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AYAKO KATO – Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2024 FellowshipsNewsSpotlight

AYAKO KATO – Sybil Shearer Fellowship at Ragdale: 2024

During her residency fellowship at Ragdale, Ayako Kato will be working on ETHOS IV: Degrowth/Cycle/Rebirth, an evening-length piece created to shift focus from human-centered, capitalistic ways of being to a more symbiotic, nature-centered way of being. It will be premiered at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago on April 19 and 20,…
Scott Lundius
December 22, 2023
Stephanie Martinez Named 2023 Sybil Shearer Fellow at Ragdale SpotlightUncategorized

Stephanie Martinez Named 2023 Sybil Shearer Fellow at Ragdale

Award winning choreographer, Stephanie Martinez, has been selected as the second recipient of the Sybil Shearer Fellowship for an artist's residency in the new Sybil Shearer Studio at Ragdale. Stephanie is the Founder and Artistic Director of PARA.MAR Dance Theatre in Chicago. Through this fellowship, Stephanie will explore the work…
Kevin Sender
December 16, 2021
Through the Morrison-Shearer Foundation, dance maverick Sybil Shearer continues to enrich Chicago dance NewsSpotlight

Through the Morrison-Shearer Foundation, dance maverick Sybil Shearer continues to enrich Chicago dance

Chicagoland’s dance community has an important and enduring friend in dance maverick Sybil Shearer and the Morrison-Shearer Foundation. The Foundation, established in 1991, perpetuates the legacy of dancer/choreographer Shearer and collaborator/photographer Helen Balfour Morrison as an inspiration for new creativity in the arts by providing grants, the Sybil Shearer Fellowship…
Kevin Sender
June 4, 2021
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