For more than four decades, Core Dance has embraced the human form, the creative process and the artist working within it. An award-winning contemporary dance organization with global impact, Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original art that empowers communities to see the self in others. In 1980, Core Dance was co-founded in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell.  Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Georgia as a second home base. Amplifying the context for art making that is relevant, Core Dance makes Art to illuminate, Art to educate, Art to question and is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, the authenticity of its Art, its socially relevant creations and its work as an artistic incubator and convener.

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Collaborating with the renowned and the obscured, our passion for making art is matched only by our passion for encouraging art making – in Houston, Atlanta and communities around the globe. And our compassion for our communities at large leads us to share what we know about bodies and movement with isolated populations – those experiencing abuse, homelessness, language barriers, refugee status, substance abuse, health condition, aging, HIV/AIDS and people living with a disability.