Season 51 | Fuse. Converge. Connect. 

As part of the newly created School of Theatre and Dance, The Dance Center’s Season 51 connects audiences with dance created and performed by established artists, student dancemakers, and elders to get at the heart of why dance is a ubiquitous phenomenon across all societies and cultures.

 
 

pictured MARAÑA ensemble from Organismo by Paula Riquelme; photo by magmastudio.

Thursday, January 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 24, at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 25 at 4 p.m.

co-presented with the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

An immersion into an organism created from wool, sounds, colors, and textures combined with circus acrobatics, dance, rhythms, and music. The journey through the complexities and layers of the most basic elements of existence weaves a being out of threads, hands, and bodies to unfold a new world carried by the physical precision and blind trust between the performers.


Season Pass

Become a Season 51 Half Pass Holder.  Experience live dance's kinetic power in the now when it’s most keenly felt, seen, and heard — when live and in person together. Save 50% on tickets and prioritize opportunities to be connected with your own body through our Friday class series. There are three different pass options — choose whether you want to see performances, participate in classes, or both! Join your community to come together through dance to connect, witness, research, experiment, practice, imagine, and grow.


from Irene Hsiao’s Merely a Mistake A Score for your Door.

 

Explore On the Ground, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago’s online publication. With support from The Walder Foundation, it features interviews with Chicago dance artists, checking in on dance communities, sharing work from our virtual residencies with choreographers, and exploring the Dance Center’s video archives.

 

David Rousseve/REALITY, from Stardust, photo by Yi Chun.

Urban Bush Women in Hep Hep Sweet Sweet, photo by Rick McCullough.

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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago is the city’s leading presenter of contemporary dance – bringing international, national, and local artists to Chicago audiences. The Dance Center has served as a focal point for dance and performance in Chicago since 1974.

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banner image: from what we un/wound by: Kierah {KIKI} King; pictured l to r: Mya Mccellen, J Stephens, Lucy Williams, and Caitlin Wonsowski; photo by: Julie Lucas for Columbia College Chicago.