Dance Center Artistic Director Meredith Sutton spoke with Natya Dance Theatre’s Hema Rajagopalan about the company’s upcoming 50th anniversary concerts at the Dance Center March 19 - 21, 2026.
Dance Center Artistic Director Meredith Sutton spoke with The Seldoms’ Founding Artistic Director Carrie Hanson about the long-awaited Chicago premiere of Floe coming to the Dance Center March 12 - 13, 2026.
We were honored that Sharon Hoyer of New City Stage picked our Artistic and Producing Directors as part of their 50 Players for Chicago in 2026.
Chicago Tribune critic Lauren Warnecke highlights The Seldoms’ “Floe” as one of this winter’s top picks for Chicago Dance.
The Chicago Tribune’s Lauren Warnecke celebrates Erin Kilmurray, fellow Dance Center and Columbia College Chicago Alum as Chicagoan of the Year in Dance. Dance Presenting Series artist Kilmurray reflects on what’s next after ‘The Fly Honey Show.’
Kerry Reid of the Chicago Reader wrote a remembrance of Shirley Mordine, our founder. Mordine, 89, founded the dance department at Columbia College Chicago and the college’s influential Dance Center. During her 30-year tenure at Columbia, which began in 1969, she instituted the center’s Dance Presenting Series in 1974, which brought contemporary dance artists from around the country to Chicago, often placing them in conversation and collaboration with local talent.
Red Clay Dance Company’s upcoming program pairs two works created in collaboration with the dancers: Bebe Miller’s Field: New Ground and Vershawn Sanders-Ward’s Written on the Flesh. Asked about how it has been for the company to work with Bebe, for Vershawn it’s something of a full circle moment: “I’m still in awe. I don’t want to get all sentimental – it just reminds me of the specialness of the Dance Center.” Read about the two works and the collaboration between these two artists.
