Wild Space Dance Company presents A Room Shaped Story

A Room Shaped Story
April 18, 2025, 7:30pm
April 19, 2025, 4pm & 7:30pm

Broadway Theatre Center
158 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202

Wild Space Dance Company brings its signature choreographic voice to the intimate Studio Theater stage with A Room Shaped Story, crafting an evocative world where walls move and movement speaks. The performance space breathes, shifts, and transforms before your eyes in the premiere of this evening-length dance.

Artistic Director Dan Schuchart and guest choreographers Katelyn Altmann and Ashley Ray Garcia present a collection of abstract narratives told through movement, unfolding within the ever-changing boundaries of a single room. A dynamic set features moving walls that frame and reshape the action while dancers delve into storytelling through physicality, space, and transformation. Within these shifting walls, performers embody the push and pull of intimacy and isolation, collaboration and connection. Through intricate ensemble work and bold solos, dancers create a kinetic collage—one that invites the audience to witness how movement can transcend narrative, how space can shape emotion, and how every passing interaction leaves its mark.

A Room Shaped Story is an invitation to step beyond the expected into fleeting moments—where stories emerge, collide, and dissolve—experiencing dance as a poetic dialogue between body and space.

Choreographers: Katelyn Altmann, Ashley Ray Garcia, Dan Schuchart

Dancers: Katelyn Altmann, Angela Frederick, Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro, Ashley Ray Garcia, Zoe Glise, Jenni Reinke, Jamie Riddle, Dan Schuchart

TICKETS may be purchased at https://cart.broadwaytheatrecenter.com/overview/66224

Wild Space Dance Company is in its fourth decade of offering inventive performances, outreach, and community programs. Founded in 1986 by Debra Loewen, and now under the direction of Dan Schuchart, Wild Space is known for site-specific works and artistic collaborations that take audiences on adventures through built and natural landscapes, visual art, history and the human condition with wry humor, clever choreography, and emotionally-charged dance. The mission of Milwaukee-based Wild Space Dance Company is to explore diverse cultural landscapes to create provocative new choreography, site-based performances, and educational opportunities. The company cultivates creative experimentation, innovation, and collaboration by investing in local artists, and engages audiences with dance in a shared experience of place and community. An affiliate of UPAF, Wild Space is a company-in-residence at Lincoln Center Middle School of the Arts in Milwaukee. Wild Space is supported in part by grants from UPAF, The Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Herzfeld Foundation, Milwaukee County CAMPAC, and the Milwaukee Arts Board and Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts. This production is additionally funded by show sponsor Bob Balderson and season supporters Anonymous, Stephen Baker & Dr. Nadine A. Chang, and Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust.

For additional information visit www.wildspacedance.org

NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.