D49: growing dance on fertile grounds (Review)
Lauren Warnecke Hamlin Park Fieldhouse: the home of Chicago Moving Company (CMC), a typical haunt for developing choreographers to show work, and a sometimes hot bed for discovering new and emerging talent…
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The Musicophilia of Chicago Tap Theatre (review)
CHICAGO — It seems a natural partnership – live music and tap dancing – and yet Chicago Tap Theatre (CTT) seems to have settled in a niche that no other…
Wading in the Waters of the River See (p/review)
This weekend and next, there’s something kind of huge going on at Links Hall. Four years of work and a collaboration between Links Hall, Living Arts of Tulsa, Diaspora Vibes…
Striding Lion examines the American Dream
Striding Lion Performance Group’s latest endeavor, American Me, is an immersive look at the sometimes hilarious, sometimes profound, sometimes disturbing state of self-reliance and the American Dream. It’s a wide-reaching,…
Pilobolus graces a fresh new MAC stage (review)
It’s not a particularly desirable commute from the city, and public transit doesn’t really go there, but maybe that’s the point. The newly renovated McAninch Arts Center (MAC) is located…
Visceral Dance Chicago joins the lot for #chidancemonth
In a month that is veritably packed with dance, on a weekend that was equitably packed with dance, Visceral Dance Chicago (VDC) offered up a two-day program at the Harris…
River North’s spring one night stand at the Auditorium Theatre
Seeing River North Dance Chicago (RNDC) at the Auditorium Theatre felt a little bizarre. Like a buffalo in the Amazon, the ornately dressed Auditorium isn’t RNDC’s natural habitat. Nonetheless, a…
Giordano Dance Chicago ignites the Harris Theater (Review)
Ok, maybe it’s too soon for a pun about fire at the Harris, but in the last moments of the electrifying Sabroso I swear I saw smoke coming from the…
Hubbard + Jiří Kylián = Love (not a review)
The San Francisco Chronicle once named Jiří Kylián “one of the greatest choreographers of our age.” Boy, those reporters sure are smart. You know that saying that anything you could…
Dropshift dance aims to immerse and interact, and wins
Upon first glance, one might consider Andrea Cerniglia’s four woman troupe dropshift dance (intentionally uncapitalized) to be a spin off of Zephyr Dance. Cerniglia is a long time dancer/collaborator with…