Outreach Programs

Partner Organizations

 

Cameron Community School + Chase Elementary School + Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center Children’s Home & Aid + Family Matters Teen Girls Program + Lowell Community School
Loyola Park + Richard J. Olgesby School + Salvation Army Teen Reach Praise Dance Group
Helen C. Peirce School of International Studies + Swift Elementary Specialty School

We enrich lives through dance. Whether in school classrooms, theaters, parks, or elsewhere, we believe that the dedication and commitment it takes to dance and to participate in the arts experience will build a strong and lasting foundation for life. Our outreach programs serve youth and their families in several ways:

Jazz Dance/Science & Health is a curriculum-based science and health program via a sequential in-class residency, integrating dance classes with the Chicago Public Schools health and science curriculum. The program is comprised of 16 one hour dance classes taught to students in the Richard J. Olgesby School, Helen C. Peirce School of International Studies, and Swift Elementary Specialty School. In each school, two dance classes per week are taught for eight weeks each during our residencies. The concentrations of this residency program, which are basic anatomy, nutrition, relationship of body systems, and avoiding injury, are designed for 4th and 7th grades.

Giordano Dance Ticket Program serves thousands of area students and families from the communities and organizations listed above with free performance tickets.

“Jazz Dance Beat…Then and Now” has been performed for more than 60,000 people of all ages and backgrounds in cities across the United States and around the world. The program is led by an on-stage narrator, performed by the entire Giordano Dance Chicago company in full costume, and culminates in a question and answer session between the audience and the dancers. Jazz Dance Beat is performed on stages and in gymnasiums, and jazz dance master classes are often arranged in conjunction with this program.

Giordano Master Classes and Workshops are offered in schools, colleges and other facilities and provide a unique opportunity to learn the Giordano technique, style, and repertoire.

These efforts are made possible, in part, by support from the Polk Bros. Foundation, the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation, the Crown Family Philanthropies, the Alphawood Foundation, the Helen Brach Foundation, the Harry F. Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick Foundation, Inc., and many individual contributors.