Friday, November 14, 2014
By Sharon Hoyer The Dance Theatre of Harlem was established in 1969, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first black principal dancer with the New Yor…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:18AMMonday, November 3, 2014
By Sharon Hoyer Heidi Latsky is a New York-based modern choreographer who works with mixed-ability dancers to create pieces that investigate and celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of the in…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
RECOMMENDED Movement is personal. Our bodies and the way we inhabit them is integral to our identity, our sense of self. And for Billy Siegenfeld, founder of the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, pe…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:57AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
RECOMMENDED The headlining piece in Giordano’s fall program is a commission from Broadway and television choreographer Ray Leeper. Leeper makes commercial dances for music videos and TV da…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:51AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Two tremendously gifted groups of craftspeople working in different mediums have joined their toolboxes and been set loose in one of the biggest workshop playgrounds in the city. A massive a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:37AMFriday, October 10, 2014
RECOMMENDED “I was surprised,” choreographer Ivan Perez said when I asked how it was to work with the dancers of River North Dance Chicago. “They’re very jazz-based and I was surpris…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:45AMMonday, October 6, 2014
RECOMMENDED A long-growing partnership between Jan Bartoszek, founder and director of Hedwig Dances, and Susana Pous, resident choreographer of the Havana-based DanzAbierta, comes to fruitio…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:42AMFriday, October 3, 2014
RECOMMENDED “Rosas danst Rosas” is a dance out of time. Even though Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created it thirty years ago at the tender age of twenty-four, the quietly captivating piec…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:59AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
RECOMMENDED Our country’s highest-profile ballet company returns to the Auditorium Theatre with a performance of works by American choreographers from the American century. Two pieces by T…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:56AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
RECOMMENDED To whet audience appetites for the fall season, the Joffrey presents a special one-weekend amuse of short narrative ballets. Two pieces are from the Joffrey rep: Antony Tudor’s…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:20AMMonday, September 15, 2014
RECOMMENDED Chicago meets another world-class contemporary company this fall in a mixed-rep program from Philly’s delightful, knockout Ballet X. Like other great companies making fresh, re…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:41AMTuesday, September 9, 2014
RECOMMENDED Cerqua Rivera brings together their full ensemble of collaborating musicians and dancers to the Ruth Page Center for their fall concert. Composer Joe Cerqua and choreographer Wil…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:09AMMonday, September 8, 2014
RECOMMENDED Happydog performance company was formed when three artists—Chicago-based designer Annie Novotny, Portland-based choreographer Muffie Connelly and New York dancer Leslie Cuyjet�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:04AMSunday, August 17, 2014
RECOMMENDED The best time to be in the city is, unquestionably, the summer. These are the months that remind us why we endure such brutal winters (aside from sheer Midwest obstinacy): Chicag…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:09AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
In the early nineties, a dancer with the Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre named Keith Elliott was, like many artists of the time, losing friends and colleagues to complications caused by HIV/AIDS…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:09PMMonday, August 4, 2014
RECOMMENDED The fourth and final season of critically acclaimed dance-and-music-improv mashup PRODUCE is a must-see. Hosts Lauren Warnecke, dancer, writer and educator behind Art Intercepts,…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:50AMTuesday, July 29, 2014
RECOMMENDED The long-distance choreographic team of Lucy Vurusic-Riner and Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich have produced, over the last five years, a body of work that is notably calm and i…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:46AMFriday, July 25, 2014
RECOMMENDED The only downside to Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s wrap-up performances of their annual Rhythm World festival is trying to decide which show to attend. The series of showcases…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:05PMThursday, July 17, 2014
By Sharon Hoyer For dancers, summer is a season of creative experimentation and growth, with ample opportunities to participate in residencies and intensive classes both in the city and with…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:49AMMonday, July 14, 2014
RECOMMENDED This summer marks the second year of a three-year collaboration between Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and the South Africa-based Flatfoot Dance Company, entitled the JOMBA! Initiat…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:00PMThursday, June 26, 2014
RECOMMENDED Amidst concrete and apartment complexes, skyscrapers and trains, our interconnectedness with nature may not be immediately apparent. Wendy Clinard’s “Watershed” is …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:43PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
By Sharon Hoyer Choreographer Ron De Jesus returns to his roots in a collaboration with Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, the company that introduced him to a career he never planned …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
RECOMMENDED When it comes to courting crossover audiences, one most often sees dance companies trying to convince mass audiences that the art form isn’t just for the champagne-sipping oper…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMMonday, June 2, 2014
RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street closes out their season on the big screen, with a Friday night simulcast to a forty-foot LED screen in Millennium Park. The free seats may be some of the best ones…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThursday, May 22, 2014
RECOMMENDED Nothing says summer quite like a good old-fashioned sweaty dance party. And when it comes to dance music, the roots of Chicago house run deep, building bridges across culture and…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:00PMThursday, May 15, 2014
RECOMMENDED Celebrating their sixtieth anniversary, the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Chicago with a dazzling mix of three repertory pieces. “Black Tuesday” is a theatric…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
RECOMMENDED The aptly named Big Dance Theater constructs rich, layered performances with gusto, pulling together disparate elements into three-dimensional, moving collages. Man in a Case tel…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMMonday, May 5, 2014
RECOMMENDED The second collaboration between choreographer Julia Rhoads and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, co-founder of 500 Clown, earned the creative duo another National Dance Project award. The …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
RECOMMENDED French choreographer Maud Le Pladec makes her North American debut at the MCA with “Democracy,” an experimental exploration of discourse, collective action and resistance vi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
RECOMMENDED Sex, violence, murder, revenge, high fashion. Angelin Preljocaj’s vision of Snow White delivers the most visceral elements of the Grimm Brothers’ tale with delicious aplomb. …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMMonday, April 28, 2014
RECOMMENDED Placing Shakespeare’s plays in different historical contexts is a longstanding tradition for theater companies and filmmakers: modern dress and settings are used to both il…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM 
