Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society is now in its second decade of bringing chamber music with a bang to enthusiastic audiences in Madison and south-central Wisconsin. Since 1992 flutist Stephanie Jutt and pianist Jeffrey Sykes have been inviting other world-class musicians to join them in a three-week summer festival that puts the element of “play” back into chamber music, showing that chamber music concerts, often serious to the point of stuffiness, can be both serious and fun at the same time. Chamber music with a bang—what Bach would be doing if he were more fun and less dead. Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society is aimed at people who are curious, open-minded, and up for anything—people who want to have serious fun.
With the same entrepreneurial spirit that created the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, the UW Arts Enterprise Initiative was launched in an innovative partnership between BDDS and UW–Madison. Stephanie Jutt, Artistic Director of BDDS and Professor of Flute at UW–Madison, in partnership with BDDS Executive Director, Samantha Crownover, continue their tradition of creating and educating new audiences with collaborative efforts that "raise all ships."
Arts Institute
Created in 1998, the Arts Institute is an intercollege unit of the College of Letters & Science, the School of Education and the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Governed by arts faculty and staff, the Arts Institute exists to foster and celebrate the arts, broadly understood as integral and essential to the university's mission.
Office of Corporate Relations
The Office of Corporate Relations (OCR) serves as the front door to university resources for business and industry and focuses on providing service to companies in the following six areas: recruiting UW–Madison graduates and interns; providing executive education and professional development; accessing faculty and staff expertise; licensing technology; enhancing global competence; and fostering entrepreneurship.
Wiscontrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering, evaluating and leveraging opportunities. While its tempting to think of entrepreneurship only in the context of the business world, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking in reality are critical skills for people in all walks of life.
UW–Madison was recently awarded a grant by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support and enhance entrepreneurial activities throughout the curriculum. The Wiscontrepreneur initiative is the direct result of that grant, and aims to foster campus entrepreneurial thinking and promote the creation of new business entities and socially beneficial organizations.
Entrepreneurship is an important component to growing Wisconsin’s economy and creating high-tech, high-wage fields. But the spirit and skills of entrepreneurial studies imbue all academic fields, and are generating exciting new developments in the arts, humanities and service-learning.
Wiscontrepreneur fosters campus entrepreneurial thinking and promotes the creation of new business entities and socially beneficial organizations. Visit Wiscontrepreneur.org to learn more about the initiative.