CENTER STAGE AT RUTH PAGE Showcase Set for 9/21

The Ruth Page Center for the Arts presents "Center Stage at Ruth Page," a benefit performance showcasing the work of their resident four dance and two theater companies at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Sunday, September 21 at 3 p.m. A desert reception will precede the 3:45 p.m. performances by: American Blues Theater, CDI/Concert Dance Inc., DanceWorks Chicago, River North Dance Chicago, Ruth Page Civic Ballet and ShawChicago Theater Company. Proceeds from the performance will benefit The Ruth Page Artist In-Residence program. Tickets are $25 for the general public and $15 for students, performing artists and children under the age of 12. To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit www.ruthpage.org

Energy, innovation, creativity and community is the vision for the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Central to the Center's programming is the Artist In-Residence Program, which is designed to serve organizations looking for a home base while they grow or expand their artistic and organizational capabilities. The Center is committed to nurturing and assisting dance and other performing artists, as well as helping to promote them to expand the audience base for their art form, allowing for exchange and collaborative relationships to develop within our artist community. The Ruth Page Center for the Arts is a destination for quality performing arts, accessible to a wide community regardless of race, gender, age, education or disability.

The Center supports the needs of the Chicago performing arts community by making available cost-effective office, rehearsal and performance space. The Center has been an incubator for organizations such as Shakespeare Repertory and Lookingglass Theatre Company who both spent their formative years as Artists In-Residence, performing in the 218-seat Ruth Page Theater and working from the Center's offices before moving on to larger Chicago venues.

The Ruth Page Center for the Arts has for over forty years committed its resources to creating a dance destination in Chicago. Located at 1016 N. Dearborn Street, The Center serves the Chicago dance community by being an incubator, providing a home, office space, rehearsal space, performance opportunities, professional dance training, and marketing support for the up-and-coming companies and artists of Chicago's vibrant dance scene. Its mission is to ensure that children and dance artists have a place to study, work and perform at the highest level of excellence. Founded by Chicago icon and internationally-renown performer and choreographer, Ruth Page, the Center reflects her vision of supporting dance excellence in Chicago. Emanating from the Illinois heartland, the visionary work of Ruth Page influenced the growth of theater design, opera-ballet, and dance. She achieved worldwide recognition as a true pioneer of dance in America by creating at the forefront of social, political and artistic issues. As a prominent force in the Chicago arts community, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts continues that legacy through its initiatives and programs that nurture the art form of dance, and by being an arts incubator for emerging and established artists and organizations.

The Ruth Page Center for the Arts presents "Center Stage at Ruth Page," a benefit performance showcasing the work of their resident four dance and two theater companies at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Sunday, September 21 at 3 p.m. A desert reception will precede the 3:45 p.m. performances by: American Blues Theater, CDI/Concert Dance Inc., DanceWorks Chicago, River North Dance Chicago, Ruth Page Civic Ballet and ShawChicago Theater Company. Proceeds from the performance will benefit The Ruth Page Artist In-Residence program. Tickets are $25 for the general public and $15 for students, performing artists and children under the age of 12. To purchase tickets and for more information, please visit www.ruthpage.org.

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