Photo: Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl
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Dance in the Parks
(various Chicago Park District Parks)
It’s the eighteenth and, sadly, final season for the series of free outdoor professional dance concerts, performing at eleven parks citywide.
July 7 – 24
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Chicago SummerDance
(Grant Park and various Chicago Park District Parks)
The annual series of free, outdoor dance lessons in everything from salsa to steppin’, followed by live music, returns to the Spirit of Music Garden and parks across the city.
July – August
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expo/sd
(Ruth Page Center for the Arts)
Chicago Dance Crash presents three new freestyle-driven works by Annie Franklin, Elijah Motley and Cameron McKinney exploring the messy, raw moments of performance; progress and regression of American civil rights; and the revelations to be found at the threshold of exhaustion.
July 24 & 25
4
Movements of Many: Ten Years of Ishti
(Green Briar Park, Independence Park, Nichols Park)
Ishti Collective celebrates a decade with a weekend of free performances, food vendors, family-friendly activities and more.
July 9 – 11
5
Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl
(Paramount Theatre)
The nationally celebrated folkloric company presents a colorful concert of dances from villages across Mexico.
July 30
