By 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…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:04PMBy Michael Workman Among the most exciting dance performances taking place in this young 2016 season is a lineup of mature dance talent poised to challenge our culture of youth. In a world …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:41AMMelissa Thodos certainly had compelling material to work with when she conceived of Sono’s Journey, which premiered at the Auditorium Theatre Saturday. Sono Osato was, by all reports, a da…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:11AMBy Michael Workman Victoria Bradford choreographs a new dance, video records it, distributes it over social media, and produces a movement notation record and image archive of it…ever…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:38AMAs part of Links Hall’s Midwest Nexus Touring Initiative, the upcoming “Ring Sour” performance brings San Francisco touring company Blind Tiger Society to Chicago to perform in a d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:53PMRECOMMENDED Showcasing the talents of musicians and dancers from Tokyo, San Francisco and Chicago, this annual festival takes a long view of improvisational dance, as paired with traditional…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:28AMRECOMMENDED For the last several years, Molly Shanahan has put movement under a microscope and chipped away at cellular-level tensions that steel the performer against having a truly authent…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMBy Michael Workman Movement, visual and performance artist Sofia Moreno, long under-recognized in Chicago, sat down with us recently to discuss her exhibit “Tropical Winter” at David Wei…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:17AMRECOMMENDED The show opener of Hubbard Street’s impressive Winter program is “Solo Echo,” a crossover concept from Crystal Pite, who has metabolized a meditation on the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:49AMBy Sharon Hoyer Ashley Wheater sat down with me in his office in the Joffrey Tower shortly before the company hit the road to take Robert Joffrey’s “Nutcracker” to the Kennedy Center. …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:09PMWith a schedule that includes curated fundraising events in New York, San Francisco and, for two consecutive years, Chicago, the Flow Show presented a fun, kid-friendly burlesque show. That&…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:23PMNow in its fifth season, this newest iteration of Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker’s Esoteric Dance Project, with its half decade of extemporaneous choreography, provides …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThis event, founded by the At the Table Collective, comprised of members Lindsay Hopkins, Mike Lahood, Jessie Marasa, Lara Oppenheimer and Bryan Saner, began in December 2013 at Hopkins and…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:50AMFew of those who taught at the School of the Art Institute haunt this festival so much as the ghost of outré artist Barbara DeGenevieve, who died suddenly in 2014, and whose performance med…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:08AMAs part of the Chicago Cultural Center’s dance laboratory program, Shannahan and collaborator Jeff Hancock performed this dance, in development since 2012, drawing inspiration from the…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:02PMRECOMMENDED As part of Chicago Artists Month, Hedwig Dances reprises company member Victor Alexander’s “Line of Sighs,” a luscious meditation on human connection conceived…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:37AMRECOMMENDED Few artists or dancers engage their subjects with anything near the capable, distinct voracity of Bradford’s punctually conceptualist, stratospherically aspirational choreo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:18PMRECOMMENDED The new work by the young Bessie-winning choreographer and TED fellow Camille A. Brown just finished a highly acclaimed world premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York and now tr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:26AMRECOMMENDED The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events hosts a series of free downtown dance performances through the month of November. It begins this weekend at the Cu…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AMRECOMMENDED The final installment of Khecari’s five-year performance cycle takes place this fall and brings us back to the five-by-eight-foot pit that was the set for last year’…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:12AMNewcomer Kelly Anderson follows up her Chicago dance theater debut “Message Me If…” with another evening-length show at Links Hall, this time inspired not by the trials and…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:03AMRECOMMENDED Hubbard Street dedicates their entire fall program to the great William Forsythe, reviving “Quintett,” sinking their chops into all-male quartet “N.N.N.N.̶…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:15AMRECOMMENDED John Neumeier’s reimagining of “Sylvia” blesses the stage with images not often seen in story ballet: those of powerful, independent women en pointe. According …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:09AMFrank Chaves, artistic director of River North Dance Chicago, steps down this December after twenty-three years leading the contemporary jazz company. In 2005 Chaves was diagnosed with syrin…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AM“I’ve had company for over thirty years now. It was very much about recreating work of my own,” Stephen Petronio says of his new five-year project “Bloodlines.”…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:55AMRECOMMENDED Certain arts organizations serve as cultural ambassadors—charged not just with providing an entertaining, aesthetic and perhaps thought-provoking experience, but also with purv…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:58AMDances by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa have been performed in Chicago before—repertory for Luna Negra back in 2009 and this past year when Scottish Ballet visited with “A Streetcar Named De…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:46AMThe invitation to contribute to this year’s “Artist Takeover” of the Fall Arts Preview got me thinking about what stimulates me to go see what I see. After a good twenty-fi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:00AMRECOMMENDED Experimental music venue Constellation and experimental dance venue Links Hall have shared the same roof for several years, but their most captivating entente may well be in the …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:37AMRECOMMENDED The Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s annual summer summit of tap and percussive dance classes, workshops and performances culminates this weekend when the masters strut their…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:59AMBy Sharon Hoyer Ahmad Simmons and Kacie Smith are the recipients of the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Grant. Their project, “THEM” is a dance theater exploration of fear, love and the ba…
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