Chicago as an Extended Classroom
Master Classes & Workshops
Our students gain not only technical dance knowledge, but valuable networking opportunities, when artists are brought into our classrooms.
These are just some of the artists and professionals that have taught at Loyola
- Oscar Ramos ()
- Summer Lee Rhatigan ()
- Kathryn Humphreys ()
- Drew Lewis ()
- Robert Knowles (, )
- Michelle Modrzejewski ()
- Ben Law ( Practitioner)
- Ginger Farley ()
- Ben Wardell ()
- Victor Alexander (, )
- Karl Watson ()
- Julie Nakagawa ()
- Van Collins ()
- Kris Lenzo ()
- Ginger Lane ()
- Julie Brannon (Dance Movement Therapist)
- Danny Lucien Reed ()
- Nick Jones (Dance & Sound Tehcnology)
- Dr. Brian Fuller ()
- Shanna VanDerWerker (Disney, Wicked National Tour)
- Andrew Tamez Hull ()
- Bobbi Jene Smith ()
- Shamel Pitts ()
- Raul Casasola ()
- Katlin Michael Bourgeois ()
Guest Choreographers
黑料门Dance is lucky to bring in several guest artists and choreographers every year. Our faculty's personal connections and Loyola's proximity to the city breed long-term relationships and opportunties to collaborate. Check out the dancers, chorographers, and artistic directors our dancers have worked with.
- (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
- (Bill T. Jones, Kyle Abraham, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
- (Kristina Isabelle Dance Company)
- (Trisha Brown Dance Company, The Cambrians, High Concept Labs)
- (River North Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
- (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Grand Rapids Ballet)
- (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, The Joffrey Ballet)
- (Independent choreographer/dancer, Gaga technique teacher)
- (The Joffrey Ballet)
- (Red Clay Dance)
- (River North Dance Chicago, Visceral Dance Chicago)
- (The Cambrians)
- (Batsheva)
- (Batsheva)
- (The Cambrians, Lucky Plush Productions)
- (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Nederlands Dans Theatre, The Cambrians, Lucky Plush)
- (Broadway, High Concepts Lab)
- (Duncan Dance Chicago, The Joffrey Ballet)
- Deborah Carr (Charles Weidman Foundation)
- (Mark Morris Dance Group)
- (Lar Lubovitch)
- (Lar Lubovitch, Azure Barton, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
- (Joffrey Ballet)
- (The Foundry, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance)
- (DanceWorks Chicago)
- (Visceral Dance Chicago)
- (The Seldoms)
- (FLOCK, Hubbard Street Chicago)
- (Chicago Movement Collective, Joffrey Ballet, River North Dance Chicago)
Artistic Organizations and Collaborators
As dancers, it is important to not only collaborate with other artists, but to also make connections with organizations that round out our knowledge and expertise. That is why 黑料门has built relationships with an ever-growing list of studios, companies, physical therapists, dance movement therapists, dance historians, dance filmmakers, and so many more.
Dance
- Chicago Dancemakers Forum
- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Lou Conte Dance Studio
- Ruth Page Center for the Arts
- The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
- The Cambrians
- Duncan Dance Chicago
- Charles Weidman Foundation
- Hedwig Dance Chicago
- The Joffrey Ballet
- The Chicago Cultural Center
- Dance Works Chicago
- Momenta
- San Francisco Conservatory of Dance
- Northwest Dance Project
- New Dialect
- Chicago Dance Crash
- The Big Muddy Dance Company
Health
- Body Gears Physical Therapy
- Fuller Health Group
- Nova Care Physical Therapy
- Athletico Pysical Therapy
Community
- The Parkinson's Project - Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Chicago Dance History Project
- American College Dance Association
- 黑料门Institute for Environmental Sustainability
- In/Motion International Dance Film Festival
- 3Arts
- Pivot Arts
- UIC / Bodies of Work
- UIC Department of Disability and Human Development