The University of Wisconsin–Madison Dance Department will present its Faculty Concert 2026 from Nov. 19-21 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall.

This year’s concert will feature new and restaged works from faculty artists Bradford Chin, Kate Corby, Li Chiao-Ping, and Chris Walker, along with work from guest artist Tiffany Merritt-Brown.

Merritt-Brown, a Miami, Florida, native and UW–Madison Dance Department alumna, returns to campus for a three-week residency during the department’s centennial year to set a work on seven UW–Madison student dancers and teach master classes. Merritt-Brown is a choreographer, performer, scholar, and educator whose work explores the socio-political ramifications of identity and its impact on BIPOC communities.

Merritt-Brown currently serves as an assistant professor of dance at Hunter College. She earned her BFA in dance from UW–Madison in 2016 and later earned an MFA in dance and social justice from the University of Texas at Austin.

In addition to Merritt-Brown’s piece, concertgoers can expect a rich diversity of movement traditions, social inquiry, and collaborative creation across these works:

• Bradford Chin restages “Sunrise: A case study in movement scores and disability justice,” with a quartet of performing collaborators. Originally created at the University of California, Irvine in 2022, this ensemble work explores disability-centered holistic access measures and their impact on artistry, sustainability, and agency for both individual dancers and the collective ensemble. The piece was also restaged this fall with eight performing collaborators at the University of Southern Mississippi.

• Kate Corby presents a new collaborative work for 11 women that explores the voice as a source of agency, embodiment, creativity, and community, developed in consultation with UW–Madison Professor of Theatre and Drama Ann Shanahan on integrating voice and movement.

• Li Chiao-Ping, currently the department’s chair, will present “We hold it all in,” an energizing new work created for 11 student dancers. The work contemplates the current state of world events through strong athleticism and dynamic groupings that issue a call for solidarity and resilience.

• Christopher Walker presents a reimagining of “Rough Drafts,” a distillation of his original full-length work. This condensed composition was set on student dancers through choreographic mural-making and bricolage. At its heart, the piece engages dancers with a distinctly Jamaican contemporary movement vocabulary derived from folk, traditional dance, and popular dancehall practices. Drawing on themes of ancestry, partnership, and resilience, Walker recomposes intermediate movements across time and space while preserving the work’s original opening and closing sections.

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

Tiffany Merritt-Brown’s residency was made possible with the generous support of the Anonymous Fund.