Dancing About Architecture: Exploring SITE/less, A New Artistic Laboratory by Michael Workman

The dance-architecture duo of Michelle Kranicke and David Sundry this month see their years of collaboration culminate in the soft opening of an artistic laboratory for work that defies defi…

Perception and the Body: A preview of The Way You Look (at me) Tonight at the MCA by Michael Workman

It’s all these quite big concepts of philosophy and intersectionality and identity, but it’s also fun and lighthearted as well.

Blood Speeding, Muscle Swelling: A review of Boomerang at the Art Institute by Michael Workman

"It’s fun to think that a body flying through the air or colliding with another can suddenly pull in someone who’s biting into a sandwich at the cafe two stories above, give them an expe…

Queering the Public Space: a preview of Listen at High Concept Labs by Michael Workman

One goal of the work has been to queer the working definitions of public space, to challenge the imposition of narratives for operation within those spaces, and to interrogate the underlying…

These Golden Years: A Preview of A Golden Celebration of Dance at the Auditorium Theatre by Michael Workman

Relatable Dance: A Preview of Kelly Anderson Dance Theatre’s “Skits and Pieces” by Michael Workman

Redefining Body: A Preview of Blackbird’s Ventriloquy at Links Hall by Michael Workman

A Preview of the Instigation Festival by Michael Workman

Progress in Performance: A Review of “Set Free” by Michael Workman

Playing with Cultural Gestures: A Preview of “sixty minutes towards being there” at Defibrillator by Michael Workman

Frank Willens is among several Berlin artists, including Tino Sehgal, Meg Stuart and Peter Stamer, whose use of dance, choreography, performance and interactivity pairs with social construct…

Raw Talent Refined: A Preview of “Body Passages” by Michael Workman

Poetry and dance have always shared a denigrated status across cultures for not commanding the material value of the other art forms and their attendant cultural sway, so it’s nice to see …

Architectonic Dynamism: A Preview of Dropshift Dance’s “The Remains” at Defibrillator by Michael Workman

Quivering Skin and Wet Lips by Michael Workman

Why Bill Ayers welcomes strangers into his Hyde Park home for the Chicago Home Theater Festival by Michael Workman

Every year in private homes across Chicago, plays are performed for the public as a part of the Chicago Home Theater Festival. As he has since the start, Bill Ayers this year again will host…

Creative Cross-Pollination by Michael Workman

Body and Mind by Michael Workman

Circus Through the Modern Dance Lens by Michael Workman

Radical Visibility by Michael Workman

Information Overload by Michael Workman

Solid Gold and the Service Life by Michael Workman

Audaciousness Itself by Michael Workman

Behind the Curtain by Michael Workman

Trial, Separation and Reconnection by Michael Workman

Shared Horizons by Michael Workman

Solitude Brings Great Love by Michael Workman

A Dance Through the Subconscious by Michael Workman

Tradition and Innovation by Michael Workman

Movement Makes Us Humane by Michael Workman

Sex, Excess and Fog by Michael Workman

An Adults-Only Fairy Tale by Michael Workman

Alterity in Sex, Race and Gender… with Alien Life Forms by Michael Workman