THE BARN PROJECT - SEPTEMBER 2022 AND 2023

Peter Stathas Dance returned to the Sugar Creek Barn in the rural cornfields of Wisconsin to host its second residency. This year, the purpose was to expand our community presence and vision of engaging and connecting with dance artists. To bring this purpose to life, Peter Stathas Dance collaborated with dance artists from Illinois, Wisconsin and New York. We took class together, exchanged artistic knowledge and values, and experienced new choreographic works and processes.

MURMURATION OF STARLINGS - MAY 2022

A piece that explores predation and the idea of “safety in numbers.” Premiered with Mandala Dance Company at Via Torlonia in Rome, Italy. Please see here for the full work.

IN/MOTION: CHICAGO'S DANCE FILM FESTIVAL - 2014-2022

IN/Motion celebrated dance performance within digital media platforms by fostering innovation in the presentation of movement-based artworks and by encouraging artists to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration. IN/Motion highlighted dance and digital media work that furthers social justice. Over the years, IN/Motion secured meaningful partnerships with the Harris Theater for Music & Dance, See Chicago Dance, the Pivot Arts Festival, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and the Kri Foundation in New Delhi, India. The festival also featured work and master classes by renown guest artists including Shamel Pitts, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Celia Rowlson-Hall, amongst others. Please see here for past highlights and festival information.

THE SEEING PLACE - OCTOBER 2021

Produced, choreographed and directed a dance film that explores the manifestations of diversity, equity, and access in institutional spaces. Accepted into the Screen Dance International Festival in Detroit, MI and the Inspired Dance Film Festival in Brisbane, Australia. Please see here for the full work.

APHRODITE AT THE VIOLET HOUR - SEPTEMBER 2021

The premier of a new ensemble character study on the will of Aphrodite, an unmatched pair, and the mischievousness of the fates. Please see here for the full work.

BOLERO: A HUNGER - NOVEMBER, 2019

A premier of an original piece of choreography to Ravel’s Iconic Bolero that explores the nature of consumption and the insatiable hunger for fulfillment in the form of material goods. Please see here for the full work.

"ALL" THE DANCE FILM - MARCH, 2017

Produced and co-choreographed a dance film that involved an ensemble of dancers with Parkinson's disease and their caregivers performing alongside advanced dance students and professional artists. The film was premiered at the In/Motion Dance Film Festival and also presented at UCLA's Disability as Spectacle conference. All was an official selection at London's Tran(s)mit film festival and was also recently accepted into the National Academy of Medicine's Visualize Health online art gallery launching November 9th, 2017. A link to the film can be found here. 

CULTURAL DANCE EXCHANGE TO HAVAVA, CUBA - OCTOBER, 2016

Six dancers and eight filmmakers traveled to Havana, Cuba to collaborate on dance and film projects. Students created original works and studied at the prestigious Escuela de Danza.

INTERNATIONAL DANCE DIALOGUE IN ROME, ITALY - JULY, 2016 and 2017

Ten dancers traveled to Rome, Italy to collaborate on a joint project with professional ensemble Mandela Dance Company. Performances of original work at the Teatro Greco Via Ruggero Leoncavallo in Rome can be found here, and here.   LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE - MARCH, 2015, 2016, and 2017

Twenty-six LUC Dance Majors performed with the University Chorale for Loyola's annual Climate Change Conference. The conference hosts a network of Jesuit colleges and universities and seeks to support institutional initiatives driven by environmental sustainability. See here for 2015 performance.

UP FOR YOU IS DOWN - FEBRUARY, 2016

In collaboration with the Loyola University Museum of Art, ten dancers created a site-specific choreographic installation to be performed with Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds exhibit. Set to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground music, the work explores themes present in Warhol's most iconic art works as well as fame, selfie culture, and the notion of the artist as "superstar".

CLOUDBURST VIETNAM - MAY, 2015

Ten dancers traveled to Vietnam  for a joint music and dance concert with the International Choir and Orchestra of Ho Chi Minh City at the Saigon Music Conservatory. The choir and dancers presented original choreography to Eric Whitacre's Cloudburst and another student choreographed work to Norman Dello Joio's To Saint Cecelia. 

GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - FEBRUARY, 2015

The Dance Program within the Loyola University Chicago Department of Fine and Performing Arts collaborated with the University Museum of Art on a February-March 2015 Shaker art exhibit entitled Gather up the Fragments. The site specific choreographic installation explored the kinesthetic expression of spiritual gifts, the art of dance as a hallowing of the body, and Shaker culture/design innovation. Please see here for the full work. The partnership also involved the Loyola film program which produced a documentary film on the creative process - see here - as well as presented a digital media component embedded within the work itself. 

THE SEEKERS - NOVEMBER, 2014

This work, choreographed after the birth of a child, features characters on a journey of discovery. Please see here for the full work.

THE AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS DANCE ENSEMBLE

The ASM Dance Ensemble is committed to providing teens with a safe, cooperative, and creative learning environment where they can grow and be fulfilled as dance artists; where they forge personal and professional relationships; and where they learn interpersonal and critical thinking skills necessary for mature citizens entering the workforce. Past performances include those at Daley Plaza, the Chicago Cultural Center, The South Shore Cultural Center, the Chicago Theater, Dance Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art; and the ASM Dance Ensemble has collaborated with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Danceworks Chicago, CDI/Concert Dance Inc., The Chicago Dancing Festival, the Harris Theater, and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater among others. Please click here and here to see our past sessions.