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About us
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On the Ground
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May 5, 2025
Latest, The Dance Center, In Memoriam
Jane Jerardi
In Memoriam: Our Founder Shirley Mordine

It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of our visionary founder, Shirley Mordine, who led the Dance Center from 1969 until 1999.

In Memoriam: Our Founder Shirley Mordine
April 16, 2025
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Red Clay Dance Company's 16 Featured in Local ...

Red Clay Dance Company is gearing up for its concert series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and has been featured in New City, on See Chicago Dance, and several TV interviews - including WGN 9’s Midday Fix, Fox 32, and Chicago’s ABC 7.

Red Clay Dance Company's 16 Featured in Local Press: WGN-9 Midday Fix, Fox 32 and ABC 7 Interviews, New City, and more
April 3, 2025
Latest, Presented companies, The Dance Center
Roell Schmidt
Red Clay Dance Company & Bebe Miller: A ...

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.

Red Clay Dance Company & Bebe Miller: A Homecoming
January 27, 2025
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
November 8, 2024
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
Jane Jerardi
December 22, 2017
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Asia’s leading contemporary dance company returns to Chicago

Jane Jerardi
December 22, 2017
Presented companies
Asia’s leading contemporary dance company returns to Chicago

What comes to mind when you think of your homeland? If you were to create a dance that was a love letter to your homeland, what would it look like?

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