Tuesday, December 1, 2015
By 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 02:09PMMonday, November 30, 2015
With 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 10:00AMFriday, November 20, 2015
This 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 10:50AMThursday, November 19, 2015
Few 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 10:08AMThursday, November 12, 2015
As 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 10:37AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 06:18PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 10:26AMMonday, November 2, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 10:20AMThursday, October 15, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 10:12AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Newcomer 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 10:03AMMonday, October 12, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 10:15AMFriday, October 9, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 10:09AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Frank 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 10:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
“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 09:55AMMonday, September 21, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 09:58AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Dances 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 09:46AMThursday, September 3, 2015
The 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 09:00AMTuesday, August 11, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 10:37AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
RECOMMENDED 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 08:59AMMonday, July 6, 2015
By 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…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:07AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
RECOMMENDED It’s been nearly forty years since England’s Royal Ballet visited Chicago, and its production of principal dancer (and budding author) Carlos Acosta’s “Don Quixote” is …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:31AMMonday, June 15, 2015
RECOMMENDED While appropriate, the term “layered” is a bit of an understatement when applied to the dance theater creations of Erica Mott. Meanings, ideas and historical referenc…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:42AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
RECOMMENDED To create a concert celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of Hedwig Dances, founder and artistic director Jan Bartoszek turned to her earliest works. “I think I’ve grown as a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:27AMFriday, May 8, 2015
The Chicago Human Rhythm Project is a cultural magnet; the organization pulls percussive and folkloric dancers—along with a good number of drummers—from around the world to collaborate, …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:24AMMonday, May 4, 2015
RECOMMENDED If one had to select the work of a single twentieth-century playwright for translation from spoken language to dance, Tennessee Williams would likely top the list. Brooding, swa…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:18AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
RECOMMENDED Independent choreographer Peter Carpenter teams with Margi Cole and her company The Dance COLEctive to write the fourteenth chapter in his ongoing dance serial that puts a critic…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:13AMThursday, April 16, 2015
Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Nicolas Blanc sits in a folding chair in a sunny studio room of the Joffrey tower, gently cueing the entrances and changes for five dancers in his short ballet…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:02AMMonday, April 13, 2015
RECOMMENDED We usually have to wait till June and bus, bike or train down to the Loop to see great free performances but, thanks to the Chicago Human Rhythm Project—that mighty advocate o…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:03AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Hanna Brictson grew up in River North Dance Chicago, first as a student, starting at the age of twelve, then as a company member straight out of high school, eventually working her way up t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:43AM 
