Friday, July 22, 2022
On plantations in the 1800s, plantation owners used diversity as a means of division. “We lay great stress on the necessity of having our labor mixed. By employing different nationalities,…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:05PMWednesday, July 13, 2022
“When people die, they move from the first person to the third person. They also move from the present tense to the past tense.” These words are spoken by Christine (Kendra Thulin), who …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:48AMThursday, June 30, 2022
The grounds are defined by meandering turns of grass and dirt, a rainfall of lightbulbs, a shining blue curve that sometimes picks up projections and reflections of what might be ghosts or c…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 09:39AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Summer is officially here, in case the sweat and lightning bugs weren’t enough of a clue. In addition to the shows and artists we profiled in our summer arts preview issue this week, we’…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:01PMFriday, June 10, 2022
For the first time since a pandemic hiatus, The Fly Honey Show is live for three days only of sparkle, sweat, and shimmy. Begun in 2010 with about 30 performers in the living room of the DIY…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:01PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
The year is 1994, and rock star Jacqueline Miller (Diana DeGarmo) is zigzagging the country on a tour. Her dishonest manager has absconded with her earnings, her deadbeat saxophonist boyfrie…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:08PMMonday, June 6, 2022
Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destru…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 02:18PMTuesday, May 31, 2022
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on May 21 at 89th and Commercial on the southeast side. It celebrated the opening of Commercial Ave Alfresco, a joint initiative organized by the group Sou…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:55AMWednesday, May 11, 2022
On an industrial strip of Rockwell just off Elston, beyond a white door with numbers painted in red, past a makeshift bar, through a dark curtain lies a white brick room filled with smoke. T…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:41PMThe year was 1834. Indigenous communities were being displaced from their ancestral homelands on the forced march known as the Trail of Tears. Over two million people of African descent were…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:38AMWednesday, August 11, 2021
Contretemps Contemporary Ballet challenges the stereotypes of the form in Heat Lightning.
Ethereal visions of swans, sylphs, shades, and sugarplums? A way of mov…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Teatro ZinZanni,the dinner circus spectacle, reopens at the Cambria Hotel.
The show begins before you enter the theater lobby on the 14th floor of the Cambria Ho…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:40PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
A new interdisciplinary work digs into the roots of one of the most mythologized of flowers.
In Japan, nobility and samurai cultivated orchids as symbols of brav…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:45PMThursday, July 8, 2021
In LEGACY: Phoenix^5, Joel Hall Dancers celebrate the past and look to the future.
In March 2020, the Joel Hall Dancers were preparing for a concert celebrating …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
"The potential and the sadness and beauty of big empty spaces" inspires Lucky Plush's The Map of Now.
For over a year, the Harris Theater has loomed like an abys…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:30PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Dee Alaba seeks collaborators who celebrate and respect identity.
Born in Davao in the Philippines and raised in Des Plaines, Dee Alaba began dancing at the age…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:00AMMonday, May 24, 2021
See Chicago Dance's annual celebration sustains and supports artists and audiences.
Chicago Dance Month returns for a ninth time this June with in-person events …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMMonday, May 3, 2021
Hubbard Street's Unboxed spills Nutcracker tea; Final Bow for Yellowface builds a dance incubator.
Act two: a flute trill hurries over a plodding bassoon, chased…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:45PMTuesday, April 27, 2021
This year's CIDF offers three days of workshops and film screenings celebrating everyday movement.
"I don't think there's much difference between dance and every…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMMonday, April 19, 2021
CRDT's Wilfredo Rivera finds the past year has "magnified, amplified, and vindicated the work and the focus I've had for the past six seasons."
Cerqua Rivera Dan…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMWednesday, April 7, 2021
Influences from kabuki and karate inform choreographer Rika Lin's boundary-crossing body of dance work.
Black hair. A jilted woman.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:15PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
Four choreographers use images by Chicago artist Sergio Gomez to create a series of dance films in Still Inspired (?).
A figure in black caresses a length of pap…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:45PMMonday, February 22, 2021
Yoshihisa Arai choreographs a world premiere for Maurice Ravel's hugely popular composition.
Winter in a pandemic. The roads obstructed with snow.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:00PMThursday, February 11, 2021
She's the first company alum to head the 43-year-old ensemble.
On February 4, after a yearlong search, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago announced the appointment of …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:30PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
SAIC's grad students control (and explode) the frame in an online performance festival.
The performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:05PMMonday, January 25, 2021
Local and international luminaries provide a "microcosm" of CDHP's archival mission.
Chicago Dance History Project commemorates five years of collecting oral his…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:20PMTuesday, January 12, 2021
A community townhall reaffirms the need for communication and representation.
On January 7, one day after Georgia’s runoff election resulted in its first Black…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PMFriday, December 18, 2020
In a year of loss, artists found momentum and took care.
The view is divided by screens and mirrors in Jane Jerardi's delicate hold. Fragmentation by the frame c…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
A new recorded site-specific production meets the challenges of this COVID year.
Every winter it comes: the tunes, the tinsel, the toys—and the tale of Clara, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:50PMTuesday, December 1, 2020
The company's new dance film project captures the "sea change" of precarious times.
Jacqueline Burnett, statuesque, iconic. She stands, as if chiseled into the a…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:40PMWednesday, November 18, 2020
The trials of being hapa in America get the callout treatment in this new digital play.
“You and I both know that if you leave here and talk shit about this pl…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PM 
