The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project will present a free night of dance with standout companies including Muntu Dance Theatre, Red Clay and Deeply Rooted.
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Franklin began training at the age of 11. After graduating from Howard University, she was an NBA dancer for the Washington Wizard Girls for part of her career. In 2017, she joined the Hiplet Ballerinas. Previously, she performed in Paris Fashion Week and on the television show “Empire. Omaha-native Harsh has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from the University of Missouri Kansas City, where she performed with the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey for two years. She joined Hiplet Ballerinas in 2019. Towe was a student at Chicago Multicultural Dance Center before getting her degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City. She joined Hiplet Ballerinas in 2020.
Spring/21 Ayodele is a Yoruba word meaning joy in the home, and the Chicago-based Ayodele Drum & Dance imparts the joy of these African arts through adult and youth classes, workshops, and performances all adapted for remote modes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ayodele is one of eight Chicago companies that are part of the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project, launched in 2019 in a partnership with UChicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, the Joyce Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The CBDLP creates a community of artists and gives these historically underfunded companies operational and financial support to help them reach wider audiences and safeguard their futures. While in-person events continue to be restricted for public health reasons, performances by the companies and conversations with their creative leads are available on the CBDLP website.