The Dance Presenting Series invites proposals for performances from Chicago dancemakers for its 45th anniversary celebration performance on Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
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.
On the Ground: Five Dance Writers Join the Season
The Tribune captures all the change afoot at the Dance Center and our Season Kick-off
Critic Lauren Warnecke of The Chicago Tribune highlights the changes afoot at the Dance Center in her conversation with our director, Ellen Chenoweth.
Celebrating 45 Years in Motion!
Chicago Sun-Times profiles the Dance Center
Ellen joins the family - permanently.
Save the Date! 45th Anniversary Party 3/16/2019
Dance Musings: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
During our spring semester at the Dance Center, there is a small cohort of dance writers viewing, discussing, and writing about each performance in the Dance Presenting Series, guided by Director Ellen Chenoweth. Comprised of Columbia College students and recent alums, cohort members were nominated by faculty members and applied for a position in the group. We collected a few excerpts here from their writings about the recent Dance Center presentation of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan…
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…
