Zephyr Dance Combines Dance and Architecture for Valise 13
What happens when you combine dance and architecture, marrying movement and structure? How does an audience, empowered to choose its own way, react to the journey of two dancers as […]
Enra Melds Dance, Technology, Circus & Music with Proxima
Nobuyuki Hanabusa stepped on to the stage dressed all in black like a beat poet and slipped behind a small rig that looked like a DJ booth. On it were […]
Joffrey’s Romeo & Juliet: Sad and Sweet With a Beautiful Flourish
We all the know the story; two star-crossed lovers separated by their families, major fights and deaths in the streets, all leading Romeo and Juliet to tragically bring their lives […]
10th Anniversary Chicago Dancing Festival Comes to a Close
The 10th Anniversary Chicago Dancing Festival came to a close Saturday night after a week of stellar dance performances. The festival—the largest of its kind in the country—features free dance […]
Chicago Dancers Receive Princess Grace Awards
The Princess Grace Foundation-USA recognized two Hubbard Street Dance Chicago artists this year as recipients of the 2016 Princess Grace Awards. Dancer Jeffery Duffy received a Dance Fellowship and choreographer […]
New Dances 2016 Showcases Talent of Chicago Choreographers
Thodos Dance Chicago’s New Dances 2016 program, which ran Saturday and Sunday at the Anthenaeum Theater, delivered a mixed bag of performances as eight company members and one guest artist […]
CST’s Doreen Sayegh Brings the Bard to the City of Big Shoulders with Shakespeare 400 Chicago
Doreen Sayegh has been a skosh busy. Playwright and quote-machine William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year, and a few folks still like to produce his work, so […]
Chicago Dancemakers Forum Announces 2016 Lab Artist Recipients
Chicago Dancemakers Forum announced Wednesday the four Chicago-based dance artists chosen for the organization’s 2016 Lab Artist Awards. This year’s recipients are Catherine Sullivan, Onye Ozuzu, Carole McCurdy, and Pranita […]
The Art of Falling’s Triumphant Return
The best of Chicago dance and the best of Chicago comedy joined together on the Harris Theater stage this June for the second installment of The Art of Falling, a […]
Giordano Dance Chicago Closes “Made in Chicago”
On Saturday, the Auditorium Theatre closes its “Made in Chicago” series with a company that has made this city home for more than five decades–Giordano Dance Chicago. “The ‘Made in […]
Stomping Grounds Series Closes This Weekend
The second annual Stomping Grounds series, a celebration of Chicago’s percussive dance community, comes to a close this weekend with the last of six performances. The series, presented by Chicago […]
Joffrey Ballet’s Cinderella Sparkles and Stuns at the Auditorium Theatre
We all know the story; Cinderella, bound to cleaning the house and being excluded from all the privileges her family has access to, falls in love with the handsome […]