Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Distractions and attractions onstage this ...

The Chicago Reader picks the Dance Center’s Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in its Winter season theater preview highlighting “brilliant Chicago-based artists Jenn ‘Po’Chop’ Freeman and Nora Sharp.”

Distractions and attractions onstage this season: Irene Hsiao picks our Chicago Solo Spotlight Festival in The Reader
Reflection, Symposium, Latest
Roell Schmidt
The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie ...

“With wonderful presentations about the tradition and history of rhythm from different experiences, personal understandings, and cultures, I was able to unlock new ideas and grow my previous ideas of what embodying rhythm can mean.” - Sophie Daker 

The Embodying Rhythm Symposium by Sophie Daker
Reflection, Symposium, Latest
Roell Schmidt
Embodying Rhythm: Dance Symposium Reflection by ...

“The exceptional line up of guests offered in depth presentations or physicalized practices for participants to embody.”

Embodying Rhythm: Dance Symposium Reflection by Malika Okot
Reflection, Symposium, Latest
Roell Schmidt
Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm Symposium ...

“Being presented with perspectives and context I wouldn’t otherwise have on topics that are important to the evolution and roots of dance helped me to expand my personal scope of interest and exploration. “

Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm Symposium Reflection by J. Stephens
Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center, Latest
Jane Jerardi
Onstage front-runners: Our critics select a few ...

“…fall is afoot, and so are some of the most exciting live performances of the year…” Chicago Reader critics select a few promising performances for the months ahead including Mythili Prakash’s She’s Auspicious

Onstage front-runners: Our critics select a few promising performances for the months ahead.

Reflection

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On the Ground

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On the Ground

Expanding our blog to take the pulse on our dance communities

In 2021, through the support of The Walder Foundation, we were able to expand the On the Ground series on our blog. We checked in on the dance communities in our city and beyond by taking the pulse of the moment during the covid pandemic. On the Ground became an online dance journal-magazine that featured interviews with Chicago dance artists, shared work from virtual residencies that we hosted with choreographers, and took deep dives into our video archives.

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Dance Buffet - thanks for coming!

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Dance Buffet - thanks for coming!

The Dance Center’s Dance Buffet wrapped up last week and I want to celebrate and thank everyone who helped make it possible. Between mid-September and mid-November 2020, we presented 37 live events, ranging from discussion groups to improvisation workshops to technique classes. These were small-scale events, intentionally designed to preserve as many aspects of liveness and presence as possible…

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On the Ground: Homecoming - Shadows and the Africanist Aesthetic in Ephrat Asherie’s Odeon

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On the Ground: Homecoming - Shadows and the Africanist Aesthetic in Ephrat Asherie’s Odeon

In a new initiative called On The Ground, the Dance Presenting Series engaged five Chicago-based dance writers to be present for the week-long residencies that happen at the Dance Center. To start this series, Columbia College Chicago alum Brianna Heath participated in the activities during Ephrat Asherie Dance’s residency, October 15-20, 2019.