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.”
The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie Daker
Embodying Rhythm: Dance Symposium Reflection by Malika Okot
Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm Symposium Reflection by J. Stephens
Onstage front-runners: Our critics select a few promising performances for the months ahead.
Catharsis and Community: A Preview of “She’s Auspicious” at the Dance Center of Columbia College
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.”
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….
