SummerDance will return June 11, 2009.

Next summer the Spirit of Music Garden in Grant Park will become a unique outdoor urban dance space – the largest of its kind in the United States. Locals and visitors dance to the sounds of top notch bands playing everything from swing, salsa and afrobeat to reggae, funk and klezmer, all on one huge dance floor.

Chicago SummerDance is an eleven-week festival featuring one-hour dance lessons by professional instructors, followed by two hours of live music and dancing on a 4,600 square foot open-air dance floor in the Spirit of Music Garden in Grant Park, 601 S. Michigan Ave. SummerDance events will occur every Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening, weather-permitting. Admission is free and open to the public.

The 13th annual Chicago SummerDance 2009 kicks off Thursday, June 11 and ends Sunday, August 23.