Chicago Dance Month 2018: Open Studio Fridays!

Event Type
Performance
Event Description

 

Open Studio Fridays, March 23–May 18, 4:30–6 p.m., Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio, 78 E. Washington Street

 

Join See Chicago Dance as we celebrate Chicago Dance Month 2018 with our FREE Open Studio Fridays at the Chicago Cultural Center Dance Studio. A variety of Chicago dance companies will offer performances and other activities every Friday during Chicago Dance Month! 

 

March 23 - 4:30pm

FREE

Trifecta Dance Collective + AcroDanza / Sildance

Open Contemporary Class

Join Trifecta Dance Collective and AcroDanza / Sildance for an Open Contemporary Class. The class will focus on partnering and contemporary technique and is suitable for all levels.

 

March 30 - 4:30pm

FREE

Simantikos Dance Chicago

Open Contemporary Class

Experience Open Contemporary Class with Simantikos Dance Chicago, a class suitable for all levels.

 

April 6 - 4:30pm

FREE

Winifred Haun & Dancers

Open Contemporary Master Class 

Join us for an Open Contemporary Master Class with Winifred Haun where you are invited to learn choreography from company repertoire.

 

April 13 - 4:30pm

FREE

Duncan Dance Chicago

Open Rehearsal and Movement Workshop

Attend an Open Rehearsal and Movement Workshop with Duncan Dance Chicago.

 

April 20 - 4:30pm

FREE

Concert Dance, Inc

Open Showing/Informal Performance

Enjoy an Open Showing/Informal Performance by Concert Dance, Inc.

 

April 27 - 4:30pm

FREE

Project Bound Dance

Open Company Class

 

Join Project Bound Dance for Open Company Class.  All those ready to move are welcome to attend, regardless of gender expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, or religion.  Project Bound is a tri-focal dance collaboration aiming to foster community engagement, dance and technology experimentation, and socially conscious live performance.

 

May 4 - 4:30pm

FREE

Chicago Dance Theatre Ensemble + Poetry Center of Chicago

In-Progress Showing and Panel Discussion

 

Chicago Dance Theatre Ensemble, in collaboration with Poetry Center of Chicago, will utilize the Cultural Center of Chicago as a space for research and development with the focus on activation and audience development. CDE and PCC invites participants of Body Passages to explore current works on exhibition at the Cultural Center as a prompt to respond and develop content. The closing event on Friday, May 4 will include a mini showing of such works, as well as a panel discussion. CDE and PCC plan to facilitate a conversation on audience engagement and how art can or does make an impact beyond the stage.

 

May 11 - 4:30pm

FREE

South Chicago Dance Theatre

Open Rehearsal/Informal Performance

 

Attend an Open Rehearsal/Informal Performance to preview upcoming new works by South Chicago Dance Theatre

 

May 18 - 4:30pm

FREE

RE|dance Group

Open Showing/Informal Performance

 

Come join RE|dance group as they share excerpts of their newest work, The Biggest Wail From The Bottom Of My Heart. This dance theatre piece captures the essence of the choreographers' feelings about the world today: the urgency, the frailty, the tension, the mess, the hope.

Dance Styles
Tap / Rhythm
Musical Theater
Multi-disciplinary
Modern / Contemporary
Circus Arts
Ballroom / Social Dance
Ballet
Traditional/Indigenous Dance
Family
Jazz
Hip Hop
Fitness
Aerial Dance

Location

Chicago Cultural Center

78 E. Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602

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