Sharon Hoyer of New City features the Dance Center’s inclusion in this year’s Physical Theater Festival, an edition with a dance focus. The annual festival brings many performance types under its umbrella.

Third Coast Review’s Kathy D. Hey reviews Didę by Compagnie Multicorps, choreographed by Marcel Gbeffa from Benin, with direction and wood masks designed by Sarah Trouche from France.

See Chicago Dance’s Tristan Bruns picks our upcoming presentations of the midwest premiere of Didę by Marcel Gbeffa and Sarah Trouche and our upcoming performances by Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre coming for the first time to our stage.

New City Stage’s Sharon Hoyer highlights our upcoming presentation of Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre on our stage later this month as one of her top picks for April 2026!

Kathy Hey of Chicago’s Third Coast Review covers The Seldoms’s latest performance FLOE, which premiered at the Dance Center: “Floe is a haunting 85-minute dervish of contemplative and elongated movements, pulling together and apart.”

“Floe is a dance‑theater work that confronts the climate crisis not as a distant abstraction but as a lived, bodily reality.” Splash Magazine’s LaRita S. Smith reviews The Seldoms’s recent Chicago premiere of Floe, their latest work.

Like all of Natya Dance Theatre’s canon, “Sharīra Sharīri – Held Within” is representative of Artistic Director Hema Rajagopalan’s philosophy, put simply, “to get better, to love each other, to share, to lose one’s ego.” Rather than narrating philosophy, Natya’s work embodies it, allowing the audience to experience phenomenally the interconnection of all beings and how they are intertwined with the source of life, a message as old as the practice of philosophy itself, re-imagined by a classical dance company whose tradition is to be contemporary.