Irene Hsiao of the Chicago Reader highlights our Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival in their Spring 2024 picks:

“What we’re most looking forward to is how these five Chicago artists are exploring dance environmentally—and freeing dance witnessing from its expected outlines,” say Dance Presenting Series artistic director Meredith Sutton and producing director Roell Schmidt. “With Ayako, we’re taking an embodied journey from the lakefront to the Dance Center reintroducing us to ourselves in nature and asking us to reconnect with nature in ourselves. J’Sun, SJ, Erin, and Kara are setting their works within an exploration of the Dance Center itself in collaboration with the remarkable musicians who provide the live accompaniment for the classes here. We’re celebrating our whole name by centering what’s special about dance at Columbia College through the vast imaginations of Chicago artists.”

Read all of the Reader’s Performance Picks for this Spring!