UWM Dance MFA candidate Davalois Fearon pictured in last weekend's New York Times paper in anticipation of her upcoming performance of Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy" with the Petronio company at the 2016 American Dance Festival.
Also featured on the same page is a preview of an upcoming premiere by current UWM Dance MFA candidate, Ephrat Sherie. A collaboration with jazz pianist/composer Ehud Asherie, "Riff This, Riff That" will be performed at NYC's 2016 River to River Festival.
Gia Kourlas
March 2, 2016
New York Times
During this age of reality television and its aggressive pursuit of chaos, it doesn’t seem a coincidence that the choreographer Juliana F. May has created “Adult Documentary,” a work constructed of real and fictional stories by its performers. Those stories serve as raw material, distorted over time and replayed on an incessant loop as Ms. May drains and fills in her choreographic terrain. That, by the way, is an expanse of sandy brown carpet — just thick enough that if you walked into a hotel room covered with it you’d think twice before taking off your socks.
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Ben Stanley
February 5, 2016
Biz Times Milwaukee
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has joined the ranks of the nation’s most active research universities.
UWM was re-classified as a Tier 1 Research University in theCarnegie Foundation’s most recent Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, which was published Feb. 1.
The foundation releases classifications once every five years.
There are 115 Tier 1 research institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yale, Duke and Johns Hopkins.
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Bonnie North
February 3, 2016
WUWM - Milwaukee Public Radio
The dance department at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts opens a four-performance run of its Winterdances 2016 series, titled Evolve as We Enter, Thursday night. The performance showcases work by a number of choreographers, including Deb Loewen, Dani Kuepper and Amaniyea Payne.
Payne is artistic director of Chicago's Muntu Dance Theatre, a contemporary and ancient African and African-American dance company. She is also a close friend of Ferne Caulker, UWM professor of dance and director of the African Diaspora Track at UW-Milwaukee.
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Tom Luljak
WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio
January 28, 2016
With winter still swirling about, this is a perfect time to head inside for a rousing, inspiring program of dances.
February 4 through the 7 ,the UWM Peck School of the Arts is presenting this year’s version of Winterdances, an annual program that showcases the amazing dance students at UWM . On this edition ofUWM Today, preview next week’s performances with guest Maria Gillespie.
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Kathy Quirk
January 21, 2016
UWM Report
The story of African peoples and their passage into the New World is embedded in dance. Slaves from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal and other West African nations brought their music and dances through the Middle Passage to the New World.
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Kathy Quirk
12/9/15
UWM Report
Light, sound, illusion and artistic vision will illuminate four floors of an industrial artist space owned by Peck School of the Arts on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
The public is encouraged to explore the exhibits at Arts+Tech Night from 6 to 9 p.m. at Kenilworth Square East, 1925 E. Kenilworth Place.
Arts+Tech Night is a technology-centered interdisciplinary art showcase featuring projects by 30 juniors and seniors working toward a bachelor’s degree in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology program, as well as students enrolled in arts courses that address technology in other ways.
Read more: UWM Report
John Schneider
November 10, 2015
Shepherd Express
Wisps of impressions of Danceworks Performance Company’s impressive Footsteps, Shadows and Whispers at Next Act Theatre last weekend:
Once a dancer, now an Master of Fine Arts student in film and new genres, Kym McDaniel’s films have graced recent dance concerts at UW-Milwaukee and Danceworks. With “Ghost Light,” the program opener, she emerged as a mature experimental dance maker. The piece included some of her customarily expressionist film images showing ghostly flashes of dancing bodies; but she added projected text, poetically asking to merge with her dancers and temporarily inhabit their bodies. To a hushed drone like a ringing in the ears, her dancers performed in darkness with handheld lights that draped their bodies in shadows—a very personal piece.
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Paul Kosidowski
October 22, 2015
Milwaukee Magazine
Arriving in Milwaukee in 2014, modern dancer Daniel Burkholder and his wife, Andrea Chastant Burkholder, wanted to explore “how to make the arts a part of daily life that welcomes everybody and creates a broader sense of community,” Daniel says.
“Many people view the arts as a unique experience for some,” adds Andrea, “as opposed to a daily experience. For us, it’s a part of daily life – like going shopping or talking to friends.”
Read more: Milwaukee Magazine
Sharon Kilarski
September 12, 2015
Epoch Times
Practitioners involved with the classical arts respond to why they think the texts, forms, and methods of the classics are worth keeping and why they continue to look to the past for that which inspires and speaks to us.
To see the full series, see The Classics: Looking Back, Looking Forward.
Classical music “is essential to who we are and where we come from,” cellist Alicia Storin says.
Storin fell in love with classical music at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp when she was in high school. “It was such a magical place,” she said, that right then she made the decision to pursue music professionally.
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