Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Jonathan Alsberry is choreographing the finale for this year’s “Dance for Life,” an annual fundraiser to alleviate the cost of health care for dance professionals. Danced by artists ac…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 31, 2024
"I feel my creative voice comes out more clearly when we’re in a space where you can’t control all the elements. You can’t control the little kid running up and grabbing your leg or th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
"This is a ritual that occurs in an unknowable space, between two coalescences: death and birth. But it could be as uncomplicated as your mind going somewhere else when you’re in the midst…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, July 3, 2024
Two decades in, Jaiani continues to dance at an ever-higher top of her game.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
Dance abounds this July and, in the great Chicago tradition, much of it outdoors and free.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
Long-standing member and associate director of Chicago Tap Theatre, Molly Smith's show, made in collaboration with the CTT ensemble, honors queer artistry in tap dance and jazz music through…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2024
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano’s evening-length dance that both honors and stylistically upends the famous Spanish story and French opera standby returns to its hometown.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2024
Whether it's communal experiences or intimate performances you seek, June dance has you covered.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
PARA.MAR founder and artistic director Stephanie Martinez picked the name to upend it, pushing back on broad-stroke conceptions of Latin culture.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s spring series at the Harris Theater, entitled “Of Joy,” features several remounts. There will be one piece new to Chicago eyeballs: the company premiere …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
The collection of short works promises to showcase the versatility, skill and heart of this ambitious company.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2024
CRDT has a unique structure, pairing choreographers with jazz composers to develop pieces over a long period—often years—and inspired by the personal stories of the artists and their com…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMTuesday, April 30, 2024
A fevered take on the summer solstice celebrations of Alexander Ekman’s native Sweden, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” has nothing to do with Shakespeare’s comedy. It does however contai…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
May dance highlights include Chicago stalwarts Hubbard Street, Cerqua Rivera, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Lucky Plush, and Winifred Haun & Dancers and the Chicago Movement Collective.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
Artistic director Julianna Rubio Slager spoke with Newcity about the premiere of "Lost Women of Juarez" and three other new works on the upcoming program.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s fifty-fifth annual stop at the Auditorium Theatre features three distinct programs over five days. So clear your calendar.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2024
As part of its fiftieth season, the Dance Center of Columbia College is showcasing works by local choreographers in its new Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival. Some of the most memorable perf…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2024
April dance is in full bloom with large-scale productions on big stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2024
For its seventy-fifth anniversary, the legendary New York City Ballet, founded by George Balanchine, performs its first appearance in Chicago in eighteen years. Three programs offer a sampli…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2024
The first delicacy one notices in RE|dance Group’s new work is the quality of the light. Illuminated rectangles of varying dimensions are scattered across the black floor, casting a soft g…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, March 6, 2024
The past, present and future of dance will get you on your feet.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 28, 2024
"I know the standards for what is supposed to happen onstage and they are not things that invite that deep improvisational spirit. Things that don’t invite that, we thwart.”
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
New York-based Maria Torres, a dancer, choreographer and educator who works in film, television and Broadway, patented a Latin Jazz style that blends her Brooklyn-raised, Puerto Rican/Cuban/…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2024
Steppenwolf is the most recognizable name in Chicago theater. Since 2016 the venerable institution has become an incubator of multidisciplinary and experimental performance as well, presente…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
"The puppet is a harbinger coming from a non-human world. It’s like a species that arrives porously through myth and imagination and is like an apparition that becomes present. It speaks a…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
Coping strategies for a violent, unjust and ever-accelerating world are at the forefront of cultural conversation these days. Enter Joanna Read and Same Planet Performance Project. Read's da…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2023
In 1960, jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington infused Tchaikovsky’s most recognizable composition with American rhythms and twentieth-century chords. The Ellington/Strayhorn “N…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
