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Elizabeth Johnson - Artistic Director
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Ms. Hook, a former soloist with Nikolais Dance Theater, toured internationally and appeared on National TV in the 1987 Kennedy Center Honors. She has also performed with Murray Louis, Pearl Lang, Jean Erdman, and Stephan Koplowitz and is currently a guest artist with David Parker and The Bang Group. Professor Hook's company, Sara Hook Dances regularly appears in New York and other national venues. Recent company activities include appearances at Dancenow/NYC's DanceMOpoliton Series at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater and the Ft Worth Museum of Modern Art in Ft. Worth, Texas. Upcoming performances include the Family Matters Series at Dance Theater Workshop in New York and the Danceworks Performance Series in Milwaukee, WI. Her work also continues to be produced internationally with David Parker and the Bang Group in venues throughout North America and Europe. The first American representative to the International Choreographer's Residency Program at the American Dance Festival (ADF), Hook received a Scripps ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limón Choreography Fellowship in 1995. She has toured widely as a guest artist/teacher and has set works at over a dozen universities nationally. Professor Hook was previously on the faculties of Princeton University and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, and a regular guest faculty of the Paul Taylor Summer Intensives in NYC. She holds an M.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a B.F.A. from the North Carolina School of the Arts; she is also a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.
Monica Rodero Monica Rodero earned her BFA in dance at UW-Milwaukee in 2003. Since graduation, Monica has received additional training by traveling through Europe to take classes and attend workshops and festivals such as the Impulstanz International Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria, where she studied with a variety of artists including a highlight experience with Nita Little. Monica is in her sixth season with Milwaukee’s Wild Space Dance Company, is teaching yoga through the UWM Outreach Department and enjoys instructing children and adults of all ages. She has pursued producing and presenting her own work including the independent dance concert, Brush Up, co-produced with Daniel Schuchart in August 2004. One year later she was presented as an emerging artist in Art-to-Art, a concert on the Danceworks Presents: Summer Dance Series 2005. Two more collaborations with Dan Schuchart were presented last December on the UWM alumni concert, Dancemakers Redux, and more recently by Wild Space in Balancing Forces. The pair’s most recent endeavors include curating interactive, multi-media events in the Kunzelmann-Esser Lofts and Gallery, and touring another of their independent dance concerts, I Am for Now, Maybe Not Later, to the Minnesota Fringe Festival in August 2007.
Dan Schuchart Daniel Schuchart is in his sixth season with Milwaukee-based Wild Space Dance Company. He is a graduate of UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts with dual BFA degrees in dance and painting/drawing. Dan has performed in works by Janet Lilly, Ed Burgess, Simone Ferro, André Tyson, New York based Susan Marshall and Milwaukee's Danceworks Performance Company. Dan has also actively pursued creating and producing his own work including the independent dance concert, Brush Up, co-produced with Monica Rodero in 2004, and creating work for the collaborative Art-to-Art on the Danceworks Summer Series in 2005. He has had five works presented by Wild Space, most recently in Balancing Forces in 2007. Other collaborative work with Monica Rodero includes curating interactive, multi-media events in the Kunzelmann-Esser Lofts and Gallery, and touring their most recent independent concert, I Am for Now, Maybe Not Later, to the Minnesota Fringe Festival in August 2007. Daniel has also been continuing his studies in dance by traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe to take classes and attend workshops and festivals such as Impulstanz International Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria.
Luc Vanier Luc Vanier is an Assistant Professor in the Dance Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. Originally from Montreal, he studied at L'Ecole Superieur du Quebec under Daniel Seillier. In 1998, he retired from Ohio Ballet having danced a variety of roles such as the Workman in Kurt Jooss’ Big City, the Third Song of Tudor’s Dark Elegies, as well as the leads in Balanchine’s Allegro Brillante and Paul Taylor’s Aureole among others. Mr. Vanier was also a company choreographer; his dance Square Play, with a score by Libby Larson, was presented as part of the company’s 1995 Joyce season in NYC. He both received his MFA from the University of Illinois and became a certified Alexander teacher in 2001. His research on linking the Alexander Technique, developmental movement and Ballet is at the forefront of integrating somatic work into the dance class and has been presented at various conferences and workshops throughout the US, Russia and just recently, Australia. His works Bob’s Palace (Feb 2003)and Dreaming Meat (Feb 2004)were the culmination of four years of collaboration with the Beckman Institute. Presentations on his works have been seen at SIGGRAPH 2003 among others. In Milwaukee, he choreographed Cat’s Cradle with Kurt Hartwig, Somewhere with music from Christopher Burns, Frog with animation from Evan Mazureski and just last June, “e’s of water,” a multi-media site-specific dance-theater installation presented at the new PSOA/Kenilworth Square East building.
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