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Chicago Dance Crash

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Chicago Dance Crash is an American hip hop/contemporary dance company based in Chicago, Illinois. [1]

36 relations: Alvin Ailey, Americans for the Arts, Ballet, Black Theater Alliance Awards, Breakdancing, Chicago, Chicago Reader, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Tribune, Chinese martial arts, Contemporary dance, Dance Magazine, Dave Robertson, Faust, Harrison McEldowney, Hip hop, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois State University, James Morrow (dance), Jazz dance, Jessica Deahr, JPMorgan Chase, Katherine Dunham, Krumping, Modern dance, National Endowment for the Arts, Navy Pier, Neo-Futurists, New York City, Newcity, Popping, Popular culture, Reggie Watts, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, Uniqlo, World Wide Fund for Nature.

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.

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Americans for the Arts

Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization whose primary focus is advancing the arts in the United States.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Black Theater Alliance Awards

The Black Theater Alliance Awards (BTAA) were initiated in 1995.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Reader

The Chicago Reader, or Reader (stylized as ЯEADER), is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater.

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Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Chinese martial arts

Chinese martial arts, often named under the umbrella terms kung fu and wushu, are the several hundred fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China.

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Contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe.

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Dance Magazine

Dance Magazine is an influential American trade publication for dance published by the Macfadden Communications Group.

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Dave Robertson

Davis Aydelotte Robertson (September 25, 1889 – November 5, 1970) was an American professional baseball player.

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Faust

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540).

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Harrison McEldowney

Harrison McEldowney American choreographer known for his theatrical work, for the 1992 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies and for Carnegie Hall's "Give My Regards to Broadway: A Salute to 125 Years of Musical Theater", 17 June 1991.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Illinois Arts Council

The Illinois Arts Council is a government agency of the state of Illinois formed to encourage development of the arts throughout Illinois.

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Illinois State University

Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois.

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James Morrow (dance)

James Morrow (Chicago, 2 April 1976) is an American hip hop and contemporary dancer and choreographer.

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Jazz dance

Jazz dance is the performance dance technique and style that emerged in America in the early twentieth century.

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Jessica Deahr

Jessica Anne Deahr (Chicago, 9 July 1982) is an American contemporary dancer and choreographer.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Katherine Dunham

Katherine Mary Dunham (also known as Kaye Dunn, June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist.

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Krumping

Krump is a street dance popularized in the United States, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement.

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Modern dance

Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Navy Pier

Navy Pier is a pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan.

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Neo-Futurists

The Neo-Futurists are an experimental theater troupe founded by Greg Allen (an alum of the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center) in 1988, based on an aesthetics of honesty, speed and brevity.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newcity

"Newcity is a media company based in Chicago, founded in 1986 and still owned and operated by its founders, Brian & Jan Hieggelke." It started as the Newcity independent, free weekly newspaper in Chicago.

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Popping

Popping is a street dance and one of the original funk styles that came from Fresno, California during the late 1960s–1970s.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Reggie Watts

Reginald Lucien Frank Roger "Reggie" Watts (born March 23, 1972) is an American musician, singer, beatboxer, actor, and comedian.

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Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes (TMLMTBGB) was the longest running show in Chicago and the only open-run Off-Off-Broadway show in New York.

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Uniqlo

() is a Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Dance_Crash

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