Review: ‘The Making’ exerts power over Pulaski Park
Guest Contributors CHICAGO — Last Saturday marked the final performance of The Seldoms’ world premiere of The Making, an evening-length work for the company’s seven ensemble members, three visual artists and one…
November 2017
The long game of elevating Chicago dance
Lauren Warnecke CHICAGO — Elevate Chicago Dance came and went in October, and here I find myself near the end of November and still mulling over it. The one-time-only, three-day dance extravaganza…
Movement Matters: An Interview with Jacinda Ratcliffe
Movement Matters is a monthly column by Michael Workman that investigates performers whose work intersects politics, policy, and issues related to the body as the locus of socio-cultural dialogues on…
Pas de Queer: Giselle, 2.0
Editor’s Note: The following is an adapted synopsis to Giselle, based on Kaitlyn’s first experience with the ballet when it was performed by the Joffrey Ballet last month. Their version…
Carefully crafted, contained Salty Lark splits a bill with Philly’s Naked Stark
CHICAGO —This past weekend Madeleine Reber and her company Salty Lark Dance shared a split bill called 664 Miles with Philadelphia-based choreographer Katherine Kiefer Stark’s company The Naked Stark at…