CHRP presents rhythm-culture in performance, education and community development programs that foster great art and cultural pluralism. Join the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s final festival concert!

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...

The series visits Washington Park on Sunday, July 14 at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Rhythm World 34 concert 1 starts here! The Chicago Human Rhythm Project welcomes you back ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space. Max Pollak rehearsing at ...

Around the dawn of the new millennium, Chicago tap dancer Bril Barrett began to share his love of tap dance with his little brother and other local Black kids at the Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre ...

For more than three decades, hoofers-in-training have convened in downtown Chicago for Rhythm World. The meat and potatoes of this storied tap dance festival is its classes, which kicked off Friday ...

Over the Top Academy of Dance uses the unique, percussive concentration of tap dancing to teach kids dedication and confidence, while giving them a diverse community to rely on. Owner Jennifer Smith ...

Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city’s flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back. Now in his second year on the job, director Jumaane Taylor looks to put his ...

Preserving and promoting the form of art known as tap dancing is the mission of Making a Difference Dancing Rhythms, an organization better known as M.A.D.D. Rhythms. “We pride ourselves on being an ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...