Dance Center to Host Jazz/Dance/Improv Brunch, 10/26
By: Tyler Peterson Oct. 14, 2014
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, as part of a 2014 Exploration grant through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Building Demand for the Arts program, presents a one-time-only Jazz/Dance/Improv Brunch featuring Urban Bush Women and the Kahil El'Zabar Double Bass Quartet. The event takes place Sunday, October 26 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Chicago Artists Coalition Gallery, 217 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago.
Guests will enjoy a light brunch buffet and performances and collaborative improvisation by Urban Bush Women and the Kahil El'Zabar Double Bass Quartet, featuring Corey Wilkes/trumpet; Junius Paul/double bass; Harrison Bankhead/double bass and Kahil El'Zabar/multi-percussion-composition-voice.
Urban Bush Women (UBW), under the direction of founder and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, brings the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. With a woman-centered perspective, and as members of the African Diaspora community, UBW seeks to create a more equitable balance of power in the dance world and beyond. Zollar and several UBW dancers are spending several weeks in Chicago to find ways to connect with jazz audiences and artists; Columbia College Chicago dance, music and theatre students and faculty; and students and artists in other disciplines to cultivate new demand for contemporary dance and jazz music through explorations of their intersections.The Dance Center presents a Jazz/Dance/Improv Brunch featuring Urban Bush Women and the Kahil El'Zabar Double Bass Quartet Sunday, October 26, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Chicago Artists Coalition Gallery, 217 N. Carpenter Street, Chicago. General admission is $20. All programming is subject to change. For tickets and information, call 312-369-8330 or visit colum.edu/dancecenterpresents
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