Wednesday, January 23, 2013
By 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 05:00AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Photo: 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 05:00AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Multimedia 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 05:00AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMThursday, November 1, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
By 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 05:00AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
In 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 05:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
In “(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 05:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 05:00AMMonday, September 17, 2012
RECOMMENDED 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 03:15PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
By 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…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 06:00AMKate Corby plumbed the darkest chapters of human history for her evening-length dance “In Whole or in Part,” which takes its title from the UN definition of genocide: “a series of acts…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:30AMRECOMMENDED Truth to power comes in many forms. For John Jota Leaños, one subversive medium is children’s animation, where alphabet songs and Western fairy tales become vehicles of satire…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00AM 
