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Swift change marks the dances of Alejandro Cerrudo, since 2009 Hubbard Street's prolific resident choreographer. But he takes a different tack " somewhat different " in the new octet "Still …
We'd rather keep the thought out of our heads, but the fact is that anyone at any time can be betrayed by body, mind or both, whether the cause is illness, accident or simple old age. In tha…
Former Hubbard Street dancer Benjamin Holliday Wardell plowed through an "existential questioning period" a few years ago that, among other things, sparked his departure in September 2011 fr…
Imagine you're wandering around an art gallery-and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you're the one hanging on …
Imagine you're wandering around an art gallery"and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you're the one hanging on …
Imagine you're wandering around an art gallery"and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you're the one hanging on …
The heads of small dance companies do it all: scrounge for grants and sponsors; court board members; audition, rehearse and choreograph; write and send press releases; find collaborating art…
There are so many ways to lie, so many degrees of and reasons for deception. Where do you start with such a subject? Where do you end?
Nobody does beautiful like Jan Bartoszek. Yet her dances are never just beautiful; instead, her unsentimental emotional acuity - her conviction that the last is never the last, that no endin…
Nobody does beautiful like Jan Bartoszek. Yet her dances are never just beautiful; instead, her unsentimental emotional acuity " her conviction that the last is never the last, that no endin…
Love him or hate him, Russian choreographer Boris Eifman makes nothing small. Extreme choreography, generally delivered at tantrum levels, is only one factor in the brash narrative ballets h…
Nana Shineflug was an explorer. She never rested easy, and she passed that experimental spirit along to the Chicago Moving Company, the troupe she headed from 1972 until 2014; she died in Ja…
The Harris Theater announced Thursday its 2015-16 dance season; the six engagements include two Harris co-commissions, a young company's first Chicago show, two Harris debuts, and live music…
Restless minds produce a restless work in "Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times #14: Curious Reinventions," as Margi Cole and the Dance COLEctive join the Peter Carpenter Performance Project …
"Why the hell is this not yet a ballet?" choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa asked herself the first time she read Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Good things come in tidy packages in the Joffrey's "New Works" program. Taking advantage of the Cadillac Palace Theatre's relative intimacy, through May 3, four chamber pieces offer a unique…
You can't beat butoh for variety, creativity and utter investment. Despite, or because of, performers' intense self-focus, it seems butoh can be more open than conventional dance to craft an…
Hindu mythology meets identity politics in Ananya Dance Theatre's "Neel: Blutopias of Radical Dreaming." Though undeniably passionate in its social and political aims, this Minneapolis-based…
The stakes are high but the mood is often light as "it" choreographer Justin Peck, 27, conducts a rehearsal in a Joffrey studio. Two dancers, moving gingerly in what he terms the "sisters' d…
Dance is a foreign language to, well, most Americans. Many scorn even the most popular form, story ballets " call it the "men in tights" syndrome. People who see dance, but seldom, tend to s…
Take one stirring yet ludicrous 1981 Journey song, "Don't Stop Believin'." Add 11 superb dancers, 2 adorable apprentices and 12 choreographers from Chicago's top companies, places like Hubba…
Take one stirring yet ludicrous 1981 Journey song, "Don't Stop Believin'." Add 11 superb dancers, 2 adorable apprentices and 12 choreographers from Chicago's top companies, places like Hubba…
"We are partners in everything," says Aparna Ramaswamy, co-artistic director of Ragamala Dance Company with her mother, Ranee Ramaswamy. "We each have our own strengths, but everything we do…
"We are partners in everything," says Aparna Ramaswamy, co-artistic director of Ragamala Dance Company with her mother, Ranee Ramaswamy. "We each have our own strengths, but everything we do…
There is nothing small about Nejla Y. Yatkin. Large hands and feet and strong facial features combine with a long, tensile body to create a huge impact: To paraphrase Daniel Burnham, she mak…
