300 stories by "Laura Molzahn"
DANCE REVIEW: Lucky Plush Productions' "Queue" at Links Hall ★★★
The drama of standing in line might not be obvious. But consider: Though fraught with boredom, this pressu…
DANCE REVIEW: "Romeo & Juliet" by the Joffrey Ballet ★★★½
DANCE REVIEW: "Romeo & Juliet" by the Joffrey Ballet ★★★½ ... Political conflict is the h…
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor sometimes sets off metal detectors, the shrapnel in his body a permanent reminder of violent conflict.
The Chicago Dancing Festival, the annual, free summer showcase of dance, announced on Monday its lineup for its eighth season, Aug. 20-23.
DANCE REVIEW: Reggie Wilson / Fist & Heel "Moses(es)" at Dance Center of Columbia College ★★★½
Imagine a nightclub setting for a biblical story, and you've got some ide…
Trey McIntyre didn't know he was a big fan of writer-artist Edward Gorey till a series of happy accidents. Yet a marriage between the gloomy, hilarious eccentric and this deceptively lighthe…
DANCE CARD: For adventure, magic and a cheery message, it's hard to beat the tale of Aladdin, the poor boy who wins over a princess with the help of a genie in a lamp. In fact, Disney's belo…
DANCE REVIEW: "LoveTaps" by Chicago Tap Theatre at Stage 773 ★★
Mark Yonally is a tap evangelist, a man dismayed by the way tap dance on Broadway and in films was replaced with …
DANCE REVIEW: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Spring Program at the Harris Theater ★★★★
DANCE REVIEW: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Spring Program at the Harris Thea…
DANCE CARD: Men fill a Hubbard Street studio, stamping, yelling, hissing, making faces and hooting like a bunch of monkeys. Moreover, they do it in unison. When a dancer does emerge from the…
"I had the dancers meditate for three hours a day. They hate me! I ask them to drop everything and sit still with eyes closed. Some boys snuck away as protest. But I persisted, and eventuall…
DANCE CARD: Though "jamming" might sound like a new street dance, it's actually a physics concept — equally applicable to traffic jams and vacuum-packed coffee — about particles …
DANCE REVIEW: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Auditorium ★★★★
DANCE REVIEW: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Auditorium ★★★ύ…
DANCE REVIEW: Compagnie Kafig at B-Real Chicago ★★★★
DANCE REVIEW: Compagnie Kafig at B-Real Chicago ★★★★ ... With France's Compagnie Kafig, …
DANCE REVIEW: Kyle Abraham's "The Radio Show" at MCA Chicago ★★★★
DANCE REVIEW: Kyle Abraham's "The Radio Show" at MCA Chicago ★★★★ ... Silen…
Early in 2007, break dancer Raphael Xavier woke up with a sore neck and shoulders. He wasn't worried — "I usually work out really, really hard," he says — but the soreness kept g…
Rachel Bunting is flustered, laughing. She's got glue on her hands. She brandishes a baby-face mask with feathers stuck in a headband on the stretchy back, and it looks as if she's been spra…
At 40, a relatively young age for a hoofer, Savion Glover is a tap-dance legend. Of course, he has danced professionally for three decades, ever since he starred on Broadway in "The Tap Danc…
To hear Shayna Swanson tell it, circus arts in this country are like the Wild West, complete with warring factions. Traditionalists — think Barnum & Bailey — despise contemporary…
"The first couple of years were tough," says Ashley Wheater, Joffrey Ballet artistic director since 2007. "The company was in transition, we hit a terrible recession." But an old friend, Hou…
Chicago's resplendent 2013 dance scene ranged from little jewels to blockbusters, from bleak moods to sunny, and from classical to contemporary to the experimental. Here's a sampling of the …
"To bring the world of Indian dance into Redmoon … I mean, wow!" Choreographer Pranita Jain is clearly charged up about her first collaboration with the 18-year-old theater company on…
DANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½
DANCE REVIEW: "The Nutcracker" at the Auditorium Theatre ★★★½ ... It's the season for…
DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½
DANCE REVIEW: '... And sometimes we were lost, but always we became found' ★★½ C…
"Let's go over the pas de chat," says the lanky adult to a studio full of little girls. "I mean, 'the pas de mouse.'"
