The UW–Madison Dance Department and Kate Corby present “Residues,” a split-bill, contemporary dance concert featuring work by Corby, a professor in the Dance Department, alongside long-time collaborator and guest artist Erin Kilmurray.

The performances will take place on Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 p.m., in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall (1050 University Ave.).

This visceral, electric program pairs two compelling contemporary choreographic voices that push aesthetic boundaries and ask big questions about the body, performance, and ways in which we interact with ourselves and others.

The concert opens with Corby’s premiere of “Residues,” a duet that explores the themes of agency, confinement, trauma, and archetypes, stemming from Corby’s investigation of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. These Catholic-run institutions imprisoned women, forcing them to do severe unpaid labor and exposing them to physical and psychological abuse. The work will be performed by Anna Peretz Rogovoy, a dance artist and educator who is an instructor in the Dance Department, and Meaghan Schimke, a UW–Madison dance alum, choreographer, dancer, and instructor based in Madison.

The second half features the choreography of the 2025 Chicago Tribune “Chicagoan of the Year in Dance,” Erin Kilmurray. Kilmurray is a former performer with Kate Corby & Dancers, known for creating genre-straddling, radical performance spaces — including the famed Chicago project The Fly Honey Show. Kilmurray will present “Untitled (fka Nightshade),” a work in development that will be performed by Chicago-based Kara Brody, Damon Green, and Deandra Alaba.

Purchase tickets at the Campus Arts Box Office (1st floor Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.), by phone at 608-265-2787, or online at artsticketing.wisc.edu. The cost is $27 general admission and $19 for students and seniors. Tickets can also be purchased at the door one hour before the performances.

Learn more about the concert.