Jump, spin and slide with HSDC’s teaching artists in these special movement workshops!  Join us at our various partner locations throughout Chicago to dance together and have fun. These exciting creative workshops allow parents and children to experience dance as they participate in a variety of movement activities, culminating in the creation of a new family dance all your own.

2009-10 Discover Dance Family Workshops

Saturday, February 27, 1–2:30 p.m.
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe
Workshop includes a greenhouse walk.
Participation fee: $5 per person
(Registration ends February 26.)

Sunday, February 28, 12:30 and 1:15 p.m.
Two FREE 30-minute family workshops will be offered as part of the Lou Conte Dance Studio (LCDS) Open House. Click here for more information.

Saturday, March 6, 11–11:45 a.m.
The Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted Street, Chicago
Participation fee: $5 per person
(Registration ends March 5.)

Still to be scheduled: Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Check back soon for more information!

Saturday, March 20
Hubbard Street 2 Family Matinee AND Family Workshop
Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park
205 E. Randolph, Chicago

Discover Dance as a whole family! See the HS2 Family Matinee and attend a family workshop on the same day. Hubbard Street 2 will delight and engage audiences with an interactive family matinee program that features a mix of performance and experiential activities with the artists. After the performance, join us for a Discover Dance family workshop backstage at the theater. (Limited availability for workshop. Must reserve your spot in advance.)

Matinee Family Performance: 3-4:00 p.m.
post-performance Family Workshop: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Performance Tickets: Thanks to Target, tickets are only $5 each!
(312-850-9744 or buy online)

Workshop: $5 per person
(312-850-9744, ext. 149 or email community@hubbardstreetdance.com)

Lead Community Partner

HSDC is proud to be the oldest Parkinson's Dance Project program in the Midwest. Led by Founding Teaching Artist and former HSDC dance Sarah Cullen Fuller, this program uses contemporary dance techniques to work to slow the progress of the disease, as well as providing a community of support for our students. For more information on this class or to be placed on the waiting list for the next class opening, please email community@hubbardstreetdance.com

“As we dance together, we forget physical limitations typically associated with Parkinson’s Disease…Instead, we focus on possibilities and find inspiration through the possibilities.”

“By challenging me to moves and balances I would never have done on my own, I have been able to expand my physical capacities which had been dormant.”

“I move more freely by the end of class, and my movements are more fluid the next day. But aside from improved movement, my spirit is better. I have shown MYSELF that I can do something that in the everyday world people would say ‘Stop! You can't do that. You will hurt yourself.’”

Colonel Stanley R. McNeil Foundation
Lead Sponsor