Mission

Vision

Equity at CDE

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble strives to create an equitable and empowering space for our artists, administrators, teachers, and audiences. We aim to build a platform for the voices of the diverse communities we serve. All are welcome!

Artistic Identity in Performance

Rooted in the tradition of Tanztheatre and in the collaborative process of devising, CDE creates contemporary multidisciplinary performances to address social issues, in a space that allows for community conversation and cultural change.

Artistic Identity in the Classroom

CDE’s arts education programs create a space in Chicago schools for students to explore their own creativity. Our teaching artists support the holistic development of science, math, reading, and social skills through art and performance.

Our Home

Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble is a community partner of Ebenezer Lutheran Church, a Lutheran congregation that welcomes people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions, physical and mental capacities, marital or partnership statuses, and backgrounds. While we are not affiliated with the church, we are proud to be a community partner.

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Land Acknowledgement

CDE's permanent home, Ebenezer Lutheran Church Auditorium, sits on the traditional homelands of the Three Fires Confederacy: Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi nations, as well as the Fox, Ho-Chunk, Inoka, Miami, Sac, and their descendants. We recognize that Indigenous peoples are the traditional stewards of the land that we now occupy, living here long before Chicago was a city, and still thriving here today. We invite you to join us in offering them our respect and gratitude.​ ​