2ND ANNUAL CHICAGO LATINX/E CONTEMPORARY MOVEMENT FESTIVAL By Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre
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.
