“Here Lies the Truth,” a mixed-media, collaborative dance theater work from Li Chiao-Ping Dance, is receiving significant media attention in the lead up to its San Francisco run from Sept. 29 – Oct. 1. The work, which premiered at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison in March 2022, is a collaboration among visual artist …
UW–Madison’s Chell Parkins was a guest on a recent episode of Ocu-Pasión Podcast. In the episode, titled “Culturally Relevant Dance Education With Chell Parkins of Ballet Hispánico,” Parkins discusses the experiences of Latin youth engaged in culturally relevant dance-making practices, her contribution to the nation’s only doctoral program focused on educational research in dance, and her journey …
UW–Madison’s Christopher Walker spoke with Madison 365 recently about how the pandemic has altered the arts in Wisconsin. In the article, headlined “ ‘There’s so much momentum.’ The pandemic has altered arts, artists, and audiences in Wisconsin,” Walker reflects on the first time he returned to an arts event in the fall of 2021, after over …
UW–Madison’s Andrea Harris is the author of a new article that was published in Dance Research Journal, titled “Blanche Evan’s ‘Film Studies of the Dance’: The ‘Technique Problem’ and the Creation of New Forms in 1930s Revolutionary Dance.” Harris is an associate professor and chair of the School of Education’s Dance Department. Harris’s article examines …
Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) is launching a national tour of its mixed-media, collaborative dance theater work, “Here Lies the Truth,” in August. On Aug. 13, LCPD will present an excerpt from “Here Lies the Truth” at the Asia Pacific Dance Festival in Honolulu, Hawaii. A discussion about the work’s theme will take place following the …
By Kari Dickinson Michelle (Chell) Parkins was recently named the inaugural Arnhold Director in Dance Education with UW–Madison’s Dance Department, a position she will start on Aug. 1. This new position was made possible by a gift from dance advocate, educator, and founder of the Dance Education Laboratory Jody Gottfried Arnhold (BA 1965) and her husband John Arnhold. Their …
Three projects led by School of Education faculty and staff are among eight projects and 10 seed projects selected to receive grants from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. These projects show the range of how UW–Madison faculty, staff, and students can collaborate with community members to co-create and share knowledge and solutions …
By Kari Dickinson New York City-based choreographer Cameron McKinney, artistic director of Kizuna Dance, has been a summer guest artist in the School of Education’s Dance Department the past three weeks. Chosen for this residency by UW–Madison dance students, McKinney creates works that celebrate Japanese culture using contemporary, highly athletic movement and floorwork. The residency will culminate on Friday, …
Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) announces the return of the company’s Summer Exploratory Experimental Dance Intensive and Performance Festival (SEED Festival) from June 19-25 in Oregon and Madison. Li Chiao-Ping, the artistic director of Li Chiao-Ping Dance, is the Sally Banes Professor of Dance and a Vilas Research Professor in the School of Education’s Dance Department. This year, the SEED …
Mary Alice “Buff” Brennan, a longtime UW–Madison faculty member who dedicated her career to supporting and encouraging dance students, died on April 8, 2022. Brennan was a professor emerita in the School of Education’s Dance Department, where she was on the faculty from 1967 until her retirement in 2002. Through her years at UW–Madison she …