Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm Symposium

There is no denying the presence of rhythm in our everyday.

Rhythmic patterns and cadences in movement, music, and language spawn multiple forms and genres and as many ways to perceive them. How it looks isn’t the full story. Rhythmic ingenuity through devising, combining shared space and time, and making connections across different ways of being in the body, are distinctive attributes of the dance curriculum at Columbia College Chicago.

Co-curated by acclaimed improvisers and Columbia College Chicago faculty Lisa Gonzales and Darrell Jones, the 2024 Symposium raises the question of how do bodies, spaces, places, identities, relationships, and power constructs support rhythm? What corporal geographies subvert it? What will multiple vantage points reveal about this phenomenon that saturates everything and everyone? From the individual to the community, from the simple to the complex, rhythm is the thread.

The 2-day Symposium welcomes dance educators, enthusiasts, practitioners, scholars, and students to explore together what multiple vantage points reveal about rhythm, a phenomenon that saturates everything and everyone.

Presented by the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago the Experiencing Time/Embodying Rhythm Symposium is made possible in part by Alphawood Foundation, Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Illinois Arts Council, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

The Symposium is organized by Lisa Gonzales, Darrell Jones, Roell Schmidt, and Meredith Sutton.

Pictured left to right: Emma Close, Amanda Canino, Reece Marcus, Daniela Aranda from Time Keeps Moving by Kayla Hansen, photo by Julie Lucas, for the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago.

Host or Publisher The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago