If 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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:52PMIt's an ingenious idea: Create an evening-length ballet about the progenitor of ballet, Louis XIV, and his most frequent collaborator, composer Jean-Baptiste Lully.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:58PMIt's an ingenious idea: Create an evening-length ballet about the progenitor of ballet, Louis XIV, and his most frequent collaborator, composer Jean-Baptiste Lully.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:58PMApplause seemed a trivial response to an experience as profoundly disturbing as Khecari's "Oubliette," Jonathan Meyer's Beckettian exercise in the elemental and the empathic. Thoughtful, bea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMDANCE REVIEW: "Oubliette" by Khecari dance ★★★★ DANCE REVIEW: "Oubliette" by Khecari dance ★★★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:27PM"Having people with disabilities is like having a new color as a painter to add to your palette," says choreographer Heidi Latsky. "How does that change the art, make it stronger? Incorporat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:27AMSometimes very good things come in small packages. The Dance COLEctive's unassuming but decidedly artful "Holding Ground" is a short program of three short, pared works. They lay it on the l…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMIf you've ever seen the New Zealand All Blacks' pre-game "haka," you'd probably call it a war dance.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:23AMMaking its Chicago debut, Beijing Dance Theater offers proof positive that good dancing doesn't necessarily mean good dance.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:43PMDANCE REVIEW: 'come, been and gone' at MCA Chicago ★★★ DANCE REVIEW: 'come, been and gone' at MCA Chicago ★★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMA bit of blissed-out Americana, of escapist fantasy, goes down pretty easy these days. And that's what Giordano Dance Chicago delivers with Ray Leeper's new "Feelin' Good Sweet." A former Gi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:29PMAt what point does the animal turn into the human? Fear into love? The everyday into magic? The brilliance of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's re-imagined "Swan Lake" is to bring into hi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:05PM"You know, Degas was groundbreaking," says choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. "He painted ballet rehearsal the way it really is: The girls are sweaty, they have a bad back, they're leaning …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:46PMCheerful, misshapen, Hedwig Dances' shared, evening-length work with Cuba's DanzAbierta is a Frankenstein baby, too charming to be a monster but nevertheless sutured together.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:38PMAfter 25 years, River North Dance Chicago looks stronger than ever — virtuosic, yes, but with even greater heart. Wednesday's gala program, packed with terrific music and lit to the nines,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PMAmericans are a renegade bunch, as American Ballet Theatre's eclectic "All-American Celebration" reveals. True, its four works by three choreographers span 45 years, beginning in 1944. But e…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:50AMMisty Copeland seems to be everywhere these days: In a popular Under Armour commercial, on the CBS and ABC morning programs, and in the pages of "The New Yorker" as well as "teenVOGUE."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:48PMChoreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is nothing if not complicated. In an 18-minute YouTube video posted in 2013, she gave an extensive explanation of the sources and structures for just…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PMEverybody knows the perils and pleasures of the grab bag. You might fall in love with the tacky little trinket from the dollar store, or be left cold by the well-made objet d'art.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:29AMBeing told a story can be delicious, and the three distinct, clear tales on the Joffrey's "Stories in Motion" program, through Sunday at the Auditorium, are little jewels, revealing the econ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PMFounded on a whim in 2005 by former Pennsylvania Ballet dancers Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan, Philadelphia-based BalletX is on the cusp of national attention. But the repertory company's…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:21PM"You be nasty," Edward Villella instructs April Daly. He tells her partner, Ogulcan Borova, just as pointedly: "She scares the bejesus out of you."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMKhecari specializes in the odd: unusual states of mind, ambiguous emotional tones, cockeyed takes on history, mythology, politics. Slant rhymes are the rule.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:12PMThree women, dressed in slips, get ready to go out for the evening, each examining herself in an invisible mirror and reacting to the process and the prospect.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PMSome of the classical dance this fall has been bent, folded or mutilated — in the best possible way, of course. It's set to indie rock, transformed into a ballet within a ballet, dedicated…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:05PM"I'm really trying to find out what makes people dance," says choreographer Jan Bartoszek. "It's got to come from the whole body — it's not just intellectual, not about mimicking."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:02PMThe mood was buoyant, the choreography masterful, the dancing accomplished. At any price, Wednesday's performance would have been a winner.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:23PM"You get some news, and then it's like: OK, all right—it's a new idea, a new thing," says choreographer Kyle Abraham, talking about the turn of events that inspired his Hubbard Street worl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PM"Discontented" doesn't begin to describe the fraught relationships and violent discord of the family in Aloft Circus Arts' restaging of a 2008 show. Despite — or perhaps because of — bei…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:23PMNow that gay marriage is legal, at least in some states, and those with HIV can be treated, if not cured, HBO's recent adaptation of Larry Kramer's 1985 play "The Normal Heart" might seem a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:22PM"Tron: End of Line" is a glorious train wreck, a five-car collision at the corner of pop culture and technology. It takes off from the "Tron" empire, inspired by the ur-video game "Pong" and…
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