By Michael Workman Your set design for this production of The Seldoms’ “RockCitizen” is part sculptural installation, part wearable art and part stage setting. How did you …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMRECOMMENDED Carrie Hanson picks up after last year’s “Power Goes”—a brilliant evaluation of personal and political power through the lens of the Lyndon B. Johnson adminis…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:32AMThe Coincidentals’ performance series returns with a showcase of new works by emerging dance and movement artists. Artists are given rehearsal space to collaborate, develop work and pr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:29AMRECOMMENDED Some Chicago audiences might remember Kyle Abraham from the Harris Theater last year in the duet he created for himself and Wendy Whelan as part of her “Restless Creature&#…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:15AMRECOMMENDED Emily Stein’s “Phantom Dance” is a reflection on how the ballet world always left her, a classically trained dancer, feeling “like a bit of a misfit intellect…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMRECOMMENDED If you haven’t encountered the work of Felicia Holman, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, Abra M. Johnson and Meida Teresa McNeal, collectively known as Honey Pot Performance, you…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AMRECOMMENDED Percussive dance organization Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s all-free multicultural performance series returns for a second welcome year, touring the neighborhoods each pa…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:15AM“Circling the Square” at the Athenaeum Theatre continues in the immersive, interdisciplinary mode for which Hedwig is known—and promises to raise the bar a notch. Also on the p…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMRECOMMENDED Taking place over three weekends at Links Hall,”The Tea Project” tackles questions of racism in American foreign and domestic policies that have not only opened the f…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:46AMRECOMMENDED When one thinks of narrative dance, the first thing to come to mind is likely either story ballet—swans, princes and evil witches frolicking through a magical, wordless realm o…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:03AMRECOMMENDED As Plato asserted, we are born with a memory of forms. Bringing together several years worth of relationship histories—between herself and lovers, friends, teachers, colleagues…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:21AMBy Sharon Hoyer Butoh artist Michael Sakamoto and Rennie Harris, founder/artistic director of hip-hop performance group Rennie Harris Puremovement, merge dance forces into an entrancing, em…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AMLucy Riner is nervous about the newest RE|Dance production. The creative partner of Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich, Riner is accustomed to Estanich taking the creative lead on a new d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:04PMAlvin Ailey American Dance Theater was in fine form when it made its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 bringing classic Ailey repertory, a Paul Taylor piece, recent work by …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:17PMBy Irene Hsiao From its roots as a small tap-dancing studio on the corner of Hubbard and LaSalle, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has become one of the companies that defines contemporary dance…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AMRECOMMENDED In dance, the body speaks a language that transcends the need for speech in a mode that depends on the universality of the flesh, uttered in dialects of technique. Joe Goode Perf…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:32PMIt’s a Saturday night at Tritriangle gallery in Wicker Park. The main room, filled lengthwise with rows of folding chairs mostly filled with attendees, face a video projection on the�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:54PMRECOMMENDED Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 with customary abundance: ten big dances from 1958 to the present, and every night…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:39AMIt’s of substantial note, with over three decades in dance and a record of international program outreach, including multiple programs to and at the time not-so-friendly China, that th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:28AMRECOMMENDED Herding cats. Like most overused metaphors, there’s good reason you hear it thrown around so much. One would be hard-pressed to find any individual who works at a non-prof…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:19AMTwo years ago, Hamburg Ballet was onstage at the Harris Theater when a stagehand interrupted a dress rehearsal of their production of “Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler,” an exeges…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:53AMRECOMMENDED All architecture is created by human beings to contain their lives, but houses particularly so. Homes are the space—usually safe, sometimes otherwise—where we play out our m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:01AMRECOMMENDED Carving out the social history of the Bronx promises, according to the artist statement, to provide viewers of this multidisciplinary performance with a glimpse inside the boroug…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMRECOMMENDED Many musicians stir hearts, some are worshipped, but few have been literally canonized as jazz great John Coltrane was after his brief life of inspired saxophony, destructive add…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AMRECOMMENDED A longstanding collaborator of the renowned Bebe Miller Company (whose namesake performed in Chicago recently as part of the lauded aMID Festival), Hauser teams up here with Smit…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:58PMBy Michael Workman Jessica Marasa has collaborated with the leading dance improvisors in Chicago for the last ten years. Starting in February, she will host a work-in-progress series at Lin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:29PMThis month, the New York-based Driscoll brings an audience-integrative approach that would have had Brecht guffawing with delight to the MCA Stage. Typically blown past in the New York press…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:55AMRECOMMENDED The title of the Joffrey’s winter program references not only a stylistic theme for the movement on the stage—three pieces by contemporary choreographers—but also the m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AMRECOMMENDED You’d expect to find more examples of Information Art as text printouts or video, not incorporated into dance—but that’s precisely the conceptual background agains…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:46AMBy Irene Hsiao When Gus Giordano founded his company in 1963, jazz dance was something that fell between vaudeville, social dance and street performance, an ephemeral form that wasn’t yet …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:52AMBy Sharon Hoyer Born on the West and South Sides in the eighties, footwork is a dance style that evolved out of juke and moves to a breakneck tempo of Chicago house music. Like the name sugg…
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