Latest, Presented companies, Process, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Sitting down with Bevara Anderson-Selkridge: ...

Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with Bevara Anderson-Selkridge to talk about Essence and BĀLA Dance Project’s first standalone concert in Chicago as part of Season 53 of the Dance Presenting Series.

Sitting down with Bevara Anderson-Selkridge: Essence and BĀLA Dance Project's Dance Center Debut
Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
See Chicago Dance Picks Dance Center Offerings ...

See Chicago Dance’s Managing Editor Tristan Bruns picks CounterBalance 15th Anniversary and Emerging Artist Showcase as well as Bevara Anderson-Selkridge’s Essence in its October 2026 picks.

See Chicago Dance Picks Dance Center Offerings in its October 2026 Shows You Gotta See
Latest, Presented companies, Process, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Chatting with Maggie Bridger, Ginger Lane, and ...

Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with Maggie Bridger, Ginger Lane, and Sarah Najera to talk about the CounterBalance 15th Anniversary, Emerging Artist Showcase, and Inclusive Creative Movement Workshop as part of Season 53 of the Dance Presenting Series. 

Chatting with Maggie Bridger, Ginger Lane, and Sarah Najera about CounterBalance, an Emerging Artist Showcase, and an Inclusive Movement Workshop
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
New City Stage: Bevara Anderson-Selkridge ...

Sharon Hoyer of New City Stage speaks with Bevara Anderson-Selkridge about BALA Dance Project’s debut at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.

New City Stage: Bevara Anderson-Selkridge Connects Worlds with BALA Dance Project
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Columbia Chronicle: ‘MATADORA’ explores ...

Columbia alum Camila Rivero Pooley, who goes by the artist name “INSÉKTA,” transformed her experiences with rage and gender expectations into a dance theater production that premiered this week at the Dance Center.

Columbia Chronicle: ‘MATADORA’ explores feminine rage through dance

Process

Process v. Product: What Does the Artist Do?

Process v. Product: What Does the Artist Do?

In 2015 the BBC produced a short documentary on Tracey Emin as part of their “What Do Artists Do All Day” series. In it, the painter/drawer/fibers/conceptual artist — one of the breakout Young British Artists of the 90s and a personal hero of mine as a young woman studying painting in undergrad — talks about how she gets grounded before approaching a large blank canvas. Throughout the episode, she makes references to needing to feel “confident” or “bold” or “strong in [her] head” in order to step into such a wide open space successfully…

Process v. Product: on beginnings

Process v. Product: on beginnings

Most of the work of making a dance or performance is going to the studio and the ritual of getting to the studio. This sounds ridiculous, but I find it true. There’s a method to being in a process. Which, what does that mean? It’s permission to give yourself authority. Because no one will ever tell you or give you permission to make. You have to convince yourself it’s a good idea to be making anything at all. Or, maybe it’s more reverse psychology – you have to convince yourself that it’s not a bad idea.