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At UW, dancers explore homophobia and hypocrisy, set to Bob Marley’s beloved music

Chris Walker, a professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Walker, says in Marley songs like “No Woman, No Cry,” “Three Little Birds,” and “One Love,” a message of “love and redemption and equal rights and justice comes through that caused the world to be so in love with the music, those basic human ideas.” In “FACING Home: Love & Redemption,” to be staged Thursday through Saturday in Lathrop Hall on the UW-Madison campus, Walker and choreographer Kevin Ormsby put those stated values “in dialogue” with Jamaica’s rampant homophobia.