Danceworks has created quality dance performances, multi-level dance training and accessible educational and community-based creative arts programs for exceptional children, adults and seniors in Greater Milwaukee since 199. In 1997, Danceworks Performance Company performances (DPC) was formed, and its original, contemporary performances have continuously delighted audiences and critics alike. Danceworks has also developed innovative ways to reach underserved populations in Milwaukee County, such as older adults and low- income, urban youth at risk for leaving school. Danceworks is located on Water Street in Milwaukee’s vibrant downtown area, in fully accessible dance studios, visual arts, performance and gallery space. MISSION Danceworks is committed to To enhance the joy, health and taking art and arts learning out creativity of the community of the studio and theatre and into through performances, classes the community by creating work and outreach activities that that resonates with diverse groups integrate dance and other art of people. Our multi-layered forms. programs and activities fulfill our mission, serving nearly 50,000 CORE VALUES children, adults and seniors each Passion: Believe in the year through: transformative power of the arts. Creativity: Nurture innovation and 1) Original contemporary Maria de Buenos Aires original ideas. performances by DPC, and a Photo by Mark Frohna Diversity: Embrace many year-round experimental venue for viewpoints and contexts. local and national artists called the Integrity: Commit to an honest and DanceLAB; ethical approach. Collaboration: Honor the ) Weekly dance classes at our importance of partnerships, studio and at satellite locations; alliances and shared opportunities. Excellence: Enlist knowledgeable 3) Dance and arts programming and experienced professionals. at schools in Milwaukee and Stability: Maintain high standards surrounding communities, of fiscal and managerial including Danceworks Mad Hot responsibility. Ballroom and Tap (MHBT) and residencies; VISION To be the driving force that 4) Dance and arts programs for connects creativity and underserved older adults, including community through dance and Danceworks Intergenerational about danceworks, inc. other arts. Multi-Arts Project (IMAP). exceptional performances Lying Photos by Dan Bishop Vaudeville MISSION Danceworks is committed to Danceworks Performance dances on the topic of deceit. To enhance the joy, health and taking art and arts learning out Company (DPC) is a Several of the DPC dancers creativity of the community of the studio and theatre and into dynamic group of dancer/ contributed work to the concert, through performances, classes the community by creating work choreographers committed all drawing from the notion of Stone and outreach activities that that resonates with diverse groups Soup integrate dance and other art of people. Our multi-layered to creating and performing lying, exploring trust, mistrusting forms. programs and activities fulfill our contemporary dance that is relationships and the ongoing mission, serving nearly 50,000 physical, virtuosic, entertaining complexities of a single lie. CORE VALUES children, adults and seniors each and honest. Collaboration (Total audience 481) The following performance took Passion: Believe in the year through: fuels the creative vision of place at Sweet Water Organics transformative power of the arts. the company members as (2151 South Robinson Avenue): Creativity: Nurture innovation and 1) Original contemporary VaudeVille! they regularly work alongside original ideas. performances by DPC, and a February 18-27, 2011 guest artists and within our Stone Soup Diversity: Embrace many year-round experimental venue for DPC company member and April 29-May 1, 2011 viewpoints and contexts. local and national artists called the community programs. resident choreographer Kelly DPC’s final concert of the season Integrity: Commit to an honest and DanceLAB; Anderson put a contemporary took its title—and theme—from ethical approach. ThE 2010-2011 twist on variety entertainment the old folk tale of a village Collaboration: Honor the ) Weekly dance classes at our DPC CONCERT Season in an evening length work ultimately coming together importance of partnerships, studio and at satellite locations; All performances, except where alliances and shared opportunities. that celebrated the diversity in the spirit of cooperation noted, took place at Excellence: Enlist knowledgeable 3) Dance and arts programming and entertainment of historic to create something special, Danceworks Studio Theatre, and experienced professionals. at schools in Milwaukee and Vaudeville. Anderson performed something that no one person Stability: Maintain high standards surrounding communities, 1661 N. Water Street. could have accomplished alone. a solo by guest choreographer, of fiscal and managerial including Danceworks Mad Hot DPC partnered with Sweet Water the late Ed Burgess, and the responsibility. Ballroom and Tap (MHBT) and Lying Organics, an urban farm in a residencies; October 1-9, 2010 other DPC dancers performed repurposed factory building, to VISION New York based guest artist as acrobats, comediennes bring the shared philosophy of To be the driving force that 4) Dance and arts programs for Amii LeGendre and DPC and magicians in a delightful the two organizations together connects creativity and underserved older adults, including spectacle on the stage. community through dance and Danceworks Intergenerational explored the truth about lying in one memorable concert. other arts. Multi-Arts Project (IMAP). in an evening of compelling (Total audience 770) (Total audience 663) 3 DANCEwORkS DANCELAB again with film, music, theater and visual The DanceLAB is an experimental artists to create unique dance works. performance initiative dedicated Pairings included choreographers with exceptional to pushing artists and audiences a flutist/dancer, a vocalist, a composer, to expand their thinking about a writer, a painter and a musician. (total performances dance as an art form. The focus is audience 230) on collaboration, fusion of forms continued and current trends in the field, and EDUCATION COMPONENT: many events include educational Open showings of works-in-process components to encourage artist-to- followed by a feedback session audience dialogue and participation. with the artists, moderated by Here Comes Danceworks DanceLAB Director Liz Trouble All performances took place at Tesch, in July 011. Danceworks Studio Theatre. OThER SPECIAL Here ComeS troubLe PERFORMANCES AND January 14-15, 2011 ExhIBITIONS: This new addition to the DanceLAB featured new works by emerging La rossignoL: danCe to my muSiC Milwaukee choreographers and dancers. March 14, 2011 (total audience 150) Sponsored by Tim and Sue Frautschi La Rossignol, a six-member ensemble EDUCATION COMPONENT: Open hailing from Castelleone, Italy, showings of works-in-process performed a special guest artist concert Photo by Mark Frohna followed by a feedback session with at Danceworks. These professional the artists, moderated by Here Comes musicians and dancers wore authentic DOT: Trouble Director Sarah Wallisch, in costumes of the fifteenth and sixteenth TAPtivating November 010. century, played period instruments and danieL burkHoLder/ performed dances representative of the tHe pLayground: Italian Renaissance. (total audience 76) the Chemistry of Lime trees Presented by the DanceLAB and STEAMROLLER EVENT UwM Dance Department June 25, 2011 | RedLine Milwaukee July 15-16, 2011 The Danceworks/RedLine Steamroller UWM’s department of Dance and Event brought 0 local and regional Danceworks have collaborated for artists together to create woodcut several years on presenting the MFA blocks that were printed with a Theses of the university’s graduate steamroller on the street in front of Photo by Matt Haas students. For this concert DC-based RedLine, a charitable organization Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround that seeks to nourish the individual Art to Art brought his innovative company to practice of contemporary art and to Danceworks Studio Theatre to present stimulate the creative potential of the his thesis concert. local community. Musicians and dancers (total audience 83) performed original works throughout the printing process and exhibition. danCeworkS on tap: TAPtivating Steamroller prints were sold in a silent August 12-14, 2011 auction, benefitting both RedLine and Sponsored by Pam Kriger Danceworks. (total audience 350) Danceworks on Tap (DOT), Danceworks’ resident tap company, joined rhythmic DANCEwORkS PERFORMANCE forces with a capella female group Company-2 (DPC2) Mil Town Treblemakers to present a DPC is Danceworks’ pre-professional Photo by Matt Haas toe-tapping mixed program featuring repertory dance company and original tap choreography side-by-side internship training program for with a capella singing. Choreography by advanced-level dancers ages 16 contributing DOT members combined and up. Those admitted into DPC Fosse style jazz, contemporary dance through an audition process received and even classical ballet with tap dance internship scholarships, which cover to create an inventive look and sound. half the price of required class tuition, (total audience 230) faculty mentoring and the opportunity to perform small concerts and a art to art culminating showcase concert on April August 19-21, 2011 17, 011. DPC had seven members and Sponsored by Tim and Sue Frautschi two apprentices in the 010-11 season. Steamroller Local