Links Hall

Specialties

NEW! $ 5 Yoga Class at Links Hall Studio. Tuesdays May 11, 18, and 26 2010. 4:30−6PM. All levels of experience welcome. BYO mat and water.

Links Hall hosts a variety of workshops dedicated to nurturing the unique creativity of your own expression, through the exploration and practice of contemporary methods with passionate, intelligent, and informed artist-​instructors.

Links Hall provides low-​cost rental space 7 days a week/​24 hours a day to artists. In addition, Links Hall welcomes volunteer service hours as barter for rehearsal space.

Links Hall’s Study Groups and Jams are open to all participants with at least beginning/​intermediate skills in body/​mind awareness (such as those developed through dance, yoga, martial arts, etc.) Examples of Study Groups & Jams include: Contact Improvisation Jams and Contemplative and Authentic Movement. Please wear comfortable clothing and arrive at least 5 minutes prior to class to sign in and change.

History

Established in 1978.

Links Hall encourages artistic innovation and public engagement by maintaining a facility and providing flexible programming for the research, development and presentation of new work in the performing arts.

Links Hall was founded in 1978 as a non-​profit 501©3 arts organization by three innovative dancers and choreographers, Bob Eisen, Carol Bobrow and Charlie Vernon (Eisen now serves on our Advisory Board and Vernon on our Board). The space was initially run as an artists’ cooperative which provided space and community to hundreds of artists of multiple performance disciplines and cultures from Chicago and around the US. In 1984, Bobrow and Vernon left the organization, and Bob Eisen remained as the sole visionary until his retirement in 2000.