Dance Department at the College of DuPage

Emergence Spring Dance Concert 2026 was a success on 04/24/2026!!!! PART 1/3 💚🖤Huge shoutout to @ara.incorporated for creating this wonderful, fantastic, and slaying dance piece with Neon Wigs. It was fun while it lasted and totally worth it!!!!💚🖤 🩷I wish you the best of luck @ NIU and continue pursuing your dance career!🩷 📸 : @kt_miller_photography College Dance: @cod.dance

Next week, College of DuPage students, faculty, and guest artists from the Chicagoland area take the stage for the Emergence Dance Concert! One night only on Friday, Apr 24 at 7:30p. Learn more and get tickets AtTheMAC.org @cod.dance

Reel by @hachi_jursinic . Thanks to COD art and dance students! @cod.dance Work by Hachi Jursinic Jack Lasota Polo Ramon Veronika Steinbarth Dancers: Ruby Meza Pineros, Lynn Twarowski, Rae Hoppszallern, Theo Smith Performance: Mac 157, 1:00-1:15, Wednesday, April 8, 2026 ODDSQUARE : //◻V PORTAL TO THE FUTURE? BY CRAWLING OR TRAVERSAL: UNKNOWN. THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL.

Framing the Future - Traveling Performance Framing the Future is a collaborative project between art and dance students in the Space and Time Learning Community (3D Foundations, Sculpture 1, Sculpture 2, and Time Based Media 1) and the Dance Production + Performance classes. Three groups of art students have created experimental spaces that explore ideas related to movement as a liberatory act and future spaces of freedom. A traveling performance will take place in these spaces and structures on Wednesday, April 8 from 1-2pm around campus (see below for locations) beginning in Mac 157. Additional performances will take place in the Belushi Lobby at The Emergence Spring Dance Concert on April 24 at 7:00 pm and during intermission. One piece will be on display in Techcetera Gallery from March 27-April 10 with a reception open to the public on Thursday, April 9 from 12-1pm.

@cod.dance has been organizing an exciting, collaborative performance project with @art.at.cod this semester, and we’re jazzed to put this show on the road (literally)! join us for a traveling performance this Wednesday 4/8 from 1-2p! Performance #1 📍MAC 157, 1-1:15p Performance #2 📍IVL Lab (BIC 3465), 1:20-1:35p Performance #3 📍Lakeside Pavilion Amphitheater, 1:45-3p

♥️Performance♥️💃

Music for Pieces of Wood 🪵🎶👞 Choreography by Rachel Benzing Score by Steve Reich Performed by the incredible dancers of the College of DuPage Dance Program as part of the Fall 2025 concert Emergence. Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood is a landmark minimalist work built entirely from interlocking rhythmic patterns played on tuned wooden claves. Through repetition, phase shifting, and subtle variation, the score transforms simple pulses into a complex, driving musical landscape—an influential piece that helped define American minimalism and reshaped how rhythm and structure are understood in contemporary music. So proud of the extraordinary focus, discipline, and artistry these students brought to life in just two months. This was an exceptionally demanding work, and they met it with commitment, precision, and heart. 💖✨ #dance #tapdance #choreography #dancer #college @cod.dance @collegeofdupage

2025, it was a pleasure ✌️ This year was full of friends, family, students, and experiences that I’ll remember forever. Narrowing it down to 20 photos to represent a whole year was near impossible 📸 Let’s go 2026 😝

THE FINALE PART - Catalyst Fall Dance Concert 2025 was an absolute success!!!!🙂👍 Thank you @kt_miller_photography for taking an amazing photos. Thank to @___ktwilliams , @mag.e.moves & @jesskondrath for having me for Dance-1120 again; looking forward to continue in the Spring for the Emergence Dance Concert 2026!!!!💚🤍 Dance Technique - Tap I👞👞 *This is my 2nd Tap Number throughout COD College Dance + I do apologize due to a 5 tag people limit.* Huge Shoutout to @rachel_benzing_ for choreographing the tap number. It was fun while last and totally worth of the experience tapping the pieces of wood.🪵😀👍 Thank you very much.❤️🩷 That was the most stressful tap and dance number I’ve ever been through. It was definitely a struggle but I fought and came back because I believe in myself and I know what I’m capable of. And the best of all, I never give up and kept the head up high!!!!🙂🙂🙂 To @gabby.jurinek & @elizabethistolerable__isuppose / @mydear_lizzie , it was nice tapping with you girls. You girls are wonderful, awesome and absolutely cool to tap dance with. #collegeofdupage #collegedance #falldance

PART II - Catalyst Fall Dance Concert 2025 was an absolute success!!!!🙂👍 Thank you @kt_miller_photography for taking an amazing photos. Photos (1 to 8) - Dance Production - Contemporary, Ballet🩰 Photos (9 to 16) - Dance Technique - Jazz I *THE FINALE PART Coming Up Very Soon* Huge shoutout to @hope_marie_21 for being a great, wonderful, fantastic and amazing 1st time student choreographer and yes it was a struggle at first, however it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. And yes you did it, we all did it. This amazing piece turned out so well at the end. Mission accomplished!!!! Please continue to choreograph again, I’m very proud of you!!!!🙂👍 Another Shoutout to @rachel_benzing_ for choreographing the jazz number. It was fun while last and worth of the experience “🎵🎤On Broadway🎙️🎵”. To @aalayiahhhhhhh , @angelicamartine.z , @annielarson_42 & @theo_door.s27 , it was nice dancing with y’all and you guys are wonderful, awesome and absolutely cool to dance with. Hopefully looking forward to dance with y’all again soon, including Spring 2026. To @eileen.campion & Sam M. , it’s nice dancing with you and very proud of you. #collegeofdupage #collegedance #falldance

Catalyst Fall Dance Concert 2025 was an absolute success!!!!😃👍 Thank you @kt_miller_photography for taking an amazing photos (Photos 1 to 14). Thank you to @cod.dance for my 2nd experience in the dance program + 1st fall dance concert and been working + dancing my heart out.💚🤍 I’m happy and grateful to be around and willing to continue dancing in the Spring. That’s part of my performing career and always wanting to do more.❤️🎭💃 *PART 2 Coming Up Very Soon* Huge shoutout to @itz.hanna_w for being a great, wonderful, fantastic and amazing 1st time student choreographer and inspire me when it comes to 70s Disco.🪩🕺 Please continue to choreograph again, I’m very proud of you!!!! To @kate_houlahan , @_shadow_wolf8 , @rossds_1 , @stephxescobar & @olajargilo_ , it was nice dancing with y’all and you guys are wonderful, awesome and absolutely cool to dance with. Hopefully looking forward to dance with y’all again soon, including Spring 2026. #collegeofdupage #collegedance #70sdisco #disco #falldance

“Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” ― Audre Lorde “Dreaming of Maroon” finds ourselves in a chaotic dreamscape. As the dancers run from an invisible, foreboding influence, this dreamscape becomes exhaustive, pushing the dancers to the point of release. In this maroon dream world, the dancers traverse through chaos and exhaustion to find bravery, perseverance, and ultimately, power in community. “Dreaming of Maroon” COD Dance, Catalyst Fall Dance Concert 2025 The @cod.dance students and I had great fun resetting this piece. We also made a film in the process! (++shouts to @newtrierdancedivision for the costumes and the original cast for this work!!) 📸: @kt_miller_photography 💡: @element_tree_ld projection design/film: kt williams