A Terrible and Beautiful Time: Performances at Links Hall Capture the Creative American Zeitgeist by Sharon Hoyer

January at Links Hall is an intensive course in the complexity of our American identity.

Dance Top 5: December 2017 by Sharon Hoyer

Dance in December with Twyla Tharp, Crystal Pite, Christopher Wheeldon and more.

Going Deeper: Deeply Rooted Dance Theater mines pain, healing and spirituality in Fana Tshabalala's INDUMBA by Sharon Hoyer

Tshabalala originally created the piece in his native South Africa, ostensibly in response to apartheid and its aftermath, but the pounding heart of "INDUMBA" is universally powerful to witn…

Partially Obstructed: The Seldoms tune in to the lower frequencies in The Making by Sharon Hoyer

This latest piece from Hanson plays with perception by moving the audience through three rooms.

Rules of the Game: Lucky Plush Productions Finds Empathy Through Storytelling in Rooming House by Sharon Hoyer

"We're always wrestling with how to create a piece that an audience can connect to. That's by creating a logic, but then we also believe the logic breaks down because life doesn't work in a …

Dance Top 5: November 2017 by Sharon Hoyer

November dance brings a golden celebration, African Dance and movement and theater games. Dance along.

Testing Bounds: a preview of Unwinding at the Studebaker Theater by Sharon Hoyer

Pranita (Jain) Nayar, executive artistic director of Mandala South Asian Performing Arts, is testing the bounds of the highly formal dance style she has worked in for over thirty years: the …

The Irrevocable Condition: Reggie Wilson/Fist + Heel Performance Group Explore the Trappings of Group Identity in CITIZEN by Sharon Hoyer

How an individual or community feels like they do belong, or want to belong, but at the same time there might be something about that belonging they don't want to participate in. You can tak…

Dance Top 5: October 2017 by Sharon Hoyer

Dance in October, from the exploration of dance and soccer at MCA Stage to a broad swath of dance styles at Elevate Chicago Dance.

Gentle, Awkward, Human: A Review of Hubbard Street Dance's Space, In Perspective at the Harris Theater by Sharon Hoyer

...the company visibly honed in on choreography that ranges from small"an almost imperceptibly slow decent by dancer Rena Butler from standing to sitting in a chair"to massive, with the comb…

In Discomfort, Beauty: Carole McCurdy Blends Argentine Tango and Butoh at Defibrillator by Sharon Hoyer

Exploring the embrace of otherness, and the eternal wavering "between female and male, presence and nostalgia, attention and forgetting."

What Could Be Better? Glenn Edgerton Discusses the Fortieth Anniversary Season of Hubbard Street Dance by Sharon Hoyer

The Fall Series will transport audiences backstage and behind the scenes at the Harris Theater.

Dance Top 5 by Sharon Hoyer

From Shen Wei Dance Arts to Visceral Dance.

Taking Care of Our Own: Dance for Life Brings Chicago's Dancers Together for a Cause by Sharon Hoyer

Raw, Ambitious, Passionate, Imperfect by Sharon Hoyer by Sharon Hoyer

Dance Top 5 by Sharon Hoyer by Sharon Hoyer

Honoring the Past, Accelerating Creativity by Sharon Hoyer

Summer in Motion by Sharon Hoyer

Through Softness, Strength by Sharon Hoyer

Honoring the Past While Preserving the Present by Sharon Hoyer

Serving Up Beauties with a Dose of Darkness by Sharon Hoyer

New Empathy for Old Traditions by Sharon Hoyer

Visceral Response by Sharon Hoyer

The Story Underneath the Decay by Sharon Hoyer

Extreme Explorations of Technical Facility by Sharon Hoyer