They are not your usual audiences for classical music or dance. They are children in an elementary school. Veterans in a government hospital. Poor students in an inner city school. Residents of a retirement home. People in a homeless shelter. And inmates at a state prison.
What they have in common is being part of a new outreach program designed to get University of Wisconsin-Madison students in music, dance and other fields out into communities across the state, including Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Janesville and Wausau.