The Dance Center Presents
Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival
Thursday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. (Cosmic Docks by Nora Sharp)
Friday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. (THICK: a crumbling freak show by Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop)
Saturday, March 15 at 1:00 p.m. (Cosmic Docks by Nora Sharp) and at 3:30 p.m. (THICK: a crumbling freak show by Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop)
Created and Performed by:
Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop
Nora Sharp
Festival Pass: $50
Tickets: $30 general public, $10 non-Columbia students; free to Columbia College Chicago students.
The Dance Center continues to spotlight Chicago dance artists who are pushing the boundaries of the form. The 2025 Festival features two world premieres: THICK: a crumbling freak show is a multimedia solo performance by Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop that confronts notions of femininity and civility and calls into question the creation of otherness. Freeman asks, “What does the spatiotemporal history of Black women, and our bodies, tell us about consent, commodification, and spectacle?” Cosmic Docks is a dance-theater one-them-show from Nora Sharp, born from the outer space of trans dis-certainty that journeys down a choreographic and comedic rabbit hole of intertwined sci-fi futurism and personal history. Shaped by repression, resistance, and modestly-managed anxiety, Cosmic Docks charts a pathway beyond queer and trans legibility.
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Banner image: pictured: Nora Sharp; photo by William Frederking.
