DPMKE Presents

dis/connect

November 7 - 10, 2024

Danceworks Studio Theatre

1661 N. Water, Milwaukee, WI 53202

Thursday, November 7th: 7:30pm

Friday, November 8th: 7:30pm

Saturday, November 9th: 5:00pm & 8:00pm

Sunday, November 10th: 5:00pm 

 With gazes cast downward, we move through our day. Transfixed by the happenings online and immersed in the digital world, what possibilities drift by? How many opportunities to connect are simply missed? A world around us alive with color and texture seeks our attention…

Siblings and artists, Gina Laurenzi (Danceworks co-artistic director) and Dustin Laurenzi (Chicago musician and composer), amplify the Danceworks space creating a world of a wondrous nature. Performers cross between two studio spaces, inciting playful happenings and curious incidents allowing space for imagination to flourish through an experience of sound and color. dis/connect interrupts our dependence on technology revealing the wondrous positive effects of reconnection with self, others, and the environment in real time.

Joining the Danceworks stage are musicians Dustin Laurenzi and Jeff Swanson who create structured improvisatory soundscapes, melding acoustic and synthesized instrumentation. Drawing equally from traditions of free improvised music as well as electronic and sample-based music, the duo seamlessly weave earthy and otherworldly sounds into intricate textures.

dis/connect playfully dances in 2 of Danceworks studios and Season Passholders who redeem their tickets will receive premiere reserved seating in each room at their selected performance.