The Chicago Dance Project

This glimpse inside the Chicago dance world is a discovery of diverse dance offerings that asks questions non-dancers might ask. The Chicago Dance Project profiles over forty dance companies, choreographers and dance festivals, allowing audiences to see that no experience is required to love this beautiful and thrilling art form.

Interesting Facts

• HMS Media's first full-length series
• Samantha Albert of The Second City, who won an Emmy for her role as host of the series, later appeared in the film The Breakup with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn

Noted and Quoted

The Chicago Dance Project is delightful... valuable, effective and, best of all, whimsical and fresh arts television... it aims a dust mop at public television's venerable but sometimes cobwebbed approach to dance programming... this show is beautifully designed to show off the variety, to focus on individual talents and, in scene after scene, excerpt after excerpt, to explore the flesh-and-blood beauty and passion of a visceral, accessible art.
—Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Dance Project seems to have done wonders for the morale of the dance community and name recognition for dance artists among the public at large. Let's hope this is just the beginning.
—Time Out Chicago

HMS Media's achievement of imagination and creativity has provided inspiration to the entire Chicago dance community.
—Ben Hodge, Executive Director, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago