What 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 02:11PM"People dance who they are," says choreographer Alonzo King. "Moving is thought in action. So when you see great movers, you're actually seeing great thinkers."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM"People dance who they are," says choreographer Alonzo King. "Moving is thought in action. So when you see great movers, you're actually seeing great thinkers."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM"Relationship" has become an empty word: a Facebook status, some vaguely defined romantic attachment. But, truly, what is a relationship, and how is it formed? Or destroyed?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:47PMWhen brothers Paolo and Rodrigo Pederneiras and their siblings — who'd studied ballet and contemporary dance as teenagers — decided on dance careers in the mid-'70s, their hometown of Be…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMAmong Melissa Thodos' accomplishments — beyond guiding her company to its 23rd season, no small feat — is expanding its universe with the American Dance Legacy Project in 2009 and the "N…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:33PMThe Joffrey Ballet announced Tuesday that it has commissioned a new "Nutcracker" from choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which will have its world premiere in Chicago in Dec. 2016 as part o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMFlamenco is a paradoxical art, requiring passion and control, self-assertion and self-abnegation, physical vehemence and delicacy, defiance and surrender, joy and despair. Not coincidentally…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMThe Joffrey colors way outside the lines in "Unique Voices," a program of three very different Chicago premieres that all bring a childlike freedom and delight to ballet. Through Feb. 22 at …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:48PMOn the brink of its 13th season, Chicago Dance Crash is still doing what it does best: changing things up. This risk-taking fusion troupe — whose native styles range from ballet and break …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:55AMHigh school is seldom easy on anyone. But for the unseen protagonist of "Stardust," Junior, it's a living hell.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PMHigh school is seldom easy on anyone. But for the unseen protagonist of "Stardust," Junior, it's a living hell. Why did God make him black? he texts. Why did God make him gay?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PM"When you walk into the studio, the work ethic alone is just phenomenal. They will do anything for you," says freelance choreographer Ray Mercer, speaking about Giordano Dance Chicago."If yo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:32PMAn array of ideas and creative disciplines collide at the intersection of the labor movement, the women's movement and perfidious corporate greed in Erica Mott Productions' collaborative "3 …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:52PMWendy Whelan's "Restless Creature" made its one-night, all-too-brief Chicago debut Wednesday at the sold-out Harris Theater, which was jammed to the rafters. A kind of chemistry experiment f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PM"I want to steer my art form for myself and where I'm at in my life right now," says Wendy Whelan, the recently retired New York City Ballet dancer who's come to define the contemporary ball…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:36PMWhen performance approaches real life, does that make it better or worse? In life, storytelling is messy, often confusing, filled with digressions and interruptions, with points over-elabora…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMSome top-notch talent slated for Chicago last winter never made it here — and not because of the weather. This winter promises familiar names, rescheduled, plus familiar faces returning an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:06PMSome top-notch talent slated for Chicago last winter never made it here — and not because of the weather. This winter promises familiar names, rescheduled, plus familiar faces returning an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMEric Eatherly, a much-loved and much-respected figure in Chicago's arts community, who served as dancer, dance journalist and arts publicist, died Monday in Tennessee. He was 35.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:29PMThe distinguishing characteristic of Molly Shanahan's choreography is that it has no distinguishing characteristics. Or, more accurately, it's distinguished by its flow, its lack of demarcat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:43AMThe sheer number of bang-up performances in 2014, though wonderful in itself, makes the task of deciding on the best of them especially torturous. National and international artists brought …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:54PMThe shutdown of Luna Negra Dance Theater in spring 2013, after nearly 15 years in operation, felt abrupt despite the rumblings that preceded its disappearance. Gustavo Ramirez Sansano had di…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:08AM"It's a pleasure to bring these new voices into the studio, get the right people in the room, then watch the magic happen," says Terence Marling, former Hubbard Street performer and rehearsa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:41PMProximity to the stage is an often-unacknowledged factor in performance. Those main stage seats cost more for a reason: The action is up close and personal.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMDancers move, right? They don't talk. Yet Chicago is home to a generous handful of choreographers whose funny, pointed text-laced works not only entertain but instruct, generally without any…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PMLet's face it: However lovely as holiday confectionery, "The Nutcracker" is sadly lacking in drama. The Act II divertissements are just the most obvious and official of the ballet's many, ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMLet's face it: However lovely as holiday confectionery, "The Nutcracker" is sadly lacking in drama. The Act II divertissements are just the most obvious and official of the ballet's many, ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:17PMSo, you want to take the family to "The Nutcracker." If you have little dancers of your own, your choice is probably made. But if not, or if you want to branch out, where to go? Timing, loca…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:51PMDance Theatre of Harlem has risen from the dead with stunning aplomb and force. It's not a miracle, though, except perhaps of perseverance and hard work. When the company announced a yearlon…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:19PMIf you build it, they will come: That's the hope of many dance artists. But choreographer/entrepreneur Nick Pupillo has proved especially adept at making his wish come true.
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