Résumé

Three Dances’ Productions


  • Old and Nasty

February 2008, Minneapolis, MN; Patrick’s Cabaret

  • Music for Three Hurdy-Gurdies

October 2007, Providence, RI; Beneficent Church
Collaborative performance with composer Steven Jobe and orchestra.
Part of the FirstWorksProv series.

  • Bare Feet and Bugles

March 2007, Minneapolis, MN; Patrick’s Cabaret

  • Five Years and All We Get is Wood?!?

March 2006, Minneapolis, MN; Patrick’s Cabaret

  • Three Dances Has Feelings for You

November 2005, Minneapolis, MN; Bryant-Lake Bowl

  • A Big Mistake

May 2005, New York City, NY; The Red Room
Part of the Eat It! comedy festival.

  • We’re Happy on Our Sinking Ship

May 2005,��Providence, RI; The Carriage House
Collaborative performance with composer Steven Jobe and orchestra.

  • March Forth!

March 2005, Minneapolis, MN; Patrick’s Cabaret

  • Spilled Drinks

August 2004, Minneapolis, MN; Heart of the Beast Theatre
Part of the Fringe Festival.

  • Three Years, Three Inches, Three Dances

March 2004, Minneapolis, MN; Patrick’s Cabaret

  • Tics, Tweaks, and Tumbles

August 2002, Minneapolis, MN; Intermedia Arts
Part of the Fringe Festival.

  • Bosch’s Harp

December 2001, Providence, RI; The Carriage House
Collaboration with composer Steven Jobe and choreographer Heather Ahearn.

  • Four

September 2001, St. Paul, MN

Creative Collaborators

Saira Huff: Costume designer for Pretty Pretty Princess (2005) and Ballet Box Compartments I-IV (2004)

Steven Jobe: Co-producer and composer for shows Music for Three Hurdy-Gurdies (2007), We’re Happy on Our Sinking Ship (2005), and Bosch’s Harp (2001)

Jean Larson: Poet and reader for Form (2007)

Haley Lasché: Poet and reader for Raspberries and Soap (2008), The Superpowers Improvisation and Three Poems (2007)

Kelly Rossum: Commissioned composer for You. (2008) and Phoebe (2005)

Jeremy Walker: Choreographic collaborator for The Raconteur (2006)

Numerous other visual artists, filmmakers, poets, dancers and musicans: Partners in the Three Dances birthday shows (2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004), TalkingImageConnection shows (2007 and 2008) and Hoity-Hexy-Toity (2006).

Invited Appearance Highlights

Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY, 2009

9×22: A Dance Lab, Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN, 2009, 2007, 2005 and 2004

TalkingImageConnection, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, 2008 and 2007

Matching Tights Dance Company Spring Concert, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, MN, 2007

Hoity-Hexy-Toity, The Hexagon Bar, Minneapolis, MN, 2006

Eat It! Festival Benefit, The Red Room, New York, NY, 2005

The Red Show, Best Feet Forward, Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 2005

The Edge Performance Series, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN, 2005

The Romp of Horror, Bedlam Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 2004

Red Curtain Cabaret, Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN, 2004 and 2003

Choreographers’ Evening, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2001

Education

Brinsley Davis: Goucher College, B.A. in English, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Jamey Garner: Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A. in Psychology.

Suzanne Wiltgen: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, M.F.A. in Choreography, Mt. Holyoke College, B.A in Dance, magna cum laude.

Teaching Experience

Brinsley Davis: modern dance, movement for children and beginners

Jamey Garner: pilates, yoga, improvisation and modern and postmodern dance

Suzanne Wiltgen: modern dance, composition, creative movement and Gyrotonic