HERE LIES THE TRUTH
2019-2026
An hour-long multidisciplinary dance theater work is a collaboration among director/choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, sound designer/composer Tim Russell, dramaturg Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg.
HLTT premiered in March of 2022 at the Overture Center for the Arts. We have enjoyed sharing it across the U.S., performing in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, and Wisconsin.
Thurs, Feb. 5, 2026 at 8pm
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Fri, Feb. 6, 2026 at 8pm
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Sat, Feb. 7 at 2:30pm
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Livestream option on Saturday
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Thurs, Feb. 5, 2026 at 8pm ✳︎ Fri, Feb. 6, 2026 at 8pm ✳︎ Sat, Feb. 7 at 2:30pm ✳︎ Livestream option on Saturday ✳︎
Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to watch”, Li Chiao-Ping has been praised by critics in the New York Times, Village Voice, Dance Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and San Francisco Bay Guardian, calling her work “...marvelously imaginative...engrossing, intelligently put-together.” Dance Magazine says “Li Chiao-Ping in performance is a case of the dancer transcending the dance…When Li’s onstage, you don’t want to blink.” Li is a multi-hyphenate artist, a 9-time NEA grant awardee, and a MAP Fund grant recipient, who creates layered works that combine multiple art forms to explore themes of culture and identity. Li Chiao-Ping is honored to be a Vilas Research Professor and the Sally Banes Professor of Dance; she is also the creator of The Extreme Moves Training MethodSM/TM. She earned her graduate degree from UCLA, was Director of the Hollins College Dance Program, and Chair of the UW-Madison Dance Department. She formed Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 1990 and co-directed the SF-based Dziga Vertov Performance Group with Douglas Rosenberg (1992-94). She has directed/choreographed in musical theater, opera, and ballet, for stage, screen, and other sites; she receives commissions from dance companies, colleges/universities, and individuals around the country. Her work has been shown in major venues/festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including Jacob’s Pillow, Bates, ADF, Kennedy Center, Walker Art Center, Dance Place, Danspace Project, DTW, Theater Artaud, CounterPulse, and in Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, Argentina, and more. She was a Guest artist/Special Advisor to the Festival Internacional de VideoDanzaBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina); recently won the Audience Choice Award from the 2025 Asian American Dance Festival Dance Film Screening and an Honorable Mention for Direction from the 10,000 Dreams Film Festival, for her dance film “Never Lost (결코 잃지 않았다)”; also recently won Best Picture, Best Experimental Film, and Best Dance Film from the 2024 Los Angeles Chinatown International Film Festival for her screendance “in silence is the offering presented”. Current projects include “DIRTY LAUNDRY”, which begins touring in 2026 and a new documentary dance film project. www.lcpdance.com
Douglas Rosenberg (MFA, San Francisco Art Institute) is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an artist and a theorist working with performance, video, installation whose work has been exhibited internationally for over 30 years in museums, festivals, galleries and elsewhere. He is the author of Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image, published by Oxford Press and The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, for which he was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research and he is a founding editor of The International Journal of Screendance. His work has been supported by numerous grants and awards including, the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Soros Foundation, the MAP Fund in New York and the James D. Phelan Art Award in Video. He is most recently the recipient of the Creative Arts Award. Recent exhibitions and screenings of his films include Limerick City Gallery of Art, Scotland Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria, and Lincoln Center, New York and at le Festival Ciné-Corps de Paris in 2018. His commissioned public art project, Monumental Gestures was on view in Decatur, Georgia through 2022 and his most recent film, Song of Songs, is touring internationally and was recently screened at the Ingmar Bergman Center in Fårö, Sweden. His newest film project shot on the Island of Fårö in Sweden is called, The Sea. His most recent book (2024) is, Staring at the Sky, Essays on Art and Culture, published by Korpen Press.
Tim Russell lives at the confluence of the aural and the visual. He currently serves as Music Director for the University of Wisconsin’s Dance Department. In 2019, Tim was selected as one of the Cowles Visiting Artists at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, a first for a Musician in the field of Dance. He has a vast catalogue of works specifically for choreography, most of which exist live, in collaboration with movement. His 2022 album: “Selected Works For Movement v.1”, was included in Tone Madison’s top 20 records of 2022. His current curatorial project: Common Sage Arts, promotes multidisciplinary artists through carefully curated performances. Tim’s audio shares the stage with a vast array of choreographic artists bringing him and his music across the world from Dock 11 in Berlin to YBCA in San Francisco. He holds a MFA in Music Improvisation from Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied improvisation, electronic music and composition with the likes of Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell and Zeena Parkins. www.avoidancepolicy.com
Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar interested in experimental performance. The author of After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation and Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor’s Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge, her articles appear in international anthologies and journals. Raised in Rio de Janeiro, she has performed in Europe, North and South America. Directing highlights include Reasons for Moving and Pornographic Angel, her published adaptation of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues’ short stories at The Ohio Theater in NYC. On film, she directed Reasons for Moving: a documentary about immigrants living in Minnesota, and dance shorts The Colonial Table and 88. Flesh Red. She held residences at Bogliasco Center in Italy, Caldera AiR, Trinity College Dublin, Mellon Foundation, Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities, and Freie Universität-Berlin, and received grants from the Consulate General of Brazil, MRAC, MN State Arts Board, and MN Humanities Center, to cite a few.
ARTISTS
DANCERS
John G. Frautschy - With a career spanning nearly 40 years including international tours and regional theaters, John has worked as a lighting designer, production manager, technical director, stage manager, audio engineer, projectionist, and stagehand with IATSE Local 251. Typically combining one or many of those skills, his work has been seen with many Madison, WI area organizations as well as Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois- Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Capital City Theatre, Children's Theater Madison, Forward Theater Company, Four Seasons Theater, Jazzworks Dance Co., Kanopy Dance Co., Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Madison Ballet, Madison Opera, Madison Repertory Theater, Madison Theater Guild, UW Opera, University Theater, and the brand new MYarts: Madison Youth Arts Center. Now residing in South Carolina he’s looking for new opportunities in the Augusta, GA area, but still has many connections to his local Madison groups.
Claude Heintz is a theatrical and software designer who has created lighting, settings, and video for numerous works seen onstage including hundreds of dance concerts with choreographers from around the world. This fall, Mr. Heintz celebrates over 40 years of membership in the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Mr. Heintz has served as Business Agent of Local 919, President of Local 675, and has most recently been a training instructor at Local 728, Studio Electrical Lighting Technicians, Burbank CA. With more than 168,000 workers in virtually all arts, media, and entertainment crafts, MR. Heintz strongly supports IATSE's mission to improve all entertainment workers’ lives both inside and outside the workplace.
Aaron Granat is a video producer and screendance artist based in Madison, Wisconsin. He works with the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Division of the Arts, where he creates short documentary films that highlight arts research, creative practice, and artistic communities across campus and beyond. Alongside this work, Granat maintains an active artistic practice in screendance and live visual performance, using the cinematic medium to expand perceptual horizons through the intermediation of dance, music, and image. His projects explore how movement, space, and sound can be reconfigured on screen to create immersive, mind-opening experiences. His screendance work has been presented internationally at festivals and galleries in South Korea, Mexico, Portugal, England, Germany, Spain, and throughout the United States. Granat brings nearly a decade of teaching experience in video production at UW–Madison. He has worked closely with Li Chiao-Ping, documenting her productions and collaborating on projects that bring her choreography and artistic vision to the screen, as well as with UW–Madison dance faculty in translating their work into screendance.
Hong Huo (霍弘) is a Chinese-American multidisciplinary artist and art educator who explores her cultural identity and personal narratives through multi-media installation, experimental animation, and performance art. She is constantly searching for a unique visual narrative through various mediums and processes as “expanded animation”. Huo received her BFA degree in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2017 and graduated with an MFA degree in the 4D area from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. Her works have been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, including New York City, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, South Korea, Italy, and the Netherlands. She is currently living and teaching graphic design and digital media in central Pennsylvania.
Jacob Li Dai Loong Rosenberg is a Wisconsin-born, emerging multimedia artist and caregiver of Chinese and Jewish heritage. He holds a BA in Art Practice and Sociology from UC Berkeley. Jacob currently lives and works in San Francisco, where he splits his time between assisting other artists in their studios, working as an art handler, and caring for his Popo (maternal grandmother). In recent years, he has reconnected with his immigrant roots in the Bay Area, running a weekly Mahjong club. Through the recontextualization of archival research and ancestral stories, Jacob reimagines reality, past, present, and future. Jacob’s practice intricately weaves personal storytelling with an exploration of converging cultural identities. Rooted in spatial awareness and historical inquiry, Jacob’s work materializes through diverse media, including installation, photography, printmaking, video, textiles, wearables, and performance. His practice invites viewers to engage with the layers of identity and heritage, encouraging a dialogue that bridges generations. Jacob has been exhibited in “Blue” by Site:Brooklyn Gallery, “Introductions 2024” at Root Division, “Karl: Unseen Histories AAPI Voices In Contemporary Art” at Levi’s Plaza, “In Addition” at Subtraction Barber Shop, “666” at The Nook, and “Blood Pressure” and “Familiar Delusions” at UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Gallery as well as Lucky Star Magazine, “Portraiture: People, Places, and the Stories They Tell” and GUTMAG, “Issue 2: Doubles”. In December 2025, Jacob made his curatorial debut, organizing “Loose Ends: A Resolution,” a group art show at Colorspace Arts in El Cerrito, CA..
JP Alejandro (he/him) is a Phoenix-based dance artist, educator, and community-engaged practitioner originally from the Bay Area. He holds an MFA in Dance from Arizona State University with a Certification in Community-Engaged Practices in Design and the Arts, and a BS in Dance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison through the First Wave Scholarship. JP’s creative work centers Filipinx American identity, memory, and embodiment, exploring how personal and collective histories live in the body. His performance and choreographic projects blend dance theater, storytelling, and spatial design to cultivate connection and deep listening. He has performed works by Li Chiao-Ping, Raissa Simpson, Gerald Casel, and Michael Foley, and currently dances with Methods of Madness. Alongside his artistic practice, JP is deeply committed to dance education and wellness and currently teaches at Mesa Community College, collaborating with senior communities and diverse populations to make movement accessible, affirming, and culturally grounded.
Elisa Hildner, originally from Naperville, IL, is a movement instructor and dance artist based in Madison, WI. She practices and teaches Pilates, strength training, and dance to educate and empower the unique bodies of all individuals. Her practice emphasizes the exploration of anatomy and the utilization of embodied information to develop functional and powerful movement. She strongly believes that Pilates and mixed movement practices benefit physical, mental, and emotional health—she advocates for movement for all. Elisa is a graduate from the UW-Madison, where she received her BS in Dance and a certificate in Pilates. While in undergrad, Elisa was awarded the Buff Brennan Senior Honors Award supporting choreographic research in the form of an evening-length concert. Upon graduation, Elisa was awarded the Anna R. Nassif Dance Award for her choreographic works. She is currently a company dancer with Li Chiao-Ping Dance, as well as working on independent choreographic projects.
Cuauhtli Ramirez Castro (he/they) is a Mexican performing artist and dancer. They studied Performing Arts at the University of Guanajuato having a multidisciplinary approach, combining contemporary dance and acting techniques in his training. They have performed at the International Cervantino Festival (2016), as well as the Guanajuato International Film Festival (2015). They graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography (2021). During their time in Milwaukee, they have performed and collaborated in works by Maria Gillespie, Emma Draves, Bernard Brown, Li Chiao-Ping, Joe Goode, Mair Culbreth, Amanda Lee, Cedar Becher, etc. They currently dance with Danceworks Performance MKE and Wild Space Dance Company.
Abbi Stickels (she/they) is an artist, scholar, and activist based in Madison, WI. They hold a BFA in Dance and an MS in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Currently, Abbi serves as the Intercultural Education Program Coordinator for the Centers for Student Success and Belonging. As a performer, Abbi has appeared in works by artists such as Li Chiao-Ping and Jin-Wen Yu. Their scholarship and creative practice explore the liminality of multicultural identity development, with a particular emphasis on transracial adoption and intersectionality. Their latest project, (in)joy (2025), is a mixed‑media installation performance interrogating maternal rupture, embodied grief, and the fluid terrain of liminal identity. Abbi thrives at the intersection of creativity and advocacy, continually seeking opportunities to unite these realms in pursuit of a more diverse and holistic society.
Katelyn Altmann (she/her) is a Milwaukee-based movement artist, choreographer, and educator. She graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from UW–Milwaukee (Peck School of the Arts). Altmann has served on faculty in UWM’s Dance Department, guest taught at UW–Madison, and leads masterclasses across the Midwest specializing in site-specific work, Contact Improvisation, and improvisation for performance. As a performer, she has appeared in works by Larry Keigwin, Joe Goode, Daniel Burkholder, Li Chiao-Ping, Maria Gillespie, Simone Ferro, Holly Johnston, and Debra Loewen, and has collaborated with artists including Shura Baryshnikov, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Ishmael Houston-Jones. She is a company member and collaborator with Wild Space Dance Company, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and Danceworks Performance MKE, and has performed with The Seldoms, Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, Milwaukee Opera Theater, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Her choreographic work has been presented at Gibney (NY), Velocity (WA), RAD Fest (MI), Milwaukee Fringe Festival, and she was a selected choreographic winner for the Wisconsin Dance Council’s Dance Festival (2022–24). In 2025, she choreographed and directed the evening-length work IN WAKE with live music by Allen Russell. Her practice centers embodied research, improvisational inquiry, and radical attunement.
Cassie Last is a Madison, WI based dance artist. She values an athletic foundation in her dance work and supports this through her career in fitness and strength training. Cassie joined Li Chiao-Ping Dance in 2019 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from UW-Madison in 2020. Her dancing endeavors have allowed her performance and learning opportunities locally, nationally, and internationally. Through her dance career she has also worked with Scott Ewen, Dyane Harvey-Salaam, Brooke Smiley, Carol Teitelbaum, Christian von Howard, Chris Walker, and Jin Wen-Yu. Cassie is grateful for the continued learning and challenges that each new choreographic process brings..
Mariel Schneider is passionate about self expression. She was born and raised in New York, but after stumbling into the midwest nearly a decade ago, she has yet to leave. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in both International Studies and Dance in 2020. She began dancing with LCPD upon graduation and later took on the roles of Company Manager and Education Outreach Director. Most recently, she relocated to Minneapolis, MN where she is pursuing a career in Physical Therapy at the University of Minnesota with support from the Year One scholarship program. She is grateful to be dancing with LCPD and sincerely thanks all of the artists who have contributed to this work. She appreciates you joining us in this presentation of Here Lies the Truth and our collective imagining of a better world.
Rakhi Winston is a Milwaukee-based dance artist, educator, and advocate rooted in the traditions of the African diaspora. She has trained for over 20 years with the Nefertari African Dance Company and has also been a member with the Limanya Drum and Dance Ensemble. She is currently a member of the Ko-Thi Dance Company. Rakhi holds a BFA in Dance and a Certificate in African Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as an MS in Education from Concordia University. Her work centers dance advocacy, community, and personal agency, using movement to cultivate joy, connection, and supportive dance spaces. She is deeply grateful to be part of this project and hopes her contribution creates meaningful impact.