Choreographer to premiere three new works

‘Interplay,’ a cross-cultural and multi-media dance concert showcasing works by Jin-Wen Yu, UW-Madison Dance Program assistant professor, will be performed March 2-4 at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.

With his head deep in goldfish habitat, Jin-Wen Yu will perform “Interplay,” a cross-cultural and multi-media dance concert at Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 8 p.m., March 2-4.

The program integrates Tai Chi, Chinese opera dance, and ballet with modern dance. Yu’s new and recent works fill the stage and screen with powerful images, intricate spatial patterns and dynamic partnering work.

Guest artists are Phillip Zarrilli, former chair of UW–Madison’s Department of Theatre and Drama, nationally known ballet duo Charles and Rose Flachs, lighting and video designer Claude Heintz, and musicians Peter Jones and Kevin Frey.

Highlights include three concert premieres:

• “Duet #2,” performed by Yu and Zarrilli, depicts a spiritual journey and blends Chinese and Indian martial art forms with contemporary dance vocabularies.
• “Bobbing,” a dynamic group work, is performed by university students amidst a stage of flying, fluttering papers.
• “Interplay,” a solo by Yu, uses a video camera and projections to reveal an “internal landscape” within a stage setting of stones.

Other solo, duet and group works are scheduled as well. Tickets: $12 public, $8 students and senior citizens, available in advance at the Wisconsin Union Box Office, 800 Langdon St., (608) 262-2201, or at the door.