The Dance Center

Chatting with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s Co-Founder and Artistic Director Wilfredo Rivera

Chatting with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s Co-Founder and Artistic Director Wilfredo Rivera

Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and CEO Wilfredo Rivera to talk about the company's first concerts at the Dance Center on April 30-May 2, 2026.

La directora artística Meredith Sutton se reunió con Wilfredo Rivera, el cofundador, director artístico y CEO de Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, para dialogar sobre los primeros conciertos de la compañía, que se darán a presentar en el Dance Center, del 30 de abril de 2026 al 2 de mayo de 2026.

See Chicago Dance Picks Marcel Gbeffa's Didę and Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre as 'Shows You Gotta See' this April

See Chicago Dance Picks Marcel Gbeffa's Didę and Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre as 'Shows You Gotta See' this April

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.

Third Coast Review: The Seldoms Connect the Body and Spirit to Climate Change with Floe at the Columbia College Dance Center

Third Coast Review: The Seldoms Connect the Body and Spirit to Climate Change with Floe at the Columbia College Dance Center

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.”

See Chicago Dance: Natya Dance Theatre Celebrates 50 Years at Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago

See Chicago Dance: Natya Dance Theatre Celebrates 50 Years at Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago

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.