Urban Bush Women Celebrate Coltrane, Embody Jazz (review)
Lauren Warnecke CHICAGO — Jazz music and contemporary dance: misunderstood genres which often operate ahead of their time. It isn’t until years, or even decades later that audiences accept and begin to…
Lauren Warnecke
Abundant Eye Candy in Joffrey’s ‘Bold Moves’ (review)
The contemporary works on Joffrey’s latest (through Feb. 21 at the Auditorium Theatre) have little in common, once again showing off the company’s versatility in a program that is bound…
KC: A Masterpiece in the Making
KANSAS CITY, MO: It’s so exciting to see a city ticking upward. Kansas City Ballet (KCB) is at a truly fascinating moment in its history – with Devon Carney at…
Choreographer Ashley Page Premieres Joffrey Work in ‘Bold Moves’
CHICAGO — After nearly three decades dancing and choreographing with the Royal Ballet in his native London, and another in Glasgow as the director of the Scottish Ballet, award-winning choreographer…
Kansas City Ballet Unveils a New Nutcracker (review)
KANSAS CITY, MO: As other mid-size cities’ downtown districts dwindle, Kansas City is growing at an unbelievable pace. Long known for its BBQ and jazz music, a series of projects…
Milwaukee Ballet’s Unique Take on Nutcracker (review)
MILWAUKEE, WI: Since 2002, Michael Pink has remained at the helm of Milwaukee Ballet, the longest sitting Artistic Director in the company’s 45 year history. Pink’s impressive resume as a…
Some things old and something new for Esoteric’s 5th (review)
Esoteric Dance Project (EDP) was formed in 2010, and after five full seasons, co-directors Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker took a walk down memory lane for REvisited/REnewed last weekend at…
Ruth Page Civic Ballet: 50 Years of Nutcracker (review)
Most Chicagoans familiar with dance know the names Robert Joffrey and Ruth Page, but before the Joffrey Ballet relocated to Chicago in 1995, Ruth Page was one of the only…
Lucky Plush Breaks Into the Harris
My first thought upon walking into the house of the Lucky Plush Productions’ Mix at Six and seeing a bunch of strangers was: “Why isn’t every single dancer I know…
CATCH Takes Chicago
In response to the 2012 Cultural Plan, the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (known to us artist-folk as DCASE) has beefed up its programming to…