Two Dance Poems, Poetry by Susan Firer

Slippage and Delicacies

Salmagundi III - "Slippage and Delicacies" from Wealthy Theatre on Vimeo.

Choreographer and Performer: Angie Yetzke
Based on the poem "Life in Waves," from Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People by Susan Firer, read by Jodi Cole Meyer
Music: "Day of Chronos" by John Levis

The Beautiful Pain of Too Much

Choreographer: Kelly Anderson
Performer: Janet Lilly
Based on the poem "The Beautiful Pain of Too Much," from Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People by Susan Firer

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Susan Firer has recent work in Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams (University of Iowa Press) and The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press).

Kelly Anderson is a resident choreographer and company member of Danceworks Performance Company. She recently completed her second evening-length work, Vaudeville, for DPC. Her first, The Bra Project, premiered in 2009. Kelly was named one of the “Next Generation of Leaders” by Milwaukee Magazine. She choreographed Missed Connections (Gal Friday Films), co-created 26 with Milwaukee Opera Theatre and created The Mondo Lucha Dancers for Mondo Lucha at Turner Hall. She is a former member of Gerald Casel Dance (NYC) and performed with Bobbevy (Portland, Ore.), Your Mother Dances, Wild Space and Foothold.

Janet Lilly, a former principal dancer and master teacher with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, is the the new Head of the Department of Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Lilly joined UNCG after more than 15 years at the Peck School of Arts Department of Dance at the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, where she was instrumental in creating a low-residence MFA program for returning dance professionals. The recipient of a 2008-09 Fulbright Lecturer Award, Lilly has choreographed and taught as a guest artist and master teacher on college campuses in the United States and abroad. She has been awarded numerous grants and awards, including a 2001 National Endowment of the Arts Creation and Planning Grant.