April is Chicago Dance Month!
Lauren Warnecke In spite of an exciting month ahead, things might be a little quieter around here. I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be contributing to SeeChicagoDance.com to help cover the…
Lauren Warnecke
Jazz Hands + Tamales = Winning
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance may be trying to reinvent itself in its Eat to the Beat, a series of casual, lunchtime performances featuring some of our best…
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Spring Season Kick-off
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s spring season begins with a bang… … and his name is Alonzo King. In a highly anticipated collaboration with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, the two companies…
How I am Celebrating Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February is Eating Disorders Awareness Month, and there has been quite a bit floating around the blogosphere with respect to this poignant topic in the dance community. It’s just too…
(Review) Hubbard Street 2 at Wheaton College
Dancing to live classical music isn’t exactly a novel idea, but somehow the combination of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s second company and the Wheaton College Orchestra last Saturday evening felt…
Humbled.
I was apprehensive in joining Dance Advantage’s Top Dance Blog competition… I love this little here blog, but I’m also acutely aware that it’s a website with somewhat of an…
Diablo Gives Ballet a Reboot
Ever since the Dance/USA conference I’ve seen Diablo Ballet all over the internet. This relatively small-scale ballet company out of Walnut Creek, CA would likely be completely unfamiliar to me…
Deirdre Kelly Gives the Dirt on Ballerinas
Last weekend I saw Les Miserables in the movie theater, and it was ironically appropriate given the book I was reading at the time: Ballerina by Deirdre Kelly. Les Mis…
Top Dance Blog Contest
In the past, I’ve thought about entering Dance Advantage’s Top Dance Blog Contest, but never followed through. In part, my writing is all over the internet. I’m like a visa…
Season’s Greetings from Art Intercepts
From my laptop to yours, wishing you the merriest and happiest of whatever it is you do this time of year… It is my pleasure and my passion to put…