School of Education Dean Marcelle Haddix and Dance Department Assistant Professor Bradford Chin recently shared their reasons for choosing the University of Wisconsin–Madison as their academic home in the Division of the Art’s recurring “Why Wisconsin” feature. In the feature, Haddix explains her Wisconsin roots — she was born in Madison and raised in Milwaukee …
Five students from the UW–Madison School of Education’s Dance Department spent three weeks in New York City this summer participating in intensive coursework at the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) at the 92nd Street Y, a nationally recognized training and professional learning program for dance educators. Supported through fully funded fellowships and scholarships, the students spent …
A Madison dance troupe led by UW–Madison Dance Department lecturer AJ Juarez recently appeared on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” earning praise from judges and advancing to the next round of competition. Juarez’s group, Barrio Dance Factory, was featured on the Tuesday, July 7, episode of the show. The 28-member troupe opened the two-hour program with …
By Katie Grant, Office of Research & Scholarship The UW–Madison School of Education is proud to announce the selection of 18 projects for funding through the One School Innovation Fund, a competitive internal program designed to catalyze bold, collaborative research and scholarship across the arts, education, and health. Launched earlier this year by the Office …
By Katie Grant, Office of Research & Scholarship The charge of the Office of Research & Scholarship (ORS) is to equitably support the wide range of research and scholarship underway across the School of Education. Access to these resources has expanded across the School as part of the One School initiative. These resources are now …
UW–Madison’s Li Chiao-Ping has been named a 2026 Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Li is the Sally Banes Professor of Dance and a Vilas Research Professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department. She also directs the Dance Department’s new MFA program and is the artistic director of Li Chiao-Ping Dance. …
The UW–Madison Dance Department presents its Repertory Concert 2026, featuring work from Omari Carter, Bradford Chin, Aaron Loux, Anna Peretz Rogovoy, Liz Sexe, and Collette Stewart. Performances will take place April 23–25 in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall (1050 University Ave.). The program will include Assistant Professor Omari Carter’s “Footnotes in Defiance: Cadence of …
By Kari Dickinson Beginning in fall 2026, the UW–Madison Dance Department will launch a new Dance Education minor designed to expand access to dance in Wisconsin’s public schools and help rebuild a statewide pipeline of licensed dance teachers. When paired with an existing teacher education major, the minor provides a pathway to teacher licensure in dance. …
Wisconsin Public Radio recently highlighted the UW–Madison Dance Department’s upcoming centennial in an in-depth story, tracing the program’s groundbreaking origins and lasting impact on dance education. This fall marks 100 years since Margaret H’Doubler established the nation’s first dance major at UW–Madison. The department will celebrate her legacy and the program’s history throughout the 2026–27 academic year, culminating …
This article was originally published by UW–Madison’s Office of Strategic Communication. Live music, dance, and contemporary theater lit up Lathrop Hall’s Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space during Moonshine 2026. Held on Feb. 27, the annual event brought together campus and community artists for a night of shared performance art. Undergraduate and graduate students took to the stage alongside local …