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.’
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…
CHICAGO—The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago announces their fall programming season, which includes classes, discussion groups, virtual residencies for local artists, and more.
With travel curtailed out of public health concerns, the Dance Center is highlighting Chicago dancers and choreographers with its fall season. Season highlights will include the following production residencies, virtual residencies, and programmatic course offerings…
Chicago-based artist and scholar Lizzie Leopold reflects on Same Planet Performance Project’s recent performance of work by Ivy Baldwin and Joanna Read and how it does or doesn’t resonate with the current political moment. In a continuation of our On the Ground series of reviews, she asks what dance can do.
Columbia College Chicago was invited to participate in a summer intensive at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, just outside of Paris. In this blog post, student Kennedy Ward shares their experience of studying with dance legend Germaine Acogny.
Our On the Ground series continues with a reflection on Kimberly Bartosik’s I hunger for you. Mary Coyne, a Merce Cunningham scholar, finds connections between this Cunningham’s dancers work and this lineage, but here emotions come to the fore: “Desire hinged on addiction, craving, finally arriving to a place where the beautiful falls into ugliness, sensuality towards violence.”
