The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival returns to the Dance Center with this U.S. premiere from India. Drawing on the Rama myth in Bhavabhuti’s ‘Uttararamacharita’ through Bunraku puppetry, Kathakali and Chau dance, and projected animation, About Ram focuses more on what Ram thinks and feels than on what he does.

This third annual student-produced, directed, choreographed and performed revue features Acting, Dance, Design, and Musical Theatre majors bringing their creativity to musical theatre dance numbers.

​The Chicago premiere of Floe fits into a set of The Seldoms’ repertory about environmental issues and that the new normal is change. Research in the creation of the work included learning from locals affected by the Wisconsin floods of 2018, the sea ice changes at the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea Lagoon, and Houston’s Hurricane Harvey.

Natya Dance Theatre (NDT) celebrates 50 years and continues their tradition of sharing important milestones in its rich history at the Dance Center. Rooted in tradition, shaped by vision, and guided by rasa, Natya Dance Theatre celebrates 50 years of preserving and perpetuating bharata natyam.

This inaugural festival showcases four of Columbia College Chicago’s student run organizations open to all majors and dedicated to Ballet, Hip Hop, Mixed Styles, and K-pop.

Embrace the energetic lift of early spring with original, brand new, short works by student choreographers selected from an open application process. These eagerly anticipated concerts feature audiences as electric as the performers.

The Dance Center’s renowned professional dance faculty and alumni choreograph new works performed by students.

Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre makes its Dance Center debut with three new world premieres: Immense World by Shannon Alvis, Trouble in Mind by Monique Haley, and Bridge Over Troubled Water by CRDT Co-Founder and Artistic Director Wilfredo Rivera with arrangements and original music by CRDT Co-Founder Joe Cerqua. Back by popular demand is Shannon Alvis’ A Place Between Earth & Sky (2018) with original music by Clarice Assad.

Columbia College Chicago’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance class of 2026: Grace Butt, Violet Czerwinski, Erica Jones, Shannon Lane, Sophia Peck, Autumn Risbrook, Devon Saxman, and CJ Triche share new works dedicated to their years of connecting, witnessing, researching, experimenting, practicing, imagining and growing as dance artists.