• Orchesis has hosted Dance For Life’s Next Generation benefit dance concert with other youth companies for AIDS service organizations since 1995. To date, the event has raised over $250,400 for AIDS-related charities while hosting over 70 companies and 3,000 participating dancers. March 1, 2020 celebrated the 26th anniversary of the event. Since 1994 WHS Dance and Orchesis students have served as production assistants for Chicago’s annual Dance for Life concert at the Auditorium Theatre.