Don't miss our first ever virtual season premiering Friday, July 31st and Saturday, August 1st on Facebook Premiere and IGTV at 5:30pm.
We can't gather in a park together, this summer, but that hasn't stopped us from dancing! Our artists worked together online from home and in our beautiful, outdoor, appropriately distanced park spaces to create dance films for YOU. Piped directly to your favorite web-enabled device.
“When there’s a crisis—not that we’ve ever experienced anything like this—we do what we have to do. I refuse to let this be the death of our organization.”
Join us on Zoom for a live EveryBody Can Dance Workshop from the safety and comfort of your own home! This session will be led by Deb Goodman, Kris Lenzo, Julia Cox, and Ladonna Freidheim. The zoom link will be sent in a separate email 30 minutes prior to the workshop.
Chicago Tap Theatre (CTT) presents “30 Feet Together, 6 Feet Apart” Sunday, July 26, at 3 p.m. CDT live on its streaming platforms. “30 Feet Together, 6 Feet Apart” is a celebration of the power and necessity of dance and live music, and a vision of how dance performances on a concert stage can be presented at this time. This show includes a live jazz trio featuring funk and soul master JC Brooks as host and vocalist along with tap dancing by CTT.
Pop-up dance performances every Saturday from July 4 through August 29. Please Note: ALL GUESTS AT NAVY PIER, INCLUDING PERFORMERS, ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR FACE COVERINGS.
Navy Pier introduces a new program Wave Wall Moves, in collaboration with See Chicago Dance, that will feature dance performances from rotating dance companies each Saturday beginning July 4 through August 29 from 3 – 3:15 p.m. at the Wave Wall Platform.
A new citywide, at-home version of the summertime tradition invites Chicagoans to plan smaller, socially-distant dance parties in their homes and backyards, on front porches and elsewhere with up to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors — and connect via the broadcast or social media. Presented by DCASE with the Chicago Park District, the reimagined series is filmed in Millennium Park and at Chicago Park district locations, featuring skyline views and iconic imagery that residents have been missing.
The state of Illinois will begin Phase IV of Governor Pritzker’s reopening plan on Friday, June 26. The transition between Phase III and Phase IV means additional businesses and public amenities will be allowed to reopen with limited capacity, including performing arts venues.
I sat down with Melissa Thodos in 2017 on the eve of Thodos Dance Chicago’s final performance. We talked about how Chicago dance had changed since she started her pick up group, Melissa Thodos & Dancers, in 1992. It had gotten harder to keep up with the day-to-day of running a full-time dance company. Thodos wanted to have more freedom to spend time with her kids. Funding was more difficult to come by. By folding the company, Thodos, in a way, returned to her roots, developing a new organizational structure centered more heavily on education and artist development.
At Raks Inferno, we've never been quiet about racial injustice, LGBTQ+ equality, or the fact that trans rights are human rights. It's personal: Most of us are LGBTQ+, and most of us are POC (specifically, Asian American).
We believe Black Lives Matter.
So this month we're partnering with Lighthouse Foundation - we're raising dollars to advance justice for Black LGBTQ+ people in Chicagoland. And we've featuring some incredible friends from Teatro ZinZanni and the Full Moon Jams.
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater is adapting its Summer Dance Intensive (SDI) to a virtual format in 2020 to enable the program to continue while keeping students, staff, and community members safe and in compliance with the phases of reopening the city of Chicago and state of Illinois. The Youth Division session takes place July 6–17; the Pre-Professional Division session takes place July 20–31; and Mature H.O.T. Women takes place July 6–31.