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

Urban Bush Women Walks With ’Trane at the Dance Center

Feb 20, 2016 | By Matt De La Pena

Like so many Urban Bush Women performances, “Walking With ’Trane” is about the soul. “Coltrane’s music is almost like trying to describe God,” says one Urban Bush Woman during a particular segment. And another: “It was free, his music was free!” These declarations aren’t just hyperbole. For the six women and one man on stage, John Coltrane is the jazz apostle they’ve come to follow, a man whose otherworldly gifts provide proof of a higher power.

Peer pressure is the point at 'Thank You for Coming'

Feb 16, 2016 | By Lauren Warnecke

Presented as part of the IN > TIME festival, a two month collaboration between the City of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faye Driscoll’s "Thank You for Coming: Attendance," on tour from New York last weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art, falls right in line with the spirit of experimentation that we’ve come to expect from series curator Mark Jeffery.

What Brings Me to This Place

RE|dance group, established in 2009 by Lucy Riner and Michael Estanich, is a Chicago based contemporary dance theatre company. 

For its 7th Chicago Season, the company will premiere Lucy Riner's new evening length work, What Brings Me To This Place at Hamlin Park Field House March 24-25 and March 31-April 1.