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Happy April, everyone! All of us at See Chicago Dance love the month of April because it’s our annual opportunity to shine a spotlight on Chicago’s amazing, diverse, and wildly talented dance community. Now in its eighth year, Chicago Dance Month is a treasure trove of more than 50 great dance events, including breathtaking performances, many offered with “Hot Deal” ticket discounts, as well as workshops, classes, and numerous free events. With the smell of spring in the air, April is the perfect time to explore the rich variety of styles and creative partnerships at work in nearly every Chicago neighborhood, making our city one of the nation’s most exciting places to experience dance.

In addition to the fantastic roster of events our member organizations are producing this month, See Chicago Dance will host many events over the coming weeks, see below for a complete list. Surinder Martignetti and the See Chicago Dance staff .

In 2020, we are continuing our focus on the health and well-being of our dance sector. For the second year, we’re thrilled to offer, in partnership with Chicago Dancers United, the Spring Health Fair on Monday, May 18. Featuring an array of health care professionals and wellness organizations, we will provide 50 dance artists with physical and mental health screenings, nutritional assessments, and local referrals completely free of charge.

See Chicago Dance believes in the transformative power of dance, and we hope you share in our vision for the future of our dance community and our city as a dance leader. We also hope you enjoy all the great content in this brochure and on our expert website. Most of all, we hope you go see and experience dance this April…and beyond!

Surinder Martignetti Interim Executive Director, See Chicago Dance

Chicago Dance Month 2020 Events These events presented by See Chicago Dance are free and open to the public Running time for each event is approx. 60-90 minutes. Schedule subject to change.

Kickoff Celebration Open Studio Tuesdays Monday, March 30, 4:30pm Every Tuesday, March 31-April 28, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago 4:30pm Chicago Cultural Center, Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington 1st Floor Dance Studio Participating Artists: Go behind the scenes with a variety MOMENTA, Bellydance by Phaedra, of Chicago dance companies each Ensemble Español Spanish Dance working in the studio in a mini Theater, Red Clay Dance Company, residency for one week. Meet the and M.A.D.D Rhythms. artists, see fresh , and even learn a few moves! Celebration and Scavenger Hunt Tuesday March 31, Ishti Dance Collective Monday, May 4, 4:30-6pm + Winifred Haun & Dancers A progressive event in Tuesday April 7, Emma Draves + Concept Maggie Daley Park featuring site-specific performances by Noumenon Dance Ensemble, Tuesday April 14, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Yin He Dance, Dancing Petals, + Project Bound Dance Movement Revolution Dance Crew, Perceptual Motion, Tuesday April 21, RE | Dance + Simantikos Dance Chicago Culture Shock Chicago, Trifecta Dance Collective, LOUD BODIES, and Gauri Jog Indian Dance School. For more information on each event, visit seechicagodance.com/chicagodancemonth

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FEATURED EVENT M.A.D.D. Rhythms: Tap Jams Tap Jams are our way of paying homage to the hoofers of old and the traditions they set. A Tap Jam is a gathering of tapdancers who come together and just jam. Tapdancers form a cypher/circle and take turns “shedding” to the music and/or to the beat established by the other tapdancers. The “Hoofers,” or original tapdancers, would dance all day and all night in the streets of Harlem. When it got dark, they would jam or trade under the streetlights. This is how tap was born. From Master Juba to Chuck Green, hoofers would create, practice, and perfect this artform… outside! In those times, the United States still had a long way to go when it came to the treatment of black people. Many dance schools didn’t allow African Americans, so the streets became our studios, and the dance became our resistance and perseverance at the same time.

Tap Jams make us better. Tap Jams give us new ideas. Tapdance was built on a premise of stealing. Hoofers would come up with steps, share them in the circle, then other tapdancers would immediately start stealing them. There was one catch: “Thou shalt steal, but thou shalt not steal…exactly.” Stealing was allowed, but only if you tweaked the steps by adding something of your own.

Tap Jams help us communicate. Tap Jams allow us to express ourselves. Improvisation is the key to everything. Every emotion can be expressed through tap, and the jams provide the space to work through those emotions. We have had toddlers at the Tap Jams who can barely talk but have no problems communicating with their feet.

Tap Jams are absolutely necessary to nudge your growth as a tapdancer. New ideas equal new approaches, and new approaches equal growth. Every tapdancer should be able to hold their own in the cypher/circle, and the constant jamming enables that growth process.

M.A.D.D. Rhythms is the only organization in Chicago keeping this time-honored Tap Jam tradition alive. We have been producing Tap Jams for almost 20 years, and we don’t plan on stopping! Dr. Buster Brown had 46, Dr. Jimmy Slyde had La Cave, and Dave Mann had Showman’s. We jam to honor those tapdancers, those Tap Jams, and the spirit of unity and community. We have celebrated birthdays, graduations, promotions, and almost every holiday with a Tap Jam. M.A.D.D. Rhythms presents Tap Jams April 10 and 19 and May 8 and 17 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center. Visit maddrhythms.com.

FEATURED EVENT Alluvion Dance Chicago: Neon “Neon” is Alluvion Dance Chicago’s (ADC’s) second repertoire show in its sixth season. Emphasizing empowerment, crafting through prompt, and uniting under the umbrella of “neon,” the performance will engulf the dynamics of the power and glow of a neon light. Neon comes from the Greek word quite literally meaning “something new.” This year, ADC paired up company members to create new works, in addition to premiering works by ADC Executive Artistic Director Johnny Huntoon- Starcher, ADC Company A Associate Artistic Director Julia Kummerow, ADC Company B Associate Artistic Director Alyssa Calvano, ADC Rehearsal Director Morgan Cutler, and guest choreographers Jessica Miller Tomlinson and Tessa Ritchey. ADC’s primary goal is to craft producers by pushing dancers to evolve their choreographic lens through collaboration, prompts, and trial and error. “Neon” will offer a fully absorbing evening of varied works under the umbrella of one unified concept, featuring a range of styles, such as jazz, contemporary, and . One work on the program interprets neon as bursts of eclectic and vibrant colors that break into a tense and rigid quality, while another views neon as individuals understanding and evolving their personalities with age. ADC is committed to offering choreographic opportunities to its dancers by including repertoire they have choreographed in its performances. Additionally, the company hosts and offers these opportunities to up-and- coming choreographers from throughout the United States at Emergence, an annual summer dance festival. Alluvion Dance Chicago performs “Neon” April 3 and 4 at the Edge Theatre. Visit adcneon.eventbrite.com.

SEECHICAGODANCE.COM 5 FEATURED EVENT Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble: What We Carried What We Carried kicks off Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble’s 20th season and serves as the fourth and fi nal installment of its current season, ART + ACTIVISM. What We Carried serves as an immersive exhibit of artist Jean Parisi’s work brought to life by the Ensemble. This documentary-style danztheatre work brings together a collection of stories from families and individuals throughout the Chicago area covering 50 years of Chicago history. This new work highlights the struggles and successes of waves of asylum seekers and immigrants from across the globe, all of whom now call Chicago home. The performance also addresses the unjust and unethical separation of families at the U.S. border and the idea that no human can be illegal. “While we, the Ensemble, may not ourselves be immigrants, our families and our ancestors were, and we bring our stories to this work as well as honor our families and the events we sought asylum from in our own paths,” said Interim Artistic Director Maggie Robinson. Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble performs What We Carried May 8–16 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church Auditorium. Visit brownpapertickets. com/event/4306706 or danztheatre.org.

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March 19–22 March 22 March 29 American Ballet Theatre Dance Jam Adult Jazz Workshop Rhythm of the Studio Rhythm of the Street Dance Studio Thursday & Friday 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm, FREE Sunday 2pm, $18 Saturday 2pm & 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm, $50–130 March 25–May 27 March 29 Community Tap Class Spring Open Rehearsal March 19–29 Tapman Productions Winifred Haun & Dancers The Farewell Fables: satellites, songs Wednesdays 1pm, FREE (Donations Hubbard Street Dance Center and cereal Accepted) Sunday 4pm, FREE Links Hall Thursday–Sunday 7pm, $15–25 March 27 March 29 DanceChance DanceFlight March 20 DanceWorks Chicago DanceWorks Chicago Adult Ballet Workshop Lou Conte Dance Studio Center for the Arts Rhythm of Street Dance Studio Friday 7pm, $3 Sunday 5pm, $20–25 Friday 5:30pm, $18 March 27 & 28 March 20 & 21 La Sylphide NINE Salt Creek Ballet Praize Productions, Inc. McAninch Arts Center Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the College of DuPage Friday & Saturday 7pm, $45–70 Friday 7pm, Saturday 1pm, $22–32 March 20–22 The Queer Landscape: The Evolving March 28 Queer Experience & Vocabularies Deeply Rooted Dance Theater 2020 Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble Summer Dance Intensive Audition Tour Ebenezer Lutheran Church Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Friday & Saturday 7pm, $10–25 Ballet Chicago Studios Saturday 4pm, FREE March 20–22 Winning Works March 28 Joffrey Academy of Dance 2020 Summer Dance Intensive SEE CHICAGO DANCE EVENT! March 30 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Audition Tour Friday 7:30pm, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater Chicago Dance Month 2020 Kickoff Saturday 2pm & 7:30pm, Ballet Chicago Studios Celebration Sunday 2pm, $30 Saturday 4pm, FREE See Chicago Dance Chicago Cultural Center March 21 March 28 Monday 4:30pm, FREE Shimmy Lab! The Celestial Soirée *ASL Interpretation Provided Bellydance by Phaedra/ Aerial Dance Chicago in Chicago Saturday 7pm, $50–300 Vaudezilla Studios SEE CHICAGO DANCE EVENT! Saturday 1:30pm, $25 March 28 March 31 The “Keeper of The Floor” Dance Chicago Dance Month 2020 Open March 21 Battel (KTF) Studio Tuesdays The B-Series Chicago Dance Crash See Chicago Dance with Ishti + Winifred The Dance Center of The Den Theatre Haun & Dancers Columbia College Chicago Saturday 10pm, $25 Chicago Cultural Center Saturday 2pm, FREE Tuesday 4:30pm, FREE March 28 & 29 *ASL Interpretation Provided March 21 Amira: A Chicago Cinderella Story Missa Gaia Hyde Park School of Dance April 2–4 Loyola University Chicago Department Mandel Hall The Formaldehyde Trip of Fine and Performing Arts Saturday 1pm & 6pm, Naomi Rincón Gallardo Madonna della Strada Chapel Sunday 12pm & 4pm, $15–25 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Saturday 7:30pm, $6-10 Thursday–Saturday 8pm, $10–30 March 29 March 22 DayLab April 3 Open House DanceWorks Chicago Rhythm of the Street Dance Studio Juice Box Ruth Page Center for the Arts Kolaam Dance Company Sunday 1pm, FREE Sunday 2pm, $90–100 Chicago Cultural Center Friday 11am, FREE

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SEE CHICAGO DANCE EVENT! April 14 Chicago Dance Month 2020 Open Studio Tuesdays See Chicago Dance with Deeply Rooted April 3–5 Dance Theater + Project Bound Dance SEE CHICAGO DANCE EVENT! Rite of Spring and Other Works Chicago Cultural Center April 21 Chicago Repertory Ballet Tuesday 4:30pm, FREE Chicago Dance Month 2020 Athenaeum Theatre *ASL Interpretation Provided Open Studio Tuesdays Friday & Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm, See Chicago Dance with Re|Dance + $36–53 April 16 & 17 Simantikos Perennial & Persistent Chicago Cultural Center April 4 Winifred Haun & Dancers/ Tuesday 4:30pm, FREE Banks Performance Project Hula Hoop Workshop with Renee *ASL Interpretation Provided Nanzer Hamilton Park Rhythm of the Street Dance Studio Thursday & Friday 7pm, FREE April 22–25 Saturday 3:30pm, $20 (Suggested Donation $15) Floe The Seldoms April 5 April 16 & 17 The Art Institute of Chicago SPRINGSEVEN Unity: Amjad Ali Khan Wednesday–Saturday 7pm, $25 Mandala South Asian Performing Arts Visceral Dance Chicago Harris Theater for Music and Dance Athenaeum Theatre April 22–May 3 Sunday 2pm, $10–75 Thursday & Friday 8pm, $25–55 Don Quixote The April 6–10 April 17 Auditorium Theatre DayLab Spring Break Dance Workshop Wednesday–Friday 7:30pm, Saturday Rhythm of the Street Dance Studio DanceWorks Chicago 2pm & 7:30pm, Sunday 2pm, $35–197 Monday–Friday 9:30am, $250 Ruth Page Center for the Arts Friday 9:30am, $90–100 April 23 SEE CHICAGO DANCE EVENT! April 7 April 17 & 18 Free Dance Day Synapse Arts We Touch the Earth, the Earth Chicago Dance Month 2020 Loyola Park Touches Us Open Studio Tuesdays Thursday 10am, FREE See Chicago Dance with Emma Draves + Perceptual Motion, Inc. Concept Dances Links Hall Chicago Cultural Center Friday & Saturday 7:30pm, $18–20 Tuesday 4:30pm, FREE *ASL Interpretation Provided

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April 24 May 9 Spring Dance Showcase Balanchine+Beyond Spring Repertory College of DuPage Dance Department “HeartStrings” Belushi Performance Hall Ballet Chicago Friday 7:30pm, $5–10 Harris Theater for Music and Dance Saturday 2pm & 7:30pm April 25 May 9 Chicago Inclusive Dance Festival MOMENTA, Access Living, and UIC/ Icons of Choreography Bodies of Work May 1 & 2 Chicago Academy for the Arts Mayor’s Offi ce for People with Black Dogs & Bell Jars: a romp Athenaeum Theatre Disabilities through depression Saturday 2pm & 7pm, $15–27 Saturday 9:30am, FREE J. Lindsay Brown Dance Ebenezer Lutheran Church May 14, 16, 17 April 25 & 26 Friday & Saturday 7:30pm, $17–33 Boundless Hubbard Street Dance Chicago The Space in Between Harris Theater for Music and Dance Ballet 5:8 Thursday 7:30pm, Saturday 8pm, Ballet 5:8 Studios Sunday 3pm, $25–110 Saturday 3pm & 7pm, Sunday 3pm, $15 May 15 April 25 & 26 Spotlight Ball The Life and Legacy of Joel Hall: A Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Celebration of Urban Jazz Dance Harris Theater for Music and Dance Joel Hall Dancers & Center Friday 7pm, Starting at $125 Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Saturday 7pm, Sunday 3pm May 17 Tap Jams April 26 M.A.D.D. Rhythms Dance Jam Harold Washington Cultural Center Rhythm of the Street Dance Studio Sunday 2pm, FREE Sunday 2pm, FREE May 1–3 May 22 & 23 April 30–May 3 Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch What if? elemental Harris Theater for Music and Dance Noumenon Dance Ensemble Tiffany Lawson Dance Friday 8pm, Saturday 7:30pm, Chicago Dramatists Theater Stage 773 Sunday 2pm, $35–140 Friday 8pm, Saturday 2pm & 8pm, Thursday–Saturday 8pm, Sunday 7pm, $15-25 $20–35 May 3 DayLab May 22–31 May 1–30 DanceWorks Chicago GOSHEN Deeply Rooted Dance Theater TAKE Ruth Page Center for the Arts Visceral Dance Chicago Sunday 11am, $90–100 Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place The Space at Rockwell Friday–Sunday 7:30pm, $41-$100 Thursday–Saturday 8pm, $40–55 SEE CHICAGO DANCE EVENT! May 4 May 24 May 1 Chicago Dance Month 2020 Dance Jam Celebration and Scavenger Hunt Rhythm of the Street Dance Studio Beyond the Box IV E {m} urge See Chicago Dance Sunday 2pm, FREE Asian Improve aRts Midwest, Shubukai Maggie Daley Park Links Hall Monday 4:30pm, FREE May 28 Friday 7pm, $15 Made in Chicago May 8 Perceptual Motion, Inc. Tap Jams Harold Washington Library Center: M.A.D.D. Rhythms Cindy Pritzker Auditorium Harold Washington Cultural Center Thursday 12pm, FREE Friday 8pm, FREE May 29 May 8–10 DanceChance Ayodele Conference DanceWorks Chicago Ayodele Drum and Dance Lou Conte Dance Studio Sherman Park Friday 7pm, $3 Friday 6pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am

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For Dates, Times and Tickets, go to: ChicagoTap.org 312-542-2477 FEATURED EVENT Lawson Dance Theatre: elemental Lawson Dance Theatre is thrilled to bring the Periodic Table of Elements to life in its latest production, elemental, an original ballet exploring the chemical elements in two acts: organic and inorganic. Founding Artistic Director Tiffany Lawson has teamed up with chemist Josh Kurutz, past chair of the American Chemical Society of Chicago, to create something truly beautiful—a marriage of science and dance. Kurutz’s interpretation of phosphorus as the “energy starter” manifests itself in Lawson’s choreography with “Phosphorus” (danced by newcomer Cara Wedeking) exhibiting quick, precise movements and initiating movement in the otherwise still dancers. In “Arsenic,” Lawson reveals the element’s complexity by displaying both its hurtful and surprising healing qualities. She also explores the “fun” side of chemistry with lighthearted pieces like “Sugar,” in which dancers en pointe portray bakers whipping up some cupcakes. Aside from the new collaboration between choreographer and scientist, Lawson has welcomed other artists to enhance the production. True to its mission, the company is using live music and hired Nashville composer Brianna Bjerke to create the original composition. Bjerke uses cello, viola, violin, drums, and keys, giving the dancers/elements a harmonious playground on which to frolic. LDT is also joining forces with Maryland native Paul Deziel for projection design and DePaul University student Matthew Zalinski for lighting and prop design. Finally, Lawson will reunite with an old friend, Michael Sherman, founding artistic director of Innvervation Dance Cooperative, for costume design. All these collaborations come together to create what is sure to be a visually pleasing and thought-provoking production. Lawson Dance Theatre performs elemental April 30–May 3 at Stage 773. Visit tiffanylawsondance.com.

FEATURED EVENT Ballet Chicago: Balanchine+Beyond Spring Repertory “HeartStrings” Ballet Chicago offers Chicago audiences a program of astonishing range, including the paramount masterpiece loved and performed the world over, George Balanchine’s Serenade, plus three innovative new works: two by Resident Choreographer Ted Seymour and one by Artistic Director Daniel Duell. Audiences will enjoy Maurice Ravel’s captivating scores “Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet” and his “Mother Goose Suite,” as well as Gabriel Faure’s rapturous “Concerto for Harp,” a series of musical miniatures by Igor Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky’s sublime “Serenade for Strings.” These scores provide a rich musical landscape of unparalleled beauty and charm for choreography, past and present. Ballet Chicago had been committed to keeping Balanchine masterworks in front of Chicago audiences for 25 years, remaining one of the few homes of neoclassical choreographic invention in Chicago. Balanchine’s traditions inspire new choreographic explorations that expand upon their origins, and the company maintains a commitment to illuminating music from the inside out. In addition to its dedication to keeping old traditions alive, Ballet Chicago is passionate about fostering a new generation of dancers. The Ballet Chicago Studio Company is one of the few schools in the Midwest region for Balanchine-based training and choreography. Artistic Directors Dan Duell and Patricia Blair are official repetiteurs of the George Balanchine Trust, which provides students an education in a very specific niche of the ballet world. Ballet Chicago’s young dancers have the opportunity to perform on a professional stage during the Spring Repertory program. Their involvement in a production of this magnitude is a testament to their guidance at Ballet Chicago. The mix of Balanchine’s timeless traditions with new choreographic explorations set on eager-to-learn young dancers will make Balanchine+Beyond Spring Repertory “HeartStrings” a program to remember. Ballet Chicago invites Chicago audiences to enjoy an evening of splendid music married with sublime Balanchine masterworks alongside new choreography. Ballet Chicago performs Balanchine+Beyond Spring Repertory “HeartStrings” May 9 at the Harris Theater. Visit balletchicago.org.

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FLOE CHICAGO PREMIERE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO APRIL 22-25 Opens on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day!

Vanishing polar ice, rising sea levels, extreme weather events. Floe is visually spectacular dance theater, by turns irreverent and elegiac, that embodies our delusion, culpability, and fragility within a changing climate.

Choreography & Direction by Carrie Hanson Visual Design by Bob Faust TICKETS $15 (Art Institute members) $25 (nonmembers) www.artic.edu/TheSeldoms (312) 857-7132 312.334.7777 | 205 E. Randolph Street | harristheaterchicago.org

12 SEECHICAGODANCE.COM Photo by Oliver Look. Season Sponsor Season 19/20 —The Telegraph —The Brenda Shapiro Artistic Production and ArtisticProduction Scenic Elements Sponsor Elements Scenic 205 East Randolph East 205 | Engagement Lead Sponsor Lead Engagement Jack and Sandra Guthman harristheaterchicago.org | Corporate Engagement Sponsor Corporate Engagement “Magnificent and wonderfully alive ...” ...” alive wonderfully and “Magnificent 312.334.7777 312.334.7777 Caryn and King Harris Harris Family Foundation, Foundation, Harris Family Engagement Presenting Sponsor Presenting Engagement Palermo Palermo Palermo 2020 1–3, May Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Pina Wuppertal Tanztheater FEATURED EVENT Noumenon Dance Ensemble: What if? Noumenon Dance Ensemble has been reborn. Co-artistic director Nina Rose Wardanian (previously a dancer with Deeply Rooted Dance Theater) has joined the team in partnership with Erin Murphy. The 2019–20 season is the fi rst with this new partnership, and Noumenon has already completed a successful fi rst half, selling out the winter showcase performances at Chicago Dramatists Theater. “What if?” features dancers in stories that explore possibilities of what could have been, what is, and what could be. The performance considers space people spend time and energy on rather than holding space in the moment. Murphy’s Come in, Honey celebrates the small joys in life. The full-company work is a kaleidoscope of intertwining dancers with Horton-inspired movements. As storytellers, the dancers invite the audience to share in their own joyful emotions in a bright and vibrant work. Former Chicago Dance Crash company member David Ingram, in his fi rst choreographed work for Noumenon, centers his story on asking the tough questions and handling the outcomes of doing so. What if I questioned everything: relationships, family, career, friends? Does questioning lead to an ultimate discontent? What if I were actually content with my life? With his contemporary fusion movement, the dancers fl ow through emotions of questions and acceptance. Wardanian presents two new works, including a trio that mirrors her existing trio, I’ll get by. The existing work follows three women who independently struggle with their own demons, while seeing the need to both give and receive support. The new trio will be performed back to back with this existing work, telling two very different sides of the same story. Wardanian’s second new work features fi ve dancers battling their need to present themselves as completely in control, when beneath the surface they each deal with issues that unravel that facade. Little do they know the person next to them is also fi ghting a battle. What if they let each other see those imperfections? Do they face their fear of being seen with fl aws? As with the winter showcase, this performance will include an in-theater student showcase for CPS students from diverse backgrounds, many with special needs. Noumenon Dance Ensemble performs “What if?” May 22 and 23 at the Chicago Dramatists Theater. Visit ndedance.com.

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