Wednesday, February 26, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMTuesday, February 18, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMMonday, February 17, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMFriday, February 7, 2014
The 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 07:00AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
The 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 07:00AMMonday, February 3, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMMonday, January 20, 2014
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMFriday, December 13, 2013
RECOMMENDED 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 10:35AMThursday, November 14, 2013
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
RECOMMENDED 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 07:00AMMonday, November 4, 2013
RECOMMENDED 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…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThursday, October 31, 2013
RECOMMEDED The mother-daughter team of Hema and Krithika Rajagopalan collaborate once more with Lookingglass co-founder David Kersnar to create a fusion of classical Indian Bharata Natyam an…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
RECOMMENDED A recent visit to South Africa inspired Deeply Rooted to add a suite of short repertory pieces to their fall program. The company was the first from the U.S. to attend the intern…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMMonday, October 21, 2013
By Sharon Hoyer Chance is the incubator for discovery in Bill T. Jones’ 2011 “Story/Time.” Inspired by John Cage’s “Indeterminacy,” in which Cage read one-minute stories to his a…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMMonday, October 7, 2013
RECOMMENDED Between Aspen Sante Fe Ballet and Hubbard Street’s fall program, audiences have the opportunity to see not one but two Chicago premieres from Alejandro Cerrudo, Hubbard Street�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMSaturday, October 5, 2013
RECOMMENDED You have but one night to see the virtuosic Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in their first Chicago appearance since they breezed through for an evening in 2011. Aspen Santa Fe specializes …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Before moving to Salt Lake City to take the helm of Ballet West, Adam Sklute spent twenty-three years with the Joffrey Ballet, as dancer, Ballet Master, and Associate Artistic Director. Sklu…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
By Sharon Hoyer Julia Rhoads and her thoughtful dance theater company Lucky Plush have been on the road and in residency for the last two years, revising and rebuilding two evening-length pi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMMonday, September 23, 2013
It’s been proven that people are more inclined to sort out their recyclables and throw less in the garbage if the can is labeled not “trash,” but “landfill.” One word powerfully ev…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
RECOMMENDED Since the advent of MTV, music videos have been the primary source for our common dance language and YouTube just made it easier for audiences to gain fluency. Now one could lear…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
RECOMMENDED The Joffrey calls upon all their considerable resources to stage massive, demanding works by three Russian greats. The centerpiece of the evening is the company’s authoritative…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:27PMMonday, August 19, 2013
RECOMMENDED The free, weeklong festival that has made Chicago a national dance destination even in the off-season now “sells out” its three indoor events in minutes. But don’t worry; t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMFriday, August 2, 2013
RECOMMENDED This publication has categorized performances by Marc Bamuthi Joseph (this is the third I’ve had the pleasure to preview) as “dance.” Bamuthi Joseph is a dancer and movemen…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMFriday, July 26, 2013
RECOMMENDED Although the performances are just about to open, CHRP’s Rhythm World festivities have been in full swing for more than a week. The event is a global magnet for students and te…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:21PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
RECOMMENDED One of the most surprising and diverse Chicago dance events happens each summer, when Melissa Thodos provides an in-house choreographic incubator to her company members, giving t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
RECOMMENDED This shared program between hometown Hedwig Dances and DanzAbierta from Havana, Cuba marks the beginning of an extended collaboration and cultural exchange. The two companies are…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
And not just sex: elation, camaraderie, play and, of course, mindlessness, frustration and blind rage. The herds explored in BONEdanse’s “bully.punk.riot.” are unquestionably aggressiv…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM 
