ANNOUNCING THE PREMIERE of“MONARCHS-a migration story” — THE VIDEO!! At the Dance Media Movement Lab SCREENING Friday and Saturday 28 & September 29, 2018 at 8:30pm at Danceworks Performance Space 1661 N Water St. Our 10-minute Monarchs, Mounds, Migrations video project has been accepted! The video blends performance video from Monarchs, Mounds, Migrations with outdoor […]

Hello Friends! Thank you for your support of DanceCircus’ multi-media dance-theatre performances, thank you for jumping into SPLASH DANCE—freshwater flash dances, thank you for giving voice to diverse people in community dance projects, and thank you for making eco-dance youth residencies possible. The DanceCircus circle of influence includes you – audience members, flash dancers, youth […]

Check out SPLASH DANCE EVENTS under COMMUNITY! — So, WHAT’S IN A NAME? We take our name, DanceCircus, from the ancient Roman word circus which means circle. Our programs reflect the more contemporary meaning of circle, an area of action or influence, or, a group of people sharing a common interest. If you saw HOT […]

FREE AFTER-SCHOOL ECO-DANCE WORKSHOPS FOR ELEMENTARY / MIDDLE-SCHOOL BOYS & GIRLS at ART @ LARGE Gallery     908 S. 5th St., Milwaukee   8 WEEKS OF WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS  | OCTOBER 21 – DECEMBER 16, 2015 (NO CLASS NOVEMBER 26)  4:45-5:45 PM playing, stretching, dancing, choreographing new dance stories! Call Arts @ Large for more information […]

SPLISH SPLASH & DANCE- DIVE into A Fresh Water Flash Mob with DanceCircus SWIM over to BRENNER BREWING and MAKE WAVES Do the mob dance, view videos, enjoy food, talk eco-dance and water, Rubber Ducky raffle, cash bar and more fun with Urban Ecology Center games, Melanie Ariens water shrine, and more! 2/28/2015 6:00PM to […]

DanceCircus presents school shows for Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s A.C.E. Program                    November 18-December 18, 2014 Annual performances of EARTH, WATER and AIR, an interactive program for second graders, uses the three elements for exploring movement clues to imagination. Three DanceCircus dancers talk, demonstrate and teach students the seven basic movements, invite them to solve riddles and […]

Sign-up, bring a friend, share the wave, join the splash for fresh water! Urban Park — green space opposite Discovery World (rain site) — about 1:45pm and remember it’s over in a flash!

Come join the SPLASH DANCE Sunday October 19, 2014 – 1:45pm ALERT — FLASH DANCE — ALERT — Sunday October 19, 2014 — 1:45pm across from Discovery World Come on down for the chance to watch the mob—dance. It’ll be gone in a flash, so, come enjoy the splash! A performance funded by the Wisconsin […]

Artistic Director Betty Salamun annually works with Woodlands middle school students in eco-arts residencies. This year, Woodlands revised the 2006 production History’s Lessons + Today’s Decision = Peaceful Tomorrows. Betty Salamun created a series of dances for 8 youth to sonnets written by their classmates exploring the 7 educational principals of Woodlands curriculum: trustworthiness, caring, respect, […]

Betty Salamun joins the celebration dancing “To Think of Time” for the publication of Jeff Hinich’s book and dedication of H.D. Thoreau plaque. Saturday Sept 27, 2014 from 2:00-4:00pm at Colectivo Coffee, 170 S. First Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204 An event featuring Jeff Poniewaz, Antler, Harvey Taylor and others celebrating Jeff Hininch’s book Walking with […]

Join us in creating a temporary art installation of the Great Lakes in the sand. The image will be illuminated at sunset 8:11pm. Percussion and Vocalization by Strawberry Moon Singers Illumination by overpass Light Brigade Inspiration by local community and spiritual leaders. Activation coordinated by DanceCircus. Documentation by doc/UWM. We encourage biking or walking to […]

coming from a shoreline to you.                      Explore the geography of the Great Lakes, how it formed and how it continuesto be reformed. Put on your shore shoes and join SPLASH DANCE Reduex — dance to the flash mob video, SPLASH DANCE .                        Watch out for the perils to fresh […]

Artist-educator Betty Salamun and Milwaukee Environmental Sciences School teacher Melissa Howard used the Urban Land Ethic to create a performance program for the unique needs of Melissa’s first grade classroom. Students learned about how to: Make the Invisible Visible, and, Understand How Nature Sustains Life through the water cycle of precipitation, percolation and evaporation. Students explored energy differences, such as […]

Students explored the 7 Basic Movements (jump, turn, fall, roll, balance, travel, gesture): upper primary students worked with haiku poetry; lower primary used weather systems to create dances; K-3 to K-5 learn the differences between frog jumps (big push with the legs, then land and balance) and rabbit jumps (reach hands out, jump feet in) […]

Artistic Director Betty Salamun annually works with Woodlands middle school students in eco-arts residencies. Retiring science teacher Carol Double suggested a dance linking the school’s Adopt-A-Beach program and illustrating the beauty of Lake Michigan. In 2013, 15 boys and girls learned a section of Betty’s dance “What I know about Lake Michigan” (from Wade in […]