Following sold-out shows at the Logan Center, Millennium Park, and more, the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project returns with Sans Pareil, a dazzling display of the power of Black dance in our city.
Sans pareil: French for “unparalleled.” Join the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project for the first concert from its second cohort. Ten dance companies present signature and new choreographic works on the Logan Center Performance Hall stage. Juxtaposing forms ranging from ballet to modern to tap to traditional African dance, to Chicago-born footwork and more, the concert promises to live up to its name delivering an incomparable demonstration of the depth and breadth of Chicago’s Black dance community. Named with a nod to Chicago’s first non-indigenous settler – the Haitian fur-trader, entrepreneur, and proponent of multi-culturalism known as the founder of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable — this concert will combine dance and technology to evoke Chicago Black dance’s past, revel in its present, and shine a light toward its bright future.
The 2023 cohort includes The Chicago Multicultural Dance Company, Deeply Rooted Dance, Forward Momentum Chicago, Joel Hall Dancers & Center, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Move Me Soul, Muntu Dance Theatre, NAJWA Dance Corps. Praize Productions, and The Era Footwork Collective. Learn more about the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project and the 10 companies involved at ChicagoBlackDanceLegacy.org.
This event has three performances:
Sat, Mar 25, 7pm
Sun, Mar 26, 2pm (Youth Show) & 6pm
Performance Details
Saturday’s concert will include performances by all in the cohort except The Chicago Multicultural Dance Company. The youth performance on Sunday at 2pm is geared toward families but is open to all, and will include performances by The Chicago Multicultural Dance Company, Deeply Rooted Dance, Forward Momentum Chicago, Move Me Soul, Praize Productions, and NAJWA Dance Corps.
Sunday night will feature all 10 companies in the 2023 cohort.
Tickets
$25 General | $10 Students and Seniors (62+)
If you need further assistance, please call the Box Office at 773.702.ARTS or email boxoffice@uchicago.edu.