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The collection of short works promises to showcase the versatility, skill and heart of this ambitious company.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMCRDT has a unique structure, pairing choreographers with jazz composers to develop pieces over a long period—often years—and inspired by the personal stories of the artists and their com…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA fevered take on the summer solstice celebrations of Alexander Ekman’s native Sweden, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” has nothing to do with Shakespeare’s comedy. It does however contai…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMay dance highlights include Chicago stalwarts Hubbard Street, Cerqua Rivera, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Lucky Plush, and Winifred Haun & Dancers and the Chicago Movement Collective.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMArtistic director Julianna Rubio Slager spoke with Newcity about the premiere of "Lost Women of Juarez" and three other new works on the upcoming program.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAlvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s fifty-fifth annual stop at the Auditorium Theatre features three distinct programs over five days. So clear your calendar.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAs part of its fiftieth season, the Dance Center of Columbia College is showcasing works by local choreographers in its new Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival. Some of the most memorable perf…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMApril dance is in full bloom with large-scale productions on big stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFor its seventy-fifth anniversary, the legendary New York City Ballet, founded by George Balanchine, performs its first appearance in Chicago in eighteen years. Three programs offer a sampli…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe first delicacy one notices in RE|dance Group’s new work is the quality of the light. Illuminated rectangles of varying dimensions are scattered across the black floor, casting a soft g…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe past, present and future of dance will get you on your feet.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"I know the standards for what is supposed to happen onstage and they are not things that invite that deep improvisational spirit. Things that don’t invite that, we thwart.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMNew York-based Maria Torres, a dancer, choreographer and educator who works in film, television and Broadway, patented a Latin Jazz style that blends her Brooklyn-raised, Puerto Rican/Cuban/…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFebruary brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMSteppenwolf is the most recognizable name in Chicago theater. Since 2016 the venerable institution has become an incubator of multidisciplinary and experimental performance as well, presente…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"The puppet is a harbinger coming from a non-human world. It’s like a species that arrives porously through myth and imagination and is like an apparition that becomes present. It speaks a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMA new work to kick off the new year.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMCoping strategies for a violent, unjust and ever-accelerating world are at the forefront of cultural conversation these days. Enter Joanna Read and Same Planet Performance Project. Read's da…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIn 1960, jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington infused Tchaikovsky’s most recognizable composition with American rhythms and twentieth-century chords. The Ellington/Strayhorn “N…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIt's the season for Nutcrackers and other holiday delights.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLondon-based choreographer Akram Khan brings his eponymous company to the Harris Theater for the first time, with a near-future version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" set in a rewild…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMClear your first two weekends: November is front-loaded with dance from mixed-rep to immersive storytelling.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMAszure Barton, who embarks this season on a three-year stint as resident choreographer for Hubbard Street, is reviving “return to patience,” a piece she created in 2015 for students at t…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMolly Shanahan and Mad Shak know that when she says “Bodies are so much more than what is visually perceived,” she means not only that the vast interior world of individual experience is…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFor “S45," Michelle Kranicke and Paige Cunningham-Caldarella invited three choreographers to join them in taking a section of Merce Cunningham's “Suite for Five” as a jumping off point…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFrom Frankenstein to Merce Cunningham, there's dance provocation on stage for everyone.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"We brought old and new friends together to take creative risks at multiple venues across Chicago and magic ensued. We shared a similar non-verbal language. This magic has transpired for the…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFrom futurism to Jungle Book revisited, this fall dance season has a big range.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMOn January 14 of this year, the big brother to dozens of ballet luminaries in the United States would have celebrated his hundredth birthday. To commemorate the occasion, the Gerald Arpino F…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe fall season kicks off with a series of festivals.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMHarris will kick off its emerald anniversary with an all-day, outdoor festival spread across Millennium Park. Festivities culminate in a three-hour performance in the Pritzker Pavilion of a …
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