598 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
By Sharon Hoyer When audiences packed the Harris Theater seats to see the premiere of "The Art of Falling" two years ago, no one knew what to expect, including the performers on stage. The s…
By Michael Workman “Rapid Pulse,” the international performance art festival conceived by Joseph Ravens, director of Defibrillator Gallery, enters its fifth year this June. We ta…
Chicago Human Rhythm Project's performance series "Stomping Grounds" is wrapping up with a grand-finale performance at the Auditorium Theatre June 4, in which five of the six participating c…
RECOMMENDED Coming off of more than a decade of dancing with Hubbard Street, and several years with River North Dance, Robyn Mineko Williams landed a spot in this publication’s T…
RECOMMENDED Much of the current offering from Esoteric Dance Project (EDP) centers on notions of the one and the many, the individual and masses, and of the permutations at the intersections…
RECOMMENDED During his lifetime, Robert Joffrey made his company the United States repository for the ballets of English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, but one work was missing from the…
By Michael Workman Your set design for this production of The Seldoms’ “RockCitizen” is part sculptural installation, part wearable art and part stage setting. How did you …
RECOMMENDED Carrie Hanson picks up after last year’s “Power Goes”"a brilliant evaluation of personal and political power through the lens of the Lyndon B. Johnson administr…
The Coincidentals’ performance series returns with a showcase of new works by emerging dance and movement artists. Artists are given rehearsal space to collaborate, develop work and pr…
RECOMMENDED Some Chicago audiences might remember Kyle Abraham from the Harris Theater last year in the duet he created for himself and Wendy Whelan as part of her “Restless Creature&#…
RECOMMENDED Emily Stein’s “Phantom Dance” is a reflection on how the ballet world always left her, a classically trained dancer, feeling "like a bit of a misfit intellectua…
RECOMMENDED If you haven’t encountered the work of Felicia Holman, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, Abra M. Johnson and Meida Teresa McNeal, collectively known as Honey Pot Performance, you…
RECOMMENDED Percussive dance organization Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s all-free multicultural performance series returns for a second welcome year, touring the neighborhoods each …
“Circling the Square” at the Athenaeum Theatre continues in the immersive, interdisciplinary mode for which Hedwig is known"and promises to raise the bar a notch. Also on the pro…
RECOMMENDED Taking place over three weekends at Links Hall,”The Tea Project” tackles questions of racism in American foreign and domestic policies that have not only opened the f…
RECOMMENDED When one thinks of narrative dance, the first thing to come to mind is likely either story ballet"swans, princes and evil witches frolicking through a magical, wordless realm of …
RECOMMENDED As Plato asserted, we are born with a memory of forms. Bringing together several years worth of relationship histories"between herself and lovers, friends, teachers, colleagues, …
By Sharon Hoyer Butoh artist Michael Sakamoto and Rennie Harris, founder/artistic director of hip-hop performance group Rennie Harris Puremovement, merge dance forces into an entrancing, …
Lucy Riner is nervous about the newest RE|Dance production. The creative partner of Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich, Riner is accustomed to Estanich taking the creative lead on a new d…
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was in fine form when it made its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 bringing classic Ailey repertory, a Paul Taylor piece, recent work by …
By Irene Hsiao From its roots as a small tap-dancing studio on the corner of Hubbard and LaSalle, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has become one of the companies that defines contemporary dance…
