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Executive Director:
Deaborah Farris
Artistic Director:
Dani Kuepper
Artistic Manager:
Kim Johnson
Lighting Design/Stage Management:
Mike Van Dreser
This project is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with
funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Danceworks is a proud member of the United Performing Arts Fund.
From Danceworks’ Executive Director
Welcome, and thank you for joining us tonight! The chilly air
may be arriving outside, but inside these doors you will find
the warmth that results from a collaborative spirit—from guest
artists Cadance Collective and the Tontine Ensemble to Dawn
Springer and Kym McDaniel.
We place relationships at the top of our priorities. Connection
to others takes us deeper into ourselves and creates new ideas
and inventions, lifting us to greater heights than we could ever experience alone.
Connection is the very thing that strengthens our spirit and “performance.”
And we want to connect with you! If you like what you see today, tell us about it, and
why you like it; if not, we want to know that too. We’ve added talkbacks to help you
connect more fully to the artists and the work. Does that enhance your experience?
Tonight, the musicians will propel the dancers’ footsteps with live music, while guest
choreographer Dawn Springer will make the footsteps themselves the music. In
transforming Dreams of Flight from a solo work to ensemble, Dawn shifts our focus
from individual to collective—from air to gravity—through the beauty of gesture,
the repetition sometimes needed to be understood, and the tension that pushes us
towards release into new heights of growth.
Movement mirrors life.
In 2015-16, as a board and staff, we look into the future with our own dreams of
flight. A deeper understanding of our relationships and place in the community is
the focus of each new fiscal year.
We are celebrating our 10th anniversary of Mad Hot, and we hope to realize
our dream of serving more 4th – 6th graders in our city who can benefit from
the joy and success the program brings into our schools and families throughout
Milwaukee.
We dream of additional studio space as we add names to waiting lists for our
classes. More dancing means more health throughout our community.
We dream of growing our contributed revenue so we can, likewise, grow our
service to the community. With that, we have added our first full time director of
development—please join me in welcoming Linnéa Koeppel to the Danceworks
team! We hope that when you receive our annual appeal, you will be a partner in
helping us to make Milwaukee a city that will creatively overcome its challenges.
May our flight move us from self to selfless, revealing the power in making
connections that inspire us.
Deborah Farris | Executive Director, Danceworks
FROM DPC’S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Footsteps, Shadows and Whispers is, by design, a mysterious
opening to the Danceworks Performance Company 15-16
season. It is an invitation for DPC’s resident choreographers
and interdisciplinary guest artists to explore the unknown, and
for you to join us!
Filmmaker Kym McDaniel brings a distinctive multisensory
perspective to DPC, blending film, sound and live dance.
Shadows climb the walls, and dancers are seen and unseen in her premiere, Night
Light. Guest choreographer Dawn Springer brings footsteps to the forefront in
setting her Dreams of Flight (2010) on DPC. This piece was originally a solo that she
herself performed. It is now a group work, performed almost entirely in unison, and
in total silence. This pared down approach brings attention to the immediacy and
mystery of the moments of anticipation and calm. Gina Laurenzi is DPC’s newest
resident choreographer with a penchant for intricate gesture, liquid physicality and
intimate partnering. Her piece, Figment, explores relationships between dancers and
their shadowy counterparts.
In the first half of the concert, DPC member Christal Wagner premieres Hubris,
a devilish frolic of a quartet set to the music of the Punch Brothers; and after
intermission, Christal’s impeccable musicality is in the forefront again in Jitterbug
Suite: A Memory, a haunting piece highlighting whispers of the past in her
collaboration with The Cadance Collective. Christal is one of the three founding
members of the group, along with flutist Emma Koi and cellist Alicia Storin.
Finally, I’ve had the opportunity to reconnect with composer Allen Russell and the
Tontine Ensemble (Paleontology of a Woman, 2014) to create a new work inspired
by dreams and the juxtaposition of what is real, imagined and hyper real. Allen
has created a graphic score that the musicians are improvising from to create a
soundscape. The sound has become elastic—stretching or condensing to support
and inspire surprising twists and turns in the dream world we’re creating together.
Enliven the senses. Feel anticipation and calm. Imagine what is seen and unseen.
Listen more intently, to discern the faintest whisper. Allow your reality to become
elastic. This is Footsteps, Shadows and Whispers. I hope you will be taken in by it.
With gratitude,
Dani Kuepper | Artistic Director, DPC
PROGRAM
Danceworks Performance Company: Melissa Anderson, Alberto Cambra, Kim
Johnson, Dani Kuepper, Gina Laurenzi, Liz Zastrow Licht, Liz Tesch, Christal
Wagner, Jöelle Worm, Andrew Zanoni.
Guest Artists: Halie Bahr, Nadin Bailey, Barry Paul Clark, Emma Koi, Molly
Lieberman, Kym McDaniel, Pat Reinholz, Allen Russell, Madeleine Schoch, Dawn
Springer, Alicia Storin.
Ghost Light
Film: Kym McDaniel
Choreography: Kym McDaniel in collaboration with the performers
Sound Design: Kym McDaniel
Vocals: Kao Zhong Xiong
Lighting provided by: Sound By Design
Dancers: Cambra, Bahr, Laurenzi, Licht
Dreams of Flight (2010)
Choreography: Dawn Springer
Dancers: Anderson, Cambra, Johnson, Kuepper, Laurenzi, Licht, Wagner,
Worm, Zanoni
“At this point we should remember that the idea of the world as composed of weightless atoms
is striking just because we know the weight of things so well. So, too, we would be unable
to appreciate the lightness of language if we could not appreciate language that has some
weight to it.” – Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Hubris
Choreography: Christal Wagner
Music: “Icarus Smicarus,” Punch Brothers
Dancers: Anderson, Kuepper, Johnson, Zanoni
Figments
Choreography: Gina Laurenzi
Music: Figure; Disasterpiece; So Percussion; Jason Treutig; Grey McMurray;
Josh Quillen; Eric Beach; Adam Silwinski
Dancers: Bailey, Cambra, Johnson, Laurenzi, Wagner, Zanoni
~15 minute intermission~
Jitterbug Suite: A Memory
Performers: Cadance Collective—Christal Wagner, Dance and Voice; Alicia Storin,
Cello and Voice; Emma Koi, Flute and Voice
Sound Design: Cadance Collective, featuring Adrienne Bourchonville, Ellyn Dzick,
Armand Zulli and Evelyn Zulli of the Shorewood Senior Resource Center.
Music: “Cheek to Cheek,” Irving Berlin, arr. Koi/Storin; “April in Paris,” Vernon
Duke, arr. Koi/Storin; “Mairzy Doats,” Drake/Hoffman/Livingston, arr. Koi/Storin;
“Memory Land Improvisation,” Koi/Storin; “Rum and Coca Cola,” Rupert Grant, arr.
Koi/Storin/Wagner This work was originally commissioned by the Shorewood Senior Resource Center (SSRC) in
August 2015. Cadance Collective interviewed four seniors at the SSRC regarding their
memories of the Eagles Ballroom as it existed in the 1940s and ‘50s. Thank you to SSRC
Director Elizabeth Price for her support of the project.
Sleep Waking
Choreography: Dani Kuepper with contributions from the dancers
Graphic Score/Music Composition: Allen Russell
Music: The Tontine Ensemble—Barry Paul Clark, Double Bass; Molly Lieberman,
Viola; Allen Russell, Violin; Alicia Storin, Cello (filling in for Ensemble member
Pat Reinholz)
Dancers: Anderson, Johnson, Laurenzi, Licht, Schoch, Wagner, Zanoni
In this work, The Tontine Ensemble is improvising, in response to a graphic score designed by
Allen Russell. In addition to inspiring a soundscape, the projection of the graphic score creates
a visual atmosphere, or dreamscape, for the performers to inhabit.
Special Thanks: Amelishan Bridal Creations, Joyce Jenk,
Return Engagements, Shorewood Senior Resource Center, UWM Dance
Department, Sandy Wallisch, Kao Zhong Xiong.
Danceworks Performance Company (DPC) is the resident contemporary dance
company of Danceworks, Inc. Founded in 1997, DPC presents powerful original
dance works that inspire and entertain audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
Danceworks staff
Deborah Farris, Executive Director
Dani Kuepper, Artistic Director, Danceworks Performance Company (DPC)
Amy Brinkman-Sustache, Education Director; Artistic Director, Danceworks on Tap (DOT)
Elyse Cohn, Director of Marketing and PR
Jolie Collins, Customer Satisfaction Manager/Registrar
Kelly Drake, DYPC Manager
Sammy Goodrich, Box Office Manager
Kathleen Grusenski, Studio Manager
Kim Johnson, Artistic Manager
Linnéa Koeppel, Director of Development
Gina Laurenzi, DYPC Artistic Team
Jacqui Lefebvre, MHBT Lead Ballroom Teacher
Bryan Michaels, Operations Director
Rachel Payden, Outreach Director
Julia Richter, Outreach Coordinator
Lisa Wenzler, Design and Advertising Manager
Susan Wiedmeyer, Marketing and Development Manager
Janet Lew Carr, Emerita
Danceworks 2015-16 board of directors
Danielle Bly, President; Kilby Williamson, Vice President; Rick A. Krueger, CPA,
Treasurer; Lindsay Olson, Secretary
Betsy Corry
Mario Costantini
Karyn Elliott
Deborah Gonzalez
Olivia Hare
Christine Harris
Betsy Hoylman
Frank Krejci
Jeff McClellan
Cheryl Moret
Sue Northey
Clare Reardon
Elaine Sweet
BIOGRAPHIES
Deborah Farris, Executive Director,
has led Danceworks since 2002. During
her tenure, Danceworks has experienced
significant growth in both programming
and budget, with the launch of
Danceworks Mad Hot Ballroom and Tap in
2006 and annual revenue increasing from
$300,000 to $1,200,000.
During this exciting time, Danceworks
has received the UPAF Management
Excellence Award (2005, 2006, 2011) the
UPAF Education/Outreach Award (2006,
2007, 2009, 2011, 2013); and a Business
Journal Eureka Award (2013).
Prior to coming to Danceworks,
Deborah worked with Milwaukee Ballet as
Director of Education and Outreach and
was on the Milwaukee Ballet School faculty.
Before returning to Milwaukee in 1999,
she was Assistant Director for Business and
Finance of the North Carolina Botanical
Garden at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill (1995-1999), where within
her tenure revenues increased more than
400%. She has served on the Department
of Dance and Theatre faculties of Tulane
University, University of NC at Chapel Hill
and UW-Milwaukee, where she is currently
an adjunct faculty member.
Originally from Milwaukee, she
received her BFA and MFA from UWM.
Deborah received a Business Journal
Woman of Influence Award for Nonprofit
Leadership in 2007.
Dani Kuepper, Artistic Director, DPC,
received both her BFA and MFA from UWMilwaukee, where she has been a faculty
member of the UWM dance department
since 1999. She is the artistic director
of Danceworks Performance Company
(DPC), the resident contemporary dance
company of Danceworks. Dani joined DPC
in 1998 and has since choreographed
more than 30 dances for the company.
She has choreographed extensively in
the Milwaukee community; and as DPC’s
artistic director, she has enjoyed the
opportunity to collaborate with Milwaukee
Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber
Orchestra, Florentine Opera Company,
Present Music, First Stage and the
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Kim Johnson, Danceworks Artistic
Manager, joined DPC in 2000, shortly
after graduating from UW-Milwaukee
with high honors with a BFA in dance. A
native “Yooper,” Kim served as DPC’s
associate artistic director from 20092012 before taking on the role of artistic
manager of both performance and studio.
She has created works for DPC as well
as Milwaukee Ballet II. Kim has helped
write curriculum for both Danceworks
Studio and Milwaukee Ballet School. She
has also enjoyed growing Danceworks’
dance fitness program, Danceworks Youth
Performance Company and other facets
including DanceLAB. Kim is on faculty at
Danceworks and at UWM.
DANCEWORKS PERFORMANCE
COMPANY
Melissa Anderson joined DPC in 2002
and has previously performed with
Milwaukee Ballet, Ballet Teatro Municipal
de San Juan of Puerto Rico, Southern
Ballet Theater (now Orlando Ballet) and
Islenski Dansflokkurinn (Icelandic Ballet).
Melissa teaches ballet at all levels at
Danceworks, as well as at Nancy Dianne
Studio and UW-Milwaukee. She frequently
choreographs and teaches for dance
organizations such as Chicago National
Association of Dance Masters, Dance
Masters of Wisconsin and Texas Association
of Dance Teachers.
Alberto Cambra graduated in Dance
and Fine Arts from UW-Milwaukee’s Peck
School of the Arts in 2010. After living
in Los Angeles for a year doing small
projects, he came back to Milwaukee’s
modern dance/theatre environment. In
addition to DPC he has danced with Wild
Space Dance Company locally, Fenn and
Company in NYC and has done freelance
work in Chicago. Alberto is in his fourth
season with DPC.
Christal choreographs musical theatre for
Divine Savior Holy Angels High School and
Community Theatre Works, and she has
won three Tommy Awards for outstanding
choreography 2013-2015.
Gina Laurenzi is a graduate of UWMilwaukee and is in her third season with
DPC. Gina trained as a Giordano Jazz
Dance Chicago scholarship student, under
Elements Contemporary Ballet’s Artistic
Director Michael Gosney, and performed
with Giordano II and Inaside Chicago
Dance. In addition to DPC, Gina currently
performs with Maria Gillespie’s Oni Dance
and Hyperlocal, an improvisational series.
A resident choreographer with DPC, her
recent work has been shown at Next
Act Theatre and Danceworks, where she
debuted The Gina Laurenzi Dance Project’s
Vagabondare: Wander, Roam, Stroll… Gina
also teaches and creates new work for
youth dancers of Momentum Dance Project,
Danceworks Youth Performance Company
and the Makaroff Youth Ballet.
Jöelle Worm holds a BFA in Dance
summa cum laude from the University of
Minnesota-Twin Cities and an MPA in Public
Administration from Baruch College-City
University of NY. Jöelle has spent time
dancing and administering education/arts
education programming in Minneapolis,
New York City and Milwaukee. Worm
has danced with Your Mother Dances
(Milwaukee), Colleen Hooper Dance
Projects (Philadelphia, New York), and
De Facto Dance (New York).
Liz Zastrow Licht is in her fifth season
with DPC and has also performed with
Joel Valentín-Martínez, the Liz Lerman
Dance Exchange, Wild Space Dance
Company, Your Mother Dances, Skylight
Music Theatre and Li Chiao-Ping Dance.
Her Dean’s Honors Award, Dance BFA,
Journalism Minor, and Honors College
Degree are from UW-Milwaukee (2010),
where she currently tutors writers across
disciplines in the UWM Writing Center.
Liz completed her yoga certification from
YogaOne Studio and teaches in Sheboygan. Christal Wagner is back for her ninth
season with DPC. She holds a BFA in
dance from UW-Milwaukee. Wagner
has performed with Your Mother Dances
and Edwin Olvera, and she has been a
featured performer with Present Music.
She is also a co-founder of the Milwaukee
music and dance trio Cadance Collective.
Andrew Zanoni is thrilled to be dancing
his second full season with Danceworks
this year. After receiving his BFA in Dance
from UW-Milwaukee in 2010, Andrew
spent two years dancing in NYC with The
Bang Group as well as Boink! Dance. Lots
of love and appreciation to his family
who has supported him on his many life
adventures. Other dance experience: Your
Mother Dances, Garth Fagan Summer
Institute, The Gina Laurenzi Dance Project. Collaborating Artists
Halie Bahr recently graduated Summa
Cum Laude from UW-Milwaukee with her
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance
and Choreography. Through her dancing
at UWM, she had the opportunity to
preform twice at the American College
Dance Festival. She continues to teach
dance within the community and share her
own choreography as much as possible.
Halie is thrilled to be a part of this
Danceworks performance. Nadin Bailey graduated from UWMilwaukee with a BFA in Contemporary
Dance in the spring of 2015. Nadin is
focusing her dance education on her own
somatic practice with specific emphasis on
the Alexander Technique, Laban Movement
Analysis, and Psychology. She has danced
for Dawn Springer, Maria Gillespie,
Melinda Meyers (Trisha Brown’s restaging
of “Set & Reset”), Luc Vanier, Dani Kuepper,
Keely Garfield, Stephan Koplowitz and
Christina Briggs-Winslow.
Cadance Collective, founded in 2012,
creates an interface where music informs
dance and dance informs music. This
ensemble treats music composition and
dance choreography as common tools
in creating original performance pieces.
After training at the highest levels as both
a classical flutist and modern dancer,
founder Emma Koi saw an opportunity for
artists of many disciplines to collaborate
in the artistic process. With dancer
Christal Wagner and cellist Alicia Storin,
the Milwaukee-based Collective has
performed at MKE Follies, as part of DPC’s
Intersect (2013) and Breathe (2015), and
as featured performers at the Cedarburg
Cultural Center’s “Throwback Thursdays”
series (2014). Cadance Collective also
offers outreach programs for senior centers,
schools and community centers. Barry Paul Clark is a classically trained
double bassist who grew up in Wauwatosa.
He received his Bachelor’s degree in
Music Performance from The Mannes
College of Music in New York City in spring
2009. Barry performs with Festival City
Symphony, Kenosha Symphony Orchestra
and The Kettle Moraine Symphony. Along
with Devin Drobka and Steve Gallam, he
hosts the monthly improvised music series
Unrehearsed MKE. He also performs and
releases experimental electronic music
under the moniker adoptahighway. Barry
co-founded the Tontine Ensemble in the
spring of 2014 and is beyond honored to
be working with Danceworks!
Emma Koi is a founder of Cadance
Collective. An active flutist and teacher in
the midwest, Emma is passionate about
innovating the classical music experience
through multimedia collaboration. She is
a recent alum of the Civic Orchestra of
Chicago, Principal Flute of the Festival City
Symphony and a regular performer with
the Wisconsin Philharmonic and Milwaukee
Symphony Orchestras. Molly Lieberman is a native of the
San Francisco Bay Area and an alumna
of Illinois Wesleyan University in
Bloomington. She holds two Master of
Music degrees from UW-Milwaukee—one
in Orchestral Conducting and the other
in String Pedagogy. Molly is currently the
orchestra director at Pius XI High School
in Milwaukee and teaches private violin
and viola lessons at Milwaukee Montessori
School, the Academy of Performing Arts,
the Pius XI Performing Arts Academy and
Brass Bell Music Store. In addition to the
Tontine Ensemble, Molly plays viola in the
Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra.
Kym McDaniel, filmmaker, is an honors
graduate from UW-Milwaukee who holds
a BFA in Dance and BA in Psychology.
She has taught dance in Romania, Maine,
Milwaukee and Chicago. Kym has also
interned with GERALDCASELDANCE
and filmed works by mauriah kraker/
kitchendances, Oni Dance and Your
Mother Dances. Her film, Groundswell,
was screened at the Dance Camera
West Emerging Artists Competition in Los
Angeles. She is a current MFA Candidate in
Film, Video, New Genres at UWM.
Allen Russell, Composer, is a violinist/
composer/producer from Milwaukee.
GLOOSTIKK is the name for Allen’s
endeavors in the electroacoustic arena. A
fusion of human and computer generated
elements, GLOOSTIKK combines loose hip
hop beats with live violin improvisations to
create a unique blend of genre-bending
textures and grooves. He appears with
the gypsy swing band, Swing Chevron,
at venues such as The Jazz Estate, Von
Trier and Riverwest Filling Station and
is a member of the Tontine Ensemble
contemporary string quartet.
Madeleine Schoch graduated from
UW-Milwaukee in 2012 with a degree in
dance performance and choreography.
While there she appeared in works by
Dani Kuepper, Simone Ferro, Luc Vanier
and Colleen Thomas. She attended the
American Dance Festival in 2013 as a
scholarship student and continued to study
and train at ADF’s Samuel Scripps Studios
in Durham, NC. Madeleine is currently
living and making work in Milwaukee.
Dawn Springer has choreographed,
taught and performed in festivals and
universities throughout the United States
and abroad. Recent work in Milwaukee
includes a collaboration with composer
Jon Mueller that premiered at the 2015
Eaux Claires Music and Arts Festival, and
a two year choreographic residency with
Alverno Presents. Her latest writing will
soon be published in a new anthology on
Dance in American Culture. She has an
MFA from Hollins University and a BFA
from the University of North Carolina
School of the Arts.
Alicia Storin began playing cello through
the public school program in Mequon, WI.
She earned her Bachelor of Music from
the University of MN–Twin Cities, Master
of Music from the Cleveland Institute of
Music, and Chamber Music Performance
Certificate from UW-Milwaukee. This past
April, she performed Brahms’ Double
Concerto with the UWM orchestra as
the winner of the 2012-2013 concerto
competition. In March she will collaborate
with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in
their performance of An Iliad.
The Tontine Ensemble was founded
in 2014 with the mission to perform
improvisational works and to champion the
compositions of Milwaukee composers. Its
four current members first played together
for a Blank Radio recording session and
immediately began rehearsing regularly.
Allen Russell, Molly Lieberman, Pat Reinholz
and Barry Paul Clark are all classically
trained musicians who teach and regularly
perform in a variety of styles around the
Milwaukee area and beyond. The Tontine
Ensemble has appeared as guest artists
with Danceworks Performance Company,
Formations Series, Mike Neumeyer and
Friends, and the Milwaukee Follies.
Mike Van Dreser (Lighting Design) has
worked as Lighting Designer for Next
Actors Summer Theatre for Teens, as well
as Panic Express, The Encounter, Faith
Healer, Winter Tales, Paul Robeson in
Concert, Value of Names, Big Boys, One
Time, A Kodachrome Christmas, It’s A
Wonderful Life Live Radio Show, all at
Next Act Theatre; and When the Curtain
Falls and Kiss Me Kate at Greendale High
School. Mike has had the good fortune of
working with and learning from renowned
lighting designers Jason Fassl and Andrew
Meyers and knows their guidance and
continuing education will help make him
successful. Mike looks forward to many
more productive years with Next Act
Theatre and any new opportunities that
may come his way.
DANCEWORKS, INC.
2014-15 and 2015-16 Donor roll call
Corporation, Foundation and
Government Giving
Enterforce
Strategic Enhancement Group, Inc.
Angel: $100,000+
United Performing Arts Fund
Matching Gifts
Google
Johnson Controls Foundation
We Energies Foundation
Visionary: $50,000+
Bader Philanthropies
Muse: $25,000+
The Herzfeld Foundation
Benefactor: $10,000+
BMO Harris Bradley Center
May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
David & Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation
Producer: $5,000+
Brewers Community Foundation, Inc.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation:
Mary L. Nohl Fund
The Harley-Davidson Foundation
Milwaukee Arts Board
Milwaukee County CAMPAC
Stephens Family Foundation
We Energies Foundation
Wisconsin Arts Board
Artistic Director: $2,500+
Froedtert Hospital
Runzheimer Foundation
Summerfest Foundation, Inc.
Choreographer: $1,000+
Above the Clouds, Inc.
Greater Milwaukee Assoc. of Realtors
Youth Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation:
Edward P. and Mary K. Bullock Family Fund
Terry A. Hueneke Fund
Madeleine and David Lubar Charitable Fund
Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Charitable Fund
Maxsan Foundation—Max and Sandra Dermond
Peck Foundation Milwaukee, Ltd.
PPC Foundation
STRATTEC Security Corporation
WEYCO Group Inc.
Guest Artist: $500+
Athletico LTD.
Renaissance Design & Renovation
Zoup Community Foundation
Soloist: $250+
Anthologie Inc.
Clark Graphics
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Greg Horbachevsky
Jana Hoyer
Darryl Huennekens
Angela Iannone
Carol Julin and Alex Ng
Mary and Timothy Keane
Keith Knox
Mary Kolar
Christina Lucchesi
Kate and John Mann
Patricia and Michael Marchant
Jane Matenaer
Paul Mathews and
Colleen Fitzgerald
Karen Mazin
Peggy McGuire
Dena McPhetres
Daniel and Rebecca Messenger
Bryan Michaels
Kathryn W. Mooney
Macy and Jennie Moret
Polly Morris
Matthew Northey
Chris and Anne Noyes
Marie O’Brien
Geraldine Olson
Marcia Parsons & David Tojek
Carolyn and Ralph Patitucci
Natasha Posey and Mike Fricke
Brian and Amy Randall
Christina Ratatori
Molly Rhode
Carol and Jim Ross
Linda and Edward Sasse
Virginia Schrag
Barbara and Bob Schuelke
Jim and Chris Scotton
Denise and Gerald Sedmak
Fran Serlin
Michael Skowronek
Wendy Sleight
Doris Small
Lynne and Phil Sobczak
Kevin Stalheim
Mark and Julie Steinhafel
Maureen Steinhafel
M. Stephan
Leah Stuller
Jennifer Sweetland
Lynn Lucius and Richard Taylor
Tom and Jane Tesch
Mark Thompson
Debra and Michael Timm
Sal and Belle Tomasello
John Vaile and Lauri Krakora
Ellen and Bob Venable
Courtney Wagner
Bruce Wiggins
Del Wilson
Richard and Bonnie Withers
Joy and David Woelfel
Julianne Yopps
Eun Young Jang
Mary-Jo Zore
We gratefully acknowledge
our 2014-15 donors and
2015-16 and funders from
Sep. 1, 2014 through Oct.
16, 2015. Our apologies to
any individual or organization
that was inadvertently
omitted, or incorrectly listed.
Please call Linnéa Koeppel at
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Danceworks.
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everyone in our community
has a great performance.
Today Flossie is stronger and
her schedule is jam-packed with
water aerobics, Tai Chi Classes
and games of rummy that help
her live a healthy, engaged life.
Thanks to the United
Way-funded program KOACH
(“strength” in Hebrew) at the
Jewish Community Center,
Flossie found a way to meet
new people and stay physically
active within the community.
Last year, 94% of older
adults who attended United
Way-funded programming
made new friends and left the
program feeling supported.
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