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SCD editor Lauren Warnecke (background) watching a master class led by Moving into Dance Mophatong with Adrienne Sichel in Durban, South Africa (2018). Photo by Val Adamson.

Think Global, Act Local: How a South African festival changed this American dance writer

Lauren Warnecke | Sep 14, 2020

A sampling of the Chicago Movement Collective faculty, who teach daily technique classes in a variety of styles at the American Rhythm Center. Photo by Noah Powell of Osprey Visuals

Introducing Chicago Movement Collective: The not-so-new kids in town

Vicki Crain | Sep 14, 2020

"Goshen" (2019), by Deeply Rooted Dance, gospel artist Donald Lawrence and South African choreographer Tshediso Kabulu was one of the pieces on view at JOMBA! 2020. Author Felicia Holman reviewed a digital screening for the SCD fellowship. Photo: Ken Carl

#SummerSchool: An autodidact's reflection on See Chicago Dance's 2020 fellowship

Felicia Holman | Sep 10, 2020

A post-residency intercontinental toast!

Cheers! To JOMBA! and to Marcus White

Gregory King | Sep 9, 2020

In the final days of the 22nd annual JOMBA! festival, digital audiences viewed a screening of Senegalese dancer/choreographer (above) in "Somewhere at the Beginning." Photo supplied by the artist.

Power passes from woman to woman: Germaine Acogny at JOMBA! 2020

Felicia Holman | Sep 8, 2020

In the early years, JOMBA! festival photographer Val Adamson would shoot in black & white film. As digital cameras progressed, she shifted to color photography. Pictured above: Val's image of Floating Outfit Project in 'Shift' (2000) by Boyzie Cekwana

The dance behind capturing dance photos: JOMBA! festival’s 'Through the Lens' gallery

Jordan Kunkel | Sep 7, 2020

Outdoor live music and dance yielded an open mic vibe in Lawson Dance Theatre's "Summer Shorts." Photo courtesy of the artists.

Second annual 'Summer Shorts' heads outside in Lawson Dance's first collaboration with new studio Rooted Space

Emma Elsmo | Sep 7, 2020

Marceia L. Scruggs (pictured) is part of Team C in Links Hall's 96 Hours project, premiering this weekend online. Photo credit: DJ

Links Hall beefs up digital capacity, goes online with anything-goes 96 Hours festival

Jordan Kunkel | Sep 7, 2020

Video game technology used in David Middendorp's "Wereldleiders," (above) performed by Dutch company INTRODANS, blends 2-D and 3-D worlds. A recording was presented as part of the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience. Photo Hans Gerritsen

INTRODANS delivers playful, tech savvy fun to an international audience at JOMBA!

Jean Louise Osberger | Sep 7, 2020

Johannesburg, SA company Moving into Dance Mophatong performs Robyn Orlin's work “Beauty remained for a moment and then returned gently to her starting position” (shown above) as part of the digital JOMBA! festival. Photo courtesy of the artist.

The messiness of defining beauty in Robyn Orlin’s blend of dance and performance art

Jordan Kunkel | Sep 6, 2020

Johannesburg, SA company Moving into Dance Mophatong performs Robyn Orlin's work “Beauty remained for a moment and then returned gently to her starting position” (shown above) as part of the digital JOMBA! festival. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Freezing the sun won't keep it from setting—Robyn Orlin's peculiar romp a remark on history, memory and nature

D'onminique Boyd-Riley | Sep 6, 2020

Dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson soar above the Atlanta skyline in "Revel in Your Body." The dance film is part of USA Dance on Screen, a sampling of films presented by JOMBA! Contempoary Dance Experience. Photo by Safety Third Productions, Shimmy

Alice Sheppard, a multi-racial Black woman with short curly hair and Laurel Lawson, a white woman with short-cropped teal hair fly through a cloudless blue sky with arms outstretched and their wheelchair wheels spinning. You don't see the ground—only sky

No limit in airborne "Revel in Your Body," a dance film that literally flies

Sydney Erlikh | Sep 6, 2020

In a series of site-specific dance films, New Orleans-based BODYART showcases forgotten American spaces at the 22nd annual Digital JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience

Location, Location, Location: BODYART Dance Company finds inspiration through site specific work

Mariah Schultz | Sep 4, 2020

Tap dancer Jumaane Taylor produced his first full-length concert in 2015, a staged interpretation of John Coltrane's legendary score, "A Love Supreme." Excerpted as a dance film, the piece now sees its international premiere at a South African dance fest.

International premiere of Jumaane Taylor's 'Supreme Love' shares jazz, tap and Coltrane with South African audiences—online

Tristan Bruns | Sep 4, 2020

A screen shot of JOMBA! Digital Fringe artist Julie Veronirina Iarisoa in her work “And during that time I was dancing….”

JOMBA! Digital Fringe: The Black dancing body in the time of COVID-19

Gregory King | Sep 2, 2020

A screenshot from Vincent Mantsoe's "Cut," created by the South African choreographer at his studio in France during quarantine. JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience commissioned for dance films for the 22nd annual festival.

JOMBA! presents Dance in a Digital Age: Quarantine can be stifling for artists—it won't silence them

Tristan Bruns | Sep 1, 2020

Dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson soar above the Atlanta skyline in "Revel in Your Body." The dance film is part of USA Dance on Screen, a sampling of films presented by JOMBA! Contempoary Dance Experience. Photo by Safety Third Productions, Shimmy

JOMBA! USA Dance On Screen depicts intersectional struggle and joy

Jean Louise Osberger | Sep 1, 2020

Kenyan choreographer Ondiege Matthew presented "Essential Services" (above) as part of "Dance in the Digital Age," a series of commissioned dance films created during COVID lockdowns. (Photo couresty of the artist)

Dancing heterotopias of COVID in JOMBA! digital platform

D'onminique Boyd-Riley | Sep 1, 2020

The Joel Hall Dancers socially distanced in their new Albany Park home, predicted to open later this fall. (photo courtesy of Joel Hall Dancers & Center)

We asked Joel Hall Dancers & Center: What are you doing and how are you doing it?

Vicki Crain | Aug 31, 2020

Performers Daniel Davis, Maro Guevara, Matthew McKines, Eric Martin, Michael Mohammed, Soren Santos and David Silpa in "Separate Sentences," a dance film by Aime Dowling and Austin Forbord (photo courtesy of the artists)

Honoring the past while practicing for tomorrow—dance films represent the U.S. at JOMBA!

Laura Paige Kyber | Aug 31, 2020

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