Dance faculty’s latest work featured on Milwaukee Record

Photo by Rachel Malehorn via Milwaukee Record

Dawn Springer (Teaching Faculty I, Dance) was recently featured in Milwaukee Record regarding Springer’s upcoming ballet Sylph.

The feature covers Springer’s more than four-year journey that led to Sylph while highlighting Springer’s idea of presenting this piece “in-the-round”, allowing the audience to surround the dancers from 360 degrees. Springer’s ability to adapt and transform the setting her dancers work in is just one way that she can accentuate the strengths of her dancers.

“Part of my process is to open up a non-hierarchical way of being in a dance studio,” Springer says in the Milwaukee Record feature. “Depending on your training, that’s not necessarily easy or automatic. The process has to embody what you’re trying to say.”

Sylph premiers at UWM’s Jan Serr Studio on Oct. 11 & 12. To read Springer’s feature piece, visit Milwaukee Record.