Welcome NANIGO 2025!
June 19-21, 2025
The National Association for American African Dance Teachers’ annual dance intensive NANIGO comes to Chicago this week! Artists from all over the United States convene to deepen their collective knowledge of African dance.
Call for Session Proposals Opens June 16, 2025
What is Contemporary? Symposium
(October 15-16, 2025)
Calling all practitioners, scholars, educators, students and enthusiasts to submit session proposals for the 2025 Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Symposium. Contemporary means distinctly different things in different dance contexts from concert to community, club to cultural, competition to commercial. For the 2025 Symposium, Co-curators and Dance faculty Keesha Beckford and Dardi McGinley Gallivan invite session proposals from all parts of the ecosystem to discover and uncover together what is contemporary in dance.
May 5, 2025
It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of our visionary founder, Shirley Mordine, who led the Dance Center from 1969 until 1999.
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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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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.
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.