598 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
RECOMMENDED In dance, the body speaks a language that transcends the need for speech in a mode that depends on the universality of the flesh, uttered in dialects of technique. Joe Goode Perf…
It’s a Saturday night at Tritriangle gallery in Wicker Park. The main room, filled lengthwise with rows of folding chairs mostly filled with attendees, face a video projection on th…
RECOMMENDED Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 with customary abundance: ten big dances from 1958 to the present, and every night…
It’s of substantial note, with over three decades in dance and a record of international program outreach, including multiple programs to and at the time not-so-friendly China, that th…
RECOMMENDED Herding cats. Like most overused metaphors, there’s good reason you hear it thrown around so much. One would be hard-pressed to find any individual who works at a non-pr…
Two years ago, Hamburg Ballet was onstage at the Harris Theater when a stagehand interrupted a dress rehearsal of their production of “Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler,” an exeges…
RECOMMENDED All architecture is created by human beings to contain their lives, but houses particularly so. Homes are the space"usually safe, sometimes otherwise"where we play out our mos…
RECOMMENDED Carving out the social history of the Bronx promises, according to the artist statement, to provide viewers of this multidisciplinary performance with a glimpse inside the boroug…
RECOMMENDED Many musicians stir hearts, some are worshipped, but few have been literally canonized as jazz great John Coltrane was after his brief life of inspired saxophony, destructive add…
RECOMMENDED A longstanding collaborator of the renowned Bebe Miller Company (whose namesake performed in Chicago recently as part of the lauded aMID Festival), Hauser teams up here with Smit…
By Michael Workman Jessica Marasa has collaborated with the leading dance improvisors in Chicago for the last ten years. Starting in February, she will host a work-in-progress series at L…
This month, the New York-based Driscoll brings an audience-integrative approach that would have had Brecht guffawing with delight to the MCA Stage. Typically blown past in the New York press…
RECOMMENDED The title of the Joffrey’s winter program references not only a stylistic theme for the movement on the stage"three pieces by contemporary choreographers"but also the music…
RECOMMENDED You’d expect to find more examples of Information Art as text printouts or video, not incorporated into dance"but that’s precisely the conceptual background agains…
By Irene Hsiao When Gus Giordano founded his company in 1963, jazz dance was something that fell between vaudeville, social dance and street performance, an ephemeral form that wasn't yet th…
By Sharon Hoyer Born on the West and South Sides in the eighties, footwork is a dance style that evolved out of juke and moves to a breakneck tempo of Chicago house music. Like the name sugg…
By Michael Workman Among the most exciting dance performances taking place in this young 2016 season is a lineup of mature dance talent poised to challenge our culture of youth. In a worldÂ…
Melissa Thodos certainly had compelling material to work with when she conceived of Sono's Journey, which premiered at the Auditorium Theatre Saturday. Sono Osato was, by all reports, a danc…
By Michael Workman Victoria Bradford choreographs a new dance, video records it, distributes it over social media, and produces a movement notation record and image archive of it…ev…
As part of Links Hall’s Midwest Nexus Touring Initiative, the upcoming "Ring Sour" performance brings San Francisco touring company Blind Tiger Society to Chicago to perform in a doubl…
RECOMMENDED Showcasing the talents of musicians and dancers from Tokyo, San Francisco and Chicago, this annual festival takes a long view of improvisational dance, as paired with traditional…
RECOMMENDED For the last several years, Molly Shanahan has put movement under a microscope and chipped away at cellular-level tensions that steel the performer against having a truly authent…
By Michael Workman Movement, visual and performance artist Sofia Moreno, long under-recognized in Chicago, sat down with us recently to discuss her exhibit "Tropical Winter" at David Weinber…
RECOMMENDED The show opener of Hubbard Street’s impressive Winter program is “Solo Echo,” a crossover concept from Crystal Pite, who has metabolized a meditation o…
By Sharon Hoyer Ashley Wheater sat down with me in his office in the Joffrey Tower shortly before the company hit the road to take Robert Joffrey's "Nutcracker" to the Kennedy Center. Forty-…
