Skip Stitch at the Eagleknit
7:30pm Thurs-Sat, May 9-11, 2024
SKIP STITCH breathes new life into the fourth floor of a repurposed 1928 knitting mill, imbuing it with a vibrant tapestry of dance and moving patterns that pay homage to the Eagleknit Building’s rich history. With panoramic views of the Milwaukee skyline, the space offers a captivating blend of heritage and innovation. Inspired by the Eagleknit's manufacturing legacy, dancers weave among pillars, evoking images of intertwining strands and knots. Configurations emerge and unravel, echoing across the expanse, as the intricate interplay of patterns unveils the inherent beauty of form.
Choreography by Katelyn Altmann and Dan Schuchart
Special Guest Choreographer Dawn Springer
Live Music by Paul Westfahl
Look Again
Nov. 30 - Dec. 2 @ 7:30pm & Matinee, Dec. 2 @ 4pm
UWM Mitchell Hall Studio 254
3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Look Again takes the audience through a journey of shifting perspectives, bouncing from gameplay to memories moving the body and internal rhythms that bind us together. Hindsight, desires, and past dances are source material for an evening of new works as we look again at what moves us.
Choreography by Katelyn Altmann, Tisiphani Mayfield, and Dan Schuchart
Original Music Composition by Paul Westfahl
TICKETS
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Choreo Kitchen: Session 1 @ MARN
Move fast and make things. In this new creative process series, 3 choreographers have a single rehearsal to make a new dance in response to a mystery box of prompts. The prompts could range from a piece of writing, an image, an object, or song. Limitations and unexpected connections become the springboard for creating. Come see what these artists can cook up.
TICKETS HERE
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Choreo Kitchen: Session 2 @ MARN
Move fast and make things. In this new creative process series, 3 choreographers have a single rehearsal to make a new dance in response to a mystery box of prompts. The prompts could range from a piece of writing, an image, an object, or song. Limitations and unexpected connections become the springboard for creating. Come see what these artists can cook up.
TICKETS HERE
InSite: Everyone is Welcome
June 16 - 7:30pm, June 17 - 4pm & 7:30pm, 2023
Join us for an exciting site-based dance event created in partnership with Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery and Arboretum, an open, public cemetery. Everyone is Welcome celebrates belonging through dances choreographed and performed by diverse artists representing the histories, cultures, and untold stories of those who lie within. Audiences walk landscaped pathways to watch dances unfold in a moving narrative as rituals, traditions, and cultural customs become dances about respect, honor and belonging. Come early for a pre-show to learn about cemetery history from Milwaukee Historian John Gurda.
Guest Choreographers: Sabrina Lina Conchi, Dijon Kirkland, Tisiphani Mayfield, Yeng Vang-Strath, Alisha Jihn, under the auspices of Wild Space Dance Company’s InSite: Choreographic Exchange
Performers: Katelyn Altmann, Sabrina Lina Conchi, Alex Dougherty, Ashley Ray Garcia, Jessica Lueck, Ida Lucchesi, Tisiphani Mayfield, Elisabeth Roskopf and Nicole Spence. Guest performers include Hmong dancers, and special cameo appearances.
Pre-show talks by Milwaukee Historian John Gurda will begin one hour before each performance.
The event is free – advanced reservations are required due to limited space.
Funded in part with support from Bader Philanthropies and a grant from Wisconsin Humanities, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the State of Wisconsin*, UPAF, Milwaukee County CAMPAC, The Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.*Guest Choreographers are supported by Wild Space’s InSite: Choreographic Exchange Program, producing site-specific dances by Milwaukee-based choreographers of color.
*Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment of the Humanities. Wisconsin Humanities strengthens our democracy through educational and cultural programs that build connections and understanding among people of all backgrounds and beliefs throughout the state.
History of the Future
December 1-3, 2022
History of the Future is a four-chapter dance about memory, presence, connection, and our collective capacity to embrace time’s relentless pace. “Now” hovers at the edge of uncertainty, expectant of change. Tableaus repeat as phrases loop and evolve while a podcast plays. A last-chance table offers “feel-good-about-tomorrow” messages, and dancers perform “maps” of their wild and beautiful movement history. Each chapter is a history for the next as each dance holds the future of its past, propelling dancers head-long in a quest for the self they were long ago.
Choreographers: Katelyn Altmann, Debra Loewen, Jenni Reinke, Dan Schuchart
Guest Performers: Flora Coker, Simone Ferro, John Schneider
A site-specific performance, inspired by the ideas of South African visual artist, William Kentridge, Dances: At the Edge of Understanding explores and draws upon Kentridge’s distinct art-making process and his world of ideas. Set in the adjacent parking lot of The Warehouse Gallery and exhibition of Kentridge’s work, the performance unfolds in a choreography of translation, or as Kentridge would say “mistranslation”. A collage forms and falls apart, fragments fly into action, a big drawing happens, gestures sweep, dancers are erased.
Dances: At the Edge of Understanding
September 15th & 16th, 2022 6pm and 7:30pm
Adventurous site-based dances celebrate Washington Park’s landscaped beauty, local community, 200th Anniversary of landscape designer, Frederick Olmsted, and the Urban Ecology Center.
Wild Space Dance Company guest choreographers, Alisha Jihn and Tisiphani Mayfield create an imaginative interplay of movement and dance shaped and inspired by place and design.
InSite: Dances for Washington Park
Saturday May 22nd 2022 3:00pm and 7:30pm
Photo: Debra Loewen / Performers: Tisiphani Mayfield, Victoria Isaac, Dan Schuchart, Jessica Lueck, Katelyn Altmann, Nick Zoulek
Flipside/Lakeside
Thursdays, August 5, 12, 19, 26 2021 @ Milwaukee Art Museum East Lawn
A free, site-based performance created for Lakeside @ MAM. Flipside reflects the Lake Michigan side of the museum, where Wild Space performs for an outdoor audience. Accompanied by live music from saxophonist Nick Zoulek, dancers are featured in the outdoor terrace circle and also appear through the windows above. / Dancers: Katelyn Altmann, Victoria Isaac, Alisha Jihn, Jessica Lueck, Tisiphani Mayfield, Dan Schuchart, Yeng Vang-Strath / Music: Nick Zoulek, composer/saxophone (Aug. 5, 19, 26); Andy Miller, composer/percussion (Aug. 12)
Photo: Matt Schwenke / Dancer: Allison Kaminsky
A Year of Dancing Dangerously
December 2nd-4th 2021 @ UWM Mitchell Hall Studio 254
A boisterous, gutsy dance about our longing for presence, touch and connection. Dancers jolt expectations; their actions shift with whiplash energy from full-bodied movement to stillness, from chaos to unguarded intimacy. The theater transforms and reconfigures as a site for performance narratives and a site for shared vulnerability.