Enjoy a showcase of student creativity at the upcoming annual Afterimages dance concert at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
“Afterimages 2025” will be performed in Jenkins Theatre in the Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage St., Stevens Point, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 5-6, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7.
Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors and UW-Stevens Point faculty and staff and $16 for youth. Tickets will be available for purchase at tickets.uwsp.edu, by calling 715-346-4100 or by visiting the Information and Tickets Office in the Dreyfus University Center in Stevens Point.
For more than 30 years, Afterimages has served dance majors and minors in the Department of Theatre and Dance. As the only production fully produced and conceptualized by students, this dance concert features original choreography in a variety of dance styles including ballet, contemporary, hip hop, jazz, modern and tap. Nine dances by junior and senior dance majors and minors are featured this year.
Dance works include:
- “The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues…” by Aubree Leitermann, a senior dance major. This work is a challenge of physical stamina. The dancers commit to the arduous task of this classic secondary school gym class experience. The dance slips in and out of unison as slight variations in movement material are revealed to the audience.
- “Synthetic Odyssey” by Marcella Rose, a senior dance major, is an outlet to deconstruct human evolution and abstract the fears of where society is headed. As humans increasingly rely on technology and cheaper shortcuts, does this dependency shape who and what we are? Will we inevitably become what we consume?
- “I asked God to send me a swordsman” by Sarah Dickinson, a senior dance major, explores the unpredictable nature of our lives and the journeys we take as we shift our perspectives and search for meaning.
- “Polyphony” Ellie Meyer, a junior senior dance major, drifts through a landscape of intersecting rhythms with quiet repetitions, solo pulses and sudden convergences that weave through one another.
- “Invertebrate” by Graceanne Rendernick, a junior dance major, is the embodiment of movement qualities of jellyfish swimming deep under ocean’s surface. The connection between the two dancers is a shared consciousness which is maintained as they physically converge and diverge from each other.
- “Radiate” by Grace Meyer, a senior dance major, is a celebration of life, friendship and joy. Featuring a cast of five excellent tap dancers who weave together a story of happenstance as they pass through a park, making connections and building friendship.
- “Celestial Passing by Kariss Lambert, a senior dance major, uses the moon, sun and earth as metaphors for friendship and life. We experience a variety of relationship at different points in our life and their effect on us helps us grow, change, accept and discover.
- “Within Serendipity” by Renee McSherry, a senior dance major, is a physical investigation and representation of serendipity, the development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
- “Bound” by Leah Scherer, a junior dance major, is an exploration of humanity’s dichotomies, taking contradictory but codependent states of being and abstracting them into weighted and lifted movement vocabularies. The piece takes the bodies through an arc of missed encounters that will build towards acknowledging the innateness of duality to the human experience.