Hubbard Street Dance's 40th anniversary season and the Auditorium Theatre's "Made in Chicago" series intersect with a special program dedicated to Hubbard Street's first and only resident ch…
Sensuality and disgust drip through the opening of "Lie Through My Skin," setting an ambivalent tone that becomes increasingly surreal as the piece unfolds.
Fernandes's show, an installation and performance project in collaboration with design firm Norman Kelley and the Joffrey Ballet Academy is a quietly elegant look at the pleasure of pain in …
So much great dance in Chicago in March. Here's a few of our recommendations.
The dancers move with an impossibly subtle, inwardly-generated fluidity and power, on stages transformed into vast, timeless landscapes. Cloud Gate performances are truly as much mediations …
"I really believe in the honesty of being on stage"the word 'being' being key. If there's a character to imbue that it is at the very heart of the performer as opposed to something placed on…
It's a big month for ballet with Balanchine, Baryshnikov, and ABT gracing Chicago stages.
Dance highlights to kick off the new year.
January at Links Hall is an intensive course in the complexity of our American identity.
Dance in December with Twyla Tharp, Crystal Pite, Christopher Wheeldon and more.
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…
This latest piece from Hanson plays with perception by moving the audience through three rooms.
"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 …
November dance brings a golden celebration, African Dance and movement and theater games. Dance along.
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 …
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 in October, from the exploration of dance and soccer at MCA Stage to a broad swath of dance styles at Elevate Chicago Dance.
...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…
Exploring the embrace of otherness, and the eternal wavering "between female and male, presence and nostalgia, attention and forgetting."
The Fall Series will transport audiences backstage and behind the scenes at the Harris Theater.
From Shen Wei Dance Arts to Visceral Dance.