Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destru…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:18PMA ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on May 21 at 89th and Commercial on the southeast side. It celebrated the opening of Commercial Ave Alfresco, a joint initiative organized by the group Sou…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:55AMOn an industrial strip of Rockwell just off Elston, beyond a white door with numbers painted in red, past a makeshift bar, through a dark curtain lies a white brick room filled with smoke. T…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:41PMThe year was 1834. Indigenous communities were being displaced from their ancestral homelands on the forced march known as the Trail of Tears. Over two million people of African descent were…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:38AMContretemps Contemporary Ballet challenges the stereotypes of the form in Heat Lightning. Ethereal visions of swans, sylphs, shades, and sugarplums? A way of mov…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMTeatro ZinZanni,the dinner circus spectacle, reopens at the Cambria Hotel. The show begins before you enter the theater lobby on the 14th floor of the Cambria Ho…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:40PMA new interdisciplinary work digs into the roots of one of the most mythologized of flowers. In Japan, nobility and samurai cultivated orchids as symbols of brav…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMIn LEGACY: Phoenix^5, Joel Hall Dancers celebrate the past and look to the future. In March 2020, the Joel Hall Dancers were preparing for a concert celebrating …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AM"The potential and the sadness and beauty of big empty spaces" inspires Lucky Plush's The Map of Now. For over a year, the Harris Theater has loomed like an abys…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMDee Alaba seeks collaborators who celebrate and respect identity. Born in Davao in the Philippines and raised in Des Plaines, Dee Alaba began dancing at the age…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMSee Chicago Dance's annual celebration sustains and supports artists and audiences. Chicago Dance Month returns for a ninth time this June with in-person events …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMHubbard Street's Unboxed spills Nutcracker tea; Final Bow for Yellowface builds a dance incubator. Act two: a flute trill hurries over a plodding bassoon, chased…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:45PMThis year's CIDF offers three days of workshops and film screenings celebrating everyday movement. "I don't think there's much difference between dance and every…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMCRDT's Wilfredo Rivera finds the past year has "magnified, amplified, and vindicated the work and the focus I've had for the past six seasons." Cerqua Rivera Dan…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMInfluences from kabuki and karate inform choreographer Rika Lin's boundary-crossing body of dance work. Black hair. A jilted woman.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:15PMFour choreographers use images by Chicago artist Sergio Gomez to create a series of dance films in Still Inspired (?). A figure in black caresses a length of pap…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:45PMYoshihisa Arai choreographs a world premiere for Maurice Ravel's hugely popular composition. Winter in a pandemic. The roads obstructed with snow.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:00PMShe's the first company alum to head the 43-year-old ensemble. On February 4, after a yearlong search, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago announced the appointment of …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMSAIC's grad students control (and explode) the frame in an online performance festival. The performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:05PMLocal and international luminaries provide a "microcosm" of CDHP's archival mission. Chicago Dance History Project commemorates five years of collecting oral his…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:20PMA community townhall reaffirms the need for communication and representation. On January 7, one day after Georgia’s runoff election resulted in its first Black…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMIn a year of loss, artists found momentum and took care. The view is divided by screens and mirrors in Jane Jerardi's delicate hold. Fragmentation by the frame c…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMA new recorded site-specific production meets the challenges of this COVID year. Every winter it comes: the tunes, the tinsel, the toys—and the tale of Clara, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMThe company's new dance film project captures the "sea change" of precarious times. Jacqueline Burnett, statuesque, iconic. She stands, as if chiseled into the a…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:40PMThe trials of being hapa in America get the callout treatment in this new digital play. “You and I both know that if you leave here and talk shit about this pl…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThe Uruguayan-born choreographer and visual artist connects with undocumented women in Pilsen and Little Village for a new work. In a year of minimal mobility, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMCommunity, inclusion, and diversity form the connective tissue for Nick Pupillo's vision. “My dream was to have a company. My dream was to create a space that …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThe 'tragic Asian' love story disappears in this new gay rom-com. Zac Efron: two-time winner of the MTV Movie Award for “best shirtless performance,” four-ti…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:20PMThe company celebrates "possibilities for renewal" in an anniversary concert. Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT), founded in 1995, has been transitioning for ove…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:50PMGoing online opens more opportunities in this year's festival. “I’ve been a dancer all my life,” says CounterBalance founder Ginger Lane. Trained primarily…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMRigoberto Saura's new piece for Hedwig Dances documents our current disorientation. “I woke up—I took my costume, I took a bath. That day we were ready.…
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