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Header Image: COMMON canvas artists photographed by Peter Hinsdale
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Header Image: COMMON canvas artists photographed by Peter Hinsdale
COMMON and Founder/Artistic Directory Terence Marling featured in the Chicago Reader - “Building COMMON ground” by Nora Paul
Program Dates: July 24 - August 5, 2023
FREE video submissions will be accepted until further notice.
COMMON invites pre-professional and serious contemporary dancers (ages 18+) to join for a transformative two-week intensive with Noelle Kayser and Drew Lewis (House of DOV).
This intensive will help dancers:
express detailed contemporary movement
explore dance as a tool for storytelling
get more comfortable with improvisation
Program Dates: June 26 - July 8, 2023
FREE video submissions will be accepted until further notice.
COMMON invites pre-professional and serious contemporary dancers (ages 18+) to join for a transformative two-week intensive with Alysia Johnson (Hubbard Street, BOOM CRACK! Dance Company). This intensive will focus on helping dancers understand their strengths, improve choreography retention, master contemporary partnering, and bring storytelling to life through dance.
Program Dates: June 12 - 24, 2023
FREE video submissions will be accepted until further notice.
Terence Marling (Artistic Director of COMMON) and Braeden Barnes (Artistic Director of Symbiosis Arts) invite pre-professional and experienced contemporary dancers to join a two-week creative intensive at COMMON.
Summer performance workshop with guest choreographer Katlin Michael Bourgeois and Artistic Director Terry Marling.
Live site-specific performances transformed Lululemon on North Ave and COMMON’s Drucker Center Studios.
On Saturday, February 19th, COMMON presented the third iteration of COMMON canvas! Katlin Michael Bourgeois led eight Chicago-based dance artists in a sold-out improvised performance.
COMMON is honored to collaborate with award-winning director and multi-disciplinary artist, Robyn Mineko Williams, on a one-of-a-kind summer workshop delving into the creative and performative processes of her critically-acclaimed performance series Undercover Episodess.
A list of “evergreen” resources for Chicago dancers — places artists can look to for support throughout the year.
On Saturday, November 13th, COMMON presented the second iteration of COMMON canvas! Alysia L. Johnson led seven Chicago-based dance artists in a stunning improvised performance.
On Saturday, September 25th, COMMON was thrilled to share the first COMMON canvas performance with a sold-out audience! Braeden Barnes led twelve Chicago-based dance artists in an exciting evening of movement improvisation, full of surprises.
COMMON canvas is a series of improvisational dance performances welcoming Chicago dancers from all backgrounds and disciplines. Through canvas, artists connect, create, perform, and get paid in a single day.
To enhance COMMON conservatory’s efforts to support dance artists, particularly those who are non-white, we are launching COMMON contribution.
Terence Marling joined Genevieve Brady’s “Buns of Steel” podcast to discuss flying biscuits, COMMON’s mission to support artists, and more.