Twyla Tharp has been on the road, off and on, for more than a month when I speak with her by phone. She has the sniffles. It's dinnertime and she hasn't eaten. But inevitably, maybe, she war…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:46PMA security guard checks our IDs at the door and points out the art exhibits we might examine before the show: two ruined altarlike structures, one wooden and carved with "Nietzsche" and "Thu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:52PMA security guard checks our IDs at the door and points out the art exhibits we might examine before the show: two ruined altarlike structures, one wooden and carved with "Nietzsche" and "Thu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:22PMDancing is everything at Giordano Dance Chicago. And the dancers looked amazing at the company's 53rd-season opener, Friday and Saturday at the Harris Theater, hitting as hard and with as mu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PMDancing is everything at Giordano Dance Chicago. And the dancers looked amazing at the company's 53rd-season opener, Friday and Saturday at the Harris Theater, hitting as hard and with as mu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:38AM"Repetition is good," Oren Laor says. "It makes you, and the viewers, go deeper." Well, yes and no. The question of how much repetition is the right amount — closely tied to the question …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PM"Repetition is good," Oren Laor says. "It makes you, and the viewers, go deeper." Well, yes and no. The question of how much repetition is the right amount — closely tied to the question o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:59PMA harrowing journey to an uncertain mythical destination is the task set by Khecari's new "The Cronus Land." Running through Nov. 13 in the former ballroom of the former Shoreland Hotel, "Cr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:04PM"With Natya Dance Theatre, being contemporary is our tradition," says artistic director Hema Rajagopalan. "Bharatanatyam doesn't need to be a museum piece that only people of knowledge can e…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:28AM"With Natya Dance Theatre, being contemporary is our tradition," says artistic director Hema Rajagopalan. "Bharatanatyam doesn't need to be a museum piece that only people of knowledge can e…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:45AMWho decreed that dance must be serious? Dance artists, ignoring comedy at their own peril, need to lighten up sometimes. Yet comic dance is rare. Admittedly, it's hard to pull off. At the s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:31PMWho decreed that dance must be serious? Dance artists, ignoring comedy at their own peril, need to lighten up sometimes. Yet comic dance is rare. Admittedly, it's hard to pull off. At the sa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:34PMChoreographer John Neumeier certainly set himself a task with "Sylvia," combining a 16th-century pastoral drama, complete with rustics and gods, with a well-loved 19th-century score (created…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:01PMChoreographer John Neumeier certainly set himself a task with "Sylvia," combining a 16th-century pastoral drama, complete with rustics and gods, with a well-loved 19th-century score (created…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:29PMPicture 14 dancers vaulting or sliding over (or under) 20 steel tables, set close together in a 4-by-5 table grid. The sound design resembles the sporadic bursts of action-flick noise — gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00AMPicture 14 dancers vaulting or sliding over (or under) 20 steel tables, set close together in a 4-by-5 foot grid. The sound design resembles the sporadic bursts of action-flick noise — gri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:21PMThe face of the future, Visceral Dance Chicago is young, brave, ambitious, tasteful. Founded just two years ago by Nick Pupillo, the company was good to go right out of the box, boasting sop…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:20PMIt's mind-bending just to contemplate the logistics of "AYA, An Aerial Ballet," much less to wrangle the planning, rehearsals, and performances, coming up Saturday and Oct. 17 at the Athenae…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:54PM"My career has been ushered in by Merce and Trisha and the experimental groundbreaking they did," says New York-based choreographer Stephen Petronio. "I owe a great debt to them." Petronio …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:46PM"My career has been ushered in by Merce and Trisha and the experimental groundbreaking they did," says New York-based choreographer Stephen Petronio. "I owe a great debt to them." Petronio i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:07PMThe evening began and ended with a party. But two more distinctive parties couldn't be imagined. While the first was a tea ceremony, the last was an audience-friendly dance bash, complete wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMReverence for cultural and family history has always propelled Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, founded by Amalia Hernandez in 1952 to preserve the folk dances of her native country and now dire…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PMReverence for cultural and family history has always propelled Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, founded by Amalia Hernandez in 1952 to preserve the folk dances of her native country and now dire…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PMNicole Gifford and Melissa Mallinson, the producer-curators of the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, have come up with a winning sixth incarnation, at least for the first of its t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:55PMNicole Gifford and Melissa Mallinson, the producer-curators of the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, have come up with a winning sixth incarnation, at least for the first of its t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:15PMThe Joffrey Ballet steps up with the ambitious "Millennials" program, challenging its ensemble - now 10 new members stronger - with two brand-new works and a company premiere. Though all are…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:39PMThe Joffrey Ballet steps up with the ambitious "Millennials" program, challenging its ensemble — now 10 new members stronger — with two brand-new works and a company premiere. Though all…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:15PMThink terrifying and wonderful, as in one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small. But no pills were involved in the dizzying shifts in audience perspective of Jonathan Meyer's "O…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:43PMContemporary dance - that smooth (or chunky) blend of ballet and modern, with various optional admixtures - is huge this fall. Look too for the occasional detour into Mexico, Spain or Israel…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:43PM"I've been traveling a lot lately," says choreographer Myles Thatcher, "which is great but also plucks you out of your comfortable environment - strips away all the little things that ground…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:26PMReverence for the past and hope for the future drive the thrilling, sometimes ecstatic "Supreme Love," presented by Tapman Productions and performed by M.A.D.D. Rhythms. Thankfully, that ear…
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