Jane Jerardi
Sharon Hoyer of New City interviews T. Ayo ...

Sharon Hoyer of New City interviews T. Ayo Alston about our upcoming presentation of Ayodele Drum & Dance at the Dance Center in “Joy and Sisterhood: Ayodele Drum & Dance Make Their Dance Center of Columbia College Debut.”

Sharon Hoyer of New City interviews T. Ayo Alston
Latest, Presented companies, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
T. Ayo Alston, Artistic Director of Ayodele ...

Dance Center Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with Ayodele Drum and Dance Founding Executive/Artistic Director and Columbia faculty member T. Ayo Alston to talk about BEAUTY AND THE BEAT: MASKED as part of Season 52.

T. Ayo Alston, Artistic Director of Ayodele Drum and Dance, in Conversation with our Artistic Director Meredith Sutton
Reflection, Alumni, Symposium
Jane Jerardi
Timothy Tsang: Spiraling Through Contemporary ...

Timothy Tsang (BA, Dance 2017) returns to the Dance Center to present a workshop on his current research into Leslie Cheung, the Hong Kong pop icon whose concerts and films have become central to queer cultural memory as part of our Fall 2025 symposium. Here, Timothy reflects on What is Contemporary?

Timothy Tsang: Spiraling Through Contemporary Dance
Jane Jerardi
NANIGO 2025: Movement, Memory, and Liberation ...

Raynner Garcia (BFA, Musical Theatre ‘26) shares his experience of the National Association for American African Dance Teacher’s annual dance intensive NANIGO 2025 in this reflection. “Just a block from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, the Autin Lo’Ren Studio was full of warmth and rhythm the moment we stepped in. You could feel the energy pulsing before any music played; it was a community in motion. As someone with limited experience in Umfundalai, I came with a few nerves, but the generosity of the community quickly washed those away. That is the essence of Umfundalai. More than a technique, t’s a philosophy rooted in Diasporic movement traditions, ancestral connection, and the beauty of the African body.”

NANIGO 2025: Movement, Memory, and Liberation on Juneteenth
Latest, Presented companies, Reflection, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Review: Nora Sharp's COSMIC DOCKS on Sixty ...

Corey Smith and Rachel Lindsay reflect on the March 2025 premiere of Nora Sharp’s COSMIC DOCKS at the Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival for Sixty Inches from Center: “Cosmic Docks is one part standup special, one part loop-pedal-karaoke, one part dance-with-an-uppercase ‘D.’”

Review: Nora Sharp's COSMIC DOCKS on Sixty Inches from Center

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Review: Nora Sharp's COSMIC DOCKS on Sixty Inches from Center

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Review: Nora Sharp's COSMIC DOCKS on Sixty Inches from Center

Corey Smith and Rachel Lindsay reflect on the March 2025 premiere of Nora Sharp’s COSMIC DOCKS at the Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival for Sixty Inches from Center: “Cosmic Docks is one part standup special, one part loop-pedal-karaoke, one part dance-with-an-uppercase ‘D.’”

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Review: Jenn Freeman | Po'Chop's THICK on Sixty Inches from Center

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Review: Jenn Freeman | Po'Chop's THICK on Sixty Inches from Center

Corey Smith and Rachel Lindsay reflect on the March 2025 premiere of THICK: a crumbling freak show by Jenn Freeman | Po’Chop at the Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival for Sixty Inches from Center: “The [performance] is a tour de force of Freeman | Po’Chop’s chops.”

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

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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….