Up on the Rooftop
June 15, 2012Events

Up on the Rooftop

Photo by Mike Krukowski Is this old world getting you down? Come home feelin’ tired and beat? Taking a cue from The Drifters, choreographers Steven Moses and Jaimi Patterson (right) have a solution to these summertime blues (wait, that’s a different song). Rooftop Dance presents an assemblage of Milwaukee dancers and choreographers, setting them loose in a new environment: the riverside roof of Invivo Wellness under a (fingers crossed) starlit summer sky. Moses and Patterson will feature their own work as well as that of other choreographers such as Elizabeth Johnson, Luc Vanier and Javier Marchan Ramos, who developed his…

BY Paul Kosidowski


Photo by Mike Krukowski

Is this old world getting you down? Come home feelin’ tired and beat? Taking a cue from The Drifters, choreographers Steven Moses and Jaimi Patterson (right) have a solution to these summertime blues (wait, that’s a different song). Rooftop Dance presents an assemblage of Milwaukee dancers and choreographers, setting them loose in a new environment: the riverside roof of Invivo Wellness under a (fingers crossed) starlit summer sky. Moses and Patterson will feature their own work as well as that of other choreographers such as Elizabeth Johnson, Luc Vanier and Javier Marchan Ramos, who developed his world-premiere contribution on the roof of his own garage. (Paul Kosidowski)

Rooftop Dance July 6-7. Invivo Wellness. 2060 N. Humboldt Ave.

Paul Kosidowski
Paul Kosidowski is a freelance writer and critic who contributes regularly to Milwaukee Magazine, WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio and national arts magazines. He writes weekly reviews and previews for the Culture Club column. He was literary director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1999-2006. In 2007, he was a fellow with the NEA Theater and Musical Theater Criticism Institute at the University of Southern California. His writing has also appeared in American Theatre magazine, Backstage, The Boston Globe, Theatre Topics, and Isthmus (Madison, Wis.). He has taught theater history, arts criticism and magazine writing at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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