The Dance Center of Columbia College celebrates 10 years in its digs at 1306 S. Michigan Ave. with a full 2010-11 season and one special day showing off various regional troupes in a free walkabout event at its building.
The “Ten Years Later” lineup on Sept. 25 will host various groups, some site-specific performances, special installations and workshops on view to anyone who shows up willing to wander throughout the South Loop structure.
Meanwhile, the new season includes the Chicago premiere of a full-length work by Alaska-born Native American Emily Johnson and her Catalyst Dance Oct. 7-9; the presentation at the Harris Theater of the butoh troupe Sankai Juku on Oct. 20, co-sponsored by the Harris and the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Chicago debut of Hiroshima-born, New York-based Yasuko Yokoshi and her “Tyler Tyler,” inspired by a 12th century Japanese epic, Oct. 28-30.
Next year, the lineup continues with the return of the Joe Goode Performance Group Feb. 3-5; Robert Moses’ Kin Feb. 24-26, in a collaboration with playwright Anne Galjour; Chicago’s own Same Planet Different World March 10-12; and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group in a work resulting from Wilson’s collaboration with Congolese choreographer Andreya Ouamba and his Senegal-based troupe March 31-April 2. (The set and decor include 250 plastic water bottles.)
Tickets go on sale July 1; colum.edu/dance_center.
