Join family and friends to toast our founder, Shirley Mordine, and her extraordinary life with shared stories and imagery from her 50+ years as a choreographer, dance educator, and presenter.
Season 51 culminates with work by the graduating class of Dance BFA senior students Kayla Hansen, Konnie Kakridas, Aly Owens, and Rhianna Young.
The Dance Center’s renowned dance faculty, alumni, and students choreograph new works.
Red Clay Dance Company makes their highly anticipated return to our stage with the world premiere Field: New Ground by legendary, award-winning choreographer Bebe Miller alongside Artistic Director and inaugural Walder Platform Awardee Vershawn Sanders-Ward’s re-staging of Written on the Flesh.
The spring edition of original, brand new, short works by student choreographers selected by faculty
This unique circus show promises a stacked deck of solo, partner, and group acts, on the ground and in the air, with never a dull moment in between. Join the club and come see this diamond of an act for yourself!
The Spring 2025 edition of this festival spotlights Chicago dance artists who are pushing the boundaries of the form this time with solos in two world premieres: Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop's THICK: a crumbling freak show and Nora Sharp’s Cosmic Docks, a dance-theater one-them-show.
B-SERIES Spring 2025: B-yond Borders celebrates the kinships and impact of Global Afrodiasporic street and social dancing. It will honor the nuance and specificity of particular Afro street and social dances, their influences, and their immense global impact across bodies, disciplines, and cultures through workshops, conversations, film screenings, and of course, the B-Serie dance jam and battle.
Dive into the School of Theatre and Dance with student choreographers and performers from both Theatre and Dance bringing their original take on musical theatre dance numbers.
An immersion into an organism created from wool, sounds, colors, and textures combined with circus acrobatics, dance, rhythms, and music. Presented in partnership with the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
PAMOJA – Swahili for “together” - features works set on the kinesthetically fluid students of the Dance Center by alumni, faculty and visiting artists. Featuring work by: Bevara Anderson, Rachel Damon, Allen Desterhaft & Kelsa “K-Soul” Rieger-Haywood, Darrell Jones, Camila Rivero Pooley, Kia Smith, and a special performance by Central West Regional Senior Center during Friday’s matinee.
Engage with dance that resists compartmentalization and showcases what promising choreographers are inspired to create. Each weekend’s program is distinct. Featuring work by Violet Czerwinski, Kaya Gross, Kayla Hansen, Konnie Kakridas, Shannon Lane, Adrean Maxwell, Vi McMahon, Aly Owens, Lauren Payne, Sophia Peck, Devon Saxman, and Rhianna Young.
A sampler evening of original, brand new, short works by student choreographers. Lit by Theatre’s rising lighting designers, these eagerly anticipated concerts feature audiences as electric as the performers.
She’s Auspicious by Mythili Prakash is a full-length dance and music work featuring an all-female cast that blurs the lines between Goddess and Woman to explore the intricate interplay between goddess worship and the treatment of women in society. The Goddess/Woman paradox allows the unraveling of socio-cultural myths, stories, and values that are beautiful and personal, but simultaneously deeply rooted in systemic power structures.
Join practitioners, scholars, educators, students, and enthusiasts for cyphers, movement sessions, panels, paper presentations, workshops, and more during the Experiencing Time/Embodying Rhythm Symposium taking place in person September 19-20, 2024 at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
