Dance corps often look perfectly symmetrical ? each dancer about the same height, legs perfectly aligned, every movement precise.
Chris Walker?s dancers for ?The People Who Came,? a new piece based on students? immigration stories, couldn?t be more different.
They?re tall and short, with a variety of skin tones and levels of experience. Some performers are break dancers. Some are classically trained dance majors. Still others are members of First Wave, a pioneering hip-hop/spoken word program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.