Chicago Tribune critic Lauren Warnecke highlights The Seldoms’ “Floe” as one of this winter’s top picks for Chicago Dance.
The Chicago Tribune’s Lauren Warnecke celebrates Erin Kilmurray, fellow Dance Center and Columbia College Chicago Alum as Chicagoan of the Year in Dance. Dance Presenting Series artist Kilmurray reflects on what’s next after ‘The Fly Honey Show.’
See Chicago Dance reviews South Chicago Dance Theatre’s premiere of “Lamentations for Peace” at the Dance Center in December 2025.
Third Coast Review’s Kathy D. Hey reviews South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Lamentations of Peace. which premiered at the Dance Center December 6 and 7, 2025.
What Is Contemporary? Symposium 2025, hosted by the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, explored the idea of ‘contemporary’ and the many meanings it takes on in reference to dance. The conference acknowledged that the word contemporary has a definitive meaning - ‘belonging to or happening now’ – while also recognizing that when paired with the word ‘dance’ (i.e., contemporary dance), takes on vastly different definitions from artist to artist. In this three-day symposium, dancers, academics, and professionals in the dance field contemplated this word contemporary – and in term contemporary dance – to not define it, but to understand what the complexity of the word means for the dance industry. Kaleigh Dent synthesizes some of the conversations and threads that emerged over the course of the symposium and related events.
Kerry Reid of the Chicago Reader wrote a remembrance of Shirley Mordine, our founder. Mordine, 89, founded the dance department at Columbia College Chicago and the college’s influential Dance Center. During her 30-year tenure at Columbia, which began in 1969, she instituted the center’s Dance Presenting Series in 1974, which brought contemporary dance artists from around the country to Chicago, often placing them in conversation and collaboration with local talent.
