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Next Act Theatre
Spring
SPOTLIGHTS Milwaukee’s arts scene has an exciting lineup over the next few months. Don’t miss these dance performances, exhibitions, plays and much more.
Swing State FEB. 11-MARCH 8 It’s hard to know who your friends are in a world that’s more divided than ever. Recently widowed, Peg tends to the native plants in her 40-acre rural Wisconsin prairie backyard. Her solitary days are interrupted only by visits from Ryan, a family friend with a checkered past. When a mysterious theft brings in the authorities, a string of events unfold that forever changes their lives and their community. Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Gilman questions how we help each other when it feels like our way of life is in danger of disappearing. Directed by Next Act Artistic Director Cody Estle and featuring Elyse Edelman, Jack Lancaster, Kelli Strickland and Tami Workentin.
255 S. Water St. NEXTACT.ORG
Center for 21st Century Studies
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Aesthetics, Art, & AI
Rest.Rise.Move. Nourish.Heal.
FEB. 12-MARCH 12 The Aesthetics, Art, & AI series explores what creativity means when artistic agency moves between people and algorithms. Check out the multimedia exhibition “Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies” by artist-technologist Nathaniel Stern and poet-researcher Sasha Stiles from Feb. 12-20. Join Stern, Stiles and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a gallery walk, panel on AI and contemporary art, and reception on Feb. 12. Catch a talk by Kite, an Indigenous artist whose work spans Lakota ontologies and machine learning, on March 12.
FEB. 19
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Founders Concert FEB. 21
For its debut at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Red Clay Dance Company will present their latest compelling work that highlights the company’s commitment to artistry, activism and community. Rest.Rise.Move.Nourish.Heal., choreographed by Vershawn Sanders-Ward, is a site-responsive dance ritual and embodied journey of reclamation, healing and spiritual return. Drawing from Black/African-Indigenous traditions and ancestral technologies of nourishment, the work confronts the legacies of food apartheid and racial inequity while envisioning a decolonized practice of collective care and agency. The program offers audiences an evening of resilience, memory and transformation.
MYSO’s Senior Symphony presents a powerful and richly expressive program that showcases storytelling through vibrant orchestral color. The concert opens with Aram Khachaturian’s “Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia,” a sweeping movement from his ballet Spartacus, known for its soaring melodies and cinematic beauty. The orchestra then brings to life Zoltán Kodály’s Háry János Suite, a spirited, humorous work inspired by the fantastical tales of a legendary Hungarian soldier. Concluding the program is Dmitri Shostakovich’s monumental Symphony No. 5, a gripping and transformative masterpiece that journeys from brooding intensity to triumphant resolve.
Multiple UW-Milwaukee Campus Locations
608 New York Ave., Sheboygan
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts 3270 Mitchell Park Dr., Brookfield
UWM.EDU/C21-ART-AI
JMKAC.ORG
MYSO.ORG
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