Bras, broomsticks, and triple time steps sweep across the Chicago dance landscape in the merry month of May! Chicago Dance Month continues into the coming month with a bursting bouquet of exciting dance events you won’t want to miss.
MAY HIGHLIGHTS:
Fasten your seat belts! April takes off with Chicago Dance Month, jam-packed with site-specific happenings and performances in public venues and neighborhoods throughout the city.
Chicago Dance Month offers many ways to discover our city’s energetic and varied dance scene with more than 50 performances, events, and classes,
March Madness isn’t just for basketball, March Hares, or Easter Bunnies! Catch the dance delirium on dozens of Chicago dance stages that are literally jumping with fresh new work from near and far this month.
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NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS:
Twyla Tharp has come a long way from the steam box studio above an automotive garage near City Center where she and her band of rogue ballerinas took Richard Thomas’s daily ballet class in the late 1960’s.
This month, Tharp and her company of twelve dancers launch the company’s 50th Anniversary Tour at the Auditorium Theatre (November 5-8).
Chicago Dance sets October on fire with autumn color in a jam-packed month.
The packed Museum of Contemporary Art’s Edlis Neeson Theatre buzzed with anticipation as ardent tap dance devotees, dancers of all stripes, and a veritable who’s who of Chicago dance philanthropy awaited Tommy Tune’s performance of “Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales,” his memoir in song and dance.
July brings a month of concerts that showcase new works by multiple choreographers, including Thodos Dance Chicago, Dance In The Parks, Hyde Park School of Dance, Dance Chance, and JUBA. Add to that concerts by solo artists Mitsu Salmon, Ahmad Simmons, and Tommy Tune, and full-company performances from Joel Hall Dancers, Muntu Dance Theatre, Natya Dance Theatre, Ayodele, Red Clay Dance, and The Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and you have a July that’s shaping up to be a great month to explore a diversity of dance styles, genres and cultures across Chicagoland.
The month of March is roaring into Chicago with a lion’s share of great dance, both home-grown and visiting companies, in genres ranging from traditional to experimental, jazz, ballet, modern, tap, folk-dance-inspired, interdisciplinary, and multi-media.
February is nationally designated as Black History Month throughout the United States, but in Chicago, you don’t have to wait for February to experience the strength and vitality of African American culture on our dance stages. SeeChicagoDance spoke with several artistic directors of dance companies that are making a difference through their commitment to the expression of African American identity through dance in the diaspora.
While 2015 still looks like a shiny new coin just waiting to be spent, SeeChicagoDance thought it might be fun to explore a few new projects coming up in the new year. You can, too, and there’s no better time than now to resolve to see something new and different!
NEW COMPANY: The Cambrians