Bringing It Home by Sharon Hoyer

Children of Community by Sharon Hoyer

Two New Works by Two Top Artists by Sharon Hoyer

Play the Floor by Sharon Hoyer

Looking Inward, Moving Outward by Sharon Hoyer

Step in the Ring by Sharon Hoyer

Amidst Chaos, Love by Sharon Hoyer

The Banality of (Fighting) Evil by Sharon Hoyer

Ecstatic Traditions from Ethiopia by Sharon Hoyer

From Grief to Solidarity by Sharon Hoyer

Fall Dance Preview by Sharon Hoyer

One More Reason to Stay in Chicago in August by Sharon Hoyer

Dancing the Blues by Sharon Hoyer

Hot Beats by Sharon Hoyer

Sex, Taboo and the Subconscious by Sharon Hoyer

Trust Falls: Second City and Hubbard Street bring “The Art of Falling” back to the Harris by Sharon Hoyer

By Sharon Hoyer When audiences packed the Harris Theater seats to see the premiere of “The Art of Falling” two years ago, no one knew what to expect, including the performers on stage. T…

Taking the Pulse of Defibrillator: Joseph Ravens talks about the creation of Chicago’s international performance art fest by Sharon Hoyer

By Michael Workman “Rapid Pulse,” the international performance art festival conceived by Joseph Ravens, director of Defibrillator Gallery, enters its fifth year this June. We ta…

Bringing the Beat: Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s “Stomping Grounds” moves From the Stage to the Schools by Sharon Hoyer

Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s performance series “Stomping Grounds” is wrapping up with a grand-finale performance at the Auditorium Theatre June 4, in which five of the six participa…

Preview: UNDER(cover) Episode 002 by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Coming off of more than a decade of dancing with Hubbard Street, and several years with River North Dance, Robyn Mineko Williams landed a spot in this publication’s Top F…

Preview: Venture by Esoteric Dance Project Dazzles In Three Parts by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Much of the current offering from Esoteric Dance Project (EDP) centers on notions of the one and the many, the individual and masses, and of the permutations at the intersections…

Preview: Cinderella/Joffrey Ballet by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED During his lifetime, Robert Joffrey made his company the United States repository for the ballets of English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, but one work was missing from the…

Wearable Landscape: An Interview with The Seldoms’ Visual Artist Bob Faust by Sharon Hoyer

By Michael Workman Your set design for this production of The Seldoms’ “RockCitizen” is part sculptural installation, part wearable art and part stage setting. How did you …

Preview: RockCitizen/The Seldoms by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Carrie Hanson picks up after last year’s “Power Goes”—a brilliant evaluation of personal and political power through the lens of the Lyndon B. Johnson adminis…

Preview: Mess Hall: Installment Two/The Coincidentals by Sharon Hoyer

The Coincidentals’ performance series returns with a showcase of new works by emerging dance and movement artists. Artists are given rehearsal space to collaborate, develop work and pr…

Preview: When the Wolves Came In/Abraham.In.Motion by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Some Chicago audiences might remember Kyle Abraham from the Harris Theater last year in the duet he created for himself and Wendy Whelan as part of her “Restless Creature&#…

Preview: Secret Experiments in Ballet #4: Phantom Dance/Emily Stein Dance by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Emily Stein’s “Phantom Dance” is a reflection on how the ballet world always left her, a classically trained dancer, feeling “like a bit of a misfit intellect…

Preview: Ma(s)king Her/Honey Pot Performance by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED If you haven’t encountered the work of Felicia Holman, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, Abra M. Johnson and Meida Teresa McNeal, collectively known as Honey Pot Performance, you…

Preview: STOMPING GROUNDS/Chicago Human Rhythm Project by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Percussive dance organization Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s all-free multicultural performance series returns for a second welcome year, touring the neighborhoods each pa…

Preview: Circling the Square/Hedwig Dances by Sharon Hoyer

“Circling the Square” at the Athenaeum Theatre continues in the immersive, interdisciplinary mode for which Hedwig is known—and promises to raise the bar a notch. Also on the p…

Preview: The Tea Project: Unveiling our Global War’s Hidden Wages by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED Taking place over three weekends at Links Hall,”The Tea Project” tackles questions of racism in American foreign and domestic policies that have not only opened the f…

Preview: Time Steps/Chicago Tap Theatre by Sharon Hoyer

RECOMMENDED When one thinks of narrative dance, the first thing to come to mind is likely either story ballet—swans, princes and evil witches frolicking through a magical, wordless realm o…