Jump, spin and slide with HSDC’s teaching artists in these special movement workshops!  Join us at our various partner locations throughout Chicago to dance together and have fun. These exciting creative workshops allow parents and children to experience dance as they participate in a variety of movement activities, culminating in the creation of a new family dance all your own.

2009-10 Discover Dance Family Workshops

Saturday, February 27, 1–2:30 p.m.
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe
Workshop includes a greenhouse walk.
Participation fee: $5 per person
(Registration ends February 26.)

Sunday, February 28, 12:30 and 1:15 p.m.
Two FREE 30-minute family workshops will be offered as part of the Lou Conte Dance Studio (LCDS) Open House. Click here for more information.

Saturday, March 6, 11–11:45 a.m.
The Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted Street, Chicago
Participation fee: $5 per person
(Registration ends March 5.)

Still to be scheduled: Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Check back soon for more information!

Saturday, March 20
Hubbard Street 2 Family Matinee AND Family Workshop
Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park
205 E. Randolph, Chicago

Discover Dance as a whole family! See the HS2 Family Matinee and attend a family workshop on the same day. Hubbard Street 2 will delight and engage audiences with an interactive family matinee program that features a mix of performance and experiential activities with the artists. After the performance, join us for a Discover Dance family workshop backstage at the theater. (Limited availability for workshop. Must reserve your spot in advance.)

Matinee Family Performance: 3-4:00 p.m.
post-performance Family Workshop: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Performance Tickets: Thanks to Target, tickets are only $5 each!
(312-850-9744 or buy online)

Workshop: $5 per person
(312-850-9744, ext. 149 or email community@hubbardstreetdance.com)

Spring Break Dance Camp
March 29 – April 2

Need to keep busy this spring break? Join HSDC for our Spring Break Camp as we discover dance together. Through improvisation and structured choreographic activities, these dancers-in-the-making will gain an understanding of how their bodies move and communicate through dance. The week will conclude with a showcase of students’ work.

[Registration Form (PDF)]

Dance Explorers© Summer Camp
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Discover Dance summer camp introduces students to the exciting world of contemporary dance. Working with the professional dancers and teaching artists of HSDC, aspiring young dancers of all abilities will experience professional dance from the ground up, and gain an understanding of how their bodies move and how to communicate through dance using improvisation and structured choreographic activities.

Session 1: Creative Connections
June 21 – 25

Each class will explore how contemporary dance is created by learning Lesley Telford’s Page One, created for and performed around the world by Hubbard Street 2, and will then use that experience to create a new work based on themes and processes used in that work.

Session 2: Creative Movement
June 28 – July 2

Student will explore choreographic concepts as they start to create movement that is meaningful to them. HSDC’s Youth Program lets the student become the choreographer as young dancers begin to experiment and take risks through movement.
 
*Session 1 attendance is not necessary for participation in Session 2.

Session 3: Creative Connections
August 9 – 13
*see Creative Connection Description in Session 1

Little Movers Dance Camp
August 16 – 20

For our littlest dancers, we offer a week long environment to build their gross motor skills, musicality and kinesthetic confidence. Students will wiggle and giggle as they establish a life-long foundation for dance, exploring their world through creative movement activities.

[Registration Form (PDF)]

HSDC is proud to be the oldest Dance for Parkinson’s program in the Midwest. Led by Founding Teaching Artist and former HSDC dance Sarah Cullen Fuller, this program uses contemporary dance techniques to work to slow the progress of the disease, as well as providing a community of support for our students. For more information on this class or to be placed on the waiting list for the next class opening, please email community@hubbardstreetdance.com

“As we dance together, we forget physical limitations typically associated with Parkinson’s Disease…Instead, we focus on possibilities and find inspiration through the possibilities.”

“By challenging me to moves and balances I would never have done on my own, I have been able to expand my physical capacities which had been dormant.”

“I move more freely by the end of class, and my movements are more fluid the next day. But aside from improved movement, my spirit is better. I have shown MYSELF that I can do something that in the everyday world people would say ‘Stop! You can't do that. You will hurt yourself.’”