IDENTITY PERFORMING ARTS presents the Fourth Annual “Elpis Dance Festival” 2025, which is free and open to the public. “Elpis Dance Festival” is a marathon performance featuring 17 diverse dance companies and artists on June 14, 2025 taking place at Studio 4 at Visceral Dance Center 3121 N Rockwell St, Chicago IL 60619. This is a FREE Admission Family Friendly Event on Saturday June 14 at 3 to 5 pm. Doors opens at 2.45 pm. There will be a 15-minute intermission serves bottled water, non-alcoholic drinks and wine, with a donation.
For more information, call 312.600.3076 or visit https://www.identityperformingarts.org/
About the program:
Showcasing local, regional and national dance, this fourth annual Elpis Dance Festival offers an exciting program, free and open to the public, this year at Studio 4 Visceral Dance Center. We invite you to join us for this unique celebration of professional dance companies, cultural dance groups and faith-based dance troups and artists.
Elpis was originally created by artistic director Ginny Ching-Yin, Identity Performing Arts, a Chicago based contemporary dance company. Lo envisioned a no cost to the public, live performance opportunity for dance companies and independent artists with diverse backgrounds. Elpis has expanding in both popularity and diversity; this year 17 companies and artists will be performing:
ALATS Dance
Ardent Dance Company
Chicago Movement Collective
Concert Dance Inc.
Eduardo Zambrana
Elijah Richardson
Emma Barnhart
Hot Crowd
Identity Performing Arts
Kingdom Seekers
Meher Dance Company
Michelle Haskell
Seyong Kim
Still Inspired
Tanya Lewis
The MetDown
We are Collective
This is a perfect summer event to experience modern, Indian, African, hip-hop, gospel dance all in one performance.
Link to our Elpis Page: https://www.identityperformingarts.org/elpis-dance-festival-2025
About Ginny Ching-Yin Lo and Identity Performing Arts:
Identity is a Chicago-based not-for-profit contemporary dance company established in 2016 by founder and artistic director, Ginny Ching-Yin Lo. Lo choreographs dance that represents her lived experiences as a Chinese-American artist and woman of faith; her works are a testament to the beauty that comes from staying true to all the pieces of her personal history and identity. The commitment to sharing identity through dance allows the members of our Chicago community who share those experiences to feel seen, cherished, and represented. Lo has performed in the U.S., China, France and Germany with her original works.
She has been creating dance works perpetually since starting the company with 3 dancers to
9 dancers currently that allows her to expand her artistry and experimenting various choreographic works. Although she has her signature style, she strives to create beyond her comfort zone because of her curiosity and interest in new concepts, inspired be her personal experiences.
The company's first live concert debuted in fall, 2021 and is one of the resident companies of Visceral Dance Center since 2022. Identity has performed locally, nationally in the Seattle International Dance Festival and internationally in Hanover, Germany. Identity hosted its own Elpis Dance Festival annually for the past three years in Chicago. All works created for and performed by Identity dancers express the beauty of our individual identities, interconnected in unity.
