Reverence 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:13PMIt was a drippy night at the Pritzker Pavilion on Saturday: The last performance of this year's Chicago Dancing Festival pretty much laid to rest the notion that a free concert under the sta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:38PMHow easy to read should dance be? Intentionally or not, the Chicago Dancing Festival's opening night, Tuesday at the Harris Theater, investigated that perennial question, presenting five wor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:01PMSeated in the front row, we were spattered with little, wet strands of Silly String, courtesy of a randy hand puppet. Later, we were showered with sparks: Think the workshop scene in "Magic …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:50AMSeated in the front row, we were spattered with little, wet strands of Silly String, courtesy of a randy hand puppet. Later, we were showered with sparks: Think the workshop scene in "Magic …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM"I've always been bothered by the ballet 'Sleeping Beauty' - irritated by it, really, because no story ever gets told," says choreographer Lar Lubovitch. That thought fathered his most recen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:51AM"I've always been bothered by the ballet 'Sleeping Beauty' - irritated by it, really, because no story ever gets told," says choreographer Lar Lubovitch. That thought fathered his most recen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWe laughed, we cried. We laughed again, whenever emcees Joey Bland and Tim Mason came back onstage, cracking wise or introducing projected videos of themselves "auditioning" or taking orders…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:54PMRiver North Dance Chicago has announced Monday that Frank Chaves will retire in fall 2015 after 23 years as artistic director of the 25-year-old company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05AM"It's our 40th anniversary," crows Joel Hall, "and that happens only once in my life. I am thrilled to still be able to do this after 40 years."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:12AMPicture this: A timid, would-be mariner arrives in a crowded New England whaling port - and winds up sharing a bed with a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, oddly coiffed reputed cannibal, the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:49PMPicture this: A timid, would-be mariner arrives in a crowded New England whaling port - and winds up sharing a bed with a nearly naked, heavily tattooed, oddly coiffed reputed cannibal, the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:57AMSometimes you let a kid loose in a candy store, and the results are not pretty. Judgment goes out the window; excess ensues.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:48PMThodos Dance Chicago's 15th annual "New Dances" program made a strong showing this year in performances Saturday and Sunday at the Athenaeum Theatre. On Sunday, the eight Thodos dancer-chore…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:55PMOne of the tragedies of our segregated city is that, though the physical distance between white and African-American cultures is small, the artistic chasm can be huge. An August Wilson play …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:32PM"I danced before I walked," says Tommy Tune, adding modestly that this is "hearsay" from his parents. "I'd be crawling through the living room, and music would come on the radio-and I'd get …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PMFear, hatred, violence: These are the monumental subjects that preoccupy Ahmad Simmons and Kacie Smith in Pursuit Productions' ambitious new "THEM."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:23AMIn conversation, choreographer Ahmad Simmons and director Kacie Smith are so in synch they might be brother and sister, regularly finishing each other's sentences. Maybe that should come as …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:24PMDeath and its effect on the living inspired butoh dancer Tadashi Endo's solo "IKIRU" ("Life"), performed Wednesday night only at the Old Town School of Folk Music as Endo's U.S. debut. Born …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PMDame Libby Komaiko, who founded Ensemble Espanol at Northeastern Illinois University in 1975, must be proud of the house that love built. Her own profession of love - "Tiempos de Goya" (1990…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:13AMThe adage "dying is easy, comedy is hard" must have driven choreographer Carlos Acosta when he tackled the baggy monster that is Marius Petipa's "Don Quixote." Every directorial decision, fr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PM"It was great, everybody standing up at the end," says Carlos Acosta, talking about the recent U.S. premiere of his "Don Quixote" at the Kennedy Center. Though Acosta has performed in the St…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:48AMAerial Dance Chicago leaves the circus in the dust in "Shifting Limits," a well-paced program of 10 works - 8 of them new - running Saturday and June 27-28 at the Ruth Page Center. Founded i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00AMAerial Dance Chicago leaves the circus in the dust in "Shifting Limits," a well-paced program of 10 works — 8 of them new — running Saturday and June 27-28 at the Ruth Page Center. Found…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMSwift change marks the dances of Alejandro Cerrudo, since 2009 Hubbard Street's prolific resident choreographer. But he takes a different tack - somewhat different - in the new octet "Still …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:36PMSwift change marks the dances of Alejandro Cerrudo, since 2009 Hubbard Street's prolific resident choreographer. But he takes a different tack — somewhat different — in the new octet "St…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PMWe'd rather keep the thought out of our heads, but the fact is that anyone at any time can be betrayed by body, mind or both, whether the cause is illness, accident or simple old age. In tha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:08AMFormer Hubbard Street dancer Benjamin Holliday Wardell plowed through an "existential questioning period" a few years ago that, among other things, sparked his departure in September 2011 fr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:34AMImagine you're wandering around an art gallery-and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you're the one hanging on …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00AMImagine you're wandering around an art gallery—and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you're the one hanging o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMImagine you're wandering around an art gallery—and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you're the one hanging o…
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