This fall Dance Wisconsin begins its 47th Season. It is the companies honor to be a constant presence in the south central Wisconsin's Dance/Art Community.
Dance Wisconsin’s 47th season is called “Continuum” describing the company’s ability to keep continuing while changing slowly over time. We enter into another year with a season that showcases this theme beautifully.
Dance Wisconsin’s annual New Works production, Revolution, will be performed at the MYArts Center on September 21, 2024. Dance Wisconsin challenges their dancers and choreographers with four new pieces performed to, perhaps unexpected, music taking the audience and dancers through the musical eras of the last hundred years with choreographic takes of many different styles. The show will also provide the audience with an educational demonstration of a ballet class where Artistic Director, JoJean Retrum, will provide commentary and explanation to the movements shown on stage.
The Nutcracker returns to the Wisconsin Union Theater on December 21 and 22, 2024. Dance Wisconsin is the only company, pre-professional or professional, in South Central Wisconsin to produce 47 Nutcracker themed productions in a row. From the theater at Madison West High School in 1977, featuring now Artistic Director, JoJean Retrum as the Sugar Plum, to the once hallowed halls of the Civic Center on State Street, to our current home at the Wisconsin Union Theater Shannon Hall, Dance Wisconsin continues to perform and update the historical production. The cast of the Dance Wisconsin company and other dancers from South Central Wisconsin will bring holiday joy to the stage for another year.
On March 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM and March 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM, the Dance Wisconsin Company will present a three act comedic ballet “Coppelia”. This program of the classical ballet is perfect for the young and old art enthusiast.
Lastly, the season will conclude in Kansas City, Kansas at the Regional Dance America MidStates Festival. One of the "Revolution" pieces will have been adjudicated in February and selected to be performed at the Festival in front of 100s of dancers, directors, college educators, professional company directors and recruiters.
Dance Wisconsin is heavily dependent upon donations, YOU MAKE THIS ALL POSSIBLE!
Thank you to our public and private sponsors!
“Thank you
County Executive Parisi, County Board of Supervisors, Dane Arts Commission, Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation and Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.”
Dance Wisconsin is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.