Chicago S Footwork Community Takes Center Stage At The Mca

The Era footwork crew are no stranger to art galleries: they’ve worked with High Concept Labs in Pilsen as part of a 2014 residency and in 2016 curated a photography show at Columbia College’s Hokin Gallery. But last Saturday’s “Prime Time: F00TW3RK” event at the Museum of Contemporary Art was different. It was their first full-scale museum takeover.

                        Rather than highlighting the exhibit itself, the event proved thematically     relevant in a more indirect manner: the presence of technology in relation     to footwork was made evident all night by the ubiquity of phones. In the     periphery of every performance, a member of the Era or a friend live-streamed the show via smartphone, or in the case of the Queens of Footwork’s     Kenesha “MurdaMommy” Sheridan, live-streamed even while dancing.



       Catch the Era at Hamilton Park Cultural Center, 513 W. 72nd, on July 21 from 2 to 5 PM for a curated night of youth dance and local footwork DJs.