The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents
Wednesday ,October15,2025-3:30 pm
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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago presents
Wednesday ,October15,2025-3:30 pm
Multi-disciplinary
Workshop
90Running Time
The closing session of the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago’s What Is Contemporary? Symposium examines evolving and emerging dance ecosystems. Kate Mattingly shares her research on the 20th Century interdependencies of universities and modern and postmodern dance companies and how might the term “contemporary” in university settings today signal a desire to move toward nuanced approaches to dance as a site of knowledge production? Reflecting how many artists choose to work today by creating space to connect across disciplines, share lived experiences, and imagine new possibilities together in real-time, dance artists Marie Casimir and Cristal Sabbagh, in collaboration with musician Joyce Lindsey, invite participants into the embodied, improvisational practices that have fueled their work curating and sustaining community-centered platforms for contemporary improvisation, including the Instigation Festival (Chicago/New Orleans) and Freedom From and Freedom To (Chicago).
The Symposium is co-curated by Keesha Beckford and Dardi McGinley Gallivan.
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
1306 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
