Big Changes at the Dance Center for 2015-16
Lauren Warnecke The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago announced its 42nd presenting season last Tuesday, and at first glance nothing looks especially different. Many of the usual suspects are present as…
May 2015
‘The Salts’ really know how to party
The Salts is the latest show put on by The Inconvenience, marking the first time that the ultra-hip multi-disciplinary performance collective has dedicated a full evening to dance. The work…
‘Fit to be Tied’ is a Glorious Pillow Fight (review)
CHICAGO — An apparent technical snafu left his audience sitting in the lobby nearly half an hour before entering Links Hall’s white space for Fit to be Tied, the full…
Dance Shelter: Raw, unfiltered, unreasonably long
In Chicago Moving Company’s first performance since the death of Chicago dance guru and CMC founder Nana Shineflug, Dance Shelter maintained all her goodness and unbridled spirit. Nana was perhaps…
The ‘Carpenter COLEctive’ is greater than the sum of its parts
CHICAGO — Margi Cole and Peter Carpenter have been courting for awhile (artistically, that is). Cole has joined Carpenter as a dancer for the last few installments of his serial…