Alumni, Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Columbia College Chicago Alum and Dance Center ...

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.’

Columbia College Chicago Alum and Dance Center Artist Erin Kilmurray Named Chicagoan of the Year in Dance
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
See Chicago Dance reviews South Chicago Dance ...

See Chicago Dance reviews South Chicago Dance Theatre’s premiere of “Lamentations for Peace” at the Dance Center in December 2025.

See Chicago Dance reviews South Chicago Dance Theatre premiere "Lamentations for Peace"
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Third Coast Review: South Chicago Dance Theatre ...

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.

Third Coast Review: South Chicago Dance Theatre Expresses the Raw Emotions of Loss Through Lamentations of Peace
Latest, Presented companies, Process, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Meredith Sutton sits down with South Chicago ...

Dance Center Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Founder, Director of Vision and Strategy, and Resident Choreographer Kia S. Smith this past summer to talk about how she was approaching the process of creating the company’s first holiday show.

Meredith Sutton sits down with South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Kia S. Smith to talk about the company's first holiday show.
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

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Columbia College Chicago Alum and Dance Center Artist Erin Kilmurray Named Chicagoan of the Year in Dance

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Columbia College Chicago Alum and Dance Center Artist Erin Kilmurray Named Chicagoan of the Year in 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.’

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Meredith Sutton sits down with South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Kia S. Smith to talk about the company's first holiday show.

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Meredith Sutton sits down with South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Kia S. Smith to talk about the company's first holiday show.

Dance Center Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with South Chicago Dance Theatre’s Founder, Director of Vision and Strategy, and Resident Choreographer Kia S. Smith this past summer to talk about how she was approaching the process of creating the company’s first holiday show.

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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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Kyle MacMillan, of the Chicago Sun-Times, reviews Red Clay Dance Company: Red Clay Dance Company celebrates entrancing 'New Ground' in Bebe Miller world premiere

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Kyle MacMillan, of the Chicago Sun-Times, reviews Red Clay Dance Company: Red Clay Dance Company celebrates entrancing 'New Ground' in Bebe Miller world premiere

The highlight here is the premiere of “Field: New Ground,” a Red Clay commission by Miller that smartly and perceptively showcases the nine solidly trained, highly committed members of this all-female company.

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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.