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2026 Dance Collective UPROAR Application
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AUDITION AND APPLY
Undergraduate Degrees: BFA, BA + Certificates
Undergraduate Degrees: BFA, BA + Certificates
MFA in DANCE
MFA in DANCE
PERFORMANCES
Persistence High Tickets
Persistence High Tickets
Persistence High is an evening-length dance performance exploring training through dancers’ stories of exhaustion and exhilaration.
FEB 5 - 8 | Winterdances: Resilience
FEB 5 - 8 | Winterdances: Resilience
Winterdances: Resilience will present dance works that uplift the human connection through storytelling, joy, and resilience. The world premiere dances dive into our shared humanity and offer a vision of how we gather strength through community. This evening features new works by dance faculty Mair Culbreth, Ishmael Konney, Dawn Springer, and a premiere work by acclaimed choreographer and special guest artist David Roussève.
NEWS AND AWARDS
Dance Professor earns Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars
Dance Professor earns Wisconsin Teaching Fellows & Scholars
Dr. Mair Culbreth, Assistant Professor of Dance, has been competitively selected to represent UWM for the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholars (WTFS) program. Starting in May, Culbreth will join professors from a variety of disciplines representing the Universities of Wisconsin. …
UWM Research Grant, Gillespie's year long research project
UWM Research Grant, Gillespie's year long research project
Maria Gillespie (Professor, Dance; Director, Dance Graduate Program) was recently awarded the 2024-25 UWM Advancing Research Creativity (ARC) Grant to help fund her yearlong choreographic research project. Under the working title “Wild Tongue: Translating Embodied Memory in the Language of Dance,” Gillespie will work with long-time collaborators Kevin Williamson and Nguyên Nguyên to explore a variety of identities through dance. Part of this exploration will root in Gillespie’s Chicana ethnicity and queer performance methodologies.
Dance lecturer receives prestigious award at CNADM workshop
Dance lecturer receives prestigious award at CNADM workshop
Melissa Anderson (Lecturer, Dance) has earned the Artistic Achievement Award by the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters, joining a prestigious group of dance educators. Anderson received the award during CNADM’s Summer Workshop.
Guest choreographer Jackie Lopez brings Hip Hop history and women's empowerment to Winterdances 2025
Guest choreographer Jackie Lopez brings Hip Hop history and women's empowerment to Winterdances 2025
Winterdances: Perfectly Wild features the work of PSOA Dance faculty members with a special piece from Los Angeles-based guest choreographer Jackie Lopez. During the fall semester, Lopez visited UWM to work with PSOA dance students and choreograph her Winterdances piece, “Her-Story Her-Spirit.”
New to the UWM Faculty - Ishmael Konney
New to the UWM Faculty - Ishmael Konney
Dance it Out
Guest Artist Aysha Upchurch
Guest Artist Aysha Upchurch
The Department of Dance has been working with accomplished dancer, educator, and choreographer Aysha Upchurch throughout 2023. As a guest artist, Upchurch was heavily involved in choreographing a piece for the upcoming Winterdances: Liminal faculty concert.
General Info
About PSOA
About PSOA
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Last year's Summer Dance Intensive BROCHURE.pdf
Last year's Summer Dance Intensive BROCHURE.pdf
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