American Rhythm Center

Specialties

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The American Rhythm Center (ARC) offers dancers of all ages, levels, and styles a chance to explore movement at their own pace in our professionally taught dance, fitness, and movement classes. Classes are taught by members of Chicago’s top dance companies.

Classes offered include Tap, Hip Hop, Break Dancing, Jazz, Contemporary, Modern, Flamenco, West Coast Swing Salsa, Tango, Zumba, BeMoved, Nia, and more!

ARC Classes are taught by some Chicago’s leading companies such as Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Kalapriya Center for Indian Performing Arts, MADD Rhythms, Audible Odyssey, Ensemble Espanol, and many other dedicated teaching artists!

History

Established in 2012.

Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) established the American Rhythm Center (ARC), a shared, affordable and sustainable education, rehearsal and administrative facility for several leading Chicago arts organizations. This new institution is located in renovated spaces on the 3^rd floor of Chicago’s historic Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue.

CHRP will develop the ARC, a collaborative effort to foster community growth through rhythmic expression, in several phases. The aim is to offer diverse, high-​quality dance and movement classes to the general public while centralizing the education programs, rehearsal space and administrative offices of several core groups, as well as additional emerging companies and independent artists.

Meet the Manager

Lane A.

Manager

Lane Alexander — Co-​founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Human Rhythm Project — the first year-​round presenter dedicated to American tap and contemporary rhythmic arts. His directing, performing and teaching career spans four decades and includes: Morton Gould’s Tap Dance Concerto at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson’s New York Pops and at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic; touring as a principal with the National Tap Dance Company of Canada; choreographing for the television series The Untouchables; and, co-​directing the Emmy nominated PBS-​ITVS documentary, JUBA!

Lane served on Mayor-​elect Rahm Emanuel’s Arts and Culture transition team, currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Beijing Contemporary Music Academy and is on the boards of the Arts and Business Council of Chicago and the International Tap Association. He appeared with such greats as Gregory Hines, Buster Brown, the Nicholas Brothers, Jimmy Slyde, and Savion Glover.

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