The Philadelphia Dance Company, PHILADANCO, presents the highest quality of professional dance performance and improves the skills of emerging and professional dancers and choreographers in a nurturing environment, while increasing the appreciation of dance among its many communities. Across the nation and around the world, PHILADANCO is celebrated for its innovation, creativity and preservation of predominantly African-American traditions in dance.
Join Nomi Dance Company as we celebrate our 10TH anniversary season! We’re thrilled to have reached this great milestone, and are truly honored to be a part of Chicago’s incredible dance community. Nomi presents a celebratory evening filled with works that promises to entertain and keep you on the edge of your seats.
AUGUST HIGHLIGHTS:
August rallies the Chicago dance community in two of the year’s most inspiring cultural events: “Dance For Life” and “The Chicago Dancing Festival,” each one a stunning effort of its founders, Chicago-born dance artists with vision, purpose, and dedication that overflows with heart, soul, and some of the best choreography and dancing on the continent.
Boasting new cast members and a longer run, J. Lindsay Brown Dance and The Glitter Island Gang are together again for a reboot of last year’s successful “Spectacle Spectacular,” a totally improvised, full-length musical running Sundays through July 31 at MCL in Lakeview. Built on the same idea as The Art of Falling, a Hubbard Street/Second City collaboration combining contemporary dance and sketch comedy, Spectacle Spectacular is a way (way) less refined iteration of a brilliant formula marrying the two forms.
Notable Thodos Dance Chicago alumni Brock Clawson and Jeremy Blair joined Artistic Director Melissa Thodos and Executive Director Gail Ford onstage at the Athenaeum Theatre Saturday, July 16 to unveil the company’s 25th anniversary logo and kick off the 16th edition of New Dances. Now an acclaimed choreographer, Clawson praised the New Dances process as instrumental in finding his calling and establishing a body of work, while Blair cited the trifecta of dancing, teaching, and choreographing central to Thodos’ mission as a vehicle toward a career in higher education.
Summers for Chicago Dance Crash are typically reserved for a large-scale narrative show. But on the heels of a film review and with an eye toward touring, their latest, Evil & Good (through July 16 at the Vittum Theatre), is deliberately compact, with only sound, lights and simple costumes accompanying the choreography of Artistic Director Jessica Deahr, Rehearsal Director Kaitlyn Webster, and guest choreographer Christopher Courtney. Courtney runs a similarly sized Hip Hop company, Culture Shock Chicago.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
3:00pm - 5:00pm
SPACE by Doejo
444 N Wabash Ave, Ground Level Event Space - Take elevator to basement level
Chicago, IL 60611
Join us for light snacks, networking, and community news with the Chicago dance community.
Networking begins at 3pm - meeting will start promptly at 3:30pm.
DON'T MISS THESE HIGHLIGHTS
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July sparkles with dancing fireworks throughout the month, culminating in “JUBA!” the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s annual summer tap dance extravaganza (July 18, and
An eclectic audience, the largest in Chicago Tap Theatre (CTT) history, gathered Saturday for the one-night-only glam rock spectacular: “We Will Tap You!” Recognizing a gap in dance concerts celebrating LGBTQ Pride, Artistic Director Mark Yonally went all-in for a Queen tribute featuring a laundry list of special guests, a laser light show, and the delightfully uncouth, indispensable Mattrick Swayze (with Swayzettes Christopher Knowlton and Brian Hinkle amplifying Swayze’s onstage antics).
Spanish dance, unlike its counterparts in other concert dance genres, is like fine wine that only improves with age. At forty, Ensemble Español proves the point.