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Harris will kick off its emerald anniversary with an all-day, outdoor festival spread across Millennium Park. Festivities culminate in a three-hour performance in the Pritzker Pavilion of a …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“Dance for Life” is an annual concert that raises money for The Dancers’ Fund, which provides health care assistance for dancers and people who work in the dance field. But it also hap…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMPerformances by Muntu invoke the power of the past in brilliant hues and thunderclaps: drumming, dance and song so joyfully kinetic it would be cruel to ask any other company to follow them.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMGreat dance heats up August: North Side, South Side, West Side and Downtown.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis Saturday, oft-overlooked artists take over the Chicago Cultural Center in the first DisFest, a daylong festival featuring multidisciplinary work by artists with disabilities. Thirty art…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis three-act visual story connects traditional African dance to twentieth and twenty-first century American forms. Through the magic of editing, West African stomps give way to tap and hip…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTen years ago, Alice da Cunha and Marc Frost created a small festival for theater artists whose preferred method of storytelling is beyond words. Now, Physical Theater Festival Chicago works…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDance abounds this summer, lots of it free and outdoors.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMEnsemble Español’s annual “Flamenco Passion” concert will give a taste of the international high-profile partnerships the organization has cultivated over its long tenure.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"The Memory Place” is the tenth iteration of Pivot Arts’ annual festival of theater, music, dance and multidisciplinary performance. This year the co-curators gathered five pieces under …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMKnown for dances made alongside original music, CRDT presents an evening of work by choreographer Monique Haley. The program, centered around the world premiere of the now-complete “Soul R…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMDance puts a toe into the great outdoors this month
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMRennie Harris’ new piece, a tribute to Chicago House music and legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles, will appear alongside recent commissions from Hope Boykin, Randy Duncan, and a world premiere …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFor Ellyzabeth Adler, founder and artistic director, T.S. Eliot’s heap of broken images is a longtime literary favorite and the source material for the first dance theater piece she create…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMFrom Frank Lloyd Wright to T.S. Eliot, dance shows its range in May.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"I get to see gay love in a way I’ve yearned for most of my life and never believed I would see in a ballet context."
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMHedwig Dances' sequel to Oskar Schlemmer's 1922 avant-garde ballet is fascinating, playful and downright trippy. Figures parade toward the audience like a Kandinsky come to life.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMI wanted to put what I’m into on stage. I’ve been very into an exploration of meditation and my own spiritually. And I’m very into disco.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMApril features ABT and an array of leading Chicago companies in full bloom.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM"What would it feel like if we did this every day, working with your best friend, laughing and having fun and seeing it as a joy?"
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThis Saturday, Sleeping Village will become a petri dish for the femme and queer-led performance extravaganza the Fly Honey Show. In the lab will be three mad geniuses of party chemistry.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe ten companies in the new edition of the CBDLP will perform March 25 and 26 in a program entitled “Sans Pareil,” celebrating the past and the present of the city.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMHubbard Street Dance, Alvin Ailey and much more pack March's dance calendar.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“When I saw the finished piece, I texted Tre and was like ‘are you trying to kill my dancers?’" Yonally says. "It’s six minutes of athletic, virtuosic go go go, and it’s in five. A…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM“I want people to not be sitting there thinking ‘I could have stayed home and read this book or watched this movie.’ I just want people to have a good time. It always been sort of tong…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWhether you're looking for story ballet or experimental play, dance in February will keep you warm.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMKara Brody never intended to be a curator, but when the opportunity to hand the Steppenwolf 1700 black box theater over to dance makers of her choosing came up, she couldn’t say no.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMThe festival—the only one of its kind in the United States—is in its fifth iteration and has already put Chicago on the map as a destination for the most inventive live performance on th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMLike ocean waves, the moods in “Things Hidden” are ever-shifting, a kaleidoscope of ideas that remain stuck on the tip of the tongue.
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