Christal Wagner, Choreography

Published: June 19, 2020, 3 p.m.

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Today\\u2019s guest is Christal Wagner. Christal has her BFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also spent 6 years as an adjunct faculty in the UWM dance department and will be joining the dance department to teach Dance for Musical Theatre in fall of 2020. She is a mover, choreographer, photographer, videographer, film maker, and performer all throughout the Milwaukee area. She gained her start performing professionally with Elizabeth Johnson\\u2019s company, Your Mother Dances, spending 4 seasons with the company locally and abroad. She has been a member of Danceworks Performance Company since 2007 performing and creating work on the company. In 2008 she was added to the Danceworks Mad Hot Tap and Ballroom faculty and also began her choreographic career in Musical Theatre. She has choreographed over 20 musicals and won 8 Tommy Awards for Outstanding Choreography. In 2012, she co-founded the music and dance trio Cadance Collective helping to co-create pieces through au process where music and dance are worked on simultaneously through improvisational practices and original soundscapes. She has choreographed work for Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, Shorewood High School, Nicolet High School, Waukesha Civic Theatre, and Skylight Music Theatre.

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Christal will be talking to us about choreography.

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