Chicago's International Festival of American Tap celebrates its 36th Anniversary with a week of rhythm-bending concerts and classes by three generations of extraordinary artists.
A contemporary and tap dance show combining styles to bring communities together!
With live music by Chien-An Yuan to guide, concepts such as childlike wonder, abuse, resilience, sacrifice, and responsibility will be explored throughout.
Co-produced by Synapse Arts and presented in partnership with Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance’s DESTINOS–9th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, September 25, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 12 noon
Tickets: General Admission ($30); Elder/Industry ($20); Non-Columbia Student Ticket ($10); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
MATADORA is a world-premiere production by INSÉKTA. This new work of Latine Futurism uses dance and physical theater to construct a new mythology about the power of Latine rage–a force of transformation, divinity, and self-possession. Now in its 9th year, Destinos Festival is dedicated to amplifying Latine voices and stories on stages throughout Chicago showcasing the Latine experience as told by Latine artists from Chicago, across the U.S., and Latin America.
“As a graduate from Columbia College’s dance program, returning to premiere my first full-length work at the Dance Center is an incredible full-circle moment,” says INSÉKTA. “I was deeply impacted by the presenting series as a student and developing artist. Opening the 53rdxx season feels magical and it fuels me for what’s to come in my practice.”
INSÉKTA is the artistic practice of director, choreographer, and performer Camila Rivero Pooley. Their immersive dance, theater, film, and public artworks draw on rich artistic inheritances from Latin American futurism, mythology, lived migration, body horror, and ancestral memory to create physically charged worlds that confront our fragmented identities and the weight of suppressed Latine experiences. Their work has appeared in Physical Theater Festival Chicago, Chicago Trans Movement Festival, DESTINOS Festival, Scratch Night, Synapse Arts New Works, Festival de Artes Escénicas (Lima, Peru) and Experimental Forum (NYC), and has been received the 2026 Chicago Dancemakers Forum's Dance Project Grant, Thodos Dance Chicago's 2026 New Dances / New Horizons, and the 2018 Albert P. Weisman Award from Columbia College Chicago where they received their BFA in Dance.
Banner image above: MATADORA BY INSÉKTA, pictured left to right: Sophie Daker, Lola Jett-Beachley, CJ Triche, photo by Diego Bolivar.
Presented in partnership with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre
Concert: Friday, October 2, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Workshop: Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 10:15 a.m.
Community Conversation: Saturday, October 3, 2026 @ 12:00 p.m.
Festival Pass: Includes concert, workshop, panel discussion registration; General Admission ($35); Elder/Industry ($25); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Concert Tickets: General Admission ($30); Elder/Industry ($20); Non-Columbia Student/Child ($10); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Workshop Registration: ($10 or Pay What You Can)
Panel Discussion Registration: Free with registration.
Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s Chicago Latinx/e Contemporary Movement Festival Concert features CRDT performing an excerpt of a new work by Omar Roman de Jesus alongside six artists/collectives: Anniela Huidobro Castro, Anise Fernández & Amanda Ramirez, Ruben Andrés Castillo Gomez, Mark Travis Rivera | The Professional Storyteller, Paula Sousa, and Victoria Villamil selected through an open call for proposals from Latinx/e creators who engage choreographically with binational and multi-racial identity, multi-generational experiences, immigrant narratives, identity politics, and/or gender expansiveness.
After launching the festival in 2025 at the Ruth Page, CRDT is expanding the second year to two days to include the festival concert with post-show Q&A along with a workshop and community conversation by David Herrera from Latinx Hispanic Dancers United platforming the cultural moment in the intersectional Latinx dance community.
"The Latinx/e experience is a beautifully complex and layered mosaic of stories shaped by heritage, migration, identity, queerness, resilience, and joy, Through this festival, we uplift and celebrate the depth and diversity within our communities." - Wilfredo Rivera, CRDT Artistic Director and CEO.
Banner image above: pictured left to right Taylor Yocum, Lilia Lucia Ambler, Bruno Salgado, Ruben Andrés Castillo Gomez, Yui Nakatani, Chloe Chandler from Los Immigrantes by Ruben Andrés Castillo Gomez; photo courtesy of Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre; photo by Michelle Reid.
Presented by the School of Theatre and Dance
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, October 9, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
Welcome the newest class of musical theatre majors making their Columbia College debuts by putting their own shine on songs from the musical theatre canon and beyond! Music direction by Colte Julian.
Banner Image: Pictured from left to right: June Ardito, Sam Dethrow, Dami Agbonin, Isa Lugo, Richelle Rivera, Mackenzie Wasielewski, Edan Chen, Gaby Wallace, Zoe Bliss, Reagan Scott, Iyanna Sutherland, Brandon Aroonsavath, Kaylee Zook, Lucas Clinton, Jose Morales, Mercedes Laboy, Jadyn Kowalkowski, Ollie Johnson, Mya Bialozynski; Photo by Gina Ordaz
An orange and deep red logo with an abstraction of two people in wheelchairs together forming a figure eight infinity sign with “CounterBalance 15th Anniversary.”
Presented in partnership with Access Living, Bodies of Work, MOMENTA Dance Company, ReinventAbility, and Unfolding Disability Futures
Inclusive Creative Movement Workshop: Thursday, October 15 at 12:30 p.m.
15th Anniversary CounterBalance Inclusive Dance Concert: Friday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Emerging Choreographers Showcase: Saturday, October 17 at 12:00 p.m.
Workshop: Free with registration.
CounterBalance Inclusive Dance Concert: Tickets General Admission ($30); Disability/Elder ($20); Pay-What-You-Can ($10, $5); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Emerging Choreographers Showcase Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can ($20, $10, $5); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
MOMENTA Dance Company makes its Dance Center debut with the 15th Anniversary of CounterBalance. This will be the first time the long-running celebration of physically-integrated and inclusive dance is being presented in a space designed for, and dedicated to, dance. Founded by Ginger Lane to help dispel stereotypes and myths about people with disabilities, especially dance artists, CounterBalance has taken place at Access Living, National Museum of Mexican Art, Victory Gardens, Center on Halsted, and virtually during the pandemic.
The 15th anniversary celebration includes the free Inclusive Creative Movement Workshop for all bodies, minds, and experience levels, the 15th Anniversary CounterBalance Inclusive Dance Concert curated by Sarah Najera featuring dance artists with and without disabilities, and the Emerging Choreographers Showcase co-curated by Ginger Lane and Maggie Bridger to provide a platform for local, early-career disabled choreographers.
All events provide ASL interpretation, audio description, open captions, assisted listening, accommodate service animals, and offer a low-sensory space option and accessibility doulas. The Dance Center is wheelchair accessible.
Banner image pictured left to right Kris Lenzo and Anita Fillmore Kenney by A Deran Photography.
Presented in partnership with BĀLA Dance Project and National Association for American African Dance Teachers
Friday, October 23, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.
Tickets: General Admission ($30); Elder/Industry ($20); Non-Columbia Student/Child ($10); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Bevara Anderson-Selkridge presents her first standalone BĀLA Dance Project concert in Chicago featuring her choreographic range from solos to duets, from small group pieces to large ensemble works and drawing upon her fluency in Umfundalai, House, Modern, Horton, Contemporary Ballet, and Vagonava dance techniques and practices. Anderson-Selkridge’s work is more than movement; it’s revolution and it’s resistance.
Before founding BĀLA Dance Project, Bevera Anderson-Selkridge was a founding member of the Katherine Smith Dance Ensemble and a core performer with Kariamu & Company: Traditions. She is of the final generation of dancers mentored by the legendary Dr. Kariamu Welsh and carries her legacy fiercely, embodying and teaching Dr. Welsh’s technique, Umfundalai, with a burning desire to push it forward. An unapologetic professional dance artist from the Maryland Coast, Anderson-Selkridge serves as Assistant Professor of Dance at Columbia College Chicago where she continues to challenge the limits of dance, teaching the next generation how to break, bend, and rebuild the rules.
Banner image above: pictured Courtney Cooper (standing) surrounded by Milenka Aurelio, Grace Butt, Sophie Daker, Nia Durlacher, Lizeth Hernandez, Erica Jones, Shannon Lane, Sawyer Latimore, Sophia Peck, Areli Ramirez, CJ Triche, Diamond Turner, Mikaylah Williams, Ava-C. Winfrey; photo by William Frederking.
Presented by the School of Theatre and Dance
Friday, October 30, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Ticket: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
Columbia, are you ready to do the Time Warp again? The fourth annual Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadow Cast makes its Dance Center debut for one night and one night only!
Join us for this live performance alongside the screening of the cult classic film. Sing along, dress up, callouts encouraged! Enter at Your Own Risk! Stage direction by Felix Livingston.
Banner Image Courtesy of Criterion Pictures
Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, November 20, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
Revel in a sampler evening of original, brand new, short works by student choreographers selected from an open application process. Some artists are sharing pieces on the Dance Center’s stage for the first time, others offer works informed by their years immersed in the DC’s pluralistic curriculum. Lit by Theatre’s rising lighting designers, these eagerly anticipated concerts feature audiences as electric as the performers.
Banner Image from Between Us by Erica Jones, pictured Justice “Nasii” Nasir; Photo by Julie Lucas
Week 1
Thursday, December 3, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 4, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Week 2
Thursday, December 10, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 11, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
Each week’s distinct program features the culmination of 8 Dance majors’ journeys through the choreographic process: from creative impulse through auditions and rehearsals, outside eyes and design decisions, to presenting their choreographic projects for the first time on the concert stage. Faculty Advisor: Kelsa Rieger-Haywood
Banner Image: Pictured left to right: Sara Larson and Allison Bryant in L'appel du vide directed by Caity Gee; Photo Credit: William Frederking
Presented in partnership with Ambe’r Johnson, Azania Drum, Music Moves Chi/Old Town School of Folk Music, and Beloved.Projects
Saturday, December 12, 2026 from 4:00-9:30 p.m.
Registration: Free and Pay-What-You-Can Options ($20, $15, $10)
What began as a personal birthday celebration has transformed into a highly anticipated annual event bringing together dancers, drummers, and community members through intensive-style workshops and immersive archival installations dedicated to the Guinean rhythms of Dundunba. AMBER’S DUNDUNBA PARTY 4.0 features West African dance artists/instructors Imania Detry, Zenzile Fatou, and Washington, D.C.-based, master teacher Mama Lesina Martin. Dundunba (also spelled dununba) refers to the drum, a family of West African rhythms, and a traditional celebratory dance originating from the Malinké people of Guinea, West Africa.
“While the rhythm is popular among practitioners, there is a desire for deeper education around the form. Amber’s Dundunba Party serves as a training ground for both beginners and seasoned practitioners to dive deeper into the rhythm’s history and performance techniques, enabling them to confidently engage with Dundunba in classes, performances, and other artistic settings.” - Ambe’r Johnson, founder of the annual event and Dance Center alum (BA ’16).
Carousel Images: Pictured left to right: Imania Detry, Zenzile Fatou, Ambe’r Johnsno; Photo Credit: William Frederking
Thursday, December 17, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, December 18 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
Thursday’s 12/17 concert includes the announcement and celebration of the inaugural Shirley Mordine Dance Maker Awardees!
Friday’s concert opens with RE:ALIZE – Chicago Public High School students earning college credit at the Dance Center.
Kiswahili for “gifts”, the ZAWADI culminating concerts of 2026 at the Dance Center feature choreographic offerings by guest choreographers Matumbe Himons, Nejla Yatkin, and Assistant Professor Dardi McGinley Gallivan set on students in the Repertory Performance Workshop course. Originated by Dance Center founder Shirley Mordine, the course introduces aspiring professionals to a repertory company dancer’s experience of embodying multiple choreographic perspectives and languages. Also on the program will be a new work choreographed by faculty members Darrell Jones and Lisa Gonzales. Faculty Advisor: Bevara Anderson-Selkridge.
Banner Image: Pictured left to right: Areli Ramirez, Ava-C. Winfrey, Sarah Matos, Zihomara Mercado in ALT(H)EREGO by Ava-C. Winfrey, Photo Credit: William Frederking
By Kia S. Smith
Presented in partnership wtih South Chicago Dance Theatre
Thursday, February 11, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 12, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 13, 2027 at 12 p.m. (noon)
Tickets: General Admission ($30); Elder/Industry ($20); Non-Columbia Student/Child ($10); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
A Dance Center commission, this world premiere by South Chicago Dance Theatre Founder and Director of Vision and Strategy Kia S. Smith is the fourth evening-length work by the 10-year-old company. Inspired by Smith’s Great Grandmother Josephine Griffin Jones, the new dance theater work explores how family histories and embodied knowledge can flower into artistic expression and the power of belief and hope to transform and vanquish, survive and thrive.
“I am honored to be able to pay homage to my Great Grandmother’s legacy of unwavering faith and resilience. It is because of her trailblazing spirit that South Chicago Dance Theatre exists; and I look forward to embarking upon this process in collaboration with the team at the Dance Center and the artists of SCDT’s performing ensemble.” - Kia S. Smith.
Kia S. Smith is a Chicago native, whose work spans contemporary dance, theater, jazz, opera and artistic diplomacy and is linked to the specific, idiosyncratic soundscapes, colors, peoples and ephemera of her childhood on Chicago’s south side as the daughter of a well-known jazz saxophonist and visual artist. South Chicago Dance Theatre (SCDT) is a multicultural organization seamlessly fusing classical and contemporary dance styles as well as preserving historic dance work. With Choreographic Diplomacy™ at the heart of the organization, SCDT creates, performs, and teaches dance on a local, national, and international platform.
Banner image above courtesy of South Chicago Dance Theatre, pictured Tonei Silver, photo by Michelle Reid.
Thursday, February 18, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, February 19, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
The 4th annual student produced, directed, choreographed and performed revue featuring Acting, Dance, Design, and Musical Theatre majors bringing their fresh take on musical theatre dance numbers. Faculty advisor: Wilfredo Rivera.
Banner Image from Smooth Criminal/Thriller choreographed by MJ Bueno; Pictured from left to right: Mollie Holbrook, Cosette Winter, Kijani X, MJ Bueno, and Riesa Kongshaug; Photo by Julie Lucas
Day of Symposium Sessions: Thursday, February 25, 2027 – 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. (Artists/Scholars TBA)
Festival Showcase: Friday, February 26, 2027 – 7:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. (Artists TBA)
Workshops + Battle & Jam: Saturday, February 27, 2027 – 11 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. (Headliners & Judges TBA)
B-COMING, the 2027 B-Series Festival + Symposium, looks at the changing paths of street, club, and traditional dance forms through the lens of identity, memory, and shared global histories.
B-COMING focuses on globalization and cultural exchange, exploring the powerful, in-between spaces where different traditions meet—and sometimes collide—at the crossroads of community and identity.
Rather than settling for superficial blending, this theme interrogates the deep conversations, tensions, and boundaries that arise when street and club forms, sacred practices, and diverse cultural lineages navigate shared space, while honoring Hip Hop’s organic power to amplify the lived experiences of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. It serves as a space for artists and scholars to gather, share, and discuss how complex ancestral histories live inside contemporary bodies as we develop new ways of creating together.
For this year’s combined festival and annual symposium, Co-Curators Daniel "BRAVEMONK" Haywood and Kelsa "K-Soul" Rieger-Haywood invite session proposals from all corners of the global ecosystem to interrogate, celebrate, and reflect on what it means to be in a continuous process of B-COMING.
Presented in partnership with RE| dance group
Thursday, March 4, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 5, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 2027 at 12 noon
Tickets: General Admission ($30); Elder/Industry ($20); Non-Columbia Student/Child ($10); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Michael Estanich and Lucy Vurusic Riner’s RE| dance group makes its Dance Center debut with two Chicago premieres by Artistic Director Michael Estanich. In keeping with RE|dance group’s signature style, both dance theater works merge movement, song and text, and complement and serve as foils for one another through divergent approaches in environment and tone.
“We feel strongly that these two works that Michael created separately over the past two years, need to be shared in dialogue in their RE| dance group premieres. Our House Upended! examines the challenges and complexity of relationships in contemporary life and we soften our landing and keep on going is a deeply personal exploration of perseverance through purpose and love.” - Lucy Vurusic Riner, Executive Director
RE|dance group creates work that uses the physical body as the primary vehicle for expressing ideas, combining elements of dance, theatre, and sculpture to produce imagery and tell stories of the contemporary world. Since its founding in 2009, RE|dance group has performed throughout Chicago, and toured to California, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Wisconsin, and internationally to South Korea.
Banner image courtesy of RE|dance group pictured left to right Michael Estanich and Lucy Vurusic Riner; photo by William Frederking.
Presented in partnership with IS/LAND and Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF)
Thursday, March 11, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 12, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: General Admission ($30); Elder/Industry ($20); Non-Columbia Student/Child ($10); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
IS/LAND makes its Dance Center debut with the Chicago premiere of Until We Fill the Ocean – an evening-length, interdisciplinary work blending sound, dance, and poetry to honor the detainees on San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island from 1910 through 1940.
Angel Island Immigration Station restricted and limited Asian immigration to the U.S. by detaining and interrogating newcomers there for months and sometimes years. Detainees’ poems, inscribed on the barracks walls, are haunting records of harsh conditions, confinement, loneliness, and defiance. Using this specific history of intolerance and hatred directed at Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) people in the United States as a framework, Until We Fill the Ocean asks audiences to reflect on broader patterns currently affecting all marginalized populations in the U.S. socio-political landscape.
"Our ultimate goal is that audiences take away more than just an understanding of the human spirit's resilience in the face of inhumane circumstances. We hope to inspire a sense of vigilance within our own humanity, urging us all as participants in society to stand firm against rising intolerance and bigotry." - Chien-An Yuan, IS/LAND founding member
IS/LAND is an interdisciplinary performance collaborative composed of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) artists and collaborators whose performances center movement, storytelling, and aesthetics as processes to explore the extensive and diverse landscape of AAPI lived experience, including an increased focus on optimizing audience engagement through reflection, education, and dialogue. IS/LAND has been commissioned by Synapse Arts, Pivot Arts, and the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and has performed at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Public Library, A2AC Gallery, Ann Arbor District Library, Spread Art, and Links Hall. Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) For all immigrants, descendants, and families, Angel Island is a living landmark that symbolizes diverse experiences of detention, racism, exclusion, hope, and determination. The Foundation protects the historic site, elevates its stories, promotes learning, and celebrates the new beginnings and immigrant contributions that define the strength of the US. We inspire a more equitable and inclusive future; one that embodies how immigrants make nations better. AIISF is committed to a future in which all persons across the US understand the history of immigration through Angel Island; leverage this knowledge by treating immigrants with increased respect and empathy; and are committed to increasing equity, justice, and belonging for all communities.
Banner Image: Photo Credit: Chien-An Yuan
Presented by the School of Theatre and Dance
Thursday, March 18, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 19, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
The festival returns for its second year showcasing student run dance organizations open to all majors at Columbia College Chicago.
Banner photo courtesy of Mi Gente Dance Team photo by Julie Lucas.
Presented in partnership with Red Clay Dance Company
Thursday, April 8, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 9, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: General Admission ($45); Elder/Industry/Non-Columbia Student ($40); Free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Red Clay Dance Company returns to the Dance Center as part of its 18th season. Founded by Vershawn Sanders-Ward (BFA ’02), Red Clay Dance Company has become a leading force in contemporary dance rooted in African Diasporic traditions. The company’s ensemble of dynamic and versatile dance Artivists tours and performs across local, national, and international stages, bringing their signature blend of artistry and activism to diverse audiences around the world.
“We were last at the Dance Center for 16 – where I was able to revisit and reimagine Written on the Flesh before it went on to the Harris, The Yard and Jacob’s Pillow. This spring, we are presenting works that showcase the artistry of the largest company of dancers Red Clay Dance Company has had to date. It’s both a homecoming and a springboard.” - Vershawn Sanders-Ward, Red Clay Dance Company Founding Artistic Director and CEO.
Vershawn-Sanders Ward is an award-winning director, choreographer, educator and artivist. Her numerous awards include the inaugural Walder Foundation Platform Award, 2025 Chicagoan of the Year in Dance, 2025 Chicago Defender Woman of Excellence, Dance/USA Artist Fellowship, Dance /USA Leadership Fellowship, Chicago Dancemakers Forum Award, and 3Arts awardee.
Banner image courtesy of Red Clay Dance Company; pictured Aniyah Wilkinson; photo by Michelle Reid.
Thursday, April 15, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 16, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday. April 17, 2027 at 12:00 noon
Ticket: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
The Dance Center embraces spring’s energetic lift with original, brand new, short works by selected student choreographers. These eagerly-anticipated concerts feature audiences as electric as the performances. Faculty Coordinator: NAME
Banner Image: Pictured : Ella Narance in Infinite Reflections by Shannon Lane, Photo Credit: Julie Lucas
Thursday, April 22, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 23, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 24, 2027 at 12:00 noon
Ticket: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
The culminating performances of Dance majors’ journeys through the choreographic process: from creative impulse through auditions, rehearsals, outside eyes, and design decisions, to presenting their choreographic works for the first time on the concert stage. Faculty Advisor: Kelsa Rieger-Haywood.
Banner Image: Pictured: Nelson Stevenson in Garden of Earthly Delights by Sophia Peck, Photo Credit: William Frederking
Thursday, April 29, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 30, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
The Dance Center’s renowned professional Dance alumni and faculty choreograph new works performed by students. Choreographers TBA.
Banner Image: Pictured left to right: Diamond Turner and Ariel Bowman in Garden of Earthly Delights by Sophia Peck: Photo Credit: William Frederking
Thursday, May 13, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 14, 2027 at 7:30 p.m.
Ticket: Free with reservation. (Note there is a limit of one ticket reservation per order for free concerts. Please see FAQ.)
Columbia College Chicago’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance class of 2027: Milenka Aurelio, Lola Jett-Beachley, Courtney Cooper, Sophie Daker, Lizeth Hernandez, Diamond Turner, and Ava-C. Winfrey share new works dedicated to their years of connecting, witnessing, researching, experimenting, practicing, imagining and growing as dance artists.
A father and his two sons live in a house. The most routine tasks, such as preparing breakfast, bathing, or housework turn into real adventures when tackled by three inexperienced men and their fear of not knowing what are they doing. The journey that the elder brother needs to make in order to leave home, and the fear of saying goodbye to the ones we love, will be the starting point of our story. “The Compañía de Teatro Físico perform universal, speechless, physical theatre independent from time and space to rock the viewers gently with their fears.”
