WINDY CITY RHYTHMS features Chicago’s very own tap community – from pros to aficionados -  alongside special guests and respected elders. WCR is CHRP’s contribution to National Tap Dance Day events held around the world commemorating Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s birthday and celebrating the African and Irish roots of American tap.

RHTYHM WORLD is the oldest and most comprehensive festival of American tap and contemporary percussive arts in the world. RHYTHM WORLD hosts free public performances at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park,  free tap jams at the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater, student showcases, panel discussions, the Cutting Contest and Tap Slams at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall, and extraordinary faculty concerts at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

JUBALEE...Step Into the Night is Chicago Human Rhythm Project's premier gala benefit supporting performance and education.  In 2009, CHRP celebrated its 20th anniversary with a buffet reception on the stunning Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage followed by the Chicago debut of STEP AFRiKA in the elegant Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

GLOBAL RHYTHMS is the first concert series in America dedicated to tap and international contemporary percussive arts and exposes the leading edge of rhythmic expression. Whether presenting Vata Tap from Brazil, the STRiPES from Japan, Sheketak from Israel or Step Afrika from Washington D.C., Global Rhythms presents the pinnacle of contemporary percussive art.

BAM! - Chicago Human Rhythm Project's resident performing ensemble  - has an extensive repertory including the classics, contemporary rhythm tap and cutting edge rhythmic expression like body drumming.