Time Brickey is a multidisciplinary performing artist from Chicago IL. he’s a tap dancer, actor, musician, singer, puppeteer, he does accents and voices, he stilt-walks… and he’ll do it on the spot. He’s hit stages all over, and people really seem to like him. He built his professional tap career training and performing with M.A.D.D. Rhythms and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. Time has performed in Dance for Life Chicago, the Stomping Grounds Festival, JUBA!, and as a soloist at the Billy Strayhorn Centennial, where he was described by Chicago Tribune as “a Literal Loose Cannon.” He has been featured tap dancing on 91.1 Vocalo with DJ Ayana Contreras for Reclaimed Soul in The Parks, and in the premiere of Jared Grimes’ Jeff Award winning 42nd st. revival. He’s grateful to have shared many stages and rehearsal rooms with his own heroes, and some of Chicago’s greatest performers. On a given day you can catch him devising and improvising theatrical works, mentoring kids, and composing tap choreography. He also operates a studio workshop where he makes and sells portable tap boards.
Launched in 2019, the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI) prepares gifted and motivated young musicians from underrepresented backgrounds to attend top music schools. Now in its second full year, the Initiative supports nearly 100 participants in grades 6-12 from across the Chicagoland area, and is co-led by the Merit School of Music, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago Sinfonietta, DePaul University School of Music, Hyde Park Suzuki Institute, Musical Arts Institute and the Ravinia Festival.
Chicago Sinfonietta’s Residents Orchestrate Project (ROP) is a collection of satellite residencies throughout Chicago under the direction of Program Manager Sadie Woods. ROP neighborhood residencies are designed to eliminate socioeconomic and geographic barriers while providing interactive programming and services.
Residents Orchestrate Project utilizes CS personnel alongside southside and westside community partners to create unique opportunities for engagement and support. Free to the public, ROP focuses on investing cultural capital into the production of existing local culture through co-curating initiatives.
