RECOMMENDED The MCA Stage invites back Montreal-based Compagnie Marie Chouinard to perform two pieces: Chouinard’s 1993 version of “Rite of Spring” and “Henri Michaux: Mouvements,”…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:15AMRECOMMENDED It’s a big year for Giordano: a golden anniversary, a move to the beautiful new American Rhythm Center in the Loop, and the March cover story in Dance Magazine. How better to c…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Two extraordinary companies—San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet (ethereal, neoclassical) and Chicago’s own Hubbard Street (grounded, contemporary)—merge into a super…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The world-renowned Ailey company will stop in Chicago for a rigorous week-and-a-half of performances, allotting them time to showcase old and new, American and European, contempo…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Two Spanish choreographers fill the Luna Negra Spring program with passionate dancing and theatrical sets: Fernando Hernando Magadan, who treated us to his elegant, athletic and …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Stephen Petronio’s subterranean revel begins with a cinematic prologue: a descent into the underworld, intercut with black-and-white video of crumbling buildings and other sign…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMWhich dance forms are prioritized, most visible and access more of the pool—or rather puddle—of arts funding is bound up in our national narrative of race and culture. What are the color…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Wife-husband team Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey use a visually lush blend of choreography and video to explore the spaces between: before/after, action/reaction, conscious/uncon…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The Joffrey Ballet winter program features work by four American choreographers, representing three generations and four decades of repertory. The company revives Jerome Robbins�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMBy Sharon Hoyer Miguel Gutierrez is a Brooklyn-based dance theater artist whose new work, “And lose the name of action,” comes to the MCA next weekend. Gutierrez spoke with me about the …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED In “Homeland”—the new dance theater piece by collaborators Michael Estanich and Lucy Riner—dancer Daiva Bhandari goes on a Proustian revel; she is a woman at play in the …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMPhoto: Todd Rosenberg RECOMMENDED The name Mats Ek might ring a bell with many dance aficionados in our fair city, but the likelihood they have seen his work is relatively slim; dances by th…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED It’s been said that artists are people who haven’t forgotten how to play. Take for example choreographer Trey McIntyre and the dancers in his Project; at the base of flawless…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED This year’s Global Rhythms program—an annual feast of international percussive performance groups presented by the Chicago Human Rhythm Project—is all about the rhythm, adr…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED River North’s fall concert highlights new works by first-time collaborators with the company, including Adam Barruch and rising star Nejla Yatkin. Ms. Yatkin has created a solo…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMMultimedia artist and provocateur Martin Creed presents a mash-up of ballet fundamentals, video and ironic rock ‘n’ roll musical in this performance at the Edlis Neeson Theater�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Butoh artist Nicole LeGette explores the mercurial nature of the self in this solo performance that uses simplicity, intimacy and visceral potency as tools of the craft. LeGette�…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The entire body, internally and externally, is a percussive orchestra in Billy Siegenfeld’s theatrical Jump Rhythm technique: a stomping, tapping, hollering, singing, slapping,…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The Royal Winnipeg Ballet brings a tale of star-crossed lovers during La Belle Epoque to Chicago, ringing in the holiday stage season with grand theatricality and rafters-high ki…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Gus Giordano’s jazz-based company celebrates the big five-oh with two nights of full-company pieces and a high-octane premiere by artistic associate Autumn Eckman. Eckman’s n…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The intelligent, issue-based dance theater delivered by Carrie Hanson and her company The Seldoms this time tackles climate change—more specifically the complex relationship we…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMBy Sharon Hoyer I met Alejandro Cerrudo for dinner on a Monday evening after a particularly challenging day in the studio. He is tall, boyishly slim with a warm, likeable manner, just the ri…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMIn 1932, German choreographer Kurt Jooss crafted a scathing invective of war in the language of ballet. “The Green Table” opens and closes on those distinguished men in suits who decide …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The fall program for Luna Negra, one of this city’s finest (and, in my opinion, most under-seen) companies, turns a lens on Portuguese choreographer Fernando Melo. Luna Negra d…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The coalition of experimental artists lead by dancer Ayako Kato presents two weekends of performances that explore the creative possibility of the moment. “Octet” brings toge…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Vibrant, luscious costumes and foot-stomping rhythms explode onto the Auditorium Theatre stage with the return of Amalia Hernandez’s joyful, energetic company. Ballet Folkloric…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED The creative bounty of autumn is celebrated at the third annual Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival: a cornucopia of companies and solo artists both up-and-coming (like r…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMIn “(glowing),” Japanese American choreographer Kota Yamazaki finds harmony in contrast, uniting movements from very different traditions in one choreography of subtlety and cele…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED A new local company makes their debut this weekend at the Ruth Page Center. Chicago Repertory Ballet is the brainchild of Wade Schaaf, a hometown boy and former company member of…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Things that occurred: a group of girls chatting on the street abruptly realized there was a dancer just two feet behind them softly ruffling her nest of paper behind a showcase …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 03:15PMBy Sharon Hoyer Chicago has, over the last decade, become an epicenter of world-class dance, both as creative incubator for new and established companies and—thanks to a half dozen high-pr…
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