Elpis Dance Fest

08/21/2024

Searching for dance teachers, committed and creative, able to work with youth ages 6-19 years old. Teaching is on Monday evenings with a few Saturday mornings. Classes are 8-10 weeks and culminate into a recital. Must be a team player and love to teach. This is a paid position. Commitment is for September - May. Please see the flier.

06/20/2024

06/20/2024

06/19/2024

LOCATION CHANGE✨

Due to high temperature and the safety of the dancers and patrons, Elpis Dance Festival will now take place at The Rooted Space! We are so thankful to the Rooted Space for opening up their studio space to Elpis Dance Festival for the 2nd year in a row!

Doors open at 12:45! We hope to see you there!

06/19/2024

THIRD YEAR with ELPIS! The MetDown presents “Back to Our Roots”.

Versatile in style, mixed in race, and representing all genders, the MetDown, a pandemic born dance collective, wants to bring our House and hip-hop dance styles to the Movement Matters Perfomance Series. We’re a young group that loves doing all the styles of hip hop; social, house, breakin, lockin, wacking… We want the chance to showcase our vibrant spirit and love of dance to a larger audience.

The MetDown’s ultimate goal is to celebrate the raw and organic nature of Hip Hop, and, at the same time, create a visual testimony to its artistry, athleticism, and musicality equal to any other form of dance.

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06/18/2024

THIRD YEAR with ELPIS! Kweku Bransah presents his work "Joy Unspeakable".

Kweku Bransah is a self-taught Hip Hop dancer who graduated from The University of Akron in 2017 with a BA in Dance. While at Akron, he learned Ballet and Modern dances. Having learned these mixtures of styles is what led him to Chicago to dance with Chicago Dance Crash in their 2017-2018 season, a fusion dance company of Hip Hop, contemporary, and acrobatics. Kweku is currently freelancing, taking gigs as they come.

Kweku has also toured solo around the US Midwest and East Coast with the Pas de Monkey Dance Project called "The Art of Making Dances, (Not About Ferguson)" which is a response to the Black Lives Matter movement and to the violence against African American men in 2016. It asks: What can artists do to respond to violence and injustice? How can participating in art be a meaningful activity in a world in which black men are being shot in the streets?

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06/17/2024

SECOND YEAR with ELPIS! Ballet 5:8 presents "Counterpart | 2nd Movement".

Rubio Slager co-founded Ballet 5:8 in 2012 and is known for her unique ability to engage audiences in discussions of life and faith through choreography. She has created over 50 works for the Company and School during her tenure at Ballet 5:8. She has had the privilege of working daily at the School of Ballet 5:8 and has guest taught at over 100 schools across the United States. In 2023 Rubio Slager was awarded the coveted position of National Visiting Fellow at the School of American Ballet.
Ballet 5:8 tours nationally, bringing Rubio Slager's critically acclaimed ballets such as Reckless, Butterfly, The Space in Between and BareFace to audiences across the nation. Slager has won several grants from the Illinois Arts Council and was selected for the DCASE Individual Artist Grant in 2015. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Chicago DanceMaker's Forum. Rubio Slager is a groundbreaking figure within the field, as one of the few Mexican American Artistic Directors and Resident Choreographers of professional ballet companies in the world.

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