Links Hall is a space that champions artists’ potential. The people who work at Links both respect and recognize individuals with innovative ideas and hold equity and inclusivity in high regard. From affordable studio rentals to the venue's ever-important fellowship programs, Links Hall has proved itself to be of great value to the arts community in Chicago. And in the face of everything that’s been thrown their way in the last year, they’re maintaining and improving on their value.  

If you’re looking to tap into the flavors of South Asian dance and music, Mandala South Asian Performing Arts delivers, and then some, by pushing beyond tradition to explore fusion forms of folk, contemporary and popular dance and music.

The Mandala Makers Festival was originally conceived as a way to promote the live interaction of South Asian arts practitioners through interdisciplinary collaboration. Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to re-invent itself digitally, the festival adapted to a live-streaming format, called “Streamyard,” which will air June 13 and 14.

A day or two after the 2016 election, See Chicago Dance held its quarterly convening. Rather than focusing on what was supposed to be the topic of the day—how to be better at social media, or something to that effect—a faction of Chicago’s dance community sat together in a circle to talk about their feelings.

Pivot Arts—an organization focused on creating and presenting bold, multidisciplinary performance in unusual spaces—keeps their mission at heart as they move forward with the 2020 Pivot Arts Festival online. The annual festival, this year titled “This Is How We Pivot,” exhibits programming artfully curated to exist on a virtual platform, both in how the works are created and documented and in how they address the circumstances of this time. 

See Chicago Dance stands in solidarity with black Americans who are justifiably outraged and exhausted by a society that does not value their lives.

We know we have more work to do as an organization whose mission is to advocate for the dance field in Chicago.

We want to be more than allies. We want to have hard conversations and do our part to dismantle systemic racism and oppression, which harm all parts of our society, including the arts.