Our Affiliates

Hawaiian Islands International Tap Dance Festival

Kristie's camera has never let her stray far from her original passion of dance, allowing her to become a part of the dance community through a different medium. Her own formal dance training makes each shoot a collaborative effort to choreograph for the camera, merging the languages of dance and photography.

Footprints Tap Ensemble of Talent Forum began with just three dancers in 1995, with the vision to carry on the tradition and legacy of tap dance and to provide an opportunity for young dancers to achieve something great in the dance world. Today Footprints is a not-for-profit 501c(3) production and performance company (and apprentice company) of Chicago-area youth who actively choreograph, teach, perform and participate in all aspects of dance show production. The ensemble is directed by the dancers themselves, whose ages range from 10 to 18.

3to1 Studios is a world-class production company of young, energetic professionals. Professionals who value experience, yet harbor ambitious aspirations. Ambitious because our diverse group of specialists can work each aspect of a project, from pre-production through post-production, from storyboarding to sound design and further, establishing the project online and in print. To each step of the process, our specialists will bring the focus and experience that your project deserves. From conception to development to production to product, we get the job done and do it well.

The Joel Hall Dance Center is celebrating 30 years of delivering artistic excellence to broad based and under served audiences. It is notable for building and serving a constituency that is racially, ethnically, culturally and socially diverse, and for promoting a philosophy of inclusiveness that is essential to its everyday operation.

Instruments of Movement was founded in January of 2001 as a conduit for me and a diverse group of dancers to explore our individual voices. Having worked in the Chicago dance community for four years following graduation from northeastern Illinois University, I was beginning to feel the need to express my own vision. Coming from an urban background, I yearned to see the classical vocabulary prevalent in concert dance integrated into the hip-hop culture with which I was surrounded. Instruments of Movement became a fusion of classical, contemporary, and urban dance styles.