Wednesday, 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 12:00PMMonday, November 16, 2020
The Uruguayan-born choreographer and visual artist connects with undocumented women in Pilsen and Little Village for a new work.
In a year of minimal mobility, …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:15PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Community, inclusion, and diversity form the connective tissue for Nick Pupillo's vision.
“My dream was to have a company. My dream was to create a space that …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 9, 2020
The 'tragic Asian' love story disappears in this new gay rom-com.
Zac Efron: two-time winner of the MTV Movie Award for “best shirtless performance,” four-ti…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:20PMWednesday, October 14, 2020
The company celebrates "possibilities for renewal" in an anniversary concert.
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT), founded in 1995, has been transitioning for ove…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:50PMWednesday, September 30, 2020
Going online opens more opportunities in this year's festival.
“I’ve been a dancer all my life,” says CounterBalance founder Ginger Lane. Trained primarily…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMTuesday, September 22, 2020
Rigoberto Saura's new piece for Hedwig Dances documents our current disorientation.
“I woke up—I took my costume, I took a bath. That day we were ready.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Theatre Y turns Young Jean Lee's play into an elliptical but moving film project.
There’s a video of Young Jean Lee performing her 2011 play We’re Gonna Die …
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:10PMWednesday, September 9, 2020
A livestreamed multidisciplinary festival crosses a wishlist with a treasure hunt.
Along with every other performance venue in town, Links Hall went dark in Marc…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 04:00PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
Jenn Freeman (aka Po'Chop) probes femininity, gender, rage, and history in a five-part dance film.
Small-town girl finds adventure, fame, and love in the big cit…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:30PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
In an industry decimated by distancing, dancers discover steps forward.
When theaters closed their doors for COVID-19 in March, it looked like curtains for perf…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PM 
