Chicago Summerdance In Place 2020 videos on YouTube

On the WBEZ radio show Reset this morning, they were talking about Chicago Summerdance (which starts this weekend), and they mentioned that during the pandemic, when they couldn't hold Summerdance in person, they put up "Summerdance In Place" videos, which are available on youtube:

SummerDance in Place 2020 - YouTube  

SummerDance in Place: Swing - YouTube 

Chicago Summerdance returns Aug-Sep 2021

 https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance4.html

Select dates, August 18 – September 15, 5:30–7:30pm except where noted, Citywide, Free Admission

Dancers of all ages and skill levels are invited to take part in family and creative activities from 4:30–5:30pm and introductory dance lessons by professional instructors followed by live music and dancing from 5:30–7:30pm except where noted. Schedule, parks, and themes are:

• Wednesday, August 18 at Willye B. White Park, 1610 W. Howard St. (Reggae)
• Wednesday, August 25 at Ogden Park, 6500 S. Racine Ave. (Steppin’)
• Wednesday, September 1 at Palmer Park, 201 E. 111th St. (Line Dancing)
• Wednesday, September 8 at Davis Square Park, 4430 S. Marshfield Ave. (Cumbia)
• Sunday, September 12 (Note the time: 1–6pm) at Rainbow Beach Park, 3111 E. 77th St. (House) — presented as part of the House City series
• Wednesday, September 15 at Portage Park, 4100 N. Long Ave. (Salsa)

Chicago SummerDance In Place on Youtube

In July there was a stay-at-home version of Chicago SummerDance, now available to watch on youtube, with some episodes also available on the WTTW website.  Despite being so close to Chicago, I'm embarrassed to say I was unaware of this until I saw an item about it on Dale Adamson's blog.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance.html
https://www.youtube.com/ChicagoDCASE
https://schedule.wttw.com/series/31262/Summerdance-In-Place/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ9kKRKc1Y--3rDqKK7FpTGNgVRKYfOeq

Chicago Summerdance June 27-Aug 24, 2019

The Summerdance schedule is up on the City of Chicago Website:

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance.html

Here are a few of the more folk-y listings:

Wednesday, June 26, 6–9pm – Contra & Square Dance

• Golden Horse Ranch Band (Contra & Square Dance)  

• Annie Coleman (Square & Contra Dancing, Line Dancing, Polka, Waltz)

Sunday, June 30, 4–7pm – Folk Dances & Music from India

• Ishti presents Pulse of India: An Evening of Folk Dance and Music
• Ishti Dance (Bhangra, Raas-Garba, Kalbelia, Ghoomar, Sambalpuri)

Sunday, July 7, 4–7pm – Eastern European Folk Dancing

• Dardania (Albanian Folk Music)
• Altin Naska (Balkan & Eastern European Folk Dances)

Saturday, August 24, 1–8pm
SummerDance Celebration – The Grand Finale!
Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St.
A full day of participatory and professional dancing throughout Millennium Park on the Great Lawn, Cloud Gate, Wrigley Square and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion.

EDC Romanian dancing Summerdance Sun July 22

Received from Paul:

Chicago SummerDance Program of

Romanian Folk Music & Dances

Sunday, July 22, 2018 – 4pm to 7pm

A Taste of Romanian Folk Culture

• Dance Lesson: 4–5pm
• Dance lesson by Paul Collins - Ethnic Dance Chicago (EDC)
• Romanian & Balkan Folk Dances

• Live Music & Dancing: 5–7pm
• Music by Laurentiu Feraru and his Gypsy Fusion Band
• Romanian Folk Music

• Chicago SummerDance
• Spirit of Music Garden – Downtown Chicago (Michigan Avenue & Balbo Drive)
• 601 South Michigan Avenue - Chicago, IL 60605
• www.chicagosummerdance.org

A Free Event, sponsored by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)

Check out EDC’s Online Regional Events Calendar

• Details of upcoming events always available at the click of a mouse:
• www.ethnicdance.net/calendar/

Join and Follow EDC in Social Media Networks

• Group Page: www.facebook.com/groups/ethnicdance/
• Fan Page: www.facebook.com/ethnicdance/
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/ethnicdanceguru/
• Meetup: www.meetup.com/ethnicdance/
• Blog: https://ethnicdance.wordpress.com/    

Chicago Summerdance 2018 Schedule available

Chicago Summerdance starts Thursday, June 28 -- complete schedule (subject to change) is posted here:

https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance0.html

Looks like EDC is doing Romanian Sunday, July 22, at the Spirit of Music Garden

Sunday, July 22 - Romanian Folk Music & Dances

• Lorenzo Feraru and his Gypsy Band (Romanian Folk Music)
• Ethnic Dance Chicago (Eastern European & Balkan Folk Dances)

www.ethnicdance.net/  I  www.facebook.com/ethnicdance  I  twitter.com/ethnicdanceguru

Summerdance - EDC Balkan dance - Sat Aug 26 Millenium Park

From Paul:

Chicago SummerDance (21^st Edition) Invites You To an Hour of Balkan & S.E. European Dancing
with Ethnic Dance Chicago

Circle/Line Ethnic Dance-Off Celebration

Saturday, August 26, 2017
3:00pm-4:00pm

Great Lawn – Jay Pritzker Pavilion - (Downtown Chicago)
201 E Randolph St  –  Chicago, IL 60602

Free and Open to the Public

(Less expensive parking lots on State St between Balboa and Congress and on Wabash Ave)
(More expensive Parking lots on Michigan Ave – Millennium Park & Grant Park Underground Garages)
(Convenient for travel to Downtown on CTA’s Downtown Stations on Wabash, State and Dearborn)

Balkan and South East European Circle & Line Dancing

The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has invited Ethnic Dance Chicago to lead an hour of Circle and Line Dances as part of Chicago SummerDance’s big celebration called the Summer Dance-Off, which will feature many types of dance events throughout Millennium Park on Saturday, August 26th.

While this event is open to the public, the targeted audience is the International Folk Dance Community (IFD) and Balkan & South East European Ethnic Communities from all over Chicagoland and the Midwest.

We are asking you to help spread the news of this event by word-of-mouth, email, telephone, etc. (and by any means possible) so that we can get a huge turnout. This is the only opportunity for our communities to join together and do circle and line dancing as part of this year’s SummerDance Program, so let your families, friends and colleagues know about this and ask them to help us get a large crowd of dancers and observers for this event.

We’ve been asked to run this event like a SummerDance program in Grant Park, so there will be some basic dance instruction (for new dancers) mixed in with open dancing (for experienced dancers) throughout the hour.

NOTE: This event is the same weekend as the Greektown Festival, so plan to attend this hour of Circle & Line Dancing at Millennium Park before or after you go to “A Taste of Greece”.

Other Dance-Off Events (at various times that afternoon) include:

·     Dance-Off Finale Competition, from contestants who showed off their footwork and steppin’ skills at a series of amateur competitions conducted in Eight Neighborhood Parks throughout the City this summer.

            ·        Millennium Park Dance Village, featuring various local dance companies and advocacy groups with performances and booths For Additional Chicago SummerDance Info visit: www.chicagosummerdance.org

Chgo Tribune: SummerDance article

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/dance/ct-summerdance-dance-card-ent-0712-20170711-column.html

"...The 21st edition of SummerDance is also getting a significant upgrade as the popular evening event including instruction in a variety of partner dances accompanied by live music expands from its longtime home in Grant Park's Spirit of Music Garden to include satellite events in neighborhood parks all over the city. Also new this year is the SummerDance Celebration, to be held Aug. 26 in Millennium Park. The all-day dance festival boasts cultural dance lessons, an expo of local arts organizations hosted by Audience Architects/SeeChicagoDance, and the final rounds of the first-ever SummerDance-off, a competition featuring amateur performers of two homegrown dance styles: footworking and steppin', which is a Chicago-style evolution of West Coast swing...

 SummerDance continues through Sept. 10, Fridays through Sundays in the Spirit of Music Garden in Grant Park, and Thursdays and Saturdays at eight neighborhood parks throughout the city. The SummerDance Celebration runs noon to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 26 in Millennium Park. All events are free. For more information and the full schedule of all SummerDance-related events, visit www.chicagosummerdance.org."

NOTE: The Aug 26 Summerdance Celebration includes this event, among many others:

Paul Collins, Circle Dance Lesson on the Great Lawn, Jay Pritzker Pavilion
3–4pm
This circle dance lesson, led and DJed by Paul Collins on the Great Lawn of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, will encompass Central and Eastern European folk dances and will be a family-friendly, all-ages experience.

Fortune Cookie, Chicago Summerdance

Had lunch today at an Asian restaurant, this was in my fortune cookie:

Speaking of which, here's the link for Chicago Summerdance:  http://chicagosummerdance.org/
The details aren't up yet, but here are the dates:
Fridays-Sundays, June 23-September 10, 2017 • Grant Park, Spirit of the Music Garden Saturdays & Thursdays, July 13-September 14, 2017 • Eight Neighborhood Parks throughout the City

Update: The schedule is up now: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance6.html

A few that look interesting:

• July 5, 6-9pm Irish Folk Music + Dancing Bua(Irish Folk Music) Trinity Irish Dance (Irish Folk Dancing) Part of Taste of Chicago
• July 16, 4-7pm Italian Folk Music + Dancing Newpoli(Italian Folk Music + Dance) Newpoli will teach Pizzica, a traditional tarantella from Apulia called “Salento”
• Sept. 3, 6-9:30pm Contra + Square Dance Volo Bogtrotters (Country and Square Dance) Paul Tyler (Caller)

Chicago Summerdance 2016

June 24 - September 11, 2016 • Spirit of Music Garden, Grant Park, Chicago • FREE
chicagosummerdance.org

The detailed schedule isn't up on the official website yet, but we've heard about the following events so far:

July 10 -  4pm-5pm: John & Galia, Balkanske Igri will be teaching, followed by Romanian music with Nicolae Feraru, free event associated with Taste of Chicago

Friday Aug 19 -  Chicago SummerDance features Joe Kirin's KGB Band with EDC Teaching 6:00-7:00, Dancing 7:30-9:30 - Free  Spirit of Music Garden, Michigan Ave & Balbo Dr, (601 S Michigan Ave) Chicago IL 60605 EDC may meet at the Latvian Center after this event

Chicago Summerdance June 26-Sep 13, 2015

June 26 - September 13, 2015  •  Spirit of Music Garden • FREE To Everyone

• Free Admission

• Fridays & Saturdays
  Dance Lessons: 6-7pm
  Music & Dancing: 7:30-9:30pm
• Sundays
  Dance Lessons: 4-5pm
  Music & Dancing: 5-7pm

The schedules are up at this link:

http://chicagosummerdance.org

Looks like, as last year, they're only doing Fri,Sat,Sun, at the Spirit of Music Garden, not the Thursday dances that tended more to ethnic and international folk dance in years past.  But I see that EDC will be teaching for this one:

Sunday, August 9, 2015

• Megitza (Polish and Carpathian Folk Music)

www.megitza.com / soundcloud.com / www.facebook.com / instagram.com / twitter.com

• Ethnic Dance Chicago (Polish, Carpathian Basin and Romani folk dances)

www.ethnicdance.net / www.facebook.com / twitter.com

Chicago Summerdance 2014

The Chicago Summerdance schedule (starting Jun 27, 2014) is posted:

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance.html

NPR story about Chicago Summerdance

Heard this story on "All Things Considered" this evening:

Chicago Summerdance 2013

Grant Park
Spirit of Music Garden
601 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
________________________

• Free Admission

• Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays
  Dance Lessons: 6-7pm
  Live Music & Dancing: 7:30-9:30pm
• Sundays
  Dance Lessons: 4-5pm
  Live Music & Dancing: 5-7pm 

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/chicago_summerdance.html

Chicago SummerDance 2012

http://www.chicagosummerdance.org/

New this year, Chicago SummerDance kicks off at the 32nd annual Taste of Chicago, July 11 – 15 in Grant Park. Then, Chicago SummerDance moves to the Spirit of Music Garden in Grant Park, 601 S. Michigan Ave., July 19 – September 15

According to Paul's EDC e-mail:

• Jul 26 (THU) - SummerDance - EDC + Goranie (Gypsy & Hungarian) (6pm-9:30pm)
• Aug 10 (FRI) - SummerDance - EDC + Project 1967 (60's dances) (6pm-9:30pm)
  EDC Dance Starts 10:00pm @ Latvian Center after SummerDance
• Aug 24 (FRI) - SummerDance - EDC + Joe Walega's Orch. (Polka) (6pm-9:30pm)
  EDC Dance Starts 10:00pm @ Latvian Center after SummerDance

Chicago SummerDance July 7- Sept 18

Chicago SummerDance | Explore Chicago

Summerdance starts later this year, July 7. I don't see a schedule posted on their website yet, but Paul sent some e-mail with this information:

• Ethnic Dance Chicago @ Chicago SummerDance
• Thursday, July 14 - Carpathian Dance with Megitza Quartet
• Thursday, July 21 - Balkan/International with Orkestar Sloboda

Update: schedule is posted.  There's also this event:

Bulgarika with Nikolay Kolev
Sep 17, 2011
Dance lessons by Balkanski Igri and Ethnic Dance Chicago and live music by Bulgarika with Nikolay Kolev, performing Bulgarian Folk music.


Here's the link for all "World music" events:
http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/supporting_narrative/events___special_events/special_events/dca_tourism/chicago_summerdance/SummerDance_WORLD.html
 

Chicago SummerDance - June 17-Aug 29, 2010

Chicago SummerDance

Dates: Jun 17, 2010 - Aug 29, 2010

Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 6 pm – 7 pm: Dance lessons led by professional instructors 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm: Live music and dancing Sunday, 4 pm – 5 pm: Dance lessons led by professional instructors 5 pm – 7 pm: Live music and dancing

Location: Grant Park, Spirit of Music Garden 601 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60605

Admission: FREE

Chicago Summerdance 2009

http://chicagosummerdance.org/

Including (among many others):

	Tükrös Hungarian Folk Ensemble (Chicago SummerDance) Jun 25, 2009 | 312.742.4007 | Free Admission The 13th annual Chicago SummerDance Series presents free Szatmari Dances from Hungary dance lessons by Ignac Kadar & Barbara Baranyai and live music by the Tükrös Hungarian Folk Ensemble, performing authentic Hungarian village music.

Steve Gibons Gypsy Rhythm Project (Chicago SummerDance) Jul 30, 2009 | 312.742.4007 | Free Admission The 13th annual Chicago SummerDance Series presents free Horas, Sirbas, Geamperalele, Rachenitzi and Chochechi dance lessons by Paul Collins of Ethnic Dance Chicago and live music by the Steve Gibons Gypsy Rhythm Project, which mixes a compelling, energetic concoction of music from Romania, the Balkans and the oriental gyps...

Orchestra Chalgija (Chicago SummerDance)
Aug 20, 2009 | 312.742.4007 | Free Admission

The 13th annual Chicago SummerDance Series presents free Oros, Horos, Kolos, and Čočeks dance lessons by John Kuo & Galia Miloucheva-Kuo of Balkanski Igri and live music by Orchestra Chalgija.

NBC5 feature on Chicago Summerdance

Here's a link to a story (with video) about Summerdance - looks like NBC5 was there for the Hungarian teaching:
http://www.nbc5.com/nbc5next/16749144/detail.html

Boban Markovic, Jim Stoyanoff & Lamajamal, Balkan Cabaret, also Martin Koenig photo exhibition

Received from John K.:

Dear Friends,


If you are a Balkan music fan, then it is great to be alive and in Chicago!! For the next week, we are the Balkan music, dance, and cultural capital of North America due to:


Photo Exhibition - Martin Koenig's selected archival photos taken in Bulgaria & the Balkans Continuing through 9/29/2008, Cultural Center's, 78 E Washington, Chicago. You can still help support this exhibition with a tax-deductible donation - make checks to "4Culture" & send to: B
Balkanske Igre, PO Box 1157, Chicago, IL 60690


Boban and Marko Marković Orchestra & Romski truba fans!!
This is the Serbian Rom brass band from Vladicin Han near Vranje that is the four-time grand champion of the Dragacevski Sabor in Guca and arguably
the greatest brass band in the world! Their music was featured in Kusturica's film Underground and Black Cat, White Cat, etc.

7/17, 6pm, Millennium Park-Pritzker Pavilion, Music without Borders Preview - FREE. NOTE: Boban's band is scheduled to play 7:05-7:35pm, so we recommend the following for Thursday evening, 7/17:

6:00pm, Millennium Park-Pritzker Pavilion, stay through Boban
Markovic's set
===>> we are encouraged to dance, but we need to stay out of the aisles
7:35pm, SummerDance, 600 S Michigan to hear Jim Stoyanoff and
Lamajamal
9:30pm, Restaurant Bulgaria, 4724 W Lawrence, Chicago to hear
Balkan Cabaret

7/18, 6-9:30pm, SummerDance, 600 S Michigan Ave, Chgo. FREE + dance lesson
7/19, 12:30pm, Pitchfork Festival, 1501 W Randolph, Chicago
7/19, 5:30pm, Dawes Park, Church & Sheridan, Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival
7/21, evening, Martyrs, 3855 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago (age 21 and over only)


SummerDance, mid-June to end of August, Spirit of Music Gardens, 600 S Michigan, Chicago, IL, July 17-Thursday, 6-9:30pm, music by Jim Stoyanoff and Lamajamal FREE, also dance lesson


Balkan Cabaret, 7/17-Restaurant Bulgaria, 4724 W Lawrence, Chicago
7/18-Latvian Center of Chicago
7/19-Katerinas on Irving Park Rd, Chicago
7/21-Evanston IFD Group, Lake St Church, Lake & Church


Future Events:


World Music Festival, 2nd half of September 2008, Chicago. Orch. "Kabile", other details TBA

Orchestra KAL, October 17, 2008, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N Lincoln, Chicago

44th Anniversary Spring Festival, March 20-22, 2009, International House, 1414 E 59th St, Chicago featuring Balkan/E European dance and music cosponsored by CEERES & International House at the University of Chicago. Dance, singing, & instrumental music workshops, concert, dance parties, and culture sessions with master guest teachers and artists. Info: balkanske_igre@yahoo.com, 773-324-1247


Please forward to whoever may be interested - thanks!