A "ring sour" horse is spoiled for performance in the ring, refusing to go through its paces whether the drill is rodeo tricks or " more to the point in a dance review " dressage: ballet for…
A "ring sour" horse is spoiled for performance in the ring, refusing to go through its paces whether the drill is rodeo tricks or " more to the point in a dance review " dressage: ballet for…
The life of a repertory company is never easy: all those new dances to learn all the time. But in Hubbard Street's winter lineup of four wholehearted pieces, through Sunday at the Harris, th…
With shows by Wendy Whelan in January, Carrie Hanson in March, Onye Ozuzu in August, Twyla Tharp in November, and the female choreographers of Hubbard Street's winter program this weekend " …
Both patient and adventurous, Molly Shanahan likes to go deep, sometimes examining one issue in multiple works over as many as seven years. The payoff is a unique, gutsy contemplation of per…
Both patient and adventurous, Molly Shanahan likes to go deep, sometimes examining one issue in multiple works over as many as seven years. The payoff is a unique, gutsy contemplation of per…
What is it about disaster that excites our imaginations? For years, Chicago Dance Crash has produced apocalyptic narratives " "Tribulation and the Demolition Squad" in 2005, "Gotham City" in…
Saying goodbye is hard. And Robert Joffrey's towering, opulently appointed 1860s American living room, laden with Christmas gifts, has been Chicago's most welcoming "Nutcracker" home for 20 …
Saying goodbye is hard. And Robert Joffrey's towering, opulently appointed 1860s American living room, laden with Christmas gifts, has been Chicago's most welcoming "Nutcracker" home for 20 …
Tradition is a strange animal. Though we might think that hewing strictly to the old ways will maintain our traditions, truthfully it's innovation that keeps them alive, at least in any viab…
In a startling move Tuesday, four days before the Joffrey Ballet opens its final run of Robert Joffrey's "Nutcracker" on Friday, the Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation announced tha…
Holding to the theory that a rising tide lifts all boats, there are some in the concert-dance world who believe TV shows like "So You Think You Can Dance" will enhance the appeal of dance on…
Holding to the theory that a rising tide lifts all boats, there are some in the concert-dance world who believe TV shows like "So You Think You Can Dance" will enhance the appeal of dance on…
Interested in some family-friendly dance before the hurricane of the holidays starts? You might consider RPM Productions' two-act ballet, "Day of the Gypsy," Saturday and Sunday at the Harri…
Interested in some family-friendly dance before the hurricane of the holidays starts? You might consider RPM Productions' two-act ballet, "Day of the Gypsy," Saturday and Sunday at the Harri…
A warm room, convivial company, everyone clearly an individual but sharing a history, a tradition, in the pointed manner of jazz music and tap dance: Like the best Thanksgiving ever, Chicago…
Architecture and design work hand in glove, right? For laypeople, architecture might reside in a glossy magazine cover or a building glimpsed from the street. But another way to think about …
Architecture and design work hand in glove, right? For laypeople, architecture might reside in a glossy magazine cover or a building glimpsed from the street. But another way to think about …
Twyla Tharp has become a legend by ignoring expectations, undercutting the enshrined and forging unholy unions of disparate forms: the Beach Boys and ballet ("Deuce Coupe"), boxing and vaude…
Twyla Tharp has become a legend by ignoring expectations, undercutting the enshrined and forging unholy unions of disparate forms: the Beach Boys and ballet ("Deuce Coupe"), boxing and vaude…
Twyla Tharp has been on the road, off and on, for more than a month when I speak with her by phone. She has the sniffles. It's dinnertime and she hasn't eaten. But inevitably, maybe, she war…
A security guard checks our IDs at the door and points out the art exhibits we might examine before the show: two ruined altarlike structures, one wooden and carved with "Nietzsche" and "Thu…
A security guard checks our IDs at the door and points out the art exhibits we might examine before the show: two ruined altarlike structures, one wooden and carved with "Nietzsche" and "Thu…
Dancing is everything at Giordano Dance Chicago. And the dancers looked amazing at the company's 53rd-season opener, Friday and Saturday at the Harris Theater, hitting as hard and with as mu…
Dancing is everything at Giordano Dance Chicago. And the dancers looked amazing at the company's 53rd-season opener, Friday and Saturday at the Harris Theater, hitting as hard and with as mu…