Rae Zimmerli

"The Upstairs Hallway" performed as a part of Fable Dance Company's inaugural show, Enough to Fill a Heart on 05/10/2025 at Danceworks Studio Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Choreographed by Rae Zimmerli in collaboration with performers Performed by Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro, Dianne Kotsonis, Jessica Lueck, Maddie Westreich, and Rae Zimmerli Music "Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers "Broadway" by Goo Goo Dolls "All These Things That I've Done" The Killers "Nice House" by Joywave Text by Rae Zimmerli in collaboration with Lia Smith-Redmann and Tabitha Lindstrom

Wulf and Eadwacer choreographed by Rae Zimmerli Presented on March 29th, 2024 at Dance Collective: Threads of Memory, produced by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dance Student Organization. Performed by Jessica Lueck, Brooke-Allison Parkinson, Jamie Riddle, and Brooke Allison Parkinson Music: Wulf ond Eadwacer arranged and performed by Hanna Marti https://youtu.be/6-QagSE7sFY?si=PbY6SFQzUm3m9CW7

She Who Shows the Way Choreographed by Rae Zimmerli in collaboration with performers Performed by Brooke Allison Parkinson, Lia Smith-Redmann, Marina Goulette, Hadassah Warner, and Leah Sodemann Texts: "Sagacious Mouth" by Ashley Ray Garcia and "Lilith" by Rae Zimmerli Music: "Woven Song-- Hania Rani Rework" by Olafur Arnalds and Hania Rani

Jenny's Song Choreographed by Rae Zimmerli Music Composition and Performance by JJ Bushman Performed by Emma Becker Premiered April 1st, 2023 at Dance Collective: Here is Gone at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

"Genesis" Choreographed and Performed by Rae Zimmerli, Zoe Garnett, and Emma Meznarich Music: "Theme for Genesis" by Connor Zemke

Choreography by Rae Zimmerli with dancer contributions Performed by Jessica Lueck Music: "Faith's Hymn" by Beautiful Chorus Performed July 29th, 2022 at Danceworks' Get It Out There show

Kate McCanon choreographed by Rae Zimmerli Performed live in Dance Collective: High Tide, created by the UWM Dance Student Organization Performed by Emma Becker, Natalie Dibert, and Katie Speltz Music: Kate McCanon by Colter Wall

Weaving the Elegy Original choreography by Rae Zimmerli Performed by Anna Stachnik Music: Café 1930 by Astor Piazzolla performed by Duo Cantolegno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zuo2jCfm90 Choreographed for Composition 1 Final and performed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. —Jorge Luis Borges For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me, a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear. I was seven, I lay in the car watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass. My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin. “How do you know if you are going to die?” I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days. With strange confidence she answered, “When you can no longer make a fist.” Years later I smile to think of that journey, the borders we must cross separately, stamped with our unanswerable woes. I who did not die, who am still living, still lying in the backseat behind all my questions, clenching and opening one small hand.