Storefront Studio flooring
The Department of Dance has a new Storefront Studio space at 700 S Gregory in Urbana. We are raising funds for a new flooring system, which will provide safety for our students to dance on.
Dancing on the Ceiling: Women of a certain age performing solos
This collective of renowned artists will be visiting campus to offer performances, panel discussions, and masterclasses. The work and the artists are mature, and the content is rich and surprising – running a gamut of aesthetic practices. Their work will be combined with other mature female artists from the Dance at Illinois faculty and will inspire all of us as they defy expectations. Your support will help us meet production needs and provide housing and compensation for our artists.
Flatlands Dance Film Festival Retreat
The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting dance cinema, a medium which explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance making. As this annual festival continues to evolve and grow, we are committed to producing experimental film laboratory retreats for artists interested in collaboration, experiment, and the challenges of capturing the body in motion. The Flatlands retreat will serve as an incubator for work that can be produced for the festival in future years. Your contribution will help us launch our first retreat in summer 2024.
Dance at Illinois Alumni Concerts
Alum Mark Kater (BFA ’80) is curating and producing a show of Dance at Illinois alumni works at Links Hall in Chicago this November 2024. These evenings provide an opportunity for us to reconnect with our amazing alumni and offers them a chance to showcase their work. Your gift will help us provide each selected alum with an artist stipend and ensure that we will be able to continue to produce quality alumni concerts in the future.