Calendar Highlights

‘Framework’ focuses on student choreography
Students in the Dance Program invite concertgoers to arrive early for the fall concert to enjoy an improvisational dance in the lobby 15 minutes before curtain time.

“Framework,” featuring works by six emerging student choreographers, runs Oct. 31- Nov. 2 at 8 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space at Lathrop Hall.Other activities include a informal talk-back with the choreographers and dancers following the Thursday, Oct. 31, performance and a reception in the parlor after the Saturday, Nov. 2, performance.

“The students are very excited about this concert,” says Marlene Skog, concert coordinator and Dance Program instructor. “Two of their works were inspired by artists Audre Lorde, poet, and postmodern dancer/choreographer Trisha Brown, while others have evolved from personal explorations of movement, the erotic, human relations and Grace as a lifeforce.”

“Settings for two works by [the students] are site-specific,” says Skog. “One explores improvisational dance, while the other was created for the camera, so audiences should anticipate viewing this concert in traditional as well as non-traditional ways—if they come a little early.”

Tickets at the door: $10 for general public and $8 for students and senior citizens, except on Thursday, Oct. 31, when student tickets are $5. Information: 262-1691.

‘Frontline’ producer speaks Nov. 7
The executive producer of public broadcasting’s “Frontline,” America’s only regularly scheduled public affairs documentary program, will speak Thursday, Nov. 7, at UW–Madison. David Fanning will address “The Abandonment of Television” in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Ralph O. Nafziger Lecture for 2002. The talk begins at 4 p.m. in the Memorial Union’s Fredric March Play Circle. A reception follows. No tickets are required.

“David Fanning is one of the most important figures in American documentary,” says Lewis A. Friedland, journalism professor and director of the Center for Communication and Democracy.

“The main question he is asking—has American television abandoned serious reporting?—affects anyone who votes, goes to school, has a job or worries about war; in short, anyone who cares about American democracy.”

Fanning has been executive producer of “Frontline” since it first aired in 1983. Prior to that, he started the documentary series “World” at WGBH, Boston Public Television, and the PBS series “Adventure.”

Information: contact Friedland, 263-7853; lfriedla@facstaff.wisc.edu.