Event Type
Festival
A celebration of Chicago’s vibrant dance community
Explore & Enjoy Dance This April!
Chicago Dance Month offers many ways to discover our city’s energetic and varied dance scene with more than 50 performances, events, and classes, many offered at a special Dance Month “Hot Deal” discount rate, as well as numerous opportunities to visit open rehearsals and catch free pop-up performances featuring a fantastic array of dance artists and organizations.
Audience Architects' Special Events: Come experience dance via our series of enticing events, most offered for FREE, that offer Chicagoans numerous opportunities to sample some of the city’s most exciting and eclectic dance artists in a variety of public locations and neighborhoods.
Go See Dance!
Lead Sponsor for Chicago Dance Month is The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Graphic Design Sponsor - Zeid Design, and Official Media Sponsor - Crain’s Chicago Business.
Additional support provided by the National Endowments for the Arts, the Joyce Foundation and NIB Foundation. Audience Architects DanceBuilders include Lane Alexander, Pamela Crutchfield, Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner, Judie Moore Green, Sarai Hoffman, Elizabeth Liebman, Kevin McGirr, Michael McStraw, Sandra McNaughton, Shirley Mordine, Harriet and Irwin Ross, Janet Carl Smith and Mel Smith.
Dance Styles
Tap / Rhythm
Multi-disciplinary
Modern / Contemporary
Circus Arts
Ballroom / Social Dance
Ballet
Traditional/Indigenous Dance
Family
Jazz
Hip Hop
Aerial Dance