How ballet and punk rock keep a Wisconsin farm boy from flying off the rails.
Growing up, Michael Linsmeier milked cows in rural
Wisconsin. His family lived in a town of 1,600 people along the shores
of Lake Michigan and grew half the food they ate. Linsmeier spent most
The essential building blocks of
dance—shapes—are deftly deconstructed in a new contemporary dance
program from the Skinner/Kirk Dance Ensemble. Co-founders Eric Skinner
and Daniel Kirk (als
A towering wall of used cardboard boxes
stretches diagonally across the stage, clear packing tape glinting in
the light. Robert Tyree enters, tall and long-limbed and dressed head to
toe in sequ
Gather, a new dance-music piece, professes its
mission with buzzwords like interdependence, isolation, connection,
division, collaboration and community. Such a jargon-y catalog is
Getting political in week two of the Time-Based Art Festival.
Recent financial upheaval and the roller-coaster ride of the ongoing culture wars feed Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence.
Hennessy and his contemporary dance-theater outfit, Circo Zero, mine