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8 PM, March 14-16, 2013 The Milwaukee Rep’s Stiemke Studio Patty & Jay Baker Theater Complex
7:15 PM, Pre-Show Talk Steven Wallace, Founder & President of Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company
Wild Space Dance Company Artistic Director: Debra Loewen Managing Director: Sheri Urban
Company: Mauriah Kraker, Lindsey Krygowski, Molly Mingey, Laura Murphy, Jessie Mae Scibek, Yeng Vang-Strath, Emily Zakrzewski Guest Performers: Tim Russell, Amanda Schoofs Affiliate Artist: Jade Jablonski Stage Manager: Lydia LaGue Lighting Designer: Noele Stollmack
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progr a m Choreography by Debra Loewen with contributions from the company, except as noted. Music is collage, except as noted. In this Condition Performer: Mauriah Kraker Music: Mozart Voice: Jacque Troy In this Condition based on “This Condition” by Lydia Davis, from ALMOST NO MEMORY. © 1997 by Lydia Davis. All rights reserved. (Used with permission from the author) Layers Improvisational structure by Debra Loewen Performers: Laura Murphy & Amanda Schoofs Fevered Sleep Performers: Company Original music composed and performed by Tim Russell Costumes: Leslie Vaglica Gelsomina Maria Choreographed and performed by Jade Jablonski Chocolate Haze Performers: Mauriah Kraker, Lindsey Krygowski, Molly Mingey, Jessie Mae Scibek, Yeng Vang-Strath, Emily Zakrzewski Costumes: Liz Fransee Music: E. Morricone, Peter Woolery, Handel, Hungry Food Band, Elliot Sharp, Shira Zimbeck, H. Preisner, Y. Levni , Mark Orton, Gershwin
progr a m notes We are delighted to offer Luscious this evening, featuring new work and one of our favorite pieces from repertory, In This Condition. We are also honored to have guest artist Amanda Schoofs joining Laura Murphy for a vocal/dance collaboration, composer and musician/ composer Tim Russell, who contributes his musical improvisations to Fevered Sleep, and returning Wild Space affiliate artist Jade Jablonski. Inventing the work for this performance was an indulgent challenge. We began with words and images that reflect and embody both the idea and tangibility of luscious, everything from the richness of chocolate to the vivid recall of dreams upon waking. From there, we invented movement and brought in the vocal and musical improvisations of Amanda and Tim, to create both a visual and aural experience. I’m delighted that Omanhene has graciously joined our performance to add the sense of taste and smell to our luscious experience. Luscious would not exist without the dedication and creativity of the company. Their invention of movements and unflagging enthusiasm makes every rehearsal a new adventure. I am also grateful to Lydia and Noele for lending their talents and theatrical expertise to this performance. Enjoy the performance! Debra Loewen Wild Space Artistic Director 2
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special thanks Claude Binder, Liz Fransee, Daniel Grego, Margaret Howland, Jan Kellogg, Lydia LaGue, Tony Lyons, Kirsten Mulvey, Noele Stollmack, Jacque Troy, Michelle Usadel, Melissa Vartanian, Steve Wallace, The Florentine Opera, Lawrence University, The Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company, RitzHolman CPAs, The Skylight, UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Dance Department, MPS/Lincoln Middle School.
Biogr aphies Debra Loewen, Artistic Director, founded Wild Space Dance Company in 1986 following a career as an independent choreographer and solo performer. She has created more than 120 works for the company, many of which have been performed to critical acclaim throughout Wisconsin and in Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Japan, and South Korea. Debra’s signature works are sitespecific performances and collaborations with artists. Featured in Dance Magazine and at the 2012 Creative Milwaukee conference, her site-specific work has brought renewed interest and recognition to Milwaukee landmarks, such as Historic Turner Ballroom, the Milwaukee County Historical Center, the Lynden Sculpture Garden and, this past fall, the former Pabst Brewery. She has worked collaboratively with nationally known artists Jill Sebastian and Tom Bamberger on critically acclaimed multi-media performance events, including Art of the Ordinary (2005), By Accident & Necessity (2010) and In the Space Between (2011). Over the past two decades, Debra has earned multiple choreographic fellowships from Milwaukee County, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2009, she received a commendation from the Milwaukee County Historical Society for her history-based work and was selected by the Milwaukee Arts Board in 2011 as an Artist of the Year. She holds a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee. Currently a senior lecturer at UW-Milwaukee, she has taught for Lawrence University, the University of Delaware and Alverno College, and leads Wild Space’s residencies at Lawrence University and Lincoln Center Middle School of the Arts. She has also consulted with K-12 educators to help design dance residencies throughout Wisconsin.
Mauriah Donegan Kraker recently returned to the Midwest after some years wandering NYC and Asia, where she spent her time creating movement projects on roofs and printing presses, in zombie buildings, and in the midst of the Red Shirt Riots in Bangkok. Accepted as an MFA Candidate for Cloud Gate Dance Theater’s University in Taiwan (Taipei National University of the Arts), she began her studies with them as well as with HORSE Dance Company. In the States, she has worked extensively for Pilobolus Creative Services, appeared on Conan O’Brien, performed with Catey Ott Dance Collective, David Newmann/Advanced Beginner Group and most recently, Wild Space. Her work has been presented at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, WTF Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand and at Danceworks DanceLAB in Milwaukee. Lindsey Krygowski is in her second season with Wild Space. Lindsey has participated in the Impulstanz Summer Intensive in Vienna, the Trisha Brown Intensive in New York and the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. In 2011, Lindsey performed with Kanye West at Milwaukee Summerfest and at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. Lindsey also recently danced with De Facto Dance, an improvisation-based company, under the direction of Joelle Worm. Lindsey holds a BFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts and has choreographed for works such as Milwaukee Art Museum: After Dark and New Dancemakers: In the Flesh. She also performed in works by UWM dance faculty, Ed Burgess, Simone Ferro, Elizabeth Johnson and Janet Lilly.
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Molly Mingey graduated with honors from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts with a BFA in dance. Molly’s first performance with Wild Space was Trace Elements in 2009. She has participated in the American College Dance Festival and the Impulztanz Vienna International Dance Festival. She has choreographed works for Danceworks Art to Art for the past three years and is regularly involved with Dance Revolution Milwaukee, MKE Follies. She has performed in the Milwaukee Art Museum After Dark series, Danceworks Art to Art and student performances at UWM. She has been a guest artist with Danceworks on Tap and this past December she performed with Fenn and Company in Brooklyn. Next up she will be presenting her work in Chicago at THAW, an event benefiting Link’s Hall. Molly represents Wild Space for its school performances in the Milwaukee Symphony’s Project ACE and teaches dance for Danceworks, Accent on Dance, and Bella Via studios. Laura Murphy is in her sixth season with Wild Space, and her first year back from two years of contemporary dance and choreographic studies in Poland, Germany, Austria, and England, while also performing with the Warszawski Teatr Tanca, touring Poland and Japan. Independent projects include work with experimental vocalist Amanda Schoofs, filmmakers Tate Bunker and Kara Mulroony, textile artist Leslie Vaglica, and international improv artists Renata Piotrowska and Michael Zerang. Laura’s solo projects have been presented/produced by the MKE Follies/Carte Blanche Studios, the Warszawski Teatre Tanca, the Mazowieckie Centrum Kultury i Sztuki, Powiększenie, Madison’s Intercontinental Dance Festival, and Dancework’s DanceLAB Series. Laura represents Wild Space in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s ACE Project, teaches Movement Fundamentals and Modern Dance Technique as part of Wild Space’s residency at Lawrence University, and also helps facilitate and co-teach contact improvisation classes and jams.
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Jessie Mae Scibek graduated from UWMilwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts with a BFA in dance. During her time studying at UWM, she performed in various faculty pieces including works by Dani Kuepper, Janet Lilly, Ed Burgess, Darci Brown Wutz, Luc Vanier, Ferne Caulker-Bronson, and Simone Ferro. She was selected to perform Water Studies and Tensile Involvement choreographed by Alwin Nikolai and reconstructed by guest artist Alberto Del Saz. In the summer of 2010, Jessie Mae seized the opportunity to study dance and music abroad in Brazil. After returning from Brazil, she co-choreographed Oust the Clout a piece which was presented in Danceworks’ Art to Art in 2010. Jessie Mae was also featured dancing and acting in a corporate video for Walgreens, making her film debut as the store manager. She has performed professionally with the Hudson Vagabond Puppet Company, De Facto Dance, Young Blood Theatre Company, and Danceworks Performance Company. Jessie Mae is in her third season with Wild Space. Yeng Vang-Strath graduated with her BFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts in 2010. She is ecstatic to be performing again with Wild Space. While at UW-Milwaukee, she danced for Simone Ferro, Elizabeth Johnson and guest artist Suniti Dernovsek in Always Merry and Bright. She has danced and performed in San Diego with Mesa College, Jean Isaacs Dance Theatre, and Ballettiquette dance studio. In New York, she studied at the Broadway Dance Center with various professionals, including Kat Wildish, David Howard, and Finis Jung. Yeng is a very happy individual who simply enjoys dancing, teaching, performing, learning and most of all, being with her family. Emily Zakrzewski graduated from Arizona State University with a BFA in Dance in 2011. Along with classes, she developed her artistry through persistent performances, choreographed by peers, graduate students, dance faculty and guest artists; most notably she has worked with Karen Schupp, Mary Fitzgerald, Nancy Bannon, Moya Micheal and Cristian Duarte. Upon graduation she was
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awarded the Outstanding Performer of her graduating class, as well the Moeur Award for academic excellence. Emily moved back to her Milwaukee roots in July 2011, and is glad to continue performing. Her recent performances include Nucleus...and Other Cell Bodies, choreographed by Kelly Radermacher, at the 2012 Minnesota Fringe Festival and Fabric of Space: Phase 1, presented by Yong Wei Li, in Phoenix. Guest & Affiliate Artists Luscious marks Jade Jablonski’s seventh season performing with Wild Space; first as a core company member and now as an affiliate artist. Jade holds a BA in Visual and Kinetic Expression, an independently devised major, from the UW-Stevens Point. She used her interdisciplinary studies to explore the relationship between the moving body and the wearable piece. While a student, she had the privilege to work with Joan Karlen, Susan Gingrasso, Pamela Luedtke, and Jeannie Hill, and perform in numerous dance and performance art works. These led her to perform at three consecutive American College Dance Festivals, one of which included her own choreographic work. Upon completion of her degree, she has choreographed for Art to Art 2009 and worked with Your Mother Dances, Li ChiaoPing (Madison) and The Seldoms (Chicago). In addition to choreographing and performing, Jade also designs, constructs, and alters costumes working for Wild Space, the American Players Theatre, and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She is always grateful for the performing opportunity and would like to thank Deb for her constant support and kind heart. Tim Russell was raised in a house of recreational musicians. He was drawn to music as a way of interacting with the world, playing drums in rock bands around the Chicago suburbs as a teen. His passion for music and percussion deepened at the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually graduated with a BM in percussion performance. Tim was introduced to the world of Contemporary Movement at the
University of Wisconsin Dance Program, an environment that encouraged his experimental and collaborative spirit. Working with choreographers such as Jin Wen Yu, Li Chiao Ping, Kate Corby, Gerald Casel, Luc Vanier and Kun Yang Lin his music has traveled all across the country from the Fab! Festival in New York City to CounterPULSE! in San Francisco. He currently resides in Milwaukee, where he continues to expand his artistic family. Amanda Schoofs is a composer, experimental vocalist, and visual artist. As a vocalist, she fuses extended techniques with traditional forms of blues, opera, chanson, and punk. Always pushing the limits–she embodies extremes in timbre, texture, and breath while playing with fragmented melody, modal simplicity, nonsensical phonemes, and/or ________ (text?). Her work has been commissioned by the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra, Equilbrium SF, Present Music, double bassist Jason Hoopes, trombonist Andrew Strain and violinist Emily Packard. She performs regularly in a raucous free improvisation trio with Christopher Burns and Steven Nelson-Raney, and has collaborated with Laura Murphy, Milwaukee filmmaker Tate Bunker and Wild Space Dance Company. Amanda has lived and worked in Milwaukee, Oakland, San Francisco, Florence and Paris. She holds an MA in Music Composition from Mills College and a BFA in Music Composition and BA in Vocal Performances from UW-Milwaukee. In addition to performing, Amanda is a Lecturer in Music Composition/Theory and Director of Experimental Improvisation Ensemble at UWMilwaukee and recently held a Visiting Artist/ Lecturer residency at Rochester Institute of Technology’s Fine Arts Printmaking Department. Production Crew & Management Lydia Goble LaGue, Stage Manager, is so pleased to work with Deb Loewen and Wild Space again, having had the opportunity to do so once before, about 20 years ago, in a collaboration with the late Ed Burgess. Currently on staff at UWM in the Helen Bader Luscious
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School of Social Welfare, Lydia has worked with an array of academic institutions and performance companies across the country in a variety of support and management positions. A few of the theatre or dance companies she has had the pleasure of serving are: Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Ko-Thi, Northern Stage Company (all of Milwaukee), The Alley Theater (Houston, TX) and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. A native Texan and graduate of UT-Austin, Lydia has called Milwaukee home since 1989. She is the mother of Stephanie, Liza, Henry, Benjamin and John, who make her proud every day. Noele Stollmack, Lighting Designer, Scenery and lighting design includes Dido and Aeneas, Venus and Adonis, Rio de Sangre, Macbeth, Tristan und Isolde and Magic Flute for the Florentine Opera, Rape of Lucretia for Toledo Opera, Pagliacci at Opera Columbus, Mirandolina for the Milwaukee Rep as well as lighting and scenic realization for Meredith Monk’s international tours of mercy & impermanence. Noele’s lighting has appeared on stage at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sydney Opera House, Opera Ontario, Opera
Pacific, Portland Opera, Vancouver Opera, New Orleans Opera, Madison Opera, Nashville Opera, The Alley Theatre and the First Stage Children’s Theatre. As Lighting Director for Houston Grand Opera, she supervised the lighting for over 50 opera’s and designed such productions as Andrei Serban’s Elektra, Dr. Jonathan Miller’s Der Rosenkavalier, Aida, and the world premieres of Harvey Milk, Desert of Roses, and Dracula Diary. Sheri Urban, Managing Director, has 22 years experience in non-profit administration and communications, including roles at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, in addition to her tenure as Wild Space’s managing director from 2001 to 2007. Prior to returning to Wild Space, she expanded her non-profit expertise with the Granville-Brown Deer Chamber and Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians. Sheri holds an MA from the University of Southern California School of Journalism and a BA from UW-Milwaukee in Mass Communication. Sheri has also performed in productions at the Waukesha Civic Theater and the Oak Creek Community Theater.
a b o u t W i l d s pac e da n c e c o m pa n y Wild Space Dance Company 820 E. Knapp Street, P.O. Box 511665, Milwaukee, WI 53203 414/271-0307, www.wildspacedance.org info@wildspacedance.org Led by 2011 Milwaukee Arts Board Artist of the Year Debra Loewen, Wild Space Dance Company has intrigued audiences for more than 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. The company has toured performance work to Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, South Korea and Japan. Through its outreach programs, workshops, and performances, Wild Space reached more than 31,000 people in southeastern Wisconsin during the past two seasons. Wild Space performs and conducts workshops for young people and adults at community centers and public and private schools. It is a company-in-residence at Lincoln Center Middle School of the Arts in Milwaukee and Lawrence University in Appleton, and is a cultural partner of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s Project ACE (Arts in Community Education). A non-profit organization, Wild Space is an affiliate of the United Performing Arts Fund and supported by in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board, with funds from the state of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. 6
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b oa r d o f d i r e c to r s Officers Anne Wing Hamilton, President Kirsten Mulvey, Vice-President Tricia Knight, Treasurer Karen Campbell, Secretary
Directors Daniel Grego, Ph.D. Margaret Howland Will Hughes Ken Kornacki Lisa Lawless Kate Venne Kimberly Walker
2 012 - 2 013 DONORS Wild Space thanks the following donors (April 2012–February 2013) for their generous support of our 2012-2013 season. Major Funders $2,500+ CAMPAC The Helen Bader Foundation Daniel Grego, Ph.D. The Herzfeld Foundation Milwaukee Arts Board MPS Partnership for the Arts Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust United Performing Arts Fund Program Sponsor $1,000 - $2,499 Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Cottrell Balding Fund Foley & Lardner Gold Coast Event Management, Inc. Park Bank Foundation Meyer J. & Norma L. Ragir Foundation Target Stores David & Julia Uihlein Foundation Site-Specific Creator $500-$999 June Eastvold & Michael Frome Fred Geilfuss & Anne Wing Hamilton Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors® Youth Foundation
Kris Havlik & Frank Lenz Paul Kosidowski & Kathy Donius David Johnson Mr. & Mrs. John Sorenson Performance Presenter $250-$499 Bird & Ray Bost Tim & Sue Frautschi Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gagliardotto Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Terry A. Hueneke Fund Dr. Deborah McGriff & Dr. Howard Fuller David Paris Kevin Ronnie & Karen Campbell Anne H. Vogel Outreach Supporter $100-$249 George Affeldt Sofia Askenazi Dr. William Bradley & Jill Anna Ponasik Elaine Cerny & Robert Raccuglia Pegi & Dale Christiansen Clark Graphics Mr. & Mrs. Harry Drake Sandy Duffy Nancy & Stephen Einhorn Bernie Erenberger, D.C. Dyann Hafner & Tom Addison
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