The creative process tends to be a mystery for some consumers of art. At the Process v. Product Festival at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, though, audiences will get the chance to see exactly how choreographers build their work.

“One of the biggest features of concert dance work is it’s about the relationships within the ensemble,” says Chenoweth. “It’s about a group of people and how they relate to each other over the course of the creation of the work, and that’s really juicy and interesting and can be sensed on stage when you see the final product. Both of these works and the surrounding programming are exploring the relationships that get built over the course of creating a dance.”