Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Continues 2012-13 Season with Double Edge Theatre and More

The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago continues its 2012–13 season with Double Edge Theatre, co-presented with the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department; zoe | juniper, a multimedia husband-and-wife team; Stephen Petronio Company; Nana Shineflug's The Chicago Moving Company, celebrating its 40th anniversary; and Mexico's Delfos Danza Contemporánea. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale at The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Avenue, 312-369-8330 and online at colum.edu/dancecenter.

FamilyDance Matinees
The Dance Center's FamilyDance Matinee Series continues for its 14th season, featuring special one-hour family-oriented performances that follow free parent/child movement workshops with the artists. FamilyDance Matinees in 2013 include Double Edge Theatre (January 19), The Chicago Moving Company (March 23) and Delfos Danza Contemporánea (April 6).

DanceMasters
DanceMasters is an ongoing series of movement classes open to intermediate/advanced-level dancers in a variety of dance techniques, perspectives and styles, led by internationally renowned choreographers. Partnering with DanceWorks Chicago, The Dance Center presents DanceMasters classes this spring with artists from zoe | juniper, Stephen Petronio Company and Delfos Danza Contemporánea.

Community programs
Discussions with the artists will follow most Thursday performances, and some programs will feature pre-performance talks with artists and Dance Center personnel or guest lecturers. Most out-of-town artists will provide learning opportunities for Dance Center students and conduct community-based residency and educational activities, which might include master classes, lecture/demonstrations, in-school and community- based workshops, professional development workshops for educators and service providers and panel discussions.

Double Edge Theatre
Co-presented with the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department
January 18 and 19
FamilyDance Matinee: January 19
Rooted in Jerzy Grotowski's Eastern European theatre practice, Double Edge Theatre is a deeply collaborative, Massachusetts-based ensemble working in a unique form of devised physical theatre incorporating movement, puppetry, object manipulation and circus arts. The Grand Parade (of the Twentieth Century) is the first installment in the company's anticipated five-work, multi-year Chagall Cycle, inspired by the kaleidoscopic paintings of Marc Chagall. Up to five Columbia theatre students will rehearse and perform in these preview performances with the company. The Grand Parade is co-commissioned by the Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department.

zoe | juniper
February 14–16
Wife and husband Zoe Scofield (choreographer) and Juniper Shuey (sculptor, photographer and visual/media artist) began their artistic collaboration zoe | juniper in 2004 in Seattle. Their latest full-evening work, A Crack in Everything, uses dance, performance, video projection, lighting and text to examine liminal states of mind--thresholds between conscious and unconscious, action and reaction, before and after, and cause and effect. Contains nudity.

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