Faculty Spotlight Archive

Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago faculty member Paige Caldarella is the choreographer and co-creator of If Left Unchecked, a new dance work that explores how cultural norms against female anger, created by sexism and amplified by race, affect...
Dancer-choreographer-teacher Onye Ozuzu, Dean of the Columbia College Chicago School of Fine and Performing Arts and former Chair of the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, has received a 2018 Joyce Award from the Joyce Foundation in Chicago. The...
Congratulations to the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago alumni and faculty highlighted in Newcity‘s “Players 2018: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago.” Published January 4, 2018, the Newcity Stage feature by Kevin Greene saluted 50 influential...
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago‘s blog “In the Studio” has chronicled Dance Center activities as well news about outside professional accomplishments of our talented and accomplished alumni, faculty, and students over the past year. As we head...
Alumni and faculty members from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago are among the dance artists receiving grants from the Chicago grant-making organization 3Arts, which announced on November 6, 2017, that it will award $330,000 to nearly 100...
The Seldoms, an innovative Chicago dance theatre troupe led by Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago faculty member Carrie Hanson, premieres its new work, The Making, November 9-18 at at the historic Pulaski Park fieldhouse, 1419 W. Blackhawk in...
Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago faculty members are in the ensemble and creative team of Rooming House, a new dance-theatre work presented by Lucky Plush Productions as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company‘s LookOut Series. Co-created by Julia Rhoads...
Dancer-choreographer-teacher Onye Ozuzu, Dean of the Columbia College Chicago School of Fine and Performing Arts and former Chair of the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, will lead a showing of her new work Project Tool on Friday, September...
The talents of alumni and faculty members from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago are featured in the annual Chicago SummerDance Celebration on Saturday, August 26, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph in downtown...
Dancer-choreographer Peter Carpenter, chair of the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, will perform a solo piece at the “Explode! Queer Dance” festival of performances and conversation in New York City. Carpenter will perform “Last Cowboy Standing” on Thursday, June 22,...