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DELICIOUS8 PM, February 9-11, 2012

The Milwaukee Rep’s Stiemke StudioPatty & Jay Baker Theater Complex

7:15 PM, Pre-Show Cooking DemoChef Michelle Evans representing Braise Restaurant

PROGR A M

Amous Bouche Memory

So Many Meals, So Much MeaningAnimal Necessities

You’re Going to Love ThisA Series of StepsHand to Mouth

Appetite Social Studies

Pasta PrimadonnaTuna Fish

FDASecret Ingredient/Slow Food/Hot Lunch

Taste and PleasureCutlet and Coffee

Dinner at Eight

Choreography by Debra Loewen with contributions from the companyThe performance runs without intermission.

MusicRene Aubry, Biosphere, Brave Combo, David Byrne, Matthew Herbert, Night Traveler,

Laurie Anderson, Mark Orton, Softbeat Giants, Tom Waits

VoicesJulia Childs, Interview excerpts with Gabrielle Hamilton, Adam Gopnik, Bulli, B. Lyndon

CompanyLiz Herbst Fransee, Angela Frederick, Allison Kaminsky, Mandi Karr, Lindsey Krygowski, Molly Mingey, Laura Murphy, Jessie Mae Scibek, Kelly Radermacher, Yeng Vang-Strath

Guest Performer Jennifer Goetzinger

Stage Manager/Lighting DesignerJan Kellogg

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PROGR A M NOTES

We are delighted to offer Delicious, a new work about appetite, the culinary arts and the pursuit of satisfaction. Food is our deepest need, a sensory experience that correlates taste with memory, with expectation and satisfaction. Eating engages in a process, one that has changed through history and continues to change. Tastes have trends, cultures mix, foods fly, traditions disappear and resurface.

As Adam Gopnik writes in The Table Comes First, “Taste is only the art of knowing little things, that’s what makes it big, and we know the place of taste as a set of steps, and ongoing negotiation between values and fashion, between different views of what we want from life and what nature can give us.”

In the making of Delicious, we explore the metaphors that foods, cooking and tasting offer as a way to see how “we eat what we are.”

In the process of cooking as in choreography, we take something, change it, and change it again. We hunt for the moving gestures and see them in repetition, much like the forager hunts for the perfect cluster of morels. Through blending, there is an unstable compromise of unlikely opposites and when we make something, be it a duet or a dinner, we are surprised again by the complicated weight of tradition, craft, and knowledge it demands.

Looking back on our performances over the past 25 years, I find there are many “deli-cious” memories of artists and colleagues who have made the blending of ideas such an incredible feast. Ed Burgess was one of those creative collaborators I treasured working with as a choreographer and an instructor. Ed was an energetic presence contributing to dance and theater throughout the city—from choreographing for the Milwaukee Rep to leaping into a Wild Space show to instructing college students, he infused his vitality on countless performers and aspiring choreographers. I remember his sense of humor and incredible talent with the bittersweet taste of loss.

Debra LoewenWild Space Artistic Director

SPEC IAL THANKS

Braise, Cafe Centro, Rick Clark, Danceworks, Bruce & Michelle Evans, Jennifer Goetzinger, Daniel Grego, Jan Kellogg, Tony Lyons, MATC Culinary Arts Program, Kirsten Mulvey, Tim O’Connell, Outpost, Kristine Petersen, Purple Door Ice Cream, Monica Rodero, Dan Schuchart, UW-Mil-waukee Peck School of the Arts Dance Department, Waukesha Civic Theatre

WILD SPACE COMPANY B IOGR APHIES

Debra Loewen, Artistic Director, founded Wild Space Dance Company in 1986 following a career as an independent choreographer and solo performer. She holds a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee. 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. Her work has been featured in recent issues

of Dance and Pointe magazines. Over the past two decades, Debra has earned mul-tiple choreographic fellowships from Mil-waukee County, the Wisconsin Arts Board, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently an adjunct faculty member at UW-Milwaukee, she has taught for Lawrence University, the University of Delaware and Alverno College, and leads Wild Space’s residencies at Lawrence Uni-versity and Lincoln Center Middle School of the Arts. She has consulted with K-12 educators to help design dance residen-

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cies and promote arts-in-education projects throughout Wisconsin. Over the past three years, Debra has presented and participated in national and international workshops and seminars, including La Mama ETC’s International Symposium of Theater Directors and Choreographers in Italy, Society of Dance History Scholars Conference at Stanford University and the prestigious Susan Marshall choreographic workshop in New York City. In 2009, she received a commendation from the Mil-waukee County Historical Society for her history-based work and was selected by the Milwaukee Arts Board in 2011 as one of two Milwaukee Artists of the Year.

Laura Murphy, Artistic Associate, recently returned from two years of contemporary dance and choreographic studies in Po-land, Germany, Austria and England. While there, she danced with the Warszawski Teatr Tanca, touring Poland and Japan. She also collaborated and performed with local Warsaw artists to create Zerang.Piotrowksa.Murphy, an independent improv project. Prior to her journeys in

Europe, Laura danced with Wild Space for four seasons and was the lead instructor and curricular development associate for Wild Space / MPS Wellness residen-cies. She also has performed for local choreographers including Wild Space alums Sofi Askenazi, Katie Sopoci, and Dan Schuchart, as well as Peggy Choy and Simone Ferro. Laura holds a BA in dance and a BS in conservation/environmental science from UW-Milwaukee. She taught at Lawrence University as part of Wild Space’s residency and represented Wild Space for its 2011 school performances in the Milwaukee Symphony’s Project ACE. Laura would like to thank Deb and Wild Space for all the support and guidance, as well as a fabulous welcome back!

Liz Herbst Fransee is in her third season with the company and has performed in Wild Space’s performances Trace Elements, Speaking of Happiness, A Place for Every-thing, Past Present and How to Get From Here to There. Past credits include guest artist in UWM’s Orpheus in the Underworld, and company member of Foothold Dance

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Performance. Liz studied at the Milwaukee Ballet School before receiving her BFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. As a figure skater, Liz is a nation-al medalist and has received high ranks for her technical accomplishments. Liz is also a fiber and textile artist, clothing designer, and owner of the art-wear company Raga-demalion, www.ragademalion.com.

Angela Frederick is happy to join Wild Space for her fifth season with the company. After graduating with a BFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, Angela established her presence in the Milwaukee arts scene by teaching dance and gymnastics, and per-forming with various local companies in-cluding Danceworks, the Florentine Opera Company, Dale Gutzman Productions, and City Ballet Theatre/Signatures Contempo-rary 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, and Jayson Dance Co. Angela has choreographed and appeared in work with Solstance, Around the Coyote Dance Festival, and Dance Chi-cago. Angela can be seen in the Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival’s award-winning film The Table. Since her return to Milwaukee, she has performed the role of Margot in the Florentine Opera’s The Merry Widow and has been enjoying dancing and teaching for UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Turners and for Wild Space at Lawrence University.

Allison Kaminsky rejoins Wild Space for her fourth season after earning her Masters of Arts in management from Columbia College. Allison holds a BFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, where she performed in pieces by Simone Ferro, Ed Burgess and Andre Tyson and guest artists Zvi Gotheiner and Susan Marshall. During graduate school, Allison spent a year working as the artistic administration intern for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She recently began working as the capital campaign coordinator for the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts.

Mandi Karr holds a BFA in dance from Arizona State University, where she was a member of the National Society of Colle-giate Scholars. A Wisconsin native, Mandi returned this summer, joining Wild Space in August. Mandi has performed at the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Fringe Fes-tival, the American College Dance Festival, and numerous student performances at ASU. Additionally, she was fortunate enough to work with a handful of ASU faculty including Mary Fitzgerald, Karen Schupp, Elizabeth Johnson and Eileen Standley. She also performed in Projecto Paso, an international dance and video project with artists from Spain, Brazil and the U.S. Mandi represented Wild Space for its 2011 school performances in the Milwaukee Symphony’s Project ACE.

Lindsey Krygowski joined Wild Space this season, performing in the September site-specific performance In the Space Between. Lindsey holds a BFA in dance from UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts and has participated in the Impulstanz Summer Intensive in Vienna, the Trisha Brown Summer Intensive in New York and the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. In addi-tion to performing in UW student concerts, Lindsey’s choreography was presented at the Milwaukee Art Museum: After Dark performance and New Dancemakers: In the Flesh. Lindsey is a former member of the Point Dance Ensemble and has taught for Turning Point Dance Academy in Stevens Point and Mirror Image in Mequon. Lindsey performed as a dancer for the Kanye West tour at Summerfest and the Essence Festi-val in New Orleans.

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 co-choreographed Oust the Clout in Danceworks’ Art to Art in 2010 and Looking a Snake in the Eyes in Here Comes Trouble, an independent cho-reographers showcase in 2010. She has performed in the Milwaukee Art Museum After Dark series, Danceworks Art to Art and student performances at UWM. Molly represented Wild Space for its school

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performances in the Milwaukee Sym-phony’s Project ACE and teaches dance at Milwaukee area studios.

This is Kelly Radermacher’s first season with Wild Space having recently relocated to the great city of Milwaukee after teach-ing, dancing, and creating in Minneapolis for the last 7 years. In the Twin Cities, she worked with DA Dance (Denise Armstead), Gerry Girouard (including their travels to Buenos Aires for tango training and research resulting in performance in the Ivey Award winning show “Crimes and Whispers” by Girouard and Off-Leash Area), Jim Lieberthal, Megan Flood, Chris Schlict-ing, April Sellers Dance Collective, Morgan Thorson. Radermacher’s own dances and dance-for-the-cameras have been presented at many venues including: MN’s Bryant-Lake Bowl, Danceworks, Intermedia Arts, Mpls Theatre Garage, Patrick’s Caberet, Ritz Theater, Rogue Buddha Gallery, Walker Art Center Theatre & Sculpture Garden, UW-Madison and Varsity Theatre. She has a bachelors degree in dance and anthropol-ogy from UW-Madison, an elementary/pre-primary education certification from Augsburg College, and a WI DPI teaching li-cense birth-age 11. She teaches dance, Pre-K and runs an afterschool study program at CommonBond Communities-Glenbrook Apartments on Milwaukee’s northside.

Jessie Mae Scibek recently graduated from UW-Milwaukee’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 also 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-cho-reographed Oust the Clout a piece which was presented in Danceworks’ Art to Art in 2010. This is her second season with Wild Space and was most recently featured in In the Space Between, a site-specific perfor-mance at the Pritzlaff building. Jessie Mae was also featured dancing and acting in a corporate video for Walgreens, making

her film debut as the store manager. In November she toured the Midwest with the Hudson Vagabond Puppet Company, performing Butterfly: The Story of A Life Cycle, an educational show for children. Along with her passion for dance she loves animals, the great outdoors and, of course, the Green Bay Packers. She has truly enjoyed the adventures her dance career has taken her on and is looking forward to the rest of the season!

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 danc-ing, teaching, performing, learning and most of all, being with her family.

Guest PerformerJennifer Goetzinger was a founding member of Wild Space Dance Company and performed with the company from 1987 through 1989. As owner of Black Tie Catering, Jennifer moved her performing space into her catering kitchen, from plac-es such as yachts to inside diesel trucks, from Miller Park to the Bradley Sculpture Gardens, from museums to garages and even onto the Pabst Theatre’s backstage. Currently Jennifer owns Personal Chef Concierge Services. Her cooking philoso-phy is a reflection of her support of local, seasonal and whole foods. The art of gath-ering and sharing food and time inspires Jennifer to cook from the heart. Tonight she contributes her love of the everyday dance and expertise in whole food cook-ing. “My inspiration is by the memories I have in my nose, tongue and eyes from my Grandmother’s cooking on our farm in Iowa. Everything from her garden and from the animals they raised was treated with respect. Gathering at the supper table was always a bounty of love.”

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ABOUT WILD SPACE DANCE COMPANY

Wild Space Dance Company 820 E. Knapp Street, P.O. Box 511665

Milwaukee, WI 53203414/271-0307, www.wildspacedance.org

info@wildspacedance.orgArtistic Director: Debra LoewenManaging Director: Sheri Urban

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. 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 22,000 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).

Wild Space Dance Company is operated by Wild Space, Inc., a non-profit organization, and is an affiliate of the United Performing Arts Fund.

WILD SPACE BOARD OF D IRECTORS

Margaret Howland, PresidentBrass Light Gallery

Anne Wing Hamilton, Vice-PresidentUW-Whitewater

Tricia Knight, TreasurerRitzHolman CPAs

Karen Campbell, SecretaryCommunity Volunteer

Lisa LawlessWhyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.

Daniel Grego, Ph.D. TransCenter for Youth

Kristine HavlikFoley & Lardner

Tony HorneUW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts

Kirsten MulveyMilwaukee Chamber Theatre

Kate VenneMarquette University

Kimberly WalkerMilwaukee County

Production StaffJan Kellogg has been designing lights and stage-managing for Wild Space Dance Company since 2001. Previous shows include In the Space Between, Past Present, How to Get From Here to There, A Place for Everything, Speaking of Happiness, On-Sight, Map of Memories, and Place and Occasion. Jan has also designed the lights for Danceworks Performance Company,

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, In Tandem Theatre, Bialystock and Bloom, Your Mother Dances, Catey Ott Dance Collective, Carroll College, Theater X, Foothold Dance/Performance, the UW-Milwaukee Dance Department, and work with choreographers Sofi Askenazi, Katie Sopoci Drake, Monica Rodero and Dan Schuchart.

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DONOR HONOR ROLL

Wild Space thanks the following donors (July 2011–January 2012) for their generous support of our 2011-2012 season.

Major FundersCAMPACThe Greater Milwaukee

Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund

The Helen Bader Foundation

The Herzfeld FoundationMPS Partnership for the ArtsMPS Partnership for the

HumanitiesWisconsin Arts Board, with

funds from the state of Wisconsin

United Performing Arts Fund

Program Sponsor $1,000 - $2,499Greater Milwaukee

Association of Realtors® Youth Foundation

Daniel GregoThe Greystone FoundationBarbara Meyer Elsner

FoundationPark Bank FoundationMeyer & Norma Ragir

FoundationDavid & Julia Uihlein

Foundation

Site Specific Creator$500 - $999Richard Pieper

Performance Presenter $250 - $499Bird & Ray BostNancy & Stephen EinhornTim & Sue Frautschi Intuit Dance!Mr. & Mrs. Joseph

Gagliardotto

Gary GrunauGreater Milwaukee

Foundation Terry A. Hueneke Fund (other funds)

Michael F. HupyPaul Kosidowski & Kathy

Donius Lynn LoewenDr. Deborah McGriff & Dr.

Howard FullerDavid ParisCharles I. Trainer & Anne R.

Booth

Outreach Supporter $100 - $249Sofia AskenaziDeanna BraegerClark GraphicsSandy DuffyBernie Erenberger, D.C.David FloresRichard Ippolito & Pam

FrautschiAnne Bach GrunauWill HughesDavid JohnsonJohnson Controls

FoundationHelen J. KuzmaMr. & Mrs. Richard LarsonWayne & Kris Lueders Marie Kohler & Brian ManiAvigail Rubin & Joe O’SheaDavid Tojek & Marcia

ParsonsDr. William Bradley & Jill

Anna PonasikMargie & Bob ShielValerie & Dan StefanichCarolyn White-Travanti &

Leon Travanti

Linda & Dan WilhelmsJean Williams

Dance Partner Up to $99Anonymous DonorsGeorge AffeldtNancy AtenDick BlauPaul & Susanne CarterKurt & Cathy ChandlerAustin & Sarah de BescheEllen DemersHarry DrakeJune Eastvold & Michael

FromeMargot FuchsJohn Gaebler & Andrea

RoschkeDr. Michael Gordon &

Michele SumaraRobert KloesJean KowalskiThe Lacasse FamilyNorm & Judy LascaMrs. Natalie Lloyd-JonesDena McPhetresNancy & Paul MeylinkCharul MunshiRose Balistreri & Bruce

MurphyRobert & Sonja PavlikAnne O’Meara & Michael

StillwellNancy TawneyMr. & Mrs. William TewelesTom ThoresonCheryl WardThomas & Barbara

WerderitchRobert & Lana WieseJim WilchWindhover FoundationJim & Doreen Zeller

Please consider a tax-deductible donation to Wild Space Dance Company. Your support will allow us to continue providing imaginative performances and vitally needed arts education in the community.

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