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Dance

For more than 40 years, Columbia College Chicago has educated world-renowned performers, instructors, and innovators in dance.

As a Dance major at Columbia, you’ll learn choreography, technique, and improvisation across a wide range of styles. You'll also see a diverse array of performances at Columbia's Dance Center, Chicago’s leading presenter of contemporary dance. All of the artists who perform at the Dance Center also lead workshops and talk-backs with Columbia students.

You’ll receive a first-rate liberal arts education with opportunities for cross-training in theatre, digital technology, and arts management. Our faculty of professional performers, choreographers, and dance scholars will help you hone your artistic voice and plan a career in the arts.

Take a look inside Dance

  • B-Series

    Each semester, a mini-festival celebrates acclaimed guest artists specializing in underground street dance forms such as breaking, popping, and house. With a jam or battle as the focal point, B-Series events become a gathering space for the underground dance community. The events connect the rich culture of hip hop, from dance to MCing, rapping, DJing, and graffiti, to the Columbia community.Read More
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    Hettie Barnhill ’06

    Dancer. Choreographer. Sensation.

    Broadway dancer Hettie Barnhill lights up the stage and performs community work.Read More
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    Dance Center

    1306 S. Michigan Ave.

    The Dance Center provides students with a superior contemporary dance education in the context of a world-class, nationally recognized dance performance season. Since its doors first opened in 1969, the Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago has presented hundreds of professional companies and choreographers.Read More
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  • Dec04
    6:00PM - 7:30PM Tap-In! Columbia College Chicago Tap Jam
    Tap-In is a tap dance jam session open to all Columbia students. Tap dancers of all different experience levels and backgrounds are invited to share, improvise, and groove on this night dedicated to tap. Bring your shoes and join in whatever way feels most authentic to you! Hosted by: Vi McMahon and Jimmy Payne Jr. Featuring...Get the details
  • Dec07
    7:30PM - 9:30PM Choreographic Projects: We would like to say...
    Witness new works by student choreographers mentored by acclaimed dance, film and theater artist Colleen Halloran. Featured choreographers... Amaya Arroyo Kayla Hansen Jayda Heflin Konstance Kakridas Rhianna Young Photo by Julie Lucas...Get the details
  • Dec08
    7:30PM - 9:30PM Choreographic Projects: We would like to say...
    Witness new works by student choreographers mentored by acclaimed dance, film and theater artist Colleen Halloran. Featured choreographers... Amaya Arroyo Kayla Hansen Jayda Heflin Konstance Kakridas Rhianna Young Photo by Julie Lucas...Get the details
  • Dec14
    7:30PM - 9:30PM SAKAFU: Repertory Performance Works
    Welcome cultural ambassador of New Orleans tradition and Second Line Aesthetic, Michelle N. Gibson to Chicago and the Dance Center! Recently debuting at Jacob’s Pillow and serving Grand Marshal for the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Michelle Gibson’s original choreography will share the stage with works choreographed by Umfundalai practitioner Bevara Anderson, former Mordine &...Get the details
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