We are taught that the mat work is the basis for Joseph Pilates system of exercise, that the apparatus and the exercises on them were developed to inform your body more fully so that the mat exercises could be achieved. However, there is often confusion in how they relate, especially since most apparatus exercises are not direct translations of their mat counterparts. In this workshop, we’ll look at a sampling of mat exercises, break them down, and find how we can use the rest of the system to inform those exercises. We’ll also look at common pitfalls that happen when mat exercises are attempted on the apparatus directly.

Please contact Kristin for more information, 262-617-0731

Dive deeper into the practice we teach with the next workshop in Andrea’s ongoing series of continuing education at Absolute Pilates. More details coming soon!

We invite you to SmörgåsBoard, a Cooperative Performance event featuring a sampling of work from our talented board of directors. Join us from 11-2, or any part of that time, and watch our board members perform, chat with Cooperative Performance members and fellow audience goers, grab a bite, and sip some drinks.
All proceeds raised at this event go to support the production of new, relevant performance in Milwaukee.

About the show..
"Real Time", created by CP Board Chair Andrea Burkholder and Daniel Burkholder, brings movement-based performance to new levels through conversation, improvisation, and shared experience in the moment.

"The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" by Mike Daisey had its Milwaukee premiere in 2013 in a production directed by CP Board Secretary Alan Piotrowicz. Alan now leads a reading (featuring multiple CP board members) of this piece that illuminates how the former CEO of Apple and his obsessions have shaped our lives and the world... for better and worse.

Anyone can be an audience, and everyone should be able to experience the arts. You value live arts, and we value you. This event is supported by freewill donation. You can further support Cooperative Performance by purchasing a ticket to our 50/50 raffle during the event!

The Arts @ Large Café will be open for lunch during this event and wine and beer will be available for purchase.

Can't make it, but want to support the work we do for local creators and performers? You can donate right here: https://www.cooperativeperformance.org/donate

In this aerial & acrobatic meditation on how to love (ourselves, one another, our community, the world right now), four women three decades apart spin words, stories & images; explore characters, relationships & questions; and share the virtuosity of moving alone & together through intimate, contemporary, feminist circus. Created and performed by Andrea Burkholder (MIlwaukee, WI), L. Feldman and Megan Gendell (Philadelphia, PA), and Susan Murphy (Darien, GA).

2 Performances, 5pm and 7:30pm

In this aerial & acrobatic meditation on how to love (ourselves, one another, our community, the world right now), four women three decades apart spin words, stories & images; explore characters, relationships & questions; and share the virtuosity of moving alone & together through intimate, contemporary, feminist circus. Created and Performed by Andrea Burkholder (Milwaukee, WI), L. Feldman and Megan Gendell (Philadelphia,PA), and Susan Murphy (Darien, GA).

Tickets and information: https://www.facebook.com/events/394695764590893/

Andrea heads down to the Marsh Studio in Darien, Ga to perform aerial duets with friend and collaborator, Susan Murphy . They will be joined by aerial artists from Canopy Studio, in celebrating the joy aerial dancing and dancing with a partner brings.

Where is your weight? is the question we'll be exploring in our third advanced training at Absolute Pilates. Often, exercises are approached as you have to be "strong enough" to do them, but Andrea's response is "no, you have to be organized."

This workshop will help teachers focus on how a student supports and distributes their weight for stability in exercises. Once the point(s) of stability are understood, then we can focus on the movements and nuances of these exercises. After a brief mat warm up, we will look at exercises on the most commonly used apparatus, reformer, cadillac, and wunda chair.

Please contact Kristin Olson at Absolute Pilates to register

Join us & our UWM Dance Interns: Chelsey Belcher, Rose Mohan, & Sydney Kidd, along with guest performers, for a 20-minute site-specific performance at Havenwoods State Forest, right here in MKE!

As all events with "The Accumulation of Acts", this is FREE!

Meet in front of the main building at 10am - free parking on-site - and join the performers for a light walk to the performance site.

This performance is inspired by the memories of people interviewed for "The Accumulation of Acts".

Please note - the main building will be closed, so there are NO facilities available.

Join us at our opening reception for the Accumulation of Acts, a gallery installation based on the people, places, history, and limitations of Milwaukee. Exhibit runs June 10-August 5, 2018

Andrea and Daniel Burkholder bring you an encore performance of their two year-running series, Real Time. This Real Time still brings you latin ballroom, improvisation, video, as well as live music, and it introduces you to our newest adventure The Accumulation of Acts, a 2- month gallery installation .

Featuring Minnesota-based Sharon Mansur, Milwaukee-based ballroom dancers Wanyah Frazier and Debrasha Greye, Recent Milwaukee transplant, percussionist Andy Miller, along with UWM Dance Department interns Rosa Mohan and Sydney Kidd.

Proceeds from the ticket sales, as well as all donations from food and beverage offerings will go to support The Accumulation of Acts

Tickets are $15-$100 sliding scale and may be purchased here or at the door.

We appreciate you supporting live arts in Milwaukee!

Andrea offers perspective on teaching the person versus modifying the exercises in this hands on workshop for certified Pilates instructors. Contact Kristin Olson at Absolute Pilates for more information: 262-617-0731.

Andrea and Daniel bring Real Time as a monthly series to a close with this performance at Danceworks Studio Theater. Join us as guest artists from the past two years and guest artists new to us join us and as we revisit pieces created for Real Time, and create new pieces just for this one. Guests this month include actor/physical performer Don Russell, and percussionist and accompanist Matt Cordier . Come 15 minutes early and see three screen dances that were filmed locally(Riverside Park, Hank Aaron State Trail, and Kohler Andrae State Park) and created for prior Real Time events.

As always, tickets are pay-what-you-will with no admission to low or too high. Cash only tickets go on sale beginning at 8pm at Danceworks.

Stay after for a toast to 26 Real Time performances, and to an amazing arts audience!

Andrea and Daniel complete their Urban Ecology Series of Real Time, with this event in Menomonee Valley, right off the Hank Aaron Trail and Three Bridges Park.

This evening, we'll take in the space, location, and season to offer you dances not just inside, but also on the trail outside of the center, as well as a screen dance created in the trails and environment nearby.

As always, tickets are pay what you will, cash only, beginning half an hour before the show. You value live arts, we value you. And, we'd love you to stay and share drinks and conversation afterwards.

Andrea and Daniel continue their Real Time series at The Urban Ecology Centers, with this one in Washington Park. Walk up a long drive and you'll see the lagoon and its surroundings bursting with the beginnings of Spring. Step inside, and with guest ballroom dance artist, Wanyah Frazier, the artists offer you dances inspired by working closely with a partner, and by the city and natural surrounding of this particular Urban Ecology Center

As always, tickets are pay what you will, cash only beginning half an hour before the show. You value live arts, we value you. And, if you can stay, drinks and conversation are shared afterwards.

Andrea and Daniel continue bringing movement-based performance in this month's Real Time as they welcome Christopher Elst and his amazing talents at stage combat and fight directing.

Christopher and Andrea are teaching their expertise to each other and choreographing all month leading up to Real Time to offer two pieces- an trapeze partnering duet, and stage combat duet.   Daniel, who will not be privy to either of these duets, will offer an improvised performance based on what he sees the night of the show. And, of course, you can expect a duet from Andrea and Daniel, this one exploring the inherent tension in contact improvisation and in aerial partnering.

As always, tickets are pay what you will, cash only beginning half an hour before the show. You value live arts, we value you. And drinks and conversation are shared afterwards.

Andrea and Daniel welcome Dawn Springer and musician Jon Mueller to our first Real Time of 2017! This will also be our first Real Time at an Urban Ecology Center, and we are excited that each of the centers will hold a Real Time event this season.

Nestled in the Community Room, surrounded by a warm fire, a gallery wall, and a commercial kitchen, the artists will bring together their explorations with their musical and dance forms, as well as what it means to be in an environmentally minded community center.

Cash-only pay what you will tickets go on sale at 7pm. And, as always, we hope you can stay after and chat a bit with us.

To end 2016, Andrea and Daniel are bringing Real Time back outside. We know everyone starts to hibernate in warm places for our long winters, but we'd like to bring you out one more time, to remind us of the community we're all a part of, any time of the year. This month's Real Time location is the patio of Cafe Hollander. As always, Real Time is pay what you will. And, we encourage you to stay after and chat with us (inside, where we can once again be civilized in the warmth and with a beverage).

Andrea and Daniel invite you into the 6th floor of UWM's Peck School of the Arts Kenilworth Studios as they perform dance installations as well as play with how the light they shine affects what you see.

As always, this Real Time is pay-what-you-will, with each audience member recognizing the work of the artists, but also their own budget, to put a value on the art they see.

Cash only tickets may be purchased beginning 15 minutes before showtime.

This evening is supported in part by UWM Peck School of the Arts.

Join Milwaukee-based composers and choreographers in Hyperlocal's 11th Improvisation Salon: G E N E R A T I O N
Suggested Donations- $5 Students with ID, $10 General Admission
No one turned away for lack of funds - just come!

Generation (Latin): "to beget", or...to give life to something, a cohort, a cycle of life, the form of a life cycle, whether Gen X or Millennial - we investigate the cycle of knowledge, of making, and of passing on and re-imagining our social and cultural rituals.

(Enter the Kenilworth East Gallery from the alley side of the building, between Urban Outfitters and Neroli.) for updated info visit: https://hyperlocalmke.com/calendar/

Collaborators
Digital Media: Dylan Bernard
Composers: Tim Russell, Jay Mollerskov, Pat Reinholtz, David Collins
Choreographers: Dan Schuchart, Maria Gillespie, Joelle Worm, Daniel Burkholder, and Andrea Burkholder
Featuring new collaboration with our special guests from The Peck School of the Arts, students Emily Bartsch, Kayla Flentje, Isaac Robertson (dance) and Olivia Valenza (music).

Andrea and Daniel Burkholder, bring their First Friday dance event, Real Time  back to Danceworks (1661 N Water St, Milwaukee) on October 7 at 8:30 pm.

This month’s installation incorporates video and real time performance simultaneously occurring as well as the evolution of a duet performed numerous times, demonstrating the intricacies of relationship and community.

October’s Real Time performance will draw inspiration from the summer events at Alfons Gallery and at a block party celebrating the groundbreaking of Za’Layia’s Legacy Garden. Andrea and Daniel will use video projection from their event with Eddee Daniel’s Memorial and Promise: Life on the Kinnickinnic and reimagine their relationship to the photographs while in a theater setting. They will also perform their hand-holding duet “Grasp” from Za’Layia’s garden at various time throughout the evening, each iteration reflecting on a changing relationship. To round out the evening, Andrea will also perform her aerial solo, “The Distance Between”.

As always, tickets are pay-what-you-will, with you putting the value on the art you are coming to see, and drinks are offered gratis afterwards, as we look forward to having you stay and talking with you.