New Dances 2020 Opening Night Performance

DanceWorks Chicago

New Dances 2020 OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE featuring new work by Chicago-based choreographers

Please join us for OPENING NIGHT of New Dances 2020 featuring PREMIERES by Chicago-based dancemakers Sydney Jones, Drew Lewis, Brian Martinez, Joanna Meccia, Joe Musiel, and Peyton Winker.
<a href="https://www.danceworkschicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DanceWorks Chicago</a> and <a href="https://thodosdancechicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Thodos Dance Chicago </a>will donate $5 from each Opening Night ticket sale to <a href="https://www.blacklivesmatterchicago.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Black Lives Matter Chicago</a>, a Chicago-based beneficiary selected by the artists of New Dances 2020. Your purchase supports Chicago artists and organizations exercising the muscles of courage in creativity and community!
GRATEFUL for UNDERWRITING of NEW WORKS by Marta Babson, Parke and Lena Ballantine, Pamela Crutchfield, Charlie Gardner and Patti Eylar, Lauren Vitale, and Ula Widawska!New Dances 2020 continues its over 30-year tradition of providing an extensive in-house choreography incubation program for Chicago’s dance community with Melissa Thodos, Founder and Artistic Director of <a href="https://thodosdancechicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Thodos Dance Chicago</a>, and Julie Nakagawa, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of <a href="https://www.danceworkschicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DanceWorks Chicago</a>, at the helm. New Dances was founded by the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble in the 1980s, in 2000 it found a new home with <a href="https://thodosdancechicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Thodos Dance Chicago</a>. This year marks the 20th anniversary of New Dances being under the <a href="https://thodosdancechicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Thodos Dance Chicago</a> umbrella, as well as the third year of New Dances being co-produced by <a href="https://thodosdancechicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TDC</a> and <a href="https://www.danceworkschicago.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DanceWorks Chicago</a>.

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