Ride involves a cast of 16 and is performed to Richard Wagner’s score, Ride of the Valkyries. The dance is light-hearted, visual, and theatrical and involves performers manipulating umbrellas and costumes as props. Sexy underwear, trench coats, 20 umbrellas, 16 flashlights, 4 clotheslines filled with underwear, fedoras, flying bats, etc…

"Ride is among the most entertaining and brilliantly realized theater-dance pieces ever presented by a local choreographer…delightfully madcap…perhaps his signature work."

— Capital Times

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Viewings
Performance Space: Lathrop Performance Space
Performance Tech – Tim Glenn and Company Concert
Madison, WI
February 16 & 17, 1996 (premiere)
Original Cast: Michael J. Bickel, Zach De Vries, Tim Glenn, Valerie Hollnagel, Tracey Lencioni, Petria Foss Milroy, Gretchen Miller, Chris Rouse, Sara Spaeth
Guest Dancers: Heather Breach, Kristen Kettleson, Amy L. Krunnfusz, Natasha Posey, Sonya Seifert, Eddie Sheehan, Kara Tharldson

Verona Performing Arts Center
MetroDance, Inc. Spring Tour
Verona, WI
Cast: Michael J. Bickel, Zach De Vries, Tim Glenn, Tracey Lencioni, Petria Foss Milroy, Gretchen Miller, Chris Rouse, Sara Spaeth (no Valerie Hollnagel)
Guest Dancers: Ame van Benschoten, Heather Breach, Amy L. Krunnfusz, Natasha Posey, Sonya Seifert, Eddie Sheehan, Kara Tharaldson
April 20, 1996

Performance Space: Lathrop Hall Performance Space, UW–Madison Campus
After the Fall, UW–Madison Dance Program Spring Concert
Madison, WI
Cast: Michael J. Bickel, Zach De Vries, Tim Glenn, Tracey Lencioni, Gretchen Miller, Chris Rouse, Sara Spaeth (no Valerie Hollnagel or Petria Foss Milroy)
Guest Dancers: Ame van Benschoten, Heather Breach, Amy L. Krunnfusz, Natasha Posey, Sonya Seifert, Eddie Sheehan, Kara Tharaldson
April 25–27, 1996

Performance Space: Al Ringling Theatre
MetroDance, Inc. Spring Tour
Baraboo, WI
Cast: Michael J. Bickel, Zach De Vries, Tim Glenn, Valerie Hollnagel?, Tracey Lencioni, Petria Foss Milroy, Gretchen Miller, Chris Rouse, Sara Spaeth
Guest Dancers: Ame van Benschoten, Heather Breach, Amy L. Krunnfusz, Natasha Posey, Sonya Seifert, Eddie Sheehan, Kara Tharaldson
May 3, 1996

Days of Dance Concert
FSU School of Dance
Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre, FSU Campus
Tallahassee, FL
April 15, 16, & 23, 2016
Dancers: LaQuan Anderson, MaryRebekah Bartos, Rosa Bledsoe, Heather Boni, Ross Daniel, Jeanann Dorobis, Taylor Ennen, Kathleen Ewing, Sofia Garra, Claire Georgiadis, Caroline Labreche, SarahGrace Mariani, Ryan McMullen, Kaitlin Morgan, Maxwell Murdock, Daniel Perez, Jennifer Petuch, Eleanor Reidy, Mary Roberts, LiA Stivers

The year, 2016, marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of Ride. Performance Tech–Tim Glenn & Company based in Madison, WI, last performed the piece in 1996.

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Credits
Choreography: Tim Glenn
Music: Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
Lighting: Original design by Barry Gawinski
Costume, Prop, & Set Design: Tim Glenn

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