Chicago Human Rhythm Project Education Programs
Mayfair Arts Center / Chicago Human Rhythm Project, 8701 S Bennett Ave, Chicago, IL 60617
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Chicago Human Rhythm Project Education Programs include concerts, classes, after school arts education classes, residencies, workshops, outreach programs, and conferences for the field. The programs also feature Stone Soup Rhythms, which performs the lecture demonstration “We All Got Rhythm” throughout Chicago and provides after school arts education classes at three elementary schools, including St. Sabina, Paul Revere, and Bronzeville Lighthouse. CHRP presents four annual performance and education programs and centers American Tap, African, Native American, Indian, Mexican Folkloric, Irish Step, and other culturally specific, rhythm-focused art forms.
• Schedule: Four annual performance and education programs; after school arts education classes; lecture demonstration “We All Got Rhythm” presented throughout the year
Chicago Human Rhythm Project was co-founded in 1988 by Lane Alexander and Kelly Michaels and celebrates and preserves the American art of tap dance through performances, teaching, creation of new work, and documentation. As of 2022, CHRP will have awarded $350,000 in scholarships to deserving and talented youths for summer study programs over a period of 27 years. CHRP’s resident performance and education ensemble is Stone Soup Rhythms, and CHRP’s summer festival is described as the oldest and most comprehensive annual tap festival in the world and the first tap festival to evolve into a year-round presenter of tap and percussive dance. CHRP received an Emmy nomination for its co-production with WTTW of “JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance,” earned a National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Grant administered by the Illinois Arts Council, and has been cited by Dance Magazine and the New York Times for leadership and innovation in the field. Through its programs, CHRP promotes cultural diversity, emphasizes collaboration and partnership among Chicago artists and communities, and brings together people who do not live next door to each other to build and celebrate common ground, including donating concert proceeds to Open Hand/Chicago, a meals-on-wheels program serving people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Last updated July 30, 2026.
• Schedule: Four annual performance and education programs; after school arts education classes; lecture demonstration “We All Got Rhythm” presented throughout the year
Chicago Human Rhythm Project was co-founded in 1988 by Lane Alexander and Kelly Michaels and celebrates and preserves the American art of tap dance through performances, teaching, creation of new work, and documentation. As of 2022, CHRP will have awarded $350,000 in scholarships to deserving and talented youths for summer study programs over a period of 27 years. CHRP’s resident performance and education ensemble is Stone Soup Rhythms, and CHRP’s summer festival is described as the oldest and most comprehensive annual tap festival in the world and the first tap festival to evolve into a year-round presenter of tap and percussive dance. CHRP received an Emmy nomination for its co-production with WTTW of “JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance,” earned a National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Grant administered by the Illinois Arts Council, and has been cited by Dance Magazine and the New York Times for leadership and innovation in the field. Through its programs, CHRP promotes cultural diversity, emphasizes collaboration and partnership among Chicago artists and communities, and brings together people who do not live next door to each other to build and celebrate common ground, including donating concert proceeds to Open Hand/Chicago, a meals-on-wheels program serving people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Last updated July 30, 2026.
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