Side Effects and Smoking Meat
February 21-23, 2025
Faded Billboards (Relatable) - 2024
Created and performed by Emily Loar and Ali Lorenz
Sound by Khruangbin, Meitei, Pinegrove
Lighting Design by Colin Gawronski
Smoking Meat - 2025
A work in progress excerpt created by Ashley Deran and Emily Loar in collaboration with dancers
Sound by Forest Swords, Beastie Boys, Sam Gendel, Josiah Steinbrick, Kate Bush
Lighting Design by Colin Gawronski
Costumes by Jeff Hancock
Performed by Kathryn Hetrick, Emily Loar, Ali Lorenz, Sarah Morimoto
Oooooooo to be in a body / Is this something I can win / Oh to be a body / Could I be More Shelled / Scaled / Wing-ed / Armoured / Glamoured / Bigger / BIGGER / Evasive / Luminous
Phosphorescent
INTERMISSION
A Theory On Staying - 2017
Created by Emily Loar
Text Written and Performed by Emily Loar
Lighting Design by Colin Gawronski
Performed by Kathryn Hetrick
WEALTHcare: “an episode” - 2025
Created and performed by Kelly Anderson and company
Written by Kelly Anderson and company
Sound by Chad Williamson, Ryan Cappleman (with lyrics by Chad Williamson), Glass Candy, U2, Pink Floyd
Voice-over script by Kelly Anderson
Lighting Design by Colin Gawronski
Performed by Kelly Anderson, Cheryl Cornacchione, Danielle Gilmore, Sarah Morimoto, and Michael O'Neill
Program Note: "an episode" is Chapter 1 of the larger KADT series: WEALTHcare. Thanks to the UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Incubator Grant, Rae Zimmerli participated in the creative workshopping of this project. I dedicate this piece to my Mom, who was with me every step of the way.
ABOUT PROJECT BOUND DANCE
Under the direction of Ashley Deran and Emily Loar, Project Bound Dance is a Chicago-based modern dance group rooted in the practice of collaboration. Since its founding in 2013, Bound has created work that is both curious and accessible. Creating both live concert performance and dances for camera, Bound draws from both modern dance and somatic fundamentals. Incorporating vigor, athleticism, and intricate gesture exploration, Deran and Loar weave together the vision of two distinct artistic voices to create richly textured dance performance.
ABOUT KELLY ANDERSON DANCE THEATRE
Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre--a performance company whose work is inspired by humor, theater, and pop culture. KADT creates relatable work driven by complicated topics. “Seamlessly weaving movement and dialogue,” KADT strives to bridge the gap between artist and non-artist through comedy “filtered perfectly throughout a series of serious moments.” The work of KADT has been performed/commissioned in Chicago, NYC, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minneapolis and Portland, OR. “A master of comedic timing… Anderson proves that dance doesn’t have to be dead serious.” *Credits- Lauren Warnecke (Chicago Magazine) and Kristin Vasilakos (Performance Response Journal)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kelly Anderson (she/her) is the Artistic Director of Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre (KADT) and the Director/Founder of Death's Door Dance Festival (Door County, WI). Chicago evening-length works include: THE END IS HERE and that's ok., presented in Links Hall's 40th Anniversary Season, Skits and Pieces, presented in Steppenwolf's LookOut Series, "In Sarah's Shadow: The Eleonora Duse Story," a co-creation with Writer/Director Olivia Lilley at Prop Thtr, “Livin’ the Dream," VAUDEVILLE!, and the Chicago company debut, Message Me If... in 2014. Additionally, Anderson was awarded a CoMISSION through Links Hall in 2020 for her "Diary of a Dancing Grannie." Prior to her CHI debut, Anderson's most notable works include: two solo shows with Danceworks MKE (Milw, WI), Vaudeville and The Bra Project, and the co-creations of: this is how we disappear and The Little Things with Portland-based performance company bobbevy and the original dance/theatre/opera, 26, with Milwaukee Opera Theatre. Her work has been presented and commissioned in Chicago, NYC, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Portland, OR. Anderson is a former company member of Gerald Casel Dance (NYC), bobbevy (Portland, OR), and the Milwaukee companies- Danceworks MKE, Wild Space Dance Company, Your Mother Dances, and Foothold Dance Performance. Additional independent professional performance credits include: Melinda Jean Myers, Janet Lilly, Ed Burgess, Simone Ferro, Sarah Wilbur, Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky, Amii Legendre, Anthony Lyons, and We Stand Sideways Dance.
Ryan Cappleman (he/him) is a performer, musician, teaching artist, director, and retired choreographer based in Milwaukee. As a performer, he just made his Equity debut in the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Lumberjacks In Love as Dirty Bob. Other favorite roles include Woof in Hair, Scarecrow in Oz, Pooh-Bah in The Hot Mikado (all at Skylight Music Theater), Cornelius in Hello, Dolly! (Forte Theater), and Jake in Waiting...a Song Cycle (Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater). As a musician, Ryan has tickled the ivories as a music director, arranger, composer, and collaborated with Tony nominee Christopher Jackson, Grammy winner Kurt Ollmann, and is a former member of the Irish band Tallymoore. As a teaching artist, Ryan has been on faculty at UW Parkside and UW Milwaukee, and been a guest artist all over the country. He will be directing The Secret Garden this spring with Forte Theater, and returning to his home away from home, Door County, for the summer and fall seasons with Northern Sky Theater. Proud dog dad to Dolly, the black mouth cur.
Cheryl Cornacchione (she/her) holds a B.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi. Upon graduating, Cheryl moved to Chicago where she has performed with BONEdanse, CORE Dance Project, Hope Goldman, We Stand Sideways Dance, Erin Kilmurray, Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble, and was an artistic collaborator with The Runaways Lab Theatre. Cheryl has been performing and collaborating for Laboratory Dancers since 2013, she has been a company member of REIdance Group since 2022, and she has been a core company member of Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre since 2014.
Ashley Deran (she/her) is a Chicago-based dancemaker, teaching artist, and photographer who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from Western Michigan University. In 2013, she founded Project Bound Dance and her work with co-director Emily Loar was selected as one of the "Top 10 Performances of 2019" by SeeChicagoDance. Most recently Ashley’s choreography has been presented by COMMON conservatory, Chicago’s Dance in the Parks, Harvest Contemporary Dance Festival and Death’s Door Dance Festival in Door County. She is also a producer and collaborator with #The1HourProject - a collaborative endeavor that gives Chicago artists 60 minutes to create a 60 second dance film in unique spaces and places. When not in the studio, Ashley is currently on staff at Rise Dance Center. When she is not in the studio, Ashley can often be found behind a camera photographing the Chicago dance community and beyond.
Colin Gawronski (they/them) is a lighting designer and theatrical technician native to Milwaukee who has worked extensively with Danceworks, Inc, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Sunstone Studios and Black Arts MKE/Bronzeville. They have worked with other local companies such as Renaissance Theaterworks, Wildspace, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, and In Tandem Theatre. Colin has also worked with Theatre Lila, Third Avenue Playworks and Forward Theater. Favorite productions include: Stew, Out of Many One, ‘Neath the Hills of Bastogne, /maskəˈrād/, Dutchman, Black Nativity, Romeo & Juliet: A Theatre Lila Invention, Secrets From the Wide Sky, Daddy Long Legs, Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell, Stories From a Life, The Glass Menagerie, Serendipity, Birds of North America, My Fair Lady, Lamps For My Family, and Vagabondare. Give Love Always.
Danielle Gilmore (she/her), a Chicago based artist since 2004, received her BFA from the University of Arizona, studying ballet, modern, jazz and dance injury. Danielle has been dancing with Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre (KADT) since 2014. Gilmore has performed original work with KADT at Steppenwolf Dance Theater, Detroit Dance Festival, Links Hall's 40th Anniversary Season, Harvest Contemporary Dance Festival and Death Door Dance Festival 2022-2025. Danielle performed with Mordine and Company Dance Theater from 2011-2020. Danielle has premiered choreography under the mentorship of Shirley Mordine and Ayako Kato. She continues to create dance on and off camera and was recently part of the Short Stack Film Festival, in the One Hour Project and “Better Without You” Hitchen’s music video.
Jeff Hancock (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Northwestern, a collaborative interpreter with the Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak ensemble, and founder of -ish design. He explores performance, movement, who and how we are, and what we wear at the intersection of function and expression. His practice includes synthesizing fundamental patterning, improvisation, and investigating the expression of emergent value(s) through the body, performance, and costume. Along with his years as a founding member of River North Chicago, he danced with Hubbard Street, the Lyric Opera, Ruth Page Foundation, Dance Kaleidoscope, Jan Erkert & Dancers, Chicago Festival Ballet, and others. He is the creator of -ish design, where he makes clothing, costumes, sound environments for dance, sets, lighting design, choreography and everything in between. Hancock continues finding inspiration in his favorite practice: curiosity, fueled by humans, time, space, materials, joy, queerness, anxiety, his cat, and his partner Joe.
Kathryn Hetrick (she/her) is a Chicago-based performing artist. Graduating from the dance program at Western Michigan University, she had the opportunity to perform work by noted artists Alonzo King, Lori Eisenhower, John Lehrer, Michael Foely, and Ginger Thatcher. In her nine years living in Chicago, Kathryn has had the distinct pleasure of working with many artists in the area. Past collaborators include Esoteric Dance Project, Salty Lark Dance, and Niko8. Aside from her continued partnership with Project Bound Dance, Kathryn can also be seen performing the Same Planet Performance Project.
Emily Loar (she/they) is a Chicago-based dance artist, writer, and current Co-Artistic Director of Project Bound Dance, the collaborative performance project between her and Ashley Deran. Loar designs intricate, unflinching, and deeply personal group and solo performance work for live presentation and video collaboration. In the last decade her choreography has been commissioned and presented across the greater midwest region, and her performance collaborations include Peter Carpenter, Lydia Feuerhelm, Kasey Foster, Erin Kilmurray, Khecari, Alix Schillaci, and Kinnari Vora/Ishti Collective. Loar holds a BFA from Columbia College Chicago, and is among the first cohort of teachers certified as an Essential Level Teacher of Spiral Body Techniques®, the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. Beyond teaching, dancing and performing, Loar is an organizer and producer of #The1HourProject, a collaborative endeavor that invites dance and video artists to create a 60-second dance film in unique Chicago spaces, and Short Stack: Chicago’s Tiny Dance Film Festival.
Ali Lorenz (they/she) is a queer artist living + working in Chicago with 50-or-so houseplants. Recent movement-based performances/collaborations/processes include working with Project Bound Dance, Amanda Maraist, Helen Lee, We/Are Collective, and Khecari. Their discipline is a wide-cast net which takes many forms: combining physical movement, visual art, video, administrative work, and found objects into something different each time. Most recently a series of collages by Ali were commissioned for Knockout by Erin Kilmurray + Kara Brody as research + promotional materials. Additionally, Ali’s transdisciplinary video work has been presented by We/Are Collective (CHI), Short Stack Film Festival (CHI), Queer Spectra Arts Festival (SLC), Deseret Experimental Opera (SLC). Ali holds a BFA from the University of Utah where they had the pleasure of performing original works by Anouk Van Dijk and Stephen Koester, in addition to falling back in love with the desert.
Sarah Morimoto (she/her) is a Chicago performer. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2016 with degrees in dance and chemistry. Throughout her training, Sarah has worked with and performed works by several Chicago artists including Jeff Hancock, Lizzie Leopold, Laura Wade, Maray Gutierrez, Robyn Mineko Williams, Joseph Caruana, and Riccardo Battaglia. Professionally, Sarah has worked with Joel Hall and Hanna Brictson and Dancers. Sarah is a company member with Project Bound Dance and is excited to be working with KADT!
Michael O’Neill (he/him) graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Performance and Choreography from Ohio University’s School of Dance. He currently resides in Chicago, IL where he has danced over the past decade with companies such as We Stand Sideways, Mordine & Company Dance Theater, RE|dance Group, Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre and Same Planet Performance Project. Although recently taking time away from dance to pursue other adventures, Michael is super excited to be back in the Chicago dance scene performing again with Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre!
Bridget S. Williams (she/her) is a Chicago based lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, and events. Bridget is currently an Assistant Lighting Designer for Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Lighting Director for The Glimmerglass Festival. Bridget spent four years as the Lighting Supervisor for Des Moines Metro Opera; she also works on independent projects nationally. Most recently, Bridget designed the world premiere of American Apollo at Des Moines Metro Opera. She has designed for Indiana University's Opera and Ballet Theatre, Depaul University Opera, Opera Festival of Chicago, Cardinal Stage Company, and Young People's Theatre of Chicago. Bridget has also worked in several capacities for Joffrey Ballet School, The Juilliard School, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and Indiana Festival Theatre.
Rae Zimmerli (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, and photographer raised in Overland Park, Kansas and living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with a BFA in contemporary performance and choreography and is currently freelance artist and artistic director of Fable Dance Company. Her choreographic work has been presented at Milwaukee Fringe Festival, American College Dance Association, Danceworks MKE, Camping Dance Festival (Paris, FR), Chicago Danztheatre, and more. She has performed work by Kia Smith, Katy Pyle, YNOT, Simone Ferro, Dawn Springer, Maria Gillespie, Dan Schuchart, Gina Laurenzi, Jaclyn Brown, and others. As a photographer, Rae specializes in dance photography and portraiture and has been hired by Danceworks MKE, Wild Space Dance Company, Wisconsin Dance Council, dance competitions and others. Her fine-art photography has been featured at Leenhouts Art Gallery, Focus Art Gallery, La Gente Art Gallery, the Tim Murphy Art Gallery, and UWM's Union Art Gallery where her piece She Who Shows the Way (photography version) was purchased for UWM's permanent collection.
THIS WORK WAS MADE POSSIBLE
through the developmental, inspirational, financial, and emotional support of:
Clean Air Club
Color Club
Dance Colony Studios
Danceworks, Inc.
Discount Liquor
Healium Yoga + HIIT
Rooted Space
Rushmor Records
Hexe Coffee
Bim Bom Studios
UW-Milwaukee Incubator Grant
As well as our many friends, donors, and collaborators - especially Jay, Michael, and Chad our most dedicated volunteers.
SUPPORTING THIS WORK
Project Bound Dance and Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre are able to continue creating and performing in large part because of the committed support of our collaborating artists, families and chosen families, and dedicated supporters like you. A generous support network is crucial to our sustainability as we continue to share our artistry with others. Join our dedicated support network following this performance making a donation today. We couldn’t do this without you, thank you.