"Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America."
- Martha Graham
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Bril Barrett and M.A.D.D. Rhythms
Bril Barrett is a celebrated tap dancer, choreographer, and founder of M.A.D.D., a nationally-recognized dance collective based in Chicago.
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Image Source: Library of Congress. Johnston, Frances Benjamin, photographer. Mrs. Florence Fleming Noyes in a scarf dance. , None. [Between 1900 and 1915] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/96503540/. Video Source: “New York City - 1944: Women laughing and dancing together on an urban rooftop.,” iStock. Credit: Stockfilmdotcom