'Bareback' opens Dance Center season

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 8, 2006 | Copyright information

The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago's 2006-07 season opens with Bareback Into the Sunset on Thursday at the Dance Center in the South Loop.

The dance is about a gay man as he struggles to find his place within the shifting landscape of the AIDS pandemic. The characters include an ill patient (played by writer/choreographer and Dance Center faculty member Peter Carpenter), who catalogs memories from disparate sources, including childhood horseback riding and experiences in Chicago's gay bar scene. The program also features an African-American woman who narrates the action and ...

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