Kloepper Concert

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Maureen Janson Heintz

A dancer suspended in midair.

"Over Soon," by Zoe Huntsberger, UW Kloepper Concert, 2021.

(past pick) The UW Dance Department presents its annual compendium of student work, featuring new choreography by a dozen dancers as well as a collaborative work by first-year students. The concerts are named in honor of former professor and department chair Louise Kloepper, who retired in 1975.

press release: The UW-Madison Dance Department presents the annual Kloepper Concert, a performance of new student work, in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space on December 3-4, 2022.

The concert will feature the work of student choreographers Jessica Billings, Chloe Druckrey, Zoe Huntsberger, Sarah Langdon, Trinity Manzke, Abbi Stickels, Lucie Sullivan, Erin Walsh, and Clare Weigert. An ensemble piece from the First Year Workshop, a collaborative work from first-year dance degree students, directed by Collette Stewart, will also be on the program.

This concert is named for Louise Kloepper, former chair of the Dance Department. Kloepper came to the UW in 1942 to study dance, after almost a decade teaching and dancing with the Hanya Holm School and Company. In 1942, she was the first dance professional admitted as a dance student at the UW-Madison campus. The same year she graduated, in 1946, she became an assistant professor at UW-Madison. Kloepper was a distinguished teacher of dance technique and composition, serving as artistic director and producer for many faculty-student presentations. She chaired the program for several years and was a professor of dance until she retired in 1975.

Anna Nassif (professor emerita, Dance Department) said Kloepper was a humanist who followed the ideas of John Dewey and Margaret H’Doubler someone who put her faith in each student’s ability and talent to grow into a teacher, artist, therapist by his or her own effort and motivation. 

PERFORMANCES: SAT Dec 3 at 8:00 p.m.; SUN Dec 4 at 2:30 p.m.   

Purchase tickets at the Campus Arts Box Office, 1st floor Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, by phone at 608-265-2787 or online at artsticketing.wisc.edu, $20 general admission and $12 students and seniors. Tickets can also be purchased at the door one hour before the performances.