Wild Space

Founding Director Debra Loewen created Wild Space Dance Company in 1986 following a career as an independent choreographer and solo performer. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Loewen began her dance training in Stevens Point, later earning a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana and an MFA in dance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her early performance work in the 1970s involved computers and site-specific choreography, which helped shape the aesthetic she continues to work with today. Her movement style, experimental musical tastes, application of improvisational structures and process-oriented choreography can be traced to this early work. While teaching at the University of Delaware, Loewen formed her first company - New Space Company.