Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with Wilfredo Rivera, Assistant Professor and Co-founder Artistic Director and CEO of Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre to talk about the 2nd Annual Chicago Latinx/e Contemporary Movement Festival by Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre as part of Season 53 of the Dance Presenting Series on October 2-3, 2026.
Artistic Director Meredith Sutton sat down with INSÉKTA (Camila Rivero Pooley) to talk about the world premiere of MATADORA opening Season 53 of the Dance Presenting Series on September 24-26, 2026.
New City’s Sharon Hoyer picks MATADORA as part of its September 2025 Top Five. The new work by Camila Rivero Pooley, aka Insékta, explores the power of Latine rage in a new Latine Futurist dance theater work.
See Chicago Dance’s Tristan Bruns reviews Michell Haskell’s debut at the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago with “Empty Are My Hands,” coming to the conclusion that: “Haskell and dancers pass through creative territory rarely explored (i.e., the synthesis of tap and modern dance) and their solutions to problems noticeable in other tap and modern amalgamations (i.e., how to get on the shoes and what to do with the tap boards) are imaginative and inspired. Haskell is on to something, and ‘Empty Are My Hands’ adds to the canon of tap and modern dance collaborations while finding new ways to innovate within both mediums.”
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.”
