Imagine 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 12:56PMThe heads of small dance companies do it all: scrounge for grants and sponsors; court board members; audition, rehearse and choreograph; write and send press releases; find collaborating art…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMThere are so many ways to lie, so many degrees of and reasons for deception. Where do you start with such a subject? Where do you end?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:26PMNobody does beautiful like Jan Bartoszek. Yet her dances are never just beautiful; instead, her unsentimental emotional acuity - her conviction that the last is never the last, that no endin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00AMNobody does beautiful like Jan Bartoszek. Yet her dances are never just beautiful; instead, her unsentimental emotional acuity — her conviction that the last is never the last, that no end…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMLove him or hate him, Russian choreographer Boris Eifman makes nothing small. Extreme choreography, generally delivered at tantrum levels, is only one factor in the brash narrative ballets h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:46AMNana Shineflug was an explorer. She never rested easy, and she passed that experimental spirit along to the Chicago Moving Company, the troupe she headed from 1972 until 2014; she died in Ja…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:53AMThe Harris Theater announced Thursday its 2015-16 dance season; the six engagements include two Harris co-commissions, a young company's first Chicago show, two Harris debuts, and live music…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMRestless minds produce a restless work in "Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times #14: Curious Reinventions," as Margi Cole and the Dance COLEctive join the Peter Carpenter Performance Project …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:34AM"Why the hell is this not yet a ballet?" choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa asked herself the first time she read Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMGood things come in tidy packages in the Joffrey's "New Works" program. Taking advantage of the Cadillac Palace Theatre's relative intimacy, through May 3, four chamber pieces offer a unique…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PMYou can't beat butoh for variety, creativity and utter investment. Despite, or because of, performers' intense self-focus, it seems butoh can be more open than conventional dance to craft an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:51AMHindu mythology meets identity politics in Ananya Dance Theatre's "Neel: Blutopias of Radical Dreaming." Though undeniably passionate in its social and political aims, this Minneapolis-based…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PMThe stakes are high but the mood is often light as "it" choreographer Justin Peck, 27, conducts a rehearsal in a Joffrey studio. Two dancers, moving gingerly in what he terms the "sisters' d…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:24PMDance is a foreign language to, well, most Americans. Many scorn even the most popular form, story ballets — call it the "men in tights" syndrome. People who see dance, but seldom, tend to…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:41AMTake one stirring yet ludicrous 1981 Journey song, "Don't Stop Believin'." Add 11 superb dancers, 2 adorable apprentices and 12 choreographers from Chicago's top companies, places like Hubba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:13PMTake one stirring yet ludicrous 1981 Journey song, "Don't Stop Believin'." Add 11 superb dancers, 2 adorable apprentices and 12 choreographers from Chicago's top companies, places like Hubba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:13PM"We are partners in everything," says Aparna Ramaswamy, co-artistic director of Ragamala Dance Company with her mother, Ranee Ramaswamy. "We each have our own strengths, but everything we do…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:05PM"We are partners in everything," says Aparna Ramaswamy, co-artistic director of Ragamala Dance Company with her mother, Ranee Ramaswamy. "We each have our own strengths, but everything we do…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:05PMThere is nothing small about Nejla Y. Yatkin. Large hands and feet and strong facial features combine with a long, tensile body to create a huge impact: To paraphrase Daniel Burnham, she mak…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:56AM"TightWire" opens promisingly. A smoky, sepia-toned stage emerges from the darkness, and we hear the chugging of cleat-clad feet offstage, re-creating the rhythms of an approaching train. Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:21AMHerding cats: Now there's a skill politicians could use today. Lyndon Baines Johnson, our folksy dictator-president of the early '60s, had it by the ton, alternately muscling and charming hi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:34PMHerding cats: Now there's a skill politicians could use today. Lyndon Baines Johnson, our folksy dictator-president of the '60s, had it by the ton, alternately muscling and charming his vict…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:34PMPersonal history, family lore, myth, rumor and imagination went into the making of "Hep Hep Sweet Sweet," says choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. "It's about my family's migration from Te…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWith so many dance troupes lying somewhere on the broad spectrum of classical contemporary dance, it can be hard to pin down style and mission for any of them. More to the point is the quali…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMYou may be totally done with the beer bottles on the parkway, but who can resist the capering kids of St. Patrick's Day? They're everywhere, it seems, beating out the rhythms of Irish dance,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:23PMYou may be totally done with the beer bottles on the parkway, but who can resist the capering kids of St. Patrick's Day? They're everywhere, it seems, beating out the rhythms of Irish dance,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:23PM"See the music, hear the dance" is perhaps George Balanchine's best-known pithy remark. It's also the one that choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano has taken to heart.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMIf a dance company has prospered for nearly 60 years, it's not only doing something right, it's moving forward. But Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater takes a step back this season, at least…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:31AMWhat can you say about the perfect, wholly committed embodiment of an incomprehensible form? A chasm divides Westerners' understanding and treatment of religion from the ancient, highly codi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:11PMWhat can you say about the perfect, wholly committed embodiment of an incomprehensible form? A chasm divides Westerners' understanding and treatment of religion from the ancient, highly codi…
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