Dan Schuchart

Artistic Director

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.

Monica Rodero

Artistic Director

Jenni Reinke

Managing Director

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.

Board of Directors

President
Lisa Lawless, Husch Blackwell LLP

Vice President
Meghan DeMore, Foley & Lardner LLP

Treasurer
Scott Kastner, Northwestern Mutual

Secretary
Simone Linhares Ferro, Professor Emerita, UW-Milwaukee

Paul Kosidowski, Free-lance writer/critic

Daniel Grego, PhD, Retired, TransCenter for Youth

Margaret Howland, Above View, Inc.

Julie Kerksick, Public Policy Institute

Jean Novy (interim), Past WS President, Community Volunteer

Joy Peot-Shields, PeotShields Architecture, Past WS President

Michele St. Amour, Wisconsin Philanthropy Network

Yeng Vang-Strath, Milwaukee Public Schools

In Memorium: Tricia Knight, RitzHolman CPAs. Treasurer of over 30 years

Thank you to our past Board and Advisory Board Members

Mark Anderson, Lynn Arbelaez, Carl Ashley, Anne Bach Grunau, Wendy Baumann, Anna Baxter Kirk, Linda Benfield, Nic Bernstein, Fred Blau, Carole Booher, Karen Campbell, Maggie Carr, Diane Chamness, Kurt Chandler, Meghan Coffey, Cathy Crandell, Marie Cyganiak, Kate Davy, Mary Denis, Sally Duback, Marcia Eidel, Sam Eppstein, Kathy Friend, Dale Gilliam, John Gilligan, Bruce Paul Goodman, Daniel Grego, Anne Wing Hamilton, Patricia Hanz, Christine Harris, Kristine Havlik, Edie Herrold, Robert Hickok, Michelle Hobbins, Tony Horne, Margaret Howland, William Hughes, Robert Jasna, Carol Jedynak, Bonnie Joseph, Ron Kaminsky, Allison Kaminsky, Julie Kerksick, Tricia Knight, Mary Ladish, Lisa Lawless, Sharon Lynch, Jude Marks Ford, Jeri McClenaghan-Ihde, Deborah McGriff, Susan Mudd, Kirsten Mulvey, Jean Novy, Victoria O’Brien, Anne O’Meara, Joy Peot-Shields, Tony Perez, Dr. Robert Peterkin, Gary Petersen, Gerald Randall, Christine Robins, Joyce Roesler, Linda Stewart, Daniel Taylor, Missy Van Lieshout, Yeng Vang-Strath, Kate Venne, Kimberly Walker, David Webster, Britt Wegner, Carolyn White Travanti, John T. Williams, Anne Wing Hamilton, Connie Woolpert Koury, Jane Ziol

Photographers

Mark Frohna, Paul Mitchell, Tom Bamberger, Christal Wagner, Matt Schwenke, Brea Graber, Meredith Watts, Jeff Pearcy, Catherine Bell, Rae Zimmerli, Jake Neuman, Paul Gaudynski, Scott Anderson (In Memorium)