Hot Crowd Dance Company (Chicago, iL) was established in 2017 by Founder Emily Rayburn. Since its inception, Hot Crowd has been invited to perform in South Korea and in several major cities throughout the U.S. including Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and St. Louis. Hot Crowd has also created several self-produced shows, City of Big Shoulders, Internal Truce and Green Oxygen as well as their first professional dance film titled, Adaptation. Other Hot Crowd programming includes, but is not limited to workshops at dance schools and arts centers for students ranging in age from youth to adult, pay what you can open company classes, free work-in-progress showings, and collaborative events with other Chicago artists and small businesses. We also provide a Create With Community class which brings together those who may have never danced before and allows them a space to move and groove. The company has recently gone through a change in leadership and is now run by directors, Devon Lloyd and Brittany Latta. Since taking over in August of 2021, Lloyd and Latta put on their most recent self produced show, Green Oxygen, and are currently working toward their Season 5 Hot Crowd Repertoire show running May 26-29 at Greenhouse Theater Center where they will produce two new original works.