CHI Urban Dance Ritual Experience
Chicago House Dance Weekend Opening Convocation
The Sweet Goddess Project
Chicago Ideas Week Panel
Boogie McClarin
Trail-blazing performer, educator, philosopher, builder and guide, Boogie McClarin explores movement and music for liberation, transformation and celebration. Prolific, award-winning, and ubiquitous, Boogie McClarin has been an integral force in Chicago's arts and culture for two decades, performing for a broad array of artists including: Chicago Dance Crash, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chip E, Darryl Pandy, Hieroglyphic Being, Ni'ja Whitson, Orisha Dance Chicago, Kirby Reed, Ron Trent, Lisa Johnson Willingham, Trio Mokili (featuring Makaya McCraven and Junious Paul) and Oveous. She has appearances in videos by Kafele Bandele, Mr Greenweedz, and most notably in the Terry Hunter remix of the House music anthem, "In The Beginning There Was Jack" by Chuck Roberts ft Monique Bingham.
A pioneer in dance education, Boogie McClarin began to cultivate her unique curricula and pedagogy while teaching "Hip-Hop/Funk/House" in 1999 at The Old Town School of Folk Music (eventually becoming "Chicago House" and "Urban Social Dance" in 2007).
Boogie McClarin continues to lovingly share her approach to dance in Chicago, nationally and internationally. She has produced shows, workshops, lectures and writing for classrooms, universities, theaters and public spaces including: Kuumba Lynx, Indiana University, Roosevelt University, Columbia College Chicago, Alyo Children's Theater, Chicago Fringe Festival, Dance Africa Chicago, Conference for Hip-Hop and Social Change, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Young Chicago Authors, Brown University, University of California-Riverside and Sibelius University. Her work has been included in the books Do You Remember House? Chicago's Queer of Color Undergrounds, The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Dance Studies, Performing Cultures of Equality, Visible Borders, Invisible Economies Living Death in Latinx Narratives, The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape, and the journal Blue Ink. Jamillah Woods honored Boogie McClarin's contribution in "Betty for Boogie" on her album Legacy, Legacy.
Recent projects include work with Free Street Theater ("50 in 50" and "Still/Here"), Forward Momentum, and the Chicago House Music Festival.
