Elevate Chicago Dance 2018 was a day of performances plus installations, workshops and discussions by 45 Chicago dancemakers, attended by over 2,500 Chicagoans. The broadly defined theme of the day explored intersections between Dance, Space, Race, and Place. The Elevate Chicago Dance 2018 artists, through a diverse range of dance and interdisciplinary works, made connections with current ideas about the dynamics between race, social spaces, and personal and body histories. For artists as well as for public audiences, the cultural, political and architectural history of the Chicago Cultural Center building was a powerful setting for these relevant considerations. Dance performances activated all the floors and multiple public areas of the landmark Chicago Cultural Center, including the Claudia Cassidy Theater, GAR Hall, the Dance Studio, and Preston Bradley Hall. Elevate Chicago Dance 2018 was curated by Peter Taub with Ailyah Christina, and coordinated by Cameron Heinze.
