May brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe company’s season kickoff is one of the first live, in-person performances under a roof in more than thirteen months.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"In the essence of contemporary dance and contemporary meaning, now, there are a lot of voices out there that maybe we haven’t explored. There are choreographers who haven’t had the oppo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMChicago theater greets spring with imaginative performance spaces, from parking garages to auditory realms.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis new short dance film serves as a gentle reminder that magic can still happen, even during a year in quarantine.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDenise Yvette Serna discusses how she and the Strawdog ensemble devised a theater/film hybrid that interprets the stories of Chicagoans living and moving through a frenetic and claustrophobi…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMarch roars in with virtual one-on-one plays, an alt dance festival and a gradual return to in-person performance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThanks to the ingenuity of Chicago’s dance community through a lean ten years and a hellish ten months, Chicago remains, and will remain a mecca for dance.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLive readings, new dances and festivals streaming to you this February.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDecember theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFreeman's creative obsessions—brown paper, burlap and Audre Lorde—feature in her new collaboration with Jordan Phelps and VAM Studio.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMElection month performances live stream commentary on our current world, and imagine a better one.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe dancer/writer's short films respond to art about a rapidly changing Beijing with echoes of nostalgia for performances that never were.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWinifred Haun & Dancers site-specific work is steeped in the beauty of the locale and the grace of bodies in motion.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:43PMHedwig Dance uses interactions of the body and the video technology in a reflection on the effects of months of quarantine amidst socio-political upheaval.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:41PMOctober proves Chicago performers will find powerful ways to speak to the moment, with or without traditional stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLinks Hall 96 Hours: Links Hall throws performance in the pressure cooker with a competitive cooking show approach to making new work.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:29AMEllen Chenoweth, director of the Dance Presenting Series at Columbia College, talks about how she and the entire Dance Center faculty and staff reimagined the Fall season, looking for abunda…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:38PMThree great events to kick off the fall season.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe Dancers' Fund has played a crucial role in the health of Chicago's dance community for almost three decades.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMaking it work in the midst of a shutdown is no small feat but that's exactly what Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre has done.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe yearlong program is designed to build resiliency against the virus through physical, mental and spiritual health services.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDonald Byrd’s urgent piece deserves a spot on the lists of must-read/must-watch resources about racism, white supremacy and police violence in America.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMCDHP has conducted over 130 video interviews and conversations, and currently has over 120 edited clips available on their website.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA few small, nimble organizations have found creative ways to shift online and hold modified, virtual versions of the live festivals planned for June.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn our living rooms and kitchens, we’re liberated from the tyranny of the mirror.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMGive Netflix a break with videos of past performances and live streamed living room shows by Chicago artists and companies.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMThe Seldoms' founding artistic director wants to get you talking more about climate change.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AM"It’s good to reflect back and look at everything and see if we’re at the root and purpose. Now we have a lot of time for planning and to interrogate some things."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 05:30PMThe Nigerian-based choreographer makes his U.S. debut at the Dance Center of Columbia College, considering problems from both physical and spiritual planes.
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