Dani Kuepper

Senior Lecturer
BFA, MFA (Dance) UW-Milwaukee

dkuepper@uwm.edu

Dani Kuepper received both her BFA and MFA from UW-Milwaukee, where she has been an adjunct faculty member of the UWM dance department since 1999. As an undergraduate at UWM, she performed the solo, Mrs. Schultz, at the national American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Dani Kuepper is the Artistic Director of Danceworks Performance Company (DPC), the resident contemporary dance company of Danceworks Inc. She joined DPC in 1998 and has since choreographed more than 25 dances for the company, as well as several evening length works. In addition to her commitment to DPC, Dani has done a wide variety of community work on Danceworks’ behalf over the past ten years, including the development of the dance component of Danceworks’ Intergenerational Multi-Arts Project (IMAP). Dani has choreographed extensively in the Milwaukee community and has enjoyed collaborations with Florentine Opera, Present Music, First Stage Children’s Theater, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra, Next Actors (Theatre for Youth Training Program) and Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra. Dani was honored in 2009 as a “Forty Under 40” recipient by the Business Journal of Milwaukee and also received the UWM Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award for non-tenure track in instructors in 2010.