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The Citizen Newspaper: Red Clay Dance Company announces Spring Columbia College Chicago performances

The Citizen Newspaper: Red Clay Dance Company announces Spring Columbia College Chicago performances

Red Clay Dance Company, Chicago’s premier Afro-contemporary dance company, proudly announces its exciting Season 18: Spectrum programming, including Founding Artistic Director and CEO Vershawn Sanders-Ward’s powerful evening-length work Freedom Square: The Black Girlhood Altar at Northwestern University’s Wirtz Center in Evanston in October 2026, and a spring concert featuring work by Sanders-Ward alongside Rena Butler, Beatrice Capote and Bebe Miller at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago in April 2027.

The Columbia Chronicle: Rhythm World brings tap history to Columbia College Chicago’s Dance Center

The Columbia Chronicle: Rhythm World brings tap history to Columbia College Chicago’s Dance Center

The Columbia Chronicle’s Nico Waugh covers the recent Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Rhythm World at the Dance Center. The week-long festival brought together a community of dancers, including audience members with little tap experience.

‘Los Regalos’ viene del Perú al campus de Columbia para una actuación con máscaras

‘Los Regalos’ viene del Perú al campus de Columbia para una actuación con máscaras

La Crónica / The Columbia Chronicle's Sofía Oyarzún writes about Compañía de Teatro Físico’s ‘Los Regalos’ (‘The Gifts’): “La actuación de baile contó la historia del ciclo de la vida de dos hijos y su papá, con una escena parecida a la ciudad nativa de la compañía peruana.”

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.