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Dan Schuchart

  • Teaching Faculty III, Dance
  • Faculty Advisor, Dance Performance Minor
  • Coordinator, ACDA

Education

  • MFA, Experimental Choreography, University of California-Riverside
  • BFA, Dance & Painting/Drawing, UW-Milwaukee
  • Graduate Laban Certificate, Movement Analysis, Columbia College Chicago

Biography

Dan Schuchart is an interdisciplinary artist and educator.  Since 2002, Wild Space Dance Company has been his creative home as a company member, choreographer, and now Co-Artistic Director.  Wild Space is known for site-specific dance and artistic collaboration.  Schuchart’s choreography has been presented from coast to coast and extensively throughout the Midwest, being heralded as, “razzle dazzle of a different sort—intelligence, honesty, psychological insight, and often breathtaking beauty” (Milwaukee Magazine). His interests in dance include collaborative creative process, dance-theatre, improvisation, and contact improvisation with standout performances in work by Susan Marshall and collaborations with the “all-star, all-female band” (Time Out New York) Victoire. Schuchart is a Wisconsin Dance Council board member, advocating for dance performance and education in Wisconsin.  In 2013, he earned his MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California, Riverside, where he was honored to be a recipient of the 2012-13 Dissertation Year Program Fellowship. Schuchart has BFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts in both Dance and Painting/Drawing, and continues to work professionally in both fields. In addition, he earned a Graduate Laban Certificate in Movement Analysis from Columbia College Chicago in 2015, and recently became a Certified Fascial Fitness Trainer.  Schuchart is currently Teaching Faculty at the UW-Milwaukee Department of Dance. He has also taught dance and movement studies at Lawrence University, Beloit College, UC Riverside and has been a guest teacher at the Milwaukee Ballet, American College Dance Association Conferences, and in public school outreach programs. Outside of dance, Schuchart has worked as a scenic painter, including for the movie Public Enemies, and scenic charge for the Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Florentine Opera, and Skylight Music Theatre.

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Recent & Selected Works

Silhouetted performer extends one arm while stepping through a spotlight on a dark stage, with two other performers visible in the background.
Winterdances and Springdances, Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts
Performers lift a horizontal dancer overhead onstage, creating a balanced group formation under theatrical lighting
Winterdances and Springdances, Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts
Group of dancers in matching green jackets move across a stage, arms raised and legs extended, with reflective panels in the background.
Winterdances and Springdances, Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts
Two dancers balance in mirrored poses while holding hands on a stage, framed by a large geometric window backdrop.
Winterdances and Springdances, Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts.
Three performers create a dynamic tableau onstage, with one reclining on the floor and two leaning back while linked by outstretched arms.
Winterdances and Springdances, Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts
Group of performers lift a dancer overhead in a stage formation, with dramatic blue lighting and projected text in the background.
Winterdances and Springdances, Faculty and Guest Artist Concerts
Excerpts from “Scene from the Side,” Winterdances 2024

Accolades

UWM Outstanding Teaching Award (2023)