Photos by Rae Zimmerli

Look Again

Here and/or There

Choreography: Dan Schuchart and Debra Loewen

Dancers: Katelyn Altmann, Dan Schuchart

Music: Seth Warren Crow, remix by Schuchart

Text: Improvised and based on William Forsythe's Improvisational Technologies

Note: This duet reimagines work from Wild Space's Balancing Forces (2007)

The Other Side

Choreography: Tisiphani Mayfield, in collaboration with the dancers

Dancers: Dijon Kirkland, Jessica Lueck, Nicole Spence, Shannon Stanczak

Sound Score: Paul Westfahl

Set Design: Tisiphani Mayfield and Dan Schuchart

Note: This dance carries forward questions of transition, the spirit plane, and what lies beyond. Mayfield reimagines site-specific dances from “Everyone is Welcome” performed at Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum for the proscenium. The Other Side is a journey into the afterlife. What happens when we leave this plane? How do we react on the other side? Will we know one another, or recognize loved ones? It’s a journey into the unknown. The joy and the confusion.

whim & desire

Choreography & Performance: Dan Schuchart

Original Music Composition: Paul Westfahl

Text: Dan Schuchart

Note: “You find yourself in your desire, so do not say that desire is vain.” – Carl Jung

today was once tomorrow

Choreography: Katelyn Altmann, in collaboration with the dancers

Dancers: Ashley Ray Garcia, Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro, Ida Lucchesi, Nicole Spence, Jasmine Uras

Original Music Composition: Paul Westfahl

Costumes: Katelyn Altmann

Note: This dance weaves iterative loops of reminiscence into a rich tapestry of embodied memory and reinvention. What does it mean to be part of a group but still radically yourself? To live so much in the moment that it doesn’t matter what the outcome is but instead interested in what the group experiences in real time. To relive what once was but experience the present, together.

Set

Choreography: Dan Schuchart, in collaboration with the dancers

Performers: Katelyn Altmann, Ashley Ray Garcia, Gina Laurenzi

Note: Set was devised using simple games and playful strategies to instigate the choreography and small improvisational matches within. Performed in silence, the musicality of the actions is allowed to pace the dance as a visual melody.