Category: Faculty Spotlight
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Faculty and Alumni Talent Featured in ‘If Left Unchecked’ Jan. 25-27 at Links Hall
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 female bodies. This isn’t about “women on the edge” or “Giselle gone mad.” Instead, the work…
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Columbia College Chicago Fine and Performing Arts Dean Onye Ozuzu Receives 2018 Joyce Award for ‘Project Tool’ Collaboration with Links Hall
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 $50,000 award is shared with Chicago’s cutting-edge Links Hall to support the commission of a new…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Faculty Highlighted in Newcity’s ‘Players 2018’ Celebration of Chicago Arts Leaders
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 leaders in Chicago’s performing arts scene. Among the honorees: * Columbia alum Vershawn Sanders-Ward ’02. The…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Success Stories of 2017: News from Around the World
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 off for our holiday break, here’s a sampling of some of the notable Dance Center of…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Alumni and Faculty Honored with 3Arts ‘Make a Wave’ Grants
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 Chicago-based artists this year. Among those receiving $1,000 grants as part of 3Arts’ new Make a…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Faculty and Alumni Talent Featured in The Seldoms’ New Work ‘The Making’ Nov. 9-18
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 Chicago. The Making is part of the Chicago Park District’s “Night Out in the Parks” series…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Faculty Members Bring Lucky Plush’s World Premiere ‘Rooming House’ to Steppenwolf Nov. 4-18
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 and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, the work focuses on a group of friends who are propelled into…
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Columbia College Chicago Fine and Performing Arts Dean Onye Ozuzu’s ‘Project Tool’ Showing Sept. 8 in Instigation Festival
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 8, from 6 to 9 PM as part of The Instigation Festival Chicago 2017. The Project…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Faculty and Alums Featured in SummerDance Celebration Aug. 26
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 Chicago. The daylong event’s prime-time Mainstage Show features five professional dance companies, all making their Pritzker Pavilion…
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Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Chair Peter Carpenter Performs June 22 at ‘Explode! Queer Dance’ Festival in New York
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, at 8 PM at JACK, a performance venue located at 505 ½ Waverly Ave. in the…