For many, opportunities for students in the Columbia dance community to create longer-form choreography are few and far between. CoLab, however, has ushered in a new opportunity with its choreographic residency show. The result is innovative dance works that pull the audience into their unique worlds.

How would a lobster deviled egg with Calabrian chili bread crumbs look as a dance? Maybe the dancer moves with an underwater quality before exploding in a fit of spice. For artistic director Kendall Bottjer, BC ’23, these questions guide her interdisciplinary collective, Supper Club Dance.

Former and current dancers of the Dance Theatre of Harlem took the stage of the Guggenheim Museum rotunda on Sunday and Monday to celebrate the resistance and joy of Black artists in ballet.

Transdisciplinary artist MX Oops has dedicated themself to inspiring and embodying disobedience.

Raja Gemini, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season three winner, strutted down Roone Arledge Cinema’s carpeted stairs in neon pink to Shirley Bassey’s “This is My Life.”

After months of touring as part of the 2022-23 season, Christopher Charles McDaniel will dance in his final New York City season at Dance Theatre of Harlem starting this week. The culmination of the 2022-23 Dance Theatre of Harlem season also marks the closing of Artistic Director Virginia Johnson’s four-decade-long career with the company, including a 12-year tenure as artistic director.

Elevated on a platform in the corner of the stage, a dancer throws her hair back as her fingers dance against the prop electric guitar in her hands. “Have A Good Time,” a 1975 soft rock song, echoes throughout the black box theater, and the other dancers watch the rockstar, bobbing their heads and grooving to the music.

Dancers adorned in patiala pants and crop tops were met by a roaring crowd competing with booming remixes as they ushered in the 21st Naach Nation on Saturday in Roone Arledge Auditorium.

On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, students dance in lapas, West African wrap-around skirts, to the beat of a live drummer on a Djembe drum.

Barnard’s four dance studios—the only dedicated dance studios on campus—are equipped with “sprung floors,” “professional floor surfaces,” and “media systems,” according to the Barnard dance department’s website. But for many undergraduate dance groups on campus, these amenities don’t matter, because they struggle to access the spaces in the first place.