Improvisers’ Dance Jam at Big Marsh

September 24, 2022
A grid of four images of dancers outdoors.

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September
Artist Partners
Chicago Dancemakers Forum partners with M.A.D.D. Rhythms,  [UN]Common Grounds, and We Are Collective for a day of improvisational dance practices. Free event. Open to all. 
Saturday, September 24, 2022
1:00-4:00pm at Big Marsh Park
Part of their 5th Annual Celebration of Birds, Bikes, and Beats!
Big Marsh is in Chicago, at 11559 S Stony Island, just off the eastern banks of Lake Calumet. The park is accessible from 103rd Street and Doty Road or 122nd Street and Torrence Ave.
Natural environment with limited accessibility. 
Schedule:
1:00 We Are Collective (Contemporary, Open)
2:00 [UN]Common Grounds (Freestyle, Hip Hop)
3:00 M.A.D.D. Rhythms (Tap Jam)
This event is presented as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program. 
Media Release with more information and images is available online here.
RAIN PLAN: In the case of inclement weather, the schedule will be delayed and/or condensed on the same day. If there is lighting, we will unfortunately have to cancel the event.

Image Captions and Credits: A collage of four dance images.

1: [Un]Common Grounds, Photo by Omar Cardenas [ID: A genuine moment of Artists being in space with one another and finding ways to make it work with the respective differences. Four are dancing in a seated position, some are standing and engaging in different, joyful ways. They are outside on a concrete area of a park.]

2: We Are Collective, Photo by Phylinese Brooks; Featured: Nik LaMacck (he/him) and Reign Drop Winker (they/them), Co-Founders of We Are Dance Collective [ID: One white male dancer and one white non-binary dancer connect hand to head in an open field of green grass in the warm sunlight. He is wearing a brown, green, and yellow printed long sleeve button down, brown dance pants, and boots. They are wearing a white, blue and green vertically striped short sleeve button down shirt and printed blue dance pants, and black boots.]

3: Natural Encounters 2019, Photo by Enki Andrews; Featured: Ayako Kato [ID: A group of dancers in action outdoors in a marsh parkland, surrounded by trees and tall grasses.]

4: M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Courtesy of the Company; Featured: (l-r front) Donnetta “LilBit” Jackson, Andrew Carr, (l-r back) William J. Wims, Izaiah Harris [ID: A group of six tapdancers in action outdoors in the evening.]