Saturday, July 3 - 6:00 & 8:00pm
Saturday, July 17 - 6:00 & 8:00pm
Saturday, August 28 - 6:00 & 8:00pm

Free thirty minute performances at Navy Pier's Dock Street Stage.

Freed Center for the Performing Arts
Ada, OH

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Help Be the Groove celebrate the culmination of Chicago Human Rhythm Project's 20th Anniversary Season with Global Rhythms 6, in one of four unique concerts featuring earth-shaking percussive arts ensembles from around Chicago, the nation and the world!

The performance features:
Be the Groove
Diabolus in Musica
BAM!

Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E. Randolph Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601

Join Be the Groove for this special outdoor event sponsored by the Glenview Public Library.

The event is free, but space is limited. RSVP begins July 10.

The Glen Town Center
Children's Corner in The Book Market at Hangar One
2651 Navy Blvd. (next to Jos. A. Bank)
Glenview, IL 60026

The number one annual Urban Dance Show in the Midwest featuring: Hip Hop ConnXion-Elite, Culture Shock Chicago, M.A.D.D. Rhythms, FootworKINGZ, Be the Groove, and more...

Mitchell Kobelinski Theater
5216 W Lawrence
Chicago, IL

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Come join the New Arts Forum - Urban Gateways' Junior Board - for its first major fundraiser benefiting Urban Gateways. Don't miss this fun event in support of arts ed!

The night will include:
Private Cocktail Reception with Hors d'oeuvres
DJ, Music & Dance Performances by Urban Gateways Artists including Be the Groove
Visual art displays
Silent auction and more!

Lumen
839 W. Fulton Market
Chicago

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Help support Children's Memorial Hospital by dancing for 13.1 hours and get a special performance by Be the Groove while you're dancing.

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Be the Groove performs at halftime at Welsh-Ryan Arena as the Northwestern Wildcats take on the Wisconsin Badgers. With special guests Boomshaka.

Be the Groove will be performing at Hawthorn Mall on the lower level between the GAP and H&M to celebrate Hanukkah with the Jewish Community Center of Chicago. This free program runs from 10am-Noon, with Be the Groove performing at 11.

122 Hawthorn Center
Vernon Hills, IL 60061

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Chicago’s finest cutting-edge performers will have their chance to shine during Dance Chicago’s Fringe Carnival. Improvisational dancers and one-of-a-kind companies will push the boundaries of dance and performance to the edge in this unique event.

Theatre Building Chicago

1225 Belmont Ave
Chicago, IL 60657

The Chicago Tap Summit; 5th Anniversary Celebration will include an array of master classes for all levels of tap dancers, along with history sessions (complete with rare footage of some of the all time greats of tap), a participants’ showcase, a panel discussion and our popular “LIVE THE HISTORY” lecture/demonstration which takes you through TAP history by the legends who lived it. The festival will wrap up with an electrifying concert “TAKE 5” featuring all faculty, guests and the M.A.D.D. Rhythms family. This year’s concert will feature Be The Groove, The FootworKingz (Finalists on America’s Got Talent, Touring with Madonna), The Primeridian (Underground Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul and Funk eclectic group) and The Hip Hop ConnXion (one of the leading hip hop dance troupes in Chicago). Chicago’s Ben “Jammin” Johnson will serve as musical director, providing live Jazz-Hip Hop-R&B-Classical-Rock-Gospel music.

The Harold Washington Cultural Center
4701 S. King Drive
Chicago, IL. 60615

Arts + Humanities Month
FREE Dance Showcase

The Louis Theater at Northwestern University
20 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
847-491-7282

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Join NBA Superstar and hometown hero, Dwyane Wade, in a fun filled evening showcasing Chicago area’s home-grown talent. A variety of performers (singers, dancers, musicians, beat boxer, and more) will compete to become the winner of the 1st annual “D. Wade’s Chicago Has Talent Presented by Gatorade,” with a celebrity host, performer and judges. All net proceeds from the event will benefit Wade’s World Foundation supporting local charities. For more information on the Wade’s World Weekend visit: www.wadesworldfoundation.org

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Building Stage Chicago
412 N Carpenter St
Chicago, IL

The indeninable, often quirky, always tall Josh Weckesser is at it again with what is fast becoming an annual event on par with Lollapalooza, only for dance: the Josh Weckesser Dance Spectacular. The Fourth Annual JWDS, subtitled Big Time!, will be an evening of new dances, visual artistry, comedy, and of course, Josh himself. With sights so fantastic, so incredible, and curiosities so shocking you'll demand your money back (but you won't get it).

Tickets for all shows are $15 or $10 with a hard luck story available at the door by cash or credit (hard luck story need not be true, and the best hard luck story gets their money back)

*Starring*
Synapse Arts Collective
Kinetic Dust
Matt Griffo
Brandy White
Sarah Winkler
Be the Groove
Stephanie Paul
Josh Weckesser

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Friday, June 26, 2009 - 6:30 & 8:30pm
Saturday, July 4, 2009 - 4:30 & 6:30pm
Saturday, July 25, 2009 - 6:30 & 8:30pm
Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 6:30 & 8:30pm

Free forty minute performances

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Be the Groove is back with the Chicago Human Rhythm Project on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage for a second time! This year's performance will once again feature CHRP's amazing faculty, talented youth tap ensembles and others in Chicago's single largest celebration of tap and percussive dance!

The performance is free and open to the public.

Featuring:

• Be the Groove
• Boitsov Ballet
• South Shore Drill Team
• CHRP's performing ensemble BAM!
• Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards
• Tappers with Attitude Youth Tap Ensemble
• Footprints Tap Ensemble
• Step Afrika's Jakari Sherman and Steppers
• Vijay Tellis-Nayak Septet
• Jason Janas
• North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble