From footwork to drill teams, dancers in the historic Bud Billiken Parade (https://www.budbillikenparade.org/) brought the latest steps to the streets of Bronzeville each year. From the 1940s-1960s, local filmmaker Ramon Williams captured the scene, and his rare footage is now preserved and publicly accessible through the South Side Home Movie Project (https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/) digital archive. This summer, young dancers in APL’s Choreographic Arts Program (https://artsandpubliclife.org/apledu2025) collaborated with the SSHMP and a host of choreographers and dancers to explore dance history as depicted in these films, and to create a contemporary performance inspired by the roots of South Side dance. Join us for an evening of dance moves spanning decades of South Side history, and a glimpse of new steps in advance of this year’s parade on August 8.   SSHMP is proud to join the 97th annual parade this year with a mobile screen showing vintage film of the parade.