New City’s Sharon Hoyer picks MATADORA as part of its September 2025 Top Five. The new work by Camila Rivero Pooley, aka Insékta, explores the power of Latine rage in a new Latine Futurist dance theater work.
See Chicago Dance Review: Innovative and Inspired, Michelle Haskell presents "Empty Are My Hands" at Columbia College
See Chicago Dance’s Tristan Bruns reviews Michell Haskell’s debut at the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago with “Empty Are My Hands,” coming to the conclusion that: “Haskell and dancers pass through creative territory rarely explored (i.e., the synthesis of tap and modern dance) and their solutions to problems noticeable in other tap and modern amalgamations (i.e., how to get on the shoes and what to do with the tap boards) are imaginative and inspired. Haskell is on to something, and ‘Empty Are My Hands’ adds to the canon of tap and modern dance collaborations while finding new ways to innovate within both mediums.”
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.
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Columbia Chronicle: Student choreographers debut original work
The Columbia Chronicle featured “In a World of Becoming,” an independent dance project created by two graduating seniors, Grace Butt and Erica Jones, in their recent issue. Butt and Jones presented their work for Admitted Students Day to encapsulate the emotional arc of beginning college at the Dance Center on Saturday, April 25, 2026.






