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Trisha Brown Dance Company celebrates choreographer Merce Cunningham's collaborations with artist Robert Rauschenberg, plus four other dance productions not to miss.
“I start with anger because it’s the most taboo.”
"We’ve been through this before. We've been through erasure. We’re asking the legacy bearers how they got through it."
The annual benefit to alleviate the cost of medical care for folks in Chicago’s dance community, now in its thirty-fifth year, was born during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
It's the best time of year in Chicago with free, outdoor dance.
Possokhov’s ballet brings nuanced emotions to the stage in a fully realized marriage of dance, music and visual design.
The annual festival brings many performance types under its umbrella.
June's dance highlights
“These Gen Z artists have a lot to say. And they’re really funny."
In conversation with Ellyzabeth Adler on the evening-length work, premiering at Chicago Danztheatre’s space in Andersonville's Ebenezer Lutheran Church this month.
May dance highlights
Long championing the creative power of Latina women, the company's evening-length work is inspired by Chilean poet, journalist and diplomat Gabriela Mistral.
Fernandes' practice encompasses just about any medium you can name"dance, sculpture and design, textiles and fashion, photography and film"and is often in conversation with the spaces that c…
Three pieces will premiere in Hedwig's program, which incorporate objects to reveal how human bodies are conversant with and transformed by the designed world.
April dance is in full bloom.
Through the Festival and year-round at Red Clay's studio, Vershawn Sanders-Ward celebrates and nurtures the creativity of Black female artists.
Full-spectrum emotionally gratifying theater, signed and sealed in a love letter to pop culture.
There is clear urgency and a call to action in Carrie Hanson's piece, which is even more relevant now, six years after its making.
The spring program honors American choreographers; appropriate for a ballet company that made its name touring the United States while pushing the boundaries of classicism in dance. Newcity …
Dance highlights in the months ahead
The largest puppet theater festival in North America returns to warm up crowds with a vast array of artistry from around the globe, including an adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Ha…
A one-night stop in the Windy City.
The Chicago-centric version of the holiday classic, set the winter before the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, turns ten.
"This piece is being made in the midst of deep questions with the ensemble about where do we go from here? What do we do with the coexistence of these feelings of the desire to be seen? The …
A new evening-length holiday show by South Chicago Dance Theatre founder and director Kia S. Smith is aimed at fostering a sense of audience connection.
