MO(VE)MENT: Performance Showcase
Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15, General Admission
Free for Columbia College Chicago students
Ayodele Drum & Dance, BraveSoul Movement, The Joffrey Ballet, and Mordine & Company Legacy Project illuminate the languages, lineages, and connective tissue that have helped to make Chicago an epicenter for dance. Immediately following the MO(VE)MENT Performance Showcase, join in celebrating the Dance Center's 50th Season with professional and aspiring movers and makers.
Ayodele Drum & Dance exists to foster community from a feminine perspective through the study and performance of diasporic African drum and dance. A Yoruba word meaning "joy in the home" Ayodele is a sisterhood of women who are zealous in our common efforts to empower and strengthen the women in our community through knowledge and education of the her/story, rituals, music and dances of African culture. Led by acclaimed Dance Center faculty member T. Ayo Alston.
BraveSoul Movement was born organically in 2016 as the newest iteration of a 15-year synergy between two of Chicago’s veteran street dance artists and Dance Center faculty members, Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood and Kelsa “K-Soul” Robinson. Rooted in the movement languages and cultures of Hip-Hop and Chicago House, as well as a range of other movement traditions, BraveSoul Movement combines dancemaking with transformed pedagogy, antiracist activism and community-building practices.
The Joffrey Ballet was founded in 1956 in NYC, moved to Chicago in 1995, and broke boundaries by combining Modern and Ballet, multi-media, and an inclusive perspective on dance to reflect the diversity of America. The Joffrey Academy Contemporary Ballet Trainee Program, led by Katlin Michael Bourgeois, provides a rigorous and holistic training model that focuses on classical ballet, contemporary techniques, West African, and Modern.
Mordine & Company Legacy Project preserves more than 50 years of Dance Center Founder Shirley Mordine’s creative contributions and collaborations as the Midwest's longest running contemporary dance company.
Support and Partners
The American Dancing Body Symposium is made possible in part by Alphawood Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Illinois Arts Council Agency, and is partially supported by a Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
