“WILD SPACE IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MILWAUKEE” Wisconsin Arts Board Review Panel

Led by 2011 Milwaukee Arts Board Artist of the Year Debra Loewen, Wild Space Dance Company has intrigued audiences for 25 years. Known for site-specific dance events and artistic collaborations, the company merges dance with visual art, architecture and music to create inventive choreography and emotionally-charged performances.

Wild Space Dance Company’s mission is to expand the audience for contemporary dance through performance and outreach programs in the greater Milwaukee area and throughout southeastern Wisconsin, reaching diverse communities.

Debra Loewen and the company are critically acclaimed and have been cited among the city's top ten performances of the year by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for the past 9 years. Recent performances have featured collaborations with Lortel award winning composer Josh Schmidt, nationally acclaimed photographer Tom Bamberger, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, and with the Milwaukee Turners. Wild Space has performed in New York at Dance Theater Workshop and DanceSpace; in Chicago at Link’s Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Chopin Theater; the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis, and throughout southeastern Wisconsin. International touring has included performances and teaching in Japan, Italy, and South Korea.

Wild Space is a company-in-residence at Lawrence University and Lincoln Center Middle School of the Arts in Milwaukee. Wild Space is a member of the Creative Alliance of Greater Milwaukee and an affiliate of the United Performing Arts Fund. For more information, call Wild Space at 414/271-0307 or email at info@wildspacedance.org.