Elevate Chicago Dance

An extraordinary festival of Chicago dance

October 20 and 21, 2017 • 7:30 p.m. Buy tickets
FamilyDance Matinee, October 21, 3pm Buy tickets

Elevate Chicago Dance is a citywide festival with public performances and studio showings at nine creative spaces around the city, featuring close to forty Chicago choreographers and dance companies. This extraordinary festival of Chicago dance gathers choreographers from across the contemporary spectrum. The Dance Center programs conclude several days of performances, studio showings and discussions across the city. Elevate Chicago Dance is produced by Chicago Dancemakers Forum, the leading area supporter of new dance development.

Performing Friday, October 20

ATOM-r, or Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality, is a provisional collective exploring forensics, anatomy, and 21st century embodiment through performance, language and emerging technologies. atom-r.com

The Seldoms makes bold and potent dance theater driven by current social and political issues, illuminating them and reflecting back our own humanity. theseldoms.org

BraveSoul Movement is the newest collaboration between Daniel “BRAVEMONK” Haywood and Kelsa “K-Soul” Robinson. Rooted in the movement languages and cultures of Hip-Hop and House, as well as martial arts, improv, and other Afro-diasporic traditions, BraveSoul makes concert dance and sited performances, and also focuses on community building and youth development. chicagodancemakers.org/bravemonk

VIsceral Dance Chicago is a contemporary dance company dedicated to a bold and progressive world of movement, with a diverse repertoire of works by distinguished local, national and international choreographers. visceraldance.com

Performing Saturday, October 21

Ayodele Drum & Dance is a sisterhood of women who empower and strengthen community through knowledge and education of the her/story, rituals, music and dances of African culture. ayodeledrumanddance.com

PLUS FamilyDance Matinee with Ayodele Youth Program: Sesa Wo Suban + Ayodele Teen Collective.

Hedwig Dances creates contemporary dance theater combining poetic choreography with bold, interdisciplinary collaborations. They foster community among audiences, dancers, and artists with the goal of provoking human connection and wonder. hedwigdances.com

Ayako Kato is a dance artist, choreographer, and curator influenced by a Japanese view of nature and the philosophy of Tao, using dance to rediscover humans as a part of nature. She is originally from Yokohama, Japan and is artistic director of Ayako Kato/Art Union Humanscape. artunionhumanscape.net

Lucky Plush Productions provokes an immediacy of presence in their hybrid dance theater work—a palpable live-ness between performers and audiences – to bring insights to current social issues through layered choreography, nuanced dialogue, and surprising humor. luckyplush.com

PREVIEW

Watch the video highlights of artists performing at Elevate Chicago Dance.

PERFORMANCES

Friday, Oct 20, 7:30pm | Buy tickets
Saturday, Oct 21, 7:30pm | Buy tickets

Tickets are $30 regular, $24 seniors, and $10 Columbia College Chicago Students. All performances at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, 1306 Michigan Ave. [map]

FAMILYDANCE MATINEE

Saturday, Oct 21, 2:15pm Workshop | 3pm Matinee | Buy tickets

Tickets are $15 for adults, FREE for children 12 and under.

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UP NEXT

Virago-Man Dem

November 2, 3 and 4, 2017 • 7:30 p.m.

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And don't miss this related, FREE event:

Performing Black Masculinities: Where, How and for Whom?
Monday, October 30, 7pm

Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th Street

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The Elevate Chicago Dance performances at the Dance Center are funded, in part, by The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

Elevate Chicago Dance is the culmination of a multi-year Regional Dance Development Initiative produced by Chicago Dancemakers Forum and New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). The project is made possible with funding from Reva and David Logan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Chicago Park District/Night Out in the Parks, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, PERT Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation through NEFA’s National Dance Project.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

Programs at the Dance Center are supported, in part, by the Alphawood Foundation, the MacArthur Fund for the Arts and Culture at Prince, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council and the Crane Group. Special thanks to Friends of the Dance Center for generously contributing to our work.

The Dance Center is a member of the American College Dance Association and Dance/USA. The Dance Center is a Founding Member of the Music and Dance Theater Chicago, Inc.

Athletico is the exclusive provider of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Sports Medicine, Athletic Training, Work Rehabilitation and Massage Therapy for the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Accommodations are sponsored in part, by the Best Western Grant Park Hotel.