Monday, 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 02:09PMMonday, November 30, 2015
With a schedule that includes curated fundraising events in New York, San Francisco and, for two consecutive years, Chicago, the Flow Show presented a fun, kid-friendly burlesque show. That&…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:23PMNow in its fifth season, this newest iteration of Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker’s Esoteric Dance Project, with its half decade of extemporaneous choreography, provides …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMFriday, November 20, 2015
This event, founded by the At the Table Collective, comprised of members Lindsay Hopkins, Mike Lahood, Jessie Marasa, Lara Oppenheimer and Bryan Saner, began in December 2013 at Hopkins and…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:50AMThursday, November 19, 2015
Few of those who taught at the School of the Art Institute haunt this festival so much as the ghost of outré artist Barbara DeGenevieve, who died suddenly in 2014, and whose performance med…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:08AMThursday, November 12, 2015
As part of the Chicago Cultural Center’s dance laboratory program, Shannahan and collaborator Jeff Hancock performed this dance, in development since 2012, drawing inspiration from the…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:02PMRECOMMENDED As part of Chicago Artists Month, Hedwig Dances reprises company member Victor Alexander’s “Line of Sighs,” a luscious meditation on human connection conceived…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:37AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
RECOMMENDED Few artists or dancers engage their subjects with anything near the capable, distinct voracity of Bradford’s punctually conceptualist, stratospherically aspirational choreo…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 06:18PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
RECOMMENDED The new work by the young Bessie-winning choreographer and TED fellow Camille A. Brown just finished a highly acclaimed world premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York and now tr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:26AMMonday, November 2, 2015
RECOMMENDED The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events hosts a series of free downtown dance performances through the month of November. It begins this weekend at the Cu…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AMThursday, October 15, 2015
RECOMMENDED The final installment of Khecari’s five-year performance cycle takes place this fall and brings us back to the five-by-eight-foot pit that was the set for last year’…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:12AMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Newcomer Kelly Anderson follows up her Chicago dance theater debut “Message Me If…” with another evening-length show at Links Hall, this time inspired not by the trials and…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:03AMMonday, October 12, 2015
RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street dedicates their entire fall program to the great William Forsythe, reviving “Quintett,” sinking their chops into all-male quartet “N.N.N.N.̶…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:15AMFriday, October 9, 2015
RECOMMENDED John Neumeier’s reimagining of “Sylvia” blesses the stage with images not often seen in story ballet: those of powerful, independent women en pointe. According …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:09AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Frank Chaves, artistic director of River North Dance Chicago, steps down this December after twenty-three years leading the contemporary jazz company. In 2005 Chaves was diagnosed with syrin…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:00AM 
