Dance Divas 2023, a benefit for Chicago Dancers United, goes up this weekend at the Baton Show Lounge.
, which makes financial aid available to professional dancers for health concerns and preventative medical care. Most professional dancers are contract employees, and very few companies offer health insurance to their dancers because many can’t afford it.
Transformation was also of interest to freelance dancer Jordan Ricks. He’s in the show a second time this year, after a showstopping “Proud Mary” number last year. Ricks said that embodying young Tina Turner was an interesting and engaging creative process. “As far as adding my own artistry to it, I did research. I watched videos of young Tina Turner and just seeing how effervescent she was and seeing that glow and watching her, you know, shimmy and roll was amazing.
Dance Divas was started by choreographer Tony Savino as an AIDS benefit for dancers living with the disease in 1996. “That was when that pandemic was much less manageable than it is today,” said Plummer. “[Tony] and many others were seeing a lot of their friends pass away and wanting to find a way to help. Of course, as dance artists at the time, none of them had the financial means to write a check to help research or to help people get medications.
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