For 25 years, DanceAfrica Chicago was a beloved festival of African and African American excellence in dance, music and folklore.
Muntu Dance Theatre is proud to include the return of DanceAfrica Chicago in its 50th anniversary season. JOIN US for performances, events and workshops all throughout 2022!
Everyone is invited to CELEBRATE WITH US!
SEPTEMBER 25
HARRIS THEATER
COMING 2023
ARIE CROWN THEATER
We are pulling out all the stops for the return of DanceAfrica Chicago and our 50th birthday!
I am so excited to partner with the amazing artists of this city to showcase our community’s talent and welcome artists from around the world to create and celebrate with us all year long.
- Regina Perry-Carr, Muntu Dance Theatre Artistic Director
JOIN US for a dance training series that will explore the breadth and depth of African Diasporic dance with a monthly two-hour professional-level dance workshop.
IN HONOR & MEMORY OF BABA ALYO TOLBERT
Baba Alyo was Muntu Dance Theatre’s first Artistic Director, laying the foundation for our 50 years of artistic excellence and service to our community.
IN HONOR & MEMORY OF BABA CHUCK DAVIS
Baba Chuck Davis founded DanceAfrica in Brooklyn in 1977, starting a beloved festival tradition of African and African-American dance, music, and culture that spread to cities around the United States.
ANCESTORS,
HEAR US.
With joyful hearts, we ask the Ancestors to bless this harvest season as we celebrate the fruits of our labor and of those who labored before us. It is with grateful humility that we accept the honor of stewarding this grand legacy on its journey toward 50 more years of creative excellence in service to the preservation and perpetuation of the African aesthetic and its influence on world cultures, through the education and professional presentation of dance, music and folklore. Àṣẹ
Thanks to the generous support of our partners and the Chicago philanthropic community, accessible tickets are available to every performance and workshop throughout the Muntu Dance Theatre 50th Anniversary Season.
Accessible tickets will be available when performance tickets go on sale to the general public in each venue’s box office. Anyone with financial barriers to attending our performances may request accessible tickets. Groups and organizations representing the exceptional youth and families of Chicago’s south, west and south west sides are especially encouraged to partner with us. Please contact us at [email protected] for details about free and reduced ticket packages.