Wild Space

Wild Space produced four major live performances for its 2022-2023 season, which garnerd critical acclaim and had capacity audiences. Insite's three community/neighborhood performances featured 5 choreographers of color and were offered free-of-charge to the milwaukee community. The program served 37 paid artists/production staff, 1,024 patrons (465 attended insite, which was offered free-of-charge) and an additional 33 people who viewed open rehearsals.

Diversiy and inclusion are critical components for all company programs. Sociologist/teacher/dancer victoria isaac was contracted to train board, staff and teaching artists in culturally responsive teaching and community engagement practices. Thirty-seven percent of performing artists (14) were people of color, and 50% of teaching artists (5) were people of color. For the insite: choreographic exchange initiative, 15 artists were hired, and 67% were bipoc. 472 people attended, with 20% being bipoc and 75% from the city of milwaukee.

Wild Space employed 10 teaching artists and served a total of 567 milwaukee public schools children in 14 classrooms at 10 mps school sites, plus an additional 235 families who attended performances. Outreach/education partnerships included the kennedy center turnaround arts program in mps, milwaukee symphony orchestra arts in community education (ace), mps community learning centers (clcs), and a longstanding residency with lincoln center middle school of the arts.