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 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Where are you now? Where are you going? What lies between those spaces? “From Here to There” invites us into a literal and metaphoric journey into these questions. The collab…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED What gives a life meaning? This may be the question, lying at the root of the human heart. Brave and Barefoot Dance Troupe prompts us to ask this question of ourselves in their…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED There’s a new high-profile contemporary dance company in town. Nick Pupillo’s Visceral Dance Chicago, born of and named after the studio he opened on the Northwest Side, made…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PMRECOMMENDED River North Dance Chicago presents a one-night repertory performance with a diverse and eclectic mix. The night features several pieces by artistic director Frank Chaves. “The …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:30PMRECOMMENDED What, exactly, is danz theatre? According to modern dance pioneer Rudolf Von Laban, danz theatre seeks “to unite all art media to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in hu…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED March is an in-between time. One day we are hopefully braving forty-degree sunshine in sweaters and sunglasses, convincing ourselves of warmth. The next we’re succumbing to par…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Like so many experiences in life, the profundity of performance is in simple, honest moments—a gesture, the repetition of a phrase physical or sung, courageous silences—and t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Looking at the ten-year catalog of Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project—which includes dance repertory, short films, spontaneous public performances and community-based collaborat…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Lizzie Leopold announced this to be a year of collaboration, starting in January with a collection of short works by Chicago-based artists entitled “Archipelago.” This next s…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Experience extraordinary. It’s a phrase that catapults us out of closed doors and the daily grind. It’s a phrase that reminds us of what possibility waits to be scratched ben…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED In the midst of a spring dance season marked by contemporary minimalism and abstraction comes Houston Ballet with an old-fashioned, family-friendly, evening-length story ballet w…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED We live during the reign of tweets, selfies and Google Chat. We live in a time where ambiguous digital forces know more about the intimate details of your life than your next-doo…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED The Buddha stands in meditation showered by a thin stream of golden rice. Around him the panoply of human emotion, struggle and folly plays out in dream time while the mound of r…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThe opening moment of Jiri Kylian’s “Sarabande” is a mass birth. Six men fall from out of the bottom of six dresses to the floor, hovering on rounded backs like overturned turtles. Aft…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Melissa Thodos and company have had several fruitful collaborations over the years, most recently with celebrated Broadway director Ann Reinking. Their winter concert reprises th…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED In his third year at the helm of Alvin Ailey’s renowned troupe, Robert Battle has admirably continued to honor the tradition and ethos of the company while challenging its boun…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Expect crossover crowds at the Friday night performance of Alonzo King LINES: some to see virtuosic contemporary ballet at its height and some to hear live the legendary classica…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED The creation of life, death and grieving, pure beauty, perfect love—these were the bold colors on John Neumeier’s palate when he made the strokes for his monumental, abstract…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED The end of February heats up in the South Loop with two weeks of hip-hop performances, workshops, battles and discussions hosted by the Dance Center of Columbia College. The week…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThe Joffrey dancers are posed with new challenges this winter as the company presents a program of all twenty-first-century works, including a piece by a Chicagoan for the first time in a de…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThe young wife and husband team of Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker bring their three-year-old company and their conceptual choreography to the new Links Hall. Four short pieces …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Two haunting and beautiful Chicago-based companies share a bill in an unusual move for the Dance Center of Columbia College. The gorgeously fertile partnership that is Jonathan M…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED As the title suggests, Archipelago—organized by Lizzie Leopold of the Leopold Group—is a collection of solo pieces that are individually formed but conceptually linked, a gre…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Some of my first memories of watching dance are of me developing my first crush on a very young Savion Glover—a regular on Sesame Street who taught Mr. Snuffleupagus to rap and…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED For those of us who grew up on 1940s-60s Hollywood musicals, the holiday season is affiliated with heavy-lidded crooners in cozy sweaters, lilting foxtrots across moonlit terrace…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED The first images that spring to mind with The Nutcracker Ballet are usually lavish costumes, plentiful fake, glittering snow and a rousing sword fight between a wooden toy and a …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:42AMRECOMMENDED Hubbard Street reprises resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo’s first evening-length work after a triumphant premiere last fall. “One Thousand Pieces” is inspire…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:35AMRECOMMENDED The River North Dance Company fall program is bookended by world premieres, opening with Ashley Roland’s slithering, sexy “Get Out the Ghost.” The piece for six dancers st…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED The Chicago Dancemakers Forum celebrates ten years of sponsoring local dance artists by filling the MCA with performances by past grant recipients. Dozens of choreographers have …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMRECOMMENDED Season after season, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project seeks out rhythmic dance and percussion groups around the world and invites them to perform in Chicago. Missing a CHRP Globa…
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