Latest, The Dance Center, In Memoriam
Jane Jerardi
In Memoriam: Our Founder Shirley Mordine

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.

In Memoriam: Our Founder Shirley Mordine
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Red Clay Dance Company's 16 Featured in Local ...

Red Clay Dance Company is gearing up for its concert series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and has been featured in New City, on See Chicago Dance, and several TV interviews - including WGN 9’s Midday Fix, Fox 32, and Chicago’s ABC 7.

Red Clay Dance Company's 16 Featured in Local Press: WGN-9 Midday Fix, Fox 32 and ABC 7 Interviews, New City, and more
Latest, Presented companies, The Dance Center
Roell Schmidt
Red Clay Dance Company & Bebe Miller: A ...

Red Clay Dance Company’s upcoming program pairs two works created in collaboration with the dancers: Bebe Miller’s Field: New Ground and Vershawn Sanders-Ward’s Written on the Flesh. Asked about how it has been for the company to work with Bebe, for Vershawn it’s something of a full circle moment: “I’m still in awe. I don’t want to get all sentimental – it just reminds me of the specialness of the Dance Center.” Read about the two works and the collaboration between these two artists.

Red Clay Dance Company & Bebe Miller: A Homecoming
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Distractions and attractions onstage this ...

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.”

Distractions and attractions onstage this season: Irene Hsiao picks our Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in The Reader
Reflection, Symposium, Latest
Roell Schmidt
The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie ...

“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 

The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie Daker
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Red Clay Dance Company's 16 Featured in Local Press: WGN-9 Midday Fix, Fox 32 and ABC 7 Interviews, New City, and more

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Red Clay Dance Company's 16 Featured in Local Press: WGN-9 Midday Fix, Fox 32 and ABC 7 Interviews, New City, and more

Red Clay Dance Company is gearing up for its concert series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and has been featured in New City, on See Chicago Dance, and several TV interviews - including WGN 9’s Midday Fix, Fox 32, and Chicago’s ABC 7.

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Red Clay Dance Company & Bebe Miller: A Homecoming

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Red Clay Dance Company & Bebe Miller: A Homecoming

Red Clay Dance Company’s upcoming program pairs two works created in collaboration with the dancers: Bebe Miller’s Field: New Ground and Vershawn Sanders-Ward’s Written on the Flesh. Asked about how it has been for the company to work with Bebe, for Vershawn it’s something of a full circle moment: “I’m still in awe. I don’t want to get all sentimental – it just reminds me of the specialness of the Dance Center.” Read about the two works and the collaboration between these two artists.

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

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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”...

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

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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.”