Recently…
InSite: En Route
Wild Space Dance Company’s InSite program returned for its fifth season with En Route, a FREE immersive dance experience at Pulaski Park. Audiences wandered through the vibrant urban greenspace and encountered original dances created specifically for the site. Inspired by the restored Kinnickinnic River and the park’s scenic vistas, En Route explored connections between people, nature, and public space.
Along with Wild Space’s signature site-specific choreography, the performance featured a diverse lineup of guest artists and collaborators, including Ghanaian dancer and storyteller Ishmael Konney, Folklórico dancer and choreographer Sabrina Lina Conchi, Elisabeth Roskopf, and roller skate dancing by Milwaukee Rhythm Skaters. Live music by Nick Zoulek and multiple choreographic voices transformed the terrain into unexpected stages, creating an experience that celebrated both the natural and cultural rhythms of Milwaukee.
Audience members who arrived early attended a preshow talk by local water experts from Milwaukee Riverkeeper and KK River Neighbors in Action.
InSite - In Review
"[The] choreography for this compelling opening section provided structures for improvisation. It was about presence and decision-making in a challenging site, all heightened by Zoulek’s music. It drew me to watch and listen."
"Artistic Director Dan Schuchart has shaped an experience of art and nature that unfolds into elegant vistas and hermetic nooks of meaning which, on a gorgeous Autumn afternoon, leaves the spectator in a grateful state of sublime bliss."
"But amidst all of this quotidian activity something quite atypical was also happening. Several portions of the park were transformed into outdoor theater spaces by Wild Space Dance Company—a fitting tribute to the recent transformation of the park itself."
This program is made possible in part by a Ruth Foundation for the Arts Wisconsin Special Project Grant, Bader Philanthropies, and Milwaukee Parks Foundation. This program is supported by a grant from the Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thanks to our season sponsors: Bob Balderson, David Flores, Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Richard & Ethel Herzfeld Foundation, Milwaukee County CAMPAC, Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust, Gardner Foundation, PPC Foundation, United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF), and individual donors.
Earlier this Fall…
The HAYRAKE BALLET
Wild Space collaborated with the Wormfarm Institute to perform as the opening act of The Hay Rake Ballet - a dance performance of farm machinery.
We were in the beautiful farm fields of western Wisconsin on September 12th.
Learn more about the performance HERE
Last season…
Beyond the Shimmer
April 10-11, 2026
The evening invited audiences into a world where the ordinary became extraordinary. This dance‑theatre work used the vastness of outer space as a metaphor to explore distance, connection, and possibility, immersing audiences in a dazzling, multi‑sensory experience of bold movement, evocative text, and striking imagery. The program also featured a new solo for Artistic Director Dan Schuchart, crafted by guest artist Alexandra Barbier as part of her ongoing project few things ahead of time, in which a 48‑hour creative process yielded adventitious choices, inventive tactics, and unexpected outcomes. Performed at the beautiful Jan Serr Studio, the work unfolded against the Milwaukee skyline, which became a luminous backdrop for the evening.
Read the Reviews…
“If any art form could claim the most immediate access to the meaning of life, it might be dance. And if any dance could communicate the sheer wonder of being alive, it might be Beyond the Shimmer.”
“There’s a family of dance artists who are showing in movement what they’ve learned from what they’ve lived through. It’s going to the moon to see the earth.”
InSite: FIELD GUIDE
October 10-11, 2025
Read the Reviews…
“it’s a tour-de-force of creative, technical, and logistic imagination: the most daring and original adventure in the performing arts our city has seen in years. And like all good art, it stirs up many thoughts. feelings and senses, which will not necessarily be the same for any two people.”
“While the choreography itself showcased some serious feats of agility and strength, the message was clear: even as we grow older—especially as we do—we should not let go of our childlike wonder and curiosity when interacting with Nature.”
“Dancing in nature highlights the connection between humans and the Earth. For me, as a spectator and nature-lover, the experience is as spiritual as it is aesthetic. Furthermore, dancing in an urban park like Havenwoods State Forest celebrates not only the human-nature connection, but also the paradoxical connection and interaction between civilization and wilderness. That’s what I loved about InSite: Field Guide…”
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and dance on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes.
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