexity... the once-in-a-lifetime fact of the event is overwhelming.”- Shepherd Express
Audiences follow Wild Space Into the Garden to encounter nature, dance, art, music and a touch of fire. Dancers lead audiences from the Villa courtyard to the Renaissance Garden, with Roy Staab’s Shadow Dance as a centerpiece. Against the dramatic backdrop of Lake Michigan at dusk, intimate dance sketches, tableaus and musical interludes unfold in and around Shadow Dance, the Scaletta d’Aqua, the terrace and garden arbors for an unforgettable experience. Music directed by Nick Zoulek
Making/Unmaking
Making/Unmaking explores what it means to make, view and interpret visual art. Dancers appear and disappear among the gallery’s columns as they transform color fields, photography, sculpture and sketches into gestural dance and bold movements. Audiences discover new perspectives as they switch locations, a playful take on the interaction of viewer and art. Original art work by internationally-known local artists Tom Bamberger and Jill Sebastian is featured in the performance.
Luminous
“Loewen's eye for unlikely, unforgettable performance spaces combined with the serendipity of a downpour Friday to create a wilder-than-expected and striking luminous show. Dancers vacillated between grand, sprawling, greenhouse-filling ensemble gestures, contracting to intimate, expressive passages that took on a striking poignancy in the vast, clear-walled space. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Luminous was created for the newly opened Mitchell Park Domes Greenhouse space. Music: Duo d'Entre-Deux, Tommy Davis and Nick Zoulek