"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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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:40AM"I wake up every morning, sit on the bed, and next thing I know I'm moving my feet," says tap-dancer Cartier Williams. "It's just naturally happening. I'm getting ready for the day, I'm hear…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:38AMDANCE CARD: "Bird Lady" by Rebecca Salzer Dance Theatre "Bird lady" was the nickname North Shore teenagers gave Vivian Maier, the Chicago-area nanny/photographer who gained fame only after …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:54PMDANCE CARD: "I had no musical training," says choreographer Paul Taylor, 83, revered for his musicality. "At Juilliard there was a class, but it was early in the morning, and it was very bor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMDANCE REVIEW: Lucky Plush Productions' "Queue" at Links Hall ★★★ The drama of standing in line might not be obvious. But consider: Though fraught with boredom, this pressu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PMDANCE REVIEW: "Romeo & Juliet" by the Joffrey Ballet ★★★½ DANCE REVIEW: "Romeo & Juliet" by the Joffrey Ballet ★★★½ ... Political conflict is the hallm…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:53PMChoreographer Krzysztof Pastor sometimes sets off metal detectors, the shrapnel in his body a permanent reminder of violent conflict.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMThe Chicago Dancing Festival, the annual, free summer showcase of dance, announced on Monday its lineup for its eighth season, Aug. 20-23.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:45AMDANCE REVIEW: Reggie Wilson / Fist & Heel "Moses(es)" at Dance Center of Columbia College ★★★½ Imagine a nightclub setting for a biblical story, and you've got some idea …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:10PMTrey McIntyre didn't know he was a big fan of writer-artist Edward Gorey till a series of happy accidents. Yet a marriage between the gloomy, hilarious eccentric and this deceptively lighthe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:47PMDANCE CARD: For adventure, magic and a cheery message, it's hard to beat the tale of Aladdin, the poor boy who wins over a princess with the help of a genie in a lamp. In fact, Disney's belo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:07PMDANCE REVIEW: "LoveTaps" by Chicago Tap Theatre at Stage 773 ★★ Mark Yonally is a tap evangelist, a man dismayed by the way tap dance on Broadway and in films was replaced with …
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMDANCE CARD: Men fill a Hubbard Street studio, stamping, yelling, hissing, making faces and hooting like a bunch of monkeys. Moreover, they do it in unison. When a dancer does emerge from the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:41PM"I had the dancers meditate for three hours a day. They hate me! I ask them to drop everything and sit still with eyes closed. Some boys snuck away as protest. But I persisted, and eventuall…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMDANCE CARD: Though "jamming" might sound like a new street dance, it's actually a physics concept — equally applicable to traffic jams and vacuum-packed coffee — about particles …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:35PMDANCE REVIEW: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Auditorium ★★★★ DANCE REVIEW: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Auditorium ★★★ύ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:48PMDANCE REVIEW: Compagnie Kafig at B-Real Chicago ★★★★ DANCE REVIEW: Compagnie Kafig at B-Real Chicago ★★★★ ... With France's Compagnie Kafig, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:40PMDANCE REVIEW: Kyle Abraham's "The Radio Show" at MCA Chicago ★★★★ DANCE REVIEW: Kyle Abraham's "The Radio Show" at MCA Chicago ★★★★ ... Silen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PMEarly in 2007, break dancer Raphael Xavier woke up with a sore neck and shoulders. He wasn't worried — "I usually work out really, really hard," he says — but the soreness kept g…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:47PMRachel Bunting is flustered, laughing. She's got glue on her hands. She brandishes a baby-face mask with feathers stuck in a headband on the stretchy back, and it looks as if she's been spra…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PMAt 40, a relatively young age for a hoofer, Savion Glover is a tap-dance legend. Of course, he has danced professionally for three decades, ever since he starred on Broadway in "The Tap Danc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PMTo hear Shayna Swanson tell it, circus arts in this country are like the Wild West, complete with warring factions. Traditionalists — think Barnum & Bailey — despise contemporary…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PM"The first couple of years were tough," says Ashley Wheater, Joffrey Ballet artistic director since 2007. "The company was in transition, we hit a terrible recession." But an old friend, Hou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMChicago's resplendent 2013 dance scene ranged from little jewels to blockbusters, from bleak moods to sunny, and from classical to contemporary to the experimental. Here's a sampling of the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:44PM"To bring the world of Indian dance into Redmoon … I mean, wow!" Choreographer Pranita Jain is clearly charged up about her first collaboration with the 18-year-old theater company on…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:44AMDANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½ DANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½ ... It's the season for ind…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMDANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½ DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½ Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:09PM"Let's go over the pas de chat," says the lanky adult to a studio full of little girls. "I mean, 'the pas de mouse.'"
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