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Back from a break! Thank you to everyone who supported New Works 2021 - our first ever livestream premiere. Having an international audience was so wonderful. . Congratulations to Maggie Bridger and Rahila Coats, and huge thanks to their mentors Bryan Saner and Jenn Freeman/Po’Chop. Special thanks to discussion moderators Alison Kopit and Abra Johnson, and to Chicago Dance History Project for all of the video support. . New Works 2021 was so successful because of these beautiful people and because of our hardworking staffers Rachel Damon, Megan Rhyme, and Molly Hillson, interns Jacob Buerger, Mickey Huang, and Dylan Roth, and support from Tim Tsang. . #SynapseArts #ChiDance #ChicagoDanceCommunity #SynapseNewWorks #NewWorks2021 #WorksInProgress #ModernMovers . Left photo is a screenshot from footage by Sean Rafferty of Chicago Dance History Project Right photo is by Matthew Gregory Hollis . Image Description: Split image. Left side- A woman in a beige button up shirt wrapped in plastic sheeting lunges on the beach. Right side- text reads Thank You. A woman with a heating pad wrapped around her waist sits with her back against a wall. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQPLz7bBV-e/?utm_medium=tumblr

Our matched donations campaign is live! #linkinbio and at Synapsearts.com #supportthearts Donations are being doubled by a generous anonymous individual. Funds go to paying our artists and teachers for cancelled programs and toward creating learning resources for our students while they’re at home. #chidance #chicagodancers #chicagodancecommunity #stayhealthy The image shows two adult dancers performing on a street corner. In the foreground one female dancer in a green dress reaches her arm to camera left, behind her a female dancer in an orange tunic reaches camera right. The image has text which reads “support the artists, teachers, students of Synapse Arts” https://www.instagram.com/p/B_FlsAmF7Gy/?igshid=1bj1oa7e6tljh

F R I D A Y >>> this might be our best party yet! Raise a toast, enjoy the shows, and feel good about supporting our programs. #linkinbio *Only 8 tickets remaining for some levels* #partywithapurpose #15thanniversary #chidance #chicagodancecommunity #artspartners #partytime (at Dizzy Cow) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3cdP38lQe_/?igshid=1xhj5d50nxdlr

14 incredible choreographers have been commissioned through our New Works program. Are you next? Full details at the link in our bio. #rfp #chidance #chicagodance #chicagodancecommunity #choreography #opportunity #apply #linkinbio photo from New Works piece “Sackcloth and Ashes” by Michelle Modrzejewski, taken by @theobsessiveeye dancers Colleen Welch, Jacinda Ratcliffe, Joan/Chih-Hsien Lin https://www.instagram.com/p/Bppi6hqHpmJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4mog0m9c9xwj

Costumes in progress! Gorgeous handmade garments by @posterchildart for our May premiere of Light Hand. Made possible by generous support from @thesaintsofchicago. #costumes #handmade #womenswork #workingartists #dance #textiledances #textiles #armknitting #chidance #chicagodancecommunity #mychiparks #lighthand #dancers #wearing #bluetoothspeakers

#Repost @chicagodancemakersforum with @get_repost ・・・ In honor of Chicago Dancemakers Forum's 15th Anniversary, we are celebrating each and every one of the Lab Artists. Meet 2010 Lab Artist Rachel Damon!⠀ ⠀ A 2005 graduate of Columbia College Chicago, Rachel Damon creates, designs, and manages live performance. Rachel and the Synapse ensemble are building a textile dance titled Light Hand, which will travel through a historic home this spring. Follow @synapse.arts for updates! #15yrsofChiDancemakers ⠀ https://buff.ly/2EDNMWM @synapse.arts photo by @theobsessiveeye #chidance #chicagodance #chicagodancers #chicagodancecommunity #dance #textiles #textiledances