First RAD Fest late night is ‘like a prayer’
Lauren Warnecke Author’s note: To read additional coverage of the 2018 Midwest RAD Fest, click here. KALAMAZOO, MI — Gina Kohler walks onstage, naked, and sits on top of a mirror, that’s…
Margi Cole
The Dance COLEctive Celebrates 20 Years with ‘Revelry’
Margi Cole has long been known as a teacher, at the Dance Center of Columbia College and across the globe, bringing her “Margi-isms” and wacky metaphors to eager dance students.…
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…
A New Lens for Dance: Pros and Cons of Live Streaming Performance
CHICAGO — Dance for the camera is nothing new, but with idevices, YouTube and the Internet literally everywhere, broadcasting dance to living room sofas is easier than ever. Chicago companies…
COLEctive Notions Plays with Memory, Femininity, and Nostalgia (review)
The Drucker Center can be a challenging space (speaking from much personal experience), but the interplay between a “casual Sunday night get-together” and the refined manner in which Margi Cole…
SPDW, Peter Carpenter, and Dances that Make you Go Hmm (preview)
It doesn’t appear to be a logical combination at first. One might even call them “The Odd Couple” of the October Chicago dance frenzy. But actually, it’s a match made…