Ohio State’s Department of Dance brings dance back to its roots with Dance Uptown: DIRT, a program of original choreography by internationally acclaimed artists and faculty members Bebe Miller and Esther Baker-Tarpaga, May 24-26 on campus. The dances will literally be performed in the dirt, in the agricultural arena of Plumb Hall, which was used for decades for the display and study of livestock at the land-grant university. Site-specific dances are being created for the space, dirt and all.

The evening-length program will be presented at 8 pm Thursday, May 24-Saturday, May 26 in Plumb Hall, 2027 Coffey Rd. Tickets are $10 at the door. Advanced tickets are available through the OSU Theatre Box office, (614) 292-2295 or http://theatre.osu.edu/boxoffice. Also at Ticketmaster, (800) 745-3000, ticketmaster.com and all central Ohio Ticketmaster outlets. Pay-n-Display parking is available on Coffey Road. For information, see dance.osu.edu.