Repertory Concert 2026

MADISON – The UW-Madison Dance Department presents Repertory Concert 2026, featuring work from Omari Carter, Bradford Chin, Aaron Loux, Anna Peretz Rogovoy, Liz Sexe, and Collette Stewart at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, April 23-25, 2026.

The program will include Assistant Professor Omari Carter’s “Footnotes in Defiance: Cadence of the Unheard,” a performance that transforms rhythm into resistance, using body percussion, house and tap dance to give form to voices searching for space. Layers of sound collide and interlock, revealing strength in togetherness.

Assistant Professor Bradford Chin finishes their first year at the University of Wisconsin with “The Vertiginous Thrill of a Flop / PLAY.” This work, which was created mere months after their new, conceptually strong work “POMPOUS,” (Fall 2025), is, by contrast, one of their weakest works to date. Leaning into the support and unique contributions of their collaborators, Chin gives shape to the fragmented ideas of this incoherent duet and relishes in the relief of finally being able to create mediocre work and the importance, privilege, and necessity of play and failure in our training and collegiate environments.

Anna Peretz Rogovoy will present “I want so much more for you,” a contemporary ballet for a very large ensemble set to music by LCD Soundsystem. The cast, led by senior Dance degree candidate Katie Pratt in a featured role, inhabit dueling visions of the future, navigating the gap between division and hope through complex partnering and adamantly specific movement.

“Cold Comfort,” a new work by choreographer Aaron Loux is set to Hope Littwin’s recent choral composition “Ginger, Ginseng.” The dance contemplates the libretto’s list of medicinal herbs and the potency of music as a form of healing. Together and apart, its five dancers move through states of tender care, violent frenzy, and measured ritual action in their search for equilibrium.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This concert is presented and produced by the UW-Madison Dance Department. Photo of Omari Carter’s work “Close Up” by Maureen Janson Heintz.

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