MARN is excited to present a ‘Special Guests’ Performance on Saturday, March 30 from 6-8pm with doors opening at 5pm at the MARN ART + CULTURE (191 N Broadway).
Join us for an evening of music/movement improvisations from Tim Russell and Liz Sexe focusing attention on place, space and the people found there. For the evening they will be joined by Milwaukee Artists Lorna Dune (musician) and Dan Schuchart (dancer).
You know the type that just invited themselves over.
The ones you have not seen in years and just show up.
We are being special guests and inviting special guests and honoring the special guests who are attending.
Timothy Russell (musician) and Liz Sexe (dancer) Spring tour featuring their newest work, "Special Guests." They are being special guests and inviting special guests, not to mention the special guests in attendance. This evening of music/movement improvisations from Russell, Sexe focuses attention on place, space and the people found there. For the evening, they will be joined by Milwaukee Artists Lorna Dune (musician) and Dan Schuchart (dancer).
Get your tickets!
$10 for MARN members
$15 for General Public
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Tim Russell
Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin’s Dance Department. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalog of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His 2022 album: “Selected Works For Movement v . 1”, was included in Tone Madison’s top 20 records of 2022. His commitment to the nowness in performance led him to co-create/curate, along with choreographer Maria Gillespie, Hyperlocal MKE, a Music and Dance improvisation series that exists to this day in Milwaukee. His current curatorial project: Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances. Along with Tim’s long time collaboration with the Gerald Casel Dance Company, his audio shares the stage with a vast array of choreographic artists bringing Tim and his music across the world from Dock 11 in Berlin to YBCA in San Francisco. He holds an MFA in Music Improvisation from Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied improvisation, electronic music and composition with the likes of Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell and Zeena Parkins.
Liz Sexe
A dance educator, choreographer, and movement artist. Sexe believes that performance is a mode of sharing perspective through a shared embodied experience. In her processes, tasks inspire poetic movement, game theory finds logical, yet often unexpected phrasing, and athletic dancing is paired with deep intentionality. As a performer, she is described in The Isthmus as a “clean and efficient mover,” and having “toughness under her grace.” Within the improvisation space, Liz Sexe likes to challenge the expected and draw attention to the smallest details that exist within the moments.
She grew up dancing at Dance Studio 3-D in Deerfield, WI and fell in love with the practice of movement. She went on to receive a BA from St. Olaf College in Dance and Biology and continued on to receive a MFA from Mills College focusing on Performance and Choreography. Most recently, Sexe is teaching at UW Madison as a Teaching Faculty and working on movement projects with various groups of dancers in the Madison Area.
Dan Schuchart
Since 2002, Wild Space Dance Company has been his creative home as a company member, choreographer, and now Co-Artistic Director. Wild Space is known for site-specific dance and artistic collaboration. Schuchart’s choreography has been presented from coast to coast and extensively throughout the Midwest, being heralded as, “razzle dazzle of a different sort—intelligence, honesty, psychological insight, and often breathtaking beauty” (Milwaukee Magazine). His interests in dance include collaborative creative process, dance-theater, improvisation, and contact improvisation with standout performances in work by Susan Marshall and collaborations with the “all-star, all-female band” (Time Out New York) Victoire. Schuchart is a Wisconsin Dance Council board member, advocating for dance performance and education in Wisconsin. In 2013, he earned his MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside, where he was honored to be a recipient of the 2012-13 Dissertation Year Program Fellowship. Schuchart has BFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts in both Dance and Painting/Drawing, and continues to work professionally in both fields. In addition, he earned a Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago in 2015, and recently became a Certified Fascial Fitness Trainer. Schuchart is currently Teaching Faculty at the UW-Milwaukee Department of Dance. He has also taught dance and movement studies at Lawrence University, Beloit College, UC Riverside and has been a guest teacher at the Milwaukee Ballet, American College Dance Association Conferences, and in public school outreach programs. Outside of dance, Schuchart has worked as a scenic painter, including for the movie Public Enemies, and scenic charge for the Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Florentine Opera, and Skylight Music Theatre.
https://www.wildspacedance.org/
Lorna Dune
One of the most versatile keyboardists & producers working today, Lorna Dune is a proud advocate for the creation and performance of new music. She has been sought after as a collaborator, performer, creator and curator and has worked with some of the nation’s finest young composers and performers to create and premiere exciting new works. Having a background in classical, experimental, electronic, pop and indie music, Lorna has quickly become a go-to spokeswoman for new music for curious audiences worldwide.
Lorna is the founding keyboardist/synthesist of the “all-star, all-female quintet” (Time Out NY) Victoire with indie-classical darling and longtime collaborator composer Missy Mazzoli. Recent seasons included the Carnegie Hall commission and premiere of Mazzoli’s Vespers for a New Dark Age, performed by the ensemble Victoire, percussionist Glenn Kotche (of Wilco) and members of vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. Lorna Dune arranged and co-produced the Vespers album, which was released in March 2015 on New Amsterdam Records. The New York Times called it “ravishing and unsettling”, and the album was praised on NPR’s First Listen, All Things Considered and Pitchfork. Victoire returned to Carnegie Hall in March of 2015 as part of the “Meredith Monk and Friends” concert. Their past debut album Cathedral City, released on New Amsterdam Records, was named one of 2010ʹs best classical albums by the New York Times, Time Out New York, the New Yorker and NPR.
A budding composer and respected producer, Lorna Dune was honored to be commissioned by the Ecstatic Music Festival to compose a tribute piece for composer Terry Riley's 80th birthday, which she premiered at Merkin Hall in March of 2015. She was also commissioned to remix compositions by composer Max Richter including "Berlin By Overnight" featuring violinist Daniel Hope, released on Deutsche Grammophon in late 2015, as well as composer Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize winning work "Partita for 8 Voices" in 2014 which was premiered by the New York Times. Lorna Dune embarked on her first national solo tour with composer/violinist Emily Wells and also joined the music technology faculty of Portland Community College in 2016. In 2019 she relocated to Las Vega, NV and opened for the Crystal Method with partner Keith Sweaty and will be joining the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in their experimental SoundBox series in 2020 with composer Missy Mazzoli..
A well-seasoned pianist and synthesist, she has joined the Philip Glass Ensemble for a production of his new work for Shakespeare in the Park, has worked with composer Steve Reich, composer and visual artist Tristan Perich, Meredith Monk, Lukas Ligeti and other talented artists. Her recent keyboard performances include a premiere of a synthesizer concerto by composer William Brittelle and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Other highlights from this and past seasons include a premieres with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra & Alabama Symphony Orchestra, a Carnegie Hall premiere with Victoire, BAM Next Wave Festival, C3 Festival in Germany, MADE Festival in Umeå, Sweden, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Ecstatic Music Festival, X-Avant Festival in Toronto, Shakespeare in the Park with the Philip Glass Ensemble, live film score performance at the Whitney Museum and the French Alliance Institute, Chicago’s Millennium Park “Dusk Variation” Chamber Series, Imagine Science Festival at Bell House, NY Eye and Ear Festival, and live performances on WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck. Lorna Krier has appeared in features in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time Out New York, NPR, Village Voice, Pitchfork, The Fader, Brooklyn Vegan, Chicago Reader, Baltimore Sun, eMusic, Arthur Magazine, Impose Magazine, Tiny Mix Tapes, Matrixsynth, The Daily Contributor, Paste Magazine, and more.