CHICAGO MULTICULTURAL DANCE CENTER
FOUNDED: 1990
The mission of the Chicago Multicultural Dance Center (CMDC) is to offer the highest quality dance instruction in an environment that celebrates the diversity of its students and the community. Homer Bryant has been changing lives through dance for 25 years, providing a safe and welcoming environment for students of all abilities and socioeconomic backgrounds to pursue serious dance training.
COMPANY LEADERSHIP
Homer Hans Bryant,
Founder & Artistic Director
Homer Bryant has been changing lives through dance for 25 years, providing a safe and welcoming environment for students of all abilities and socioeconomic backgrounds to pursue serious dance training.
He founded the Bryant Ballet School and Company in 1990 to create a neoclassical ballet technique that integrates a diversity of dance styles and honors the richness of our varied multicultural heritage. The name of the school was officially changed to Chicago Multicultural Dance Center in 1997. In 2008 he merged ballet and street dance to create Hiplet™, a new technique featuring hip hop dance in pointe shoes.
PC: Photo of Robin Edwards by Rachel Neville Studios
Robin Edwards,
Executive Director
Robin Edwards began her stint in the arts during her childhood as a student at Jack and Jill acting school, Mayfair Academy, and The American Conservatory of Music under Grace Tichy. After being featured in television commercials and multiple productions, specifically “Oliver Twist”, in which she portrayed Oliver, Robin found her niche in performance, continuing to participate in school productions and music concerts. She also began, at this time, to show abilities in songwriting.
Robin has worked in the Chicago Public School and Parochial school systems, developing after school music and performance programs for students. Later on, Robin returned to the dance studio as a tap dance instructor and performing arts director at the Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre. Currently, Robin sits on the Board of Directors at the Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre, The Chicago Multicultural Dance Center, and Shoot For The Stars non profit organizations, and is the Executive Director for The Chicago Multicultural Dance Center & Hiplet Ballerinas.