Season 51 | Fuse. Converge. Connect. 

As part of the newly created School of Theatre and Dance, The Dance Center’s Season 51 connects audiences with dance created and performed by established artists, student dancemakers, and elders to get at the heart of why dance is a ubiquitous phenomenon across all societies and cultures.

 
 

pictured: Veronica Li, MJ Bueno, Perla Mia Valdez, Jadyn Hogue; photo by Julie Lucas.

Thursday and Friday, February 20-21 at 7:30 p.m.

Dive into the School of Theatre and Dance with student choreographers and performers from both Theatre and Dance bringing their original take to musical theatre dance numbers.

Co-Directors/-Producers
Jaydn Hogue and Wyatt Smith

Choreographers
MJ Bueno, Carenza Glastonbury, Mollie Holbrook, Harmony Nielsen, and Wyatt Smith

Faculty Advisor: Wilfredo Rivera 

Season Pass

Become a Season 51 Half Pass Holder.  Experience live dance's kinetic power in the now when it’s most keenly felt, seen, and heard — when live and in person together. Save 50% on tickets and prioritize opportunities to be connected with your own body through our Friday class series. There are three different pass options — choose whether you want to see performances, participate in classes, or both! Join your community to come together through dance to connect, witness, research, experiment, practice, imagine, and grow.

from Irene Hsiao’s Merely a Mistake A Score for your Door.

 

Explore On the Ground, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago’s online publication. With support from The Walder Foundation, it features interviews with Chicago dance artists, checking in on dance communities, sharing work from our virtual residencies with choreographers, and exploring the Dance Center’s video archives.

 

David Rousseve/REALITY, from Stardust, photo by Yi Chun.

Urban Bush Women in Hep Hep Sweet Sweet, photo by Rick McCullough.

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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago is the city’s leading presenter of contemporary dance – bringing international, national, and local artists to Chicago audiences. The Dance Center has served as a focal point for dance and performance in Chicago since 1974.

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Distractions and attractions onstage this season: Irene Hsiao picks our Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in The Reader
Distractions and attractions onstage this season: Irene Hsiao picks our Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in The Reader

The Chicago Reader picks the Dance Center’s Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in its Winter season theater preview highlighting “brilliant Chicago-based artists Jenn ‘Po’Chop’ Freeman and Nora Sharp.”

The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie Daker
The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie Daker

“With wonderful presentations about the tradition and history of rhythm from different experiences, personal understandings, and cultures, I was able to unlock new ideas and grow my previous ideas of what embodying rhythm can mean.” - Sophie Daker 

Embodying Rhythm: Dance Symposium Reflection by Malika Okot
Embodying Rhythm: Dance Symposium Reflection by Malika Okot

“The exceptional line up of guests offered in depth presentations or physicalized practices for participants to embody.”

Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm Symposium Reflection by J. Stephens
Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm Symposium Reflection by J. Stephens

“Being presented with perspectives and context I wouldn’t otherwise have on topics that are important to the evolution and roots of dance helped me to expand my personal scope of interest and exploration. “

Onstage front-runners: Our critics select a few promising performances for the months ahead.
Onstage front-runners: Our critics select a few promising performances for the months ahead.

“…fall is afoot, and so are some of the most exciting live performances of the year…” Chicago Reader critics select a few promising performances for the months ahead including Mythili Prakash’s She’s Auspicious

Catharsis and Community: A Preview of “She’s Auspicious” at the Dance Center of Columbia College
Catharsis and Community: A Preview of “She’s Auspicious” at the Dance Center of Columbia College

Newcity's Sharon Hoyer interviews Mythili Prakash: "How are powerful women celebrated? Who defines what that power should look like? These are just a couple of the many questions Mythili Prakash explores in her evening-length dance “She’s Auspicious”...

See Chicago Dance Review: Artists pack a punch during Columbia College’s Chicago Artist Festival
See Chicago Dance Review: Artists pack a punch during Columbia College’s Chicago Artist Festival

See Chicago Dance’s Megan Kudla reviews our recent Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival second weekend of performances: “Every piece was carefully crafted and packed a punch, and the performers masterfully navigated the worlds created. The artistic output of Kilmurray & Brody, Howard and Swilley were meaningful and exciting, setting a high standard for what performance art can be and say about process, product and the relationships that are essential to them.”

Review calls the Dance Center “arguably the best venue to see dance in Chicago!”
Review calls the Dance Center “arguably the best venue to see dance in Chicago!”

Recent praise for FLOCK & Artists’ Somewhere Between calls the Dance Center -- “arguably the best venue to see dance in Chicago!”:

Sometimes in duets, and most often as a six-dancer ensemble, Flock’s Somewhere Between continues to mesmerize with seamless transitions. We lose track of time. It’s not unlike the hypnotizing effect of a lava lamp. All is fluid. Transitions are so seamless we only realize they have happened in retrospect….

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banner image: from what we un/wound by: Kierah {KIKI} King; pictured l to r: Mya Mccellen, J Stephens, Lucy Williams, and Caitlin Wonsowski; photo by: Julie Lucas for Columbia College Chicago.