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Dance Program announces fall season

September 7, 2004 By Doreen Adamany

Yvonne Rainer, considered an “avant-garde aesthete and utopian activist” by essayist Ann Daly, will speak on Friday, Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall as part of the fall Friday Forum series sponsored by the Dance Program. Rainer will talk about her retrospective, “Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002,” opening at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee Sept. 23 and running through Jan. 9.

Friday Forum Speakers include:

  • Composer/performer Barton McLean, Oct. 1
  • UCLA associate professor and AIDS activist David Gere, Oct. 8
  • UW-Madison dance alumna and choreographer Nora Stephens, Nov. 6
  • Canadian choreographer and dancer Allen Kaeja, Nov. 19
  • Former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company principal dancer Heidi Latsky, Dec. 3.

All Friday Forums begin at 3:30 p.m. in Lathrop Hall, and are free and open to the public.

Several guest artist residencies and concerts highlight a full calendar of events. The concert schedule includes:

“Passage of Oracles”
Friday, Oct. 8, 8 p.m., Wisconsin Union Theater.

This combination of dance, music and martial arts, returns to campus this fall as part of Peggy Choy’s “Ki Project Tour.” The performance commemorates passages of Asians and Africans within the United States.

For tickets and more information, e-mail pachoy@facstaff.wisc.edu

Fall Student Concert
Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 21-23, 8 p.m., Lathrop Hall.

Emerging choreographers in the Dance Program create new works for this all-student concert. The Anna R. Nassif Dance Award for Choreography will be awarded to a senior choreographer and two of the works shown will be selected to represent the university at the American College Dance Festival in the spring.

For tickets and more information, 262-1691.

noraewdanceco
Saturday, Nov. 6, 8 p.m., Lathrop Hall.

The noranewdanceco was founded by choreographer Nora Stephens in 1999 with funding from UW–Madison, where she received two Senior Honors Research Fellowships to start her company. New York-based composer and UW–Madison graduate Ryan Smith joins Stephens for this collaborative performance.

For tickets and more information, 262-1691.

Faculty Concert
Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 18-20, 8 p.m. Lathrop Hall.

New and recent works by guest artist Allen Kaeja and distinguished faculty and staff, including Jin-Wen Yu, Marlene Skog and others will be featured. Highlights include a group work choreographed by Kaeja and the premiere of Skog’s group work with music composed and recorded collaboratively by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass in 1990. Other dance repertory pieces will also be shown.

For tickets and more information, 262-1691.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance
“Big Dances” Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 2-4, 8 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 4, 2 p.m., Wisconsin Studio, Overture Center, 201 State St.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance covers snowy ground with a program of red-blooded, passion-filled, generous dances for this winter concert. LCPD will be joined by guest artist Heidi Latsky, renowned former principal dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, for an evocative concert of virtuosic solo works and big group dances.

Tickets are $6 for children 12 and under; $12 students/seniors; and $16 for all others. For tickets and more information, call 835-6590 or visit www.lichiaoping dance.org .

Artist Residencies
The Dance Program also hosts two guest artist residencies this fall.

  • Barton McLean, Sept. 26-Oct. 2
    • Composer/performer McLean will work collaboratively with dance and interarts and technology (Iatech) students during a weeklong residency to create a “Sound Mass Playpen” for MAX/MSP students and keyboard improvisers.
  • Allen Kaeja, Nov. 1-21
    • During his residency, Canadian choreographer Kaeja will present master classes and lecture/demonstrations, conduct student auditions and choreograph a work that will be performed by students in the Faculty Fall Concert, Nov. 18-20.

Dance Program events and guest-artist residencies are generously supported by the School of Education and the Anonymous Fund. For more information about Dance Program concerts, classes and other activities, call 262-1691 or go to www.education.wisc.edu/dance.

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