RECOMMENDED The only downside to Chicago Human Rhythm Project's wrap-up performances of their annual Rhythm World festival is trying to decide which show to attend. The series of showcases a…
By Sharon Hoyer For dancers, summer is a season of creative experimentation and growth, with ample opportunities to participate in residencies and intensive classes both in the city and with…
RECOMMENDED This summer marks the second year of a three-year collaboration between Deeply Rooted Dance Theater and the South Africa-based Flatfoot Dance Company, entitled the JOMBA! Initiat…
RECOMMENDED Amidst concrete and apartment complexes, skyscrapers and trains, our interconnectedness with nature may not be immediately apparent. Wendy Clinard's “Watershed” is fu…
By Sharon Hoyer Choreographer Ron De Jesus returns to his roots in a collaboration with Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater, the company that introduced him to a career he never planne…
RECOMMENDED When it comes to courting crossover audiences, one most often sees dance companies trying to convince mass audiences that the art form isn't just for the champagne-sipping opera-…
RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street closes out their season on the big screen, with a Friday night simulcast to a forty-foot LED screen in Millennium Park. The free seats may be some of the best ones…
RECOMMENDED Nothing says summer quite like a good old-fashioned sweaty dance party. And when it comes to dance music, the roots of Chicago house run deep, building bridges across culture and…
RECOMMENDED Celebrating their sixtieth anniversary, the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Chicago with a dazzling mix of three repertory pieces. “Black Tuesday” is a theatr…
RECOMMENDED The aptly named Big Dance Theater constructs rich, layered performances with gusto, pulling together disparate elements into three-dimensional, moving collages. Man in a Case tel…
RECOMMENDED The second collaboration between choreographer Julia Rhoads and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, co-founder of 500 Clown, earned the creative duo another National Dance Project award. The …
RECOMMENDED French choreographer Maud Le Pladec makes her North American debut at the MCA with "Democracy," an experimental exploration of discourse, collective action and resistance via …
RECOMMENDED Sex, violence, murder, revenge, high fashion. Angelin Preljocaj's vision of Snow White delivers the most visceral elements of the Grimm Brothers' tale with delicious aplomb. The …
RECOMMENDED Placing Shakespeare’s plays in different historical contexts is a longstanding tradition for theater companies and filmmakers: modern dress and settings are used to both il…
RECOMMENDED Where are you now? Where are you going? What lies between those spaces? "From Here to There" invites us into a literal and metaphoric journey into these questions. The collaborat…
RECOMMENDEDÂ What gives a life meaning? This may be the question, lying at the root of the human heart. Brave and Barefoot Dance Troupe prompts us to ask this question of ourselves in the…
RECOMMENDED There's a new high-profile contemporary dance company in town. Nick Pupillo's Visceral Dance Chicago, born of and named after the studio he opened on the Northwest Side, made its…
RECOMMENDED River North Dance Chicago presents a one-night repertory performance with a diverse and eclectic mix. The night features several pieces by artistic director Frank Chaves. "The Go…
RECOMMENDED What, exactly, is danz theatre? According to modern dance pioneer Rudolf Von Laban, danz theatre seeks "to unite all art media to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in huma…
RECOMMENDED March is an in-between time. One day we are hopefully braving forty-degree sunshine in sweaters and sunglasses, convincing ourselves of warmth. The next we're succumbing to parka…
RECOMMENDED Like so many experiences in life, the profundity of performance is in simple, honest moments"a gesture, the repetition of a phrase physical or sung, courageous silences"and there…
RECOMMENDED Looking at the ten-year catalog of Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project"which includes dance repertory, short films, spontaneous public performances and community-based collaboratio…
RECOMMENDED Lizzie Leopold announced this to be a year of collaboration, starting in January with a collection of short works by Chicago-based artists entitled "Archipelago." This next share…
RECOMMENDED Experience extraordinary. It's a phrase that catapults us out of closed doors and the daily grind. It's a phrase that reminds us of what possibility waits to be scratched beneath…
RECOMMENDED In the midst of a spring dance season marked by contemporary minimalism and abstraction comes Houston Ballet with an old-fashioned, family-friendly, evening-length story ballet w…