DanceWorks Chicago, Hedwig Dances and More Set for Ruth Page Center's 2016 Artists-in-Residence Showcase

The Ruth Page Center for the Arts announces its second annual artists in-residence showcase performance Center Stage at Ruth Page at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m.

Tickets are free to the public, but reservations are encouraged. To reserve a ticket or find more information, visit www.ruthpage.org.

The evening begins with performances by resident companies: CDI/Concert Dance Inc., DanceWorks Chicago, Hedwig Dances, Ruth Page Civic Ballet and ShawChicago Theater Company, followed by a Q&A session with artistic directors from each company and concludes with an informal reception with the artists.

Center Stage at Ruth Page is an audience development performance project free to the public and sponsored by the Ruth Page Center for the Arts and its Artists In-Residence - CDI/Concert Dance Inc, DanceWorks Chicago, Hedwig Dances, Ruth Page Civic Ballet and ShawChicago Theater Company. Each Artist In-Residence performs a work from its repertoire. Audience members are able to experience the broad range of artistic work taking place at the Ruth Page Center and hear from the artistic director of each group.

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.

An incubator of artistic energy and excellence and the center of Chicago's dance history, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts carries forward the vision of international dance icon Ruth Page to make dance accessible to everyone, ensuring that children and dance artists have a place to study, work and perform at the highest level of excellence. 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. 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 announces its second annual artists in-residence showcase performance Center Stage at Ruth Page at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St., Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. The evening begins with performances by resident companies: CDI/Concert Dance Inc., DanceWorks Chicago, Hedwig Dances, Ruth Page Civic Ballet and ShawChicago Theater Company, followed by a Q&A session with artistic directors from each company and concludes with an informal reception with the artists. Tickets are free to the public, but reservations are encouraged. To reserve a ticket or find more information, visit www.ruthpage.org.

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