Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre launches a hybrid 2021 season on April 22, with an in-person and livestream performance to inaugurate a new partnership with Epiphany Center for the Arts; new works by co-founder and artistic director Wilfredo Rivera and choreographers Stephanie Martinez, Monique Haley, and Shannon Alvis; and a fall concert series three weekends in October.
At Epiphany Center for the Arts, an 1885 Episcopal church in the West Loop recently redeveloped into an arts, music, and performance space by owner and developer David Chase, CRDT will present its first in-person performance in over a year, a performance that will launch a long-term partnership with the center and open the door for other dance performances at the venue. “Their mission and values parallel Cerqua Rivera’s as far as celebrating diversity and bringing people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds under the same umbrella,” he says. “It’s a historical place as far as being progressive in their modeling of what community means.”
Thu 4/22, 7 PM, Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland (limited to 50 tickets); also available for livestreaming, cerquarivera.org, in-person $40, livestream $19.75-$39.
