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Dance for Health
Columbia College Chicago
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Interviews
Pulse Check
Residency Reflections
Essays
Dance Dive
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May 1, 2026
Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Block Club Chicago Picks Cerqua Rivera: 23 ...

Block Club Chicago picks our presentation of Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre in its line-up of things to do over the May Day weekend!

Block Club Chicago Picks Cerqua Rivera: 23 Things to Do in Chicago This Weekend
April 29, 2026
Jane Jerardi
WGN-TV Channel 9 Chicago's Spotlight Chicago ...

Artist Director Wilfredo Rivero speaks with the WGN-TV Spotlight Chicago team about the upcoming performances by Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre coming to the Dance Center’s stage on Channel 9.

WGN-TV Channel 9 Chicago's Spotlight Chicago Features Cerqua Rivera's upcoming debut at the Dance Center!
April 28, 2026
Latest, Presented companies, Press, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Third Coast Review: Didę Is African Tradition ...

Third Coast Review’s Kathy D. Hey reviews Didę by Compagnie Multicorps, choreographed by Marcel Gbeffa from Benin, with direction and wood masks designed by Sarah Trouche from France.

Third Coast Review: Didę Is African Tradition and Spirit Rising Up
April 3, 2026
Latest, Presented companies, The Dance Center
Jane Jerardi
Chatting with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s ...

Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and CEO Wilfredo Rivera to talk about the company's first concerts at the Dance Center on April 30-May 2, 2026.

La directora artística Meredith Sutton se reunió con Wilfredo Rivera, el cofundador, director artístico y CEO de Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, para dialogar sobre los primeros conciertos de la compañía, que se darán a presentar en el Dance Center, del 30 de abril de 2026 al 2 de mayo de 2026.

Chatting with Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre’s Co-Founder and Artistic Director Wilfredo Rivera
April 3, 2026
Jane Jerardi
Mi Gente showcase displays Latin American ...

Guadalupe Loza-Sanchez, Reporter for the Columbia Chronicle, featured the Mi Gente showcase in an article that highlighted the student dance club dedicated to Latin dance forms and its performances as part of the first-ever Festival of Dance Clubs at the Dance Center.

Mi Gente showcase displays Latin American culture through dance
Jane Jerardi
March 9, 2018
Process

Process v. Product: letter to my ma

Jane Jerardi
March 9, 2018
Process
Process v. Product: letter to my ma

For our Process v. Product Festival, we asked three Chicago-based artists to reflect on their process in creative ways. Jenn Freeman writes a letter to her mother connecting her process to the spiritual in a poignant piece of writing.

Jane Jerardi
December 22, 2017
Presented companies

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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