Alliance Française - Plein Air
Tue, Oct 03
|Alliance Française
Plein Air Concerts de Alliance Française return to their jewel-box courtyard!
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2023, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Alliance Française, 810 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610, USA
About the event
Enjoy an hour of live jazz and hoofing with your friends while sipping rosé wine in an intimate setting. Tap dancer and Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Artistic Director, Jumaane Taylor, and alto saxophonist, Brent Griffin Jr., play improvisational and compositional sets, continuing the progressive exploration of live music with hoofing.
This particular arrangement of musicians have played at the Jazz Showcase, Back Alley Jazz, Stony Island Arts Bank and Museum of Contemporary Art, continuing the progressive exploration of live music with a jazz dance, or hoofing. Hoofing is a style of tap dance established by The Original Hoofers displaying the body moving naturally with their instrument, like playing jazz music.
Door opens at 6:00 p.m. Live music starts at 6:30 p.m. Please enter via 810 N. Dearborn. Each table of four includes one bottle of Rosé de Provence and salted nuts. Reserve early! Seating is limited in our intimate courtyard. Weather permitting otherwise event moves indoors in our salon.
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