Visceral Dance Chicago, one of eight companies performing in Dance For Life/Photo: Todd Rosenberg

1
Dance For Life
(Auditorium Theatre)
The annual benefit show offsetting health-care costs for the dance community features an all-star lineup of big Chicago companies and three newcomers to the program, along with a cross-company finale by Jonathan E. Alsberry.
August 10

2
Divination: The Dancing Souls of Black Folk
(Pritzker Pavillion)
The ten companies that comprise the Black Dance Legacy Project return to Millennium Park with a concert that explores the mystical influence of ancestry.
August 24

3
Synapse Arts Birthday Bash
(Berger Park Cultural Center)
For their twentieth, the company focused on moments of spontaneous joy hosts a day of performances, films, workshops and cupcakes of course.
August 3

4
Keeper of the Floor: Famous Feuds edition
(Epiphany Center for the Arts)
Chicago Dance Crash’s wildly popular, raucous, all-styles dance battle takes the big room at Epiphany, inspired by famous pop-culture rivalries through history. Tea-party attire encouraged.
August 9

5
Fertile Ground
(St. Benedict the African)
Deeply Rooted Productions and Blacks in Green present a free music, dance and spoken-word performance celebrating the Great Migration, and performed by volunteers spanning various ages, races and socioeconomic backgrounds.
August 9-11