Student choreographers present ‘Dissecting the Tutu’

Student choreographers in the UW–Madison Dance Program will present a concert, “Dissecting the Tutu,” March 25-27.

Details The program starts each night at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. Tickets are $8/general public and $5/students and senior citizens, available in advance at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office, 800 Langdon St., 262-2201. Tickets also will be sold at the door.

Works choreographed by the following students have been selected for the concert: Jessica Berson, a graduate student in the Department of Theater and Drama from New York; Tamra Bisbee, a sophomore from McFarland; Rebecca Davis, a senior from Colfax; Nora Stephens, a junior from Brookline, Massachusetts and David Stephenson, a senior from Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

“Building on and breaking down traditions of acceptable dance content is an overriding theme in most of the works,” says concert co-director Pat Catterson. “Images of women, the performer persona and the use of technology are explored by students as they question elements of performance and where dance can be performed.”

Catterson, a visiting faculty member from New York, is co-directing the concert with Dance and Interarts and Technology Program professor Joseph Koykkar. Here for a semester-long appointment, Catterson teaches modern technique, tap, repertory and composition.

The program starts each night at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. Tickets are $8/general public and $5/students and senior citizens, available in advance at the Wisconsin Union Theater Box Office, 800 Langdon St., 262-2201. Tickets also will be sold at the door.

For more information, call the Dance Program, (608) 262-1691.