The UW–Madison Dance Department presents its Repertory Concert 2025 this week, featuring work from Omari Carter, Chell Parkins, Anna Peretz Rogovoy, Liz Sexe, and Chris Walker. Performances will take place April 24-26 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall (1050 University Ave.).
The program will include Professor Chris Walker’s “If: A Fugue,” an ensemble work that explores the fragile space between joy and loneliness, tracing how moments of connection can flicker, distort, or exist only in the imagination. The piece is structured as a series of variations on a theme. The work moves through solos, duets, and ensemble forms, weaving emotional tension with compositional rigor.
Assistant Professor Omari Carter will present a new work titled “Close Up,” combining live stage performance with dance-on-screen. The choreography within the piece draws influence from the dance styles of animation and hip hop, as the performers dive into the complexities of identity, vulnerability, and the courage to embrace one’s authentic self in a world that often demands conformity.
Also on the program is Anna Peretz Rogovoy’s “Waves Of Consequence,” a dance for 12 women, with an original score composed by Andrew Bocher. The work explores the state of witnessing and being witnessed, as individuals and in community. The movement vocabulary for this work is richly formalist, drawing from ballet and Cunningham technique traditions as well as contemporary modes of performance.
“The Satsuma Tree” is a deeply personal dance work choreographed by Chell Parkins, which captures the fragile, shifting nature of memory as a daughter watches her mother slip further into Alzheimer’s. Woven with echoes of family visits to Puerto Rico, the piece blends movement and emotion to hold onto the warmth and beauty of what was. It is both a love letter and a lament, honoring a mother and the homeland that shaped their shared past.
Finally, Liz Sexe will present her new work, “After the After Times,” accompanied by Lorna Dune’s music, for six dancers. The piece uses exciting and exploratory movement to explore how to coexist within a plastic world.
Tickets for the concert are $25 general admission and $19 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the Campus Arts Box Office, 1st floor Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street; by phone at 608-265-2787; or online at artsticketing.wisc.edu.
Tickets can also be purchased at the door one hour before performances.