Join us at the first Footwork Youth Festival 2022! Bring all of your family and friends out to this interactive three-hour event curated by The Era Footwork Collective, showcasing the diverse range of art, culture, and expression that Footwork encompasses in Chicago. The Festival will be structured in three different "footwork stations" Youth will have the opportunity at the Festival to learn and interact with various forms of the culture, including battling, filming/video production, fashion design, education, and DJing. Family and friends alike who attend the event will also be able to enjoy the festivities while youth rotate freely between footwork stations for the first two hours of the Festival and then join together for a team four vs four battle for a trophey and cash prize and a youth performance to end the night, curated and choreographed by The Era Footwork Collective in partnership with Open The Circle .

Doors open at 5:30 PM

This is a FREE all-ages event

Early arrival is strongly suggested

Street parking available

Reserve your free ticket by clicking the link below

After sheltering-in place for a full year Physical Theater Festival Chicago is ready to come out and play.

In collaboration with the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks series, Physical Theater Festival In the Park is a one-day family-friendly outdoor event featuring The Era Footwork Crew, 3AM Theater from NYC and pop-up acts from renowned Chicago artists with backgrounds in circus, puppetry, mask and music performance. Be there at 4 PM to catch The Era performing an exxagerated versino of their most recent single “She Pick The Speed”

"She Pick The Speed" is a representation of how masculine male energy can be supportive of the feminine presence that exists within dance and music, and recognizing that presence which allows them to be in control of the space, equal to their own. Through heavily improved body motions and short, but lyrical soliloquy, let The Era take you on a pathway to a space where men and women both meet and support one another equally.

Tickets/RSVP’s are available now, click the link below to reserve your seat for FREE!

Join The Era Footwork Crew for a film screening from 7-8pm as part of Cinema 53. The screenings will be followed by a footwork battle with music from fthe originator RP Boo and performances by The Era Footwork Crew supported by Open The Cirlce.

The event is oriented towards students and community residents. It's free for all ages.

Cinema 53 is a partnership between the historic Harper Theater in downtown Hyde Park and UChicago’s Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry. The winter series is presented with support from The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.