Friday, March 25, 2016
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…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:03AMThursday, March 24, 2016
RECOMMENDED As Plato asserted, we are born with a memory of forms. Bringing together several years worth of relationship histories—between herself and lovers, friends, teachers, colleagues…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:21AMBy Sharon Hoyer Butoh artist Michael Sakamoto and Rennie Harris, founder/artistic director of hip-hop performance group Rennie Harris Puremovement, merge dance forces into an entrancing, em…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AMThursday, March 17, 2016
Lucy Riner is nervous about the newest RE|Dance production. The creative partner of Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich, Riner is accustomed to Estanich taking the creative lead on a new d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:04PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was in fine form when it made its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 bringing classic Ailey repertory, a Paul Taylor piece, recent work by …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:17PMThursday, March 10, 2016
By Irene Hsiao From its roots as a small tap-dancing studio on the corner of Hubbard and LaSalle, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has become one of the companies that defines contemporary dance…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AMFriday, March 4, 2016
RECOMMENDED In dance, the body speaks a language that transcends the need for speech in a mode that depends on the universality of the flesh, uttered in dialects of technique. Joe Goode Perf…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:32PMThursday, March 3, 2016
It’s a Saturday night at Tritriangle gallery in Wicker Park. The main room, filled lengthwise with rows of folding chairs mostly filled with attendees, face a video projection on the�…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:54PMRECOMMENDED Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 with customary abundance: ten big dances from 1958 to the present, and every night…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:39AMMonday, February 29, 2016
It’s of substantial note, with over three decades in dance and a record of international program outreach, including multiple programs to and at the time not-so-friendly China, that th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:28AMThursday, February 25, 2016
RECOMMENDED Herding cats. Like most overused metaphors, there’s good reason you hear it thrown around so much. One would be hard-pressed to find any individual who works at a non-prof…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:19AMFriday, February 19, 2016
Two years ago, Hamburg Ballet was onstage at the Harris Theater when a stagehand interrupted a dress rehearsal of their production of “Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler,” an exeges…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:53AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
RECOMMENDED All architecture is created by human beings to contain their lives, but houses particularly so. Homes are the space—usually safe, sometimes otherwise—where we play out our m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:01AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
RECOMMENDED Carving out the social history of the Bronx promises, according to the artist statement, to provide viewers of this multidisciplinary performance with a glimpse inside the boroug…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMMonday, February 15, 2016
RECOMMENDED Many musicians stir hearts, some are worshipped, but few have been literally canonized as jazz great John Coltrane was after his brief life of inspired saxophony, destructive add…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AMFriday, February 12, 2016
RECOMMENDED A longstanding collaborator of the renowned Bebe Miller Company (whose namesake performed in Chicago recently as part of the lauded aMID Festival), Hauser teams up here with Smit…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:58PMWednesday, February 10, 2016
By Michael Workman Jessica Marasa has collaborated with the leading dance improvisors in Chicago for the last ten years. Starting in February, she will host a work-in-progress series at Lin…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:29PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
This month, the New York-based Driscoll brings an audience-integrative approach that would have had Brecht guffawing with delight to the MCA Stage. Typically blown past in the New York press…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:55AMMonday, February 8, 2016
RECOMMENDED The title of the Joffrey’s winter program references not only a stylistic theme for the movement on the stage—three pieces by contemporary choreographers—but also the m…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AMMonday, February 1, 2016
RECOMMENDED You’d expect to find more examples of Information Art as text printouts or video, not incorporated into dance—but that’s precisely the conceptual background agains…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:46AMFriday, January 29, 2016
By Irene Hsiao When Gus Giordano founded his company in 1963, jazz dance was something that fell between vaudeville, social dance and street performance, an ephemeral form that wasn’t yet …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:52AMThursday, January 14, 2016
By Sharon Hoyer Born on the West and South Sides in the eighties, footwork is a dance style that evolved out of juke and moves to a breakneck tempo of Chicago house music. Like the name sugg…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:04PMBy Michael Workman Among the most exciting dance performances taking place in this young 2016 season is a lineup of mature dance talent poised to challenge our culture of youth. In a world …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:41AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Melissa Thodos certainly had compelling material to work with when she conceived of Sono’s Journey, which premiered at the Auditorium Theatre Saturday. Sono Osato was, by all reports, a da…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:11AMFriday, December 18, 2015
By Michael Workman Victoria Bradford choreographs a new dance, video records it, distributes it over social media, and produces a movement notation record and image archive of it…ever…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:38AMMonday, December 14, 2015
As part of Links Hall’s Midwest Nexus Touring Initiative, the upcoming “Ring Sour” performance brings San Francisco touring company Blind Tiger Society to Chicago to perform in a d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 04:53PMRECOMMENDED Showcasing the talents of musicians and dancers from Tokyo, San Francisco and Chicago, this annual festival takes a long view of improvisational dance, as paired with traditional…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:28AMFriday, December 11, 2015
RECOMMENDED For the last several years, Molly Shanahan has put movement under a microscope and chipped away at cellular-level tensions that steel the performer against having a truly authent…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AMBy Michael Workman Movement, visual and performance artist Sofia Moreno, long under-recognized in Chicago, sat down with us recently to discuss her exhibit “Tropical Winter” at David Wei…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:17AMFriday, December 4, 2015
RECOMMENDED The show opener of Hubbard Street’s impressive Winter program is “Solo Echo,” a crossover concept from Crystal Pite, who has metabolized a meditation on the …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:49AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
By Sharon Hoyer Ashley Wheater sat down with me in his office in the Joffrey Tower shortly before the company hit the road to take Robert Joffrey’s “Nutcracker” to the Kennedy Center. …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 02:09PM 
