Anniversary
Celebrations
Mark Your Milestones
Are you or your organization celebrating a milestone anniversary? If so, Chicago Dance History Project is here to help you tell your story, your history to patrons and audiences alike.
Where to begin?
If you have an upcoming milestone - that is, you have reached ten years of artistic contribution to the Chicago Dance Community or every five years thereafter - CDHP will assist you in creating audience engagement displays and materials for your anniversary performances. The best part of this is that these services are presented to you 100% free of charge.
The following tactics are offered to all who are celebrating a milestone anniversary, but CDHP works with you and your staff to create how best to fit these pieces together. This is your story to tell - CDHP simply acts as co-producer.
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Oral History recording*
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Display materials including designed and printed panels, photographs, or artifacts (costumes, programs, set pieces, etc)
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Use of CDHP’s Preservation Station to digitize old VHS footage
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Edited segments of your Oral History and footage from past performances looped for onsite video display
CDHP absorbs the cost of recording and editing the Oral History, guides you in digitizing your old tapes, provides free professional design services which incorporate your branding, prints the display panels for free, develops tent cards or other signage for your artifacts, and staffs the display pre-show, at intermission, and after the performance.
We engage your audience members so they learn more about the impact you and your organization have made to Chicago dance and the impact Chicago dance has on the larger sector.
*If no prior Oral History recording exists currently with CDHP
Previous Anniversary Celebrations
Red Clay Dance Company
In celebration of Red Clay Dance Company's Sweet 16 anniversary, CDHP was present for audience engagement activities at their Spring Concert Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago in addition to recording an Oral History interview for Founding Artistic Director, Vershawn Sanders Ward.
