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The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago features a nationally respected academic program focusing on developing a personal voice and maturity in the dance artist.  The 2010 Summer Dance Intensive offers challenging technique courses across a range of styles including yoga, ballet, and modern dance techniques, and is open to degree-seeking and community students.  The Dance Center faculty is comprised of working artists, enhanced by national and international visiting artist-teachers.

We are distributing course catalogs and handbills advertising Columbia’s Summer Dance Intensive, and will be targeting a variety of off campus locations in the city. Be sure to pick one up and see what Columbia can offer you!

Please visit www.colum.edu/dance_center/ for more information.

STOMP is explosive, provocative, sophisticated, sexy, utterly unique, and back in Chicago with new surprises for audiences of all ages. The eight member troupe uses everything but conventional percussion instruments – match boxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters,  hubcaps, tractor tires, paint cans – to fill the stage with magnificent rhythms. USA Today says “STOMP finds beautiful noises in the strangest places.” See what all the noise is about.

Click here to use the code TEMPO when ordering to save $15 Tue-Thu and Sunday evening performances. Tickets are also available by calling 1-800-775-2000 or at any Broadway in Chicago box office or Ticketmaster retail location.

My Name is a Blackbird was listed as one of Time Out Chicago’s “ten best dance moments of the decade.” Now you can see Blackbird and the Chicago premiere of the Blackbird-inspired Stamina of Curiosity: Our Strange Elevations.

Our distribution for Mad Shak Productions is underway as we blanket the city with posters and other materials for these performances. Be sure to catch one of the finest dance events the city has to offer.

My Name is Blackbird/Stamina of Curiosity is at the Epiphany Church May 13th through May 23rd. Please visit www.madshak.com for more information.

April 2010 is bringing a ton of fun classes and events to the Old Town School of Folk Music. While it’s true we are practically at the halfway point for the month, there are still plenty of things going on. Classes offer everything from guitar to harmonica to dance to singing. 8 week classes begin the week of April 26th. OTSFM is one of regular clients who we constantly work with and we’ll be bringing their April brochures all around the city.

Please visit www.oldtownschool.org for more information.

Thodos Dance Chicago is a critically acclaimed contemporary dance company with a vibrant, award-winning style. The Company performs on the national and international dance circuits, as well as in Chicago’s most prominent dance events.  This ensemble of well-rounded artists brings you contemporary dance incorporating a program featuring “Fosse Trilogy,” Thodos Dance Chicago’s third collaboration with Broadway legend Ann Reinking.

We are very happy to add Moraine Valley Community College as one of our newest clients. We’ve been hitting the pavement, distributing materials advertising this upcoming performance at the school.

Thodos Dance Chicago performs at Moraine Community College in the Dorothy Menker Theater on April 17th. Please visit www.morainevalley.edu and www.thodosdancechicago.org for more information.

The 2010 Creative Chicago Expo at the Chicago Cultural Center is a highly successful event that connects artists and art organizations in all disciplines. The Creative Chicago Expo is free and open to the public. Last year, over 5,000 people connected with vendors, workshops, and consultants, taking advantage of Chicago’s top resources, services and expertise for individuals and organizations in all the arts.

Not only will direction tour marketing be promoting the 2010 expo, but we will have a booth as well! We’ll be checking out tons of booths of clients and friends. Be sure to come by our table and say hello !

The 2010 Creative Chicago Expo is at the Chicago Cultural Center on April 10th. Please visit www.chicagoartistsresource.org for more info.

Chicago Tap Theatre will be presenting its first ever tap story-show where the audience will determine the fate of the tale. Love Taps explores the concept of lonely singles searching for their soul-mates through internet dating, and what happens after those couples meet their on-line prospects in-person. During intermission, the audience will be able to decide which characters get to be paired up with each other, creating entirely different performances from night to night.

We’re very happy to be a part of this new production, and are doing our part to help spread the word on this new production. Our team has been hitting the streets, putting up posters and handbills throughout Chicago Neighborhoods.

Love Taps is at the Theatre Building Chicago March 19th through the 28th. Please visit www.chicagotaptheatre.com for more information.

This Valentine’s Day weekend, River North Dance Company and Harris Theater have you covered with a variety of new shows! Robert Battle, returns to River North Chicago to follow 2008’s exhilarating Train with the world premiere of Ella, celebrating the scat vocals of Ella Fitzgerald. Following her recent success with American Ballet Theatre,  Lauri Stallings, returns to debut a world premiere entitled Suppose. The critically acclaimed piece, Forbidden Boundaries by Artistic Director Frank Chaves and crowd favorite, Evolution of a Dream by Sherry Zunker return to round out the Company’s 20th Anniversary season.

Through our printworks division, we’ve printed the memorable and eye catching RNDC poster to place in key locations around the city. Keep and eye out for the posters, and if you haven’t decided what to do on Valentine’s Day, be sure to grab tickets for you and your special someone to these special events!

RNDC Valentine’s Weekend Engagement takes place February 12th & 13th at the Harris Theater. Please visit www.harristheaterchicago.org for more information.

New York based performance artist Koosil-ja Hwang will present a new multimedia performance piece at The Dance Center of Columbia College. Using dance, electronic music, and live camera work, Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image, and Algorithm tells three simultaneous stories simulating the coexistence of the digital and flesh worlds. Koosil-ja Hwang will only be giving 3 performances at the Dance Center, so be sure to reserve your tickets right away. This is an exciting performance you won’t want to miss.

Koosil-ja Hwang is at the The Dance Center of Columbia College February 4th, 5th, and 6th. Please visit www.colum.edu/dance_center/performances/ for more information.

The musical version of the hit movie makes it’s way to Chicago!  Adapted for the stage by director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling, writer Lee Hall, and with music by Elton John, Billy Elliot is the winner of ten Tony Awards, and one of the hottest musicals getting rave reviews from both critics and fans alike.

In order to build awareness for tickets going on sale, we will have a team out flyering this Friday afternoon in the downtown area.  This is sure to be one of the biggest shows of the spring, so be sure to grab a flyer from us, and learn how you can get tickets to the musical called “the best show you will ever see” by the New York Post.

Billy Elliot The Musical opens at the Ford Center/Oriental Theatre on March 18, 2010.  Tickets go on sale Novmber 20th.  For more information, please visit www.billyelliotchicago.com.