Rising Up: Power OUCH! Festival Explores Violence and the Individual Experience
The four day festival at Links Hall looks at how we confront, arm ourselves against, appropriate and perhaps move beyond violence.
The four day festival at Links Hall looks at how we confront, arm ourselves against, appropriate and perhaps move beyond violence.
Dance and performance beat the February blues with festivals and performance that range from multidisciplinary to classical.
They are descending on Chicago from around the globe to relate these stories.
Puppetry, dance and performance in January.
Collaboration, in an age when funding for the arts has thinned to a pitiful trickle, turned out to be a font of creative abundance.
It's the story of artists.
Co-founders Kevin Iega Jeff and Gary Abbott have been making and presenting dances that celebrate community.
December Dance offerings.
The Studebaker provides unique stage for A&A's vision: one large enough to put up a spectacle of scenic design and a massive cast, while intimate enough a house to afford every audience…
The collaboration between Chicago's Red Clay Dance and Kampala-based Keiga Dance Company explores how personal and cultural history rest in the body.
A showcase for the talents of a gifted ensemble, but also of an experimental spirit, a willingness to place dancers who perform on the Harris stage in more raw contexts
Ate9 Dance Company explores the wonder of human connection and interaction. We are all really different, but we have secrets that are mutual.
November dance highlights visiting and Chicago-based companies; often in the same night.
The most arresting moments in "Odeon" were the most intimate, with direct play between the music and movement.
The collaboration between Movement Art Is, Emma Portner and Third Coast Percussion is potent, urgent and highly topical.
October dance runs the gamut from whimsical to profound, narrative to abstract, in styles and genres to suit every taste.
The themes in Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre center around some of the most pressing questions of our time, and the room emotionally transforms as dancers physically interpret deeply personal m…
Ishti employs their unique blend of classical Indian dance, Indian folk and tribal dance, martial arts and contemporary Western dance to investigate what aspects of our human nature have bro…
Club and street dance styles, experimental dance and a response to surveillance, race and cultural violence all happen this fall.
Newcity dance's three most anticipated performances of the 2018 fall season.
Nejla Yatkin's free participatory performance seeks to open the senses amidst the natural beauty of the Burnham Wildlife Corridor.
The natural world, internal landscapes and political spheres collide this month in dance.