Photo by Jeff Pearcy
A Room Shaped Story
Broadway Theatre Center - 158 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Broadway Theatre Center recognizes that Milwaukee is located on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Lake Michigan, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes. This is where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations are present today. Join us in remembering these nations and the ancestors who were stewards of the land we live on.
Special thanks to our show sponsor Bob Balderson.
PROGRAM
Choreography:
Katelyn Altmann, Ashley Ray Garcia, Dan Schuchart in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers:
Katelyn Altmann, Angela Frederick, Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro, Ashley Ray Garcia, Zoe Glise, Jenni Reinke, Jamie Riddle, Dan Schuchart
Lighting Design & Stage Manager: Colin Gawronski
Technical Director: Tony Lyons
Music: René Aubry, Daniel Bachman, Bambounou, Beethoven, John Cage, Ethel, eighth blackbird, Michael Gordon, Vijay Iyer, David Lang, Steve Reich, Bartholomaus Traubeck, Pamela Z, Evan Ziporyn
Text: Ashley Ray Garcia, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Setting the table, a girl, and conversations around corners
Chapter 2
Hallway obstacles, sevens, and this again
Chapter 3
Where’s my chair? In the 2nd person
Chapter 4
Sliding doors/open windows
Chapter 5
A woman at the kitchen table
Chapter 6
The rise and fall of this guy, perhaps a protagonist… and others
Chapter 7
This again with exposition
Chapter 8
Family dinners, we get there slowly, and a living room dance party
Chapter 9
Shadows chasing themselves across the bedroom walls on sleepless nights
Chapter 10
Bending the narrative arc, close the blinds
Choreographers
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Katelyn Altmann (she/her) is a movement-based artist, choreographer, educator, and improviser based in Milwaukee, WI. She graduated magma cum laude with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. Katelyn has served on faculty for the UW-Milwaukee Department of Dance and has guest taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds an active presence in Milwaukee’s arts scene, performing and creating work with a wide range of local and national artists. Her choreographic work has been presented by University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Danceworks Performance MKE, Wild Space Dance Company, Point Dance Ensemble, Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation, Milwaukee Fringe, the Wisconsin Dance Council and the Waupaca Arts Board. Katelyn’s piece “soft ground, stiff shoulder” was selected to be presented at the American College Dance Association, and in 2019, she collaborated with Joe Goode on a dance film supported by the National Endowment of the Arts. Altmann’s work lives in embodied study, tested and realized through creation processes, improvisational strategies and performance. This takes shape through porous embodiment, visceral play, connection, and radical attunement.
Katelyn has furthered her dance training through various intensives, including the Milwaukee Ballet, Point Park, GALLIM, SetGo/LowerLeft and Bates Dance Festival. She also received two Undergraduate Research Fellowships at UW-Milwaukee focused on movement research. Katelyn has performed with Danceworks Performance MKE, Li Chiao Ping Dance, Wild Space Dance Company, Hyperlocal MKE, Milwaukee Opera Theater and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Katelyn’s elated to be in her 9th season with Wild Space Dance Company.
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Ashley Ray Garcia is a dancer and choreographer from Michigan. She received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Through her love of traveling, she has had the opportunity to perform in France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. Garcia has shown work at Central de La Danse (Paris, France), Get It Out There MKE (Wisconsin), Collage Dance Festival, and RAD Fest (Michigan). In April 2024, she directed and choreographed her own evening-length performance, For The Wolves. She is currently a company member of Wild Space Dance Company and Danceworks Performance Company while choreographing independently. Garcia enjoys choreographing, performing, and improvisation and looks forward to gaining knowledge through both exploration and experience. She is also a published author of her poetry book, Forget-Me-Not.
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Dan Schuchart is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Since 2002, Wild Space Dance Company has been his creative home as a company member, choreographer, and now Co-Artistic Director. Wild Space is known for site-specific dance and artistic collaboration. Schuchart’s choreography has been presented from coast to coast and extensively throughout the Midwest, being heralded as, “razzle dazzle of a different sort—intelligence, honesty, psychological insight, and often breathtaking beauty” (Milwaukee Magazine). His interests in dance include collaborative creative process, dance-theatre, improvisation, and contact improvisation with standout performances in work by Susan Marshall and collaborations with the “all-star, all-female band” (Time Out New York) Victoire. Schuchart is a Wisconsin Dance Council board member, advocating for dance performance and education in Wisconsin. In 2013, he earned his MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside, where he was honored to be a recipient of the 2012-13 Dissertation Year Program Fellowship. Schuchart has BFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts in both Dance and Painting/Drawing, and continues to work professionally in both fields. In addition, he earned a Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago in 2015, and recently became a Certified Fascial Fitness Trainer. Schuchart is currently Teaching Faculty at the UW-Milwaukee Department of Dance. He has also taught dance and movement studies at Lawrence University, Beloit College, UC Riverside and has been a guest teacher at the Milwaukee Ballet, American College Dance Association Conferences, and in public school outreach programs. Outside of dance, Schuchart has worked as a scenic painter, including for the movie Public Enemies, and scenic charge for the Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Florentine Opera, and Skylight Music Theatre.
Dancers
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Angela Frederick has been teaching dance at UW-Milwaukee since 2009, teaching and choreographing at Lawrence University 2010-2017, and was a company member of Wild Space Dance Company 2007-2018. After graduating with a BFA in Dance from UW-Milwaukee, Angela established her presence in the Milwaukee arts scene by teaching dance and gymnastics, and performing with various local companies including Danceworks, the Florentine Opera Company, Dale Gutzman Productions, and City Ballet Theatre/Signatures Contemporary Dance Company. While performing with City Ballet Theatre, Angela made her move to Chicago and began working with Kinetic Dance Theatre. During her time in Chicago, she was a company member with Perceptual Motion Inc., Irreverence Dance + Theatre (Innervation Dance Cooperative), and Jayson Dance Co. (Jayson-Tisa Dance Company). Angela has choreographed and appeared in work in Solstance, Around the Coyote Dance Festival, and Dance Chicago. Since her return to Milwaukee, she has performed the role of Margot in the Florentine Opera’s Merry Widow and has been enjoying dancing, teaching, and choreographing with such organizations as Wild Space, UW-Milwaukee, Lawrence University, Milwaukee Turners, Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, and Greendale Community Theatre. She is excited to be back dancing with Wild Space!
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Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro (he/they) is a Mexican performing artist and dancer. They studied Performing Arts at the University of Guanajuato having a multidisciplinary approach, combining contemporary dance and acting techniques in his training. They have performed at the International Cervantino Festival (2016), as well as the Guanajuato International Film Festival (2015). They graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography (2021). During their time in Milwaukee, they have performed and collaborated in works by Maria Gillespie, Emma Draves, Bernard Brown, Li Chiao Ping, Joe Goode, Mair Culbreth, Amanda Lee, Cedar Becher, etc. In 2023 They were one of eight artists selected to co-create work for Dance for Diversity, an screen dance project by Elizabeth Roskopf with the intention of uplifting the voices of bipoc artists. They currently dance with Danceworks Performance MKE and Wild Space Dance Company.
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Zoe Mei Glise (she/her) is a choreographer, performer, and movement-based artist born in China, and located in Milwaukee, WI. She is currently a company member with Danceworks Performance Company (DPMKE), Wild Space Dance Company, and the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project (GLDP). Previously, Zoe danced as a company member with Madison Contemporary Dance, and was Nova Linea Contemporary Dance’s first company apprentice. Zoe received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance and Choreography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Throughout her years at UWM, Zoe worked with several guest artists and faculty members in performances and master classes including Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, Parijat Desai, Emma Draves, Yumelia Garcia, Maria Gillespie, Joe Goode, Gina Laurenzi, Marina Magalhães, Caitlin Mahon, Tatiana Malinkine, Dan Schuchart, and more. In 2019, with the help of the National Endowment for the Arts grant, Zoe collaborated with Joe Goode to create a dance film, “Real Words” which was presented at the North Central American College Dance Association (ACDA).
Zoe has presented her work throughout Wisconsin, Montana, and Paris, France. In the summer of 2022, Zoe was selected to travel to Paris, France to attend the Camping Residency at the Centre National de le Danse, where her work, “what was, what is” was performed. Her solo, “blood, DNA, connection” was presented at the 2020 and 2021 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). She has been selected numerous times to choreograph for Danceworks’ Get It Out There concerts in Milwaukee, WI, as well as for performances with La Crosse Dance Centre in La Crosse, WI. Zoe has also attended multiple summer intensives and workshops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah, California and New York, working with companies such as the Joffrey Ballet, Bandaloop, Wasatch Contemporary Dance, Nova Linea Contemporary Dance, and the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts. Most recently, Zoe presented her debut evening length performance, “Uncommon Ground” held at Adventure Rock Milwaukee, as a way to blend her two passions—dance and rock climbing.
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Jenni Reinke is a multidisciplinary performing artist, administrator and teacher. She has danced with Wild Space since 2018 and has served as managing director since 2020, supporting the organization through its historic transition of artistic and executive leadership and expansion of diversity initiatives. Her work for four dancers, “At Right Angles to Ordinary,” was commissioned for the company’s final season under direction by Founding Director Debra Loewen. As a founding member of Quasimondo Physical Theatre, Jenni has devised more than 20 original projects since 2012. Credits include creator, co-director, choreographer, and performer. The press has praised her work as “gloriously full-bodied [dancing]...gorgeous” (Milwaukee Magazine); “Always mesmerizing…ravishingly beautiful…riveting” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel); “virtuoso…a powerful dancer and formidable stage presence” (Shepherd Express); “precise, captivating, and unafraid of humor” (Chicago Reader); “a tour de force of the highest artistic integrity” (playonmke.com). Beyond Milwaukee, she has performed her work in New York, Vermont, Chicago, and Minneapolis, most recently touring her original solo dance theater production Mrs. Wrights. An alum of the nonprofit leadership program Public Allies, Jenni has managed projects addressing arts education, social, environmental and food justice. She has taught dance, music and collaborative art to students of all ages. Jenni holds an MFA in Dance/Choreography from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and a BA with a music major and philosophy minor from Beloit College. To learn more, please visit www.jennireinke.com.
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Jamie Riddle (she/her) is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and licensed massage therapist based in Milwaukee, WI. Jamie currently dances with Wild Space Dance Company, Danceworks Apprentice Company, and Fable Dance Company. Jamie graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography with minors in Somatics and Business in December 2023. While at UWM, Jamie performed in works by Debra Loewen, Simone Ferro, Maria Gillespie, Ari Christopher, Rae Zimmerli, Lia Smith-Redmann, McKenna Coartney, and more. Jamie has also had the opportunity to perform with DPMKE, DanceCircus, and Studio K Flamenco
Production Team
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Lighting Design & Stage ManagerColin Gawronski is a lighting designer and theatrical technician native to Milwaukee who has worked extensively with Danceworks, Inc, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Sunstone Studios and Black Arts MKE/Bronzeville. They have worked with other local companies such as Renaissance Theaterworks, Wild Space Dance Company, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, and In Tandem Theatre. Colin has also worked with Theatre Lila, Third Avenue Playworks and Forward Theater. Favorite productions include: Stew, Out of Many One, ‘Neath the Hills of Bastogne, /maskəˈrād/, Dutchman, Black Nativity, Romeo & Juliet: A Theatre Lila Invention, Secrets From the Wide Sky, Daddy Long Legs, Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell, Stories From a Life, The Glass Menagerie, Serendipity, Birds of North America, My Fair Lady, Lamps For My Family, and Vagabondare. Give Love Always.
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Technical DirectorTony has been doing work for theater and dance the last 27 years. He is the technical director for Wild Space Dance Company and Renaissance Theaterworks. He has worked for UWM Dance, Danceworks, Alverno Presents (R.I.P.), Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, and Bialystock & Bloom (R.I.P.). In a parallel universe, Tony is a partner in a small custom carpentry firm.
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 supporters Anonymous, Stephen Baker & Dr. Nadine A. Chang, Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust, PPC Foundation, Gardner Foundation and:
