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    2020 Community Celebration: Moving Forward

    Tuesday, September 8, 2020 to Tuesday, October 27, 2020 | See Chicago Dance
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    Listening Sessions

    Monday, September 14, 2020 to Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | See Chicago Dance
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    Dancer standing in the rainy backyard with her hands on her face

    Patternalia

    Thursday, September 24, 2020 to Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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    Image of MOMENTA dancers Ginger Lane and Anita Fillmore Kenney seated together in Ginger's wheelchair, an intimate and elegant pose.
    Image of MOMENTA dancers Ginger Lane and Anita Fillmore Kenney seated together in Ginger's wheelchair, an intimate and elegant pose.

    CounterBalance 2020

    Wednesday, October 7, 2020 to Sunday, October 11, 2020 | MOMENTA, Access Living, Bodies of Work
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    Deeply 25: Beyond Dance...The Celebration Begins

    Saturday, October 17, 2020 | Deeply Rooted Dance Theater
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  • Fall Black Box Series | Dry Bones
  • Fall Black Box Series | The Golden Sessions
  • Gus Giordano Dance School 68th season
  • “Sinatra Forever” Starring Rick Michel
  • The Brown Pages - digital debut
  • Ugly Flavors // Work-in-Progress Showing with Jumaane Taylor
  • The Other Witch - Nejla Yatkin
  • Moving From Memory: Training Towards the Ghostly, Resistant, and Collective with Danielle Ross
  • Approaches to Radical Dance Pedagogies with Gina Hoch-Stall and Anjal Chande
  • Eternal Resolve with Keisha Bennett, B'Rael Ali Thunder, and Trell
  • Surrounding Desire / Quantum Black Feminist Future Dance Class with Anna Martine Whitehead
  • DANCE TEAM with Erin Kilmurray and Steph Paul
  • Anatomy of a Tech Rider with Kevin Rechner
  • Ballet Lab with Emily Stein and Paige Cunningham Caldarella
  • Making Things Together/Making Things Apart with Darrell Jones and Lisa Gonzales
  • Under A Groove: House Dance Aesthetics with Kelsa "K-Soul" and Bravemonk
  • West African Dance -- OCTOBER HEAT with Ayo Alston
  • The Body: A Resource for Resiliency, Recuperation, and Re-vitalization with Jessica Young
  • Financial Well-being for Artists with Amy Smith
  • The Other Witch
  • Training Company Drop-In Ballet Class with Rotating Staff
  • Adult Afro-Cuban with Victor Alexander
  • Virtual Class - Advanced/Professional Ballet with Dolores Long
  • BeMoved® with Mari Jo Irbe Barker
  • Adult Beginner Ballet with Vannessa Lake
  • Pilates Mat with Pilates Practice Chicago
  • Adult Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Birute Barodicaite
  • Adult Beginner/Intermediate Ballet with Vannessa Lake
  • Adult Broadway Tap with Tracy Vonder Haar
  • Adult Beginner/Intermediate Ballet with Tracy Vonder Haar
  • Virtual Class - Adult Hip Hop with Melissa Metro

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    Ayodele Drum and Dance

    Ayodele West African Dance Class

    Ayodele Drum and Dance
    Thursday, February 13, 2020 to Thursday, December 17, 2020
    Ayodele West African Dance Class

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    Adult Classes

    The Rooted Space
    Sunday, August 16, 2020 to Sunday, December 20, 2020
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    Hedwig Dances Virtual Afro-Cuban Class

    Hedwig Dances
    Monday, October 5, 2020 to Wednesday, November 25, 2020
    Hedwig Dances Virtual Afro-Cuban Class
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    Ayodele Drum and Dance

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    Ayodele West African Dance Class
    Ayodele Drum and Dance
    Thursday, February 13, 2020 to Thursday, December 17, 2020

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    Adult Classes

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    The Rooted Space
    Sunday, August 16, 2020 to Sunday, December 20, 2020

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    Hedwig Dances Virtual Afro-Cuban Class

    Hedwig Dances Virtual Afro-Cuban Class
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    Monday, October 5, 2020 to Wednesday, November 25, 2020
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Julianna Hom performing her solo "AMERICANIZATION" in a parking garage. Screen shot courtesy of the artist

Julianna Hom performing her solo "AMERICANIZATION" in a parking garage. Screen shot courtesy of the artist
Julianna Hom performing her solo "AMERICANIZATION" in a parking garage. Screen shot courtesy of the artist

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Regional feature: How four recent graduates are entering the professional dance world during a pandemic

Maureen Janson | Sep 20, 2020

A screen shot from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's season opener, a dance film created by former company member Rena Butler. It is the first in a series of five new dances created by Hubbard Street alums. Photo courtesy of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

A screen shot from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's season opener, a dance film created by former company member Rena Butler. It is the first in a series of five new dances created by Hubbard Street alums. Photo courtesy of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Fall Dance Preview: Behind glass, in parking lots and on screens, Chicago's dancemakers make do to keep making dance

Lauren Warnecke | Sep 19, 2020

SCD Critical Writing Fellow D'onminique Boyd reflects on the 22nd annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, a digital festival for the first time. Poster image provided by JOMBA!

SCD Critical Writing Fellow D'onminique Boyd reflects on the 22nd annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, a digital festival for the first time. Poster image provided by JOMBA!

The Ubuntu of JOMBA!

D'onminique Boyd | Sep 16, 2020

SCD editor Lauren Warnecke (background) watching a master class led by Moving into Dance Mophatong with Adrienne Sichel in Durban, South Africa (2018). Photo by Val Adamson.

SCD editor Lauren Warnecke (background) watching a master class led by Moving into Dance Mophatong with Adrienne Sichel in Durban, South Africa (2018). Photo by Val Adamson.

Think Global, Act Local: How a South African festival changed this American dance writer

Lauren Warnecke | Sep 14, 2020
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Sep 25, 2020

DANCE TEAM with Erin Kilmurray and Steph Paul

10:30am
Class | The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
Sep 25, 2020

Liveness / Aliveness with Jane Jerardi

2:00pm
Workshop |
Sep 25, 2020

30 Minute Fitness Dance Jam with Jacinda Ratcliffe

5:00pm
Class | Lucky Plush Productions
Sep 25, 2020

Cuban Salsa Fusion with Michel Rodriguez Cintra

7:00pm
Class | Lucky Plush Productions
Sep 25, 2020

Digital DanceChance

7:00pm
Online Event | DanceWorks Chicago, Chicago Dance History Project
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