606 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
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-…
With a schedule that includes curated fundraising events in New York, San Francisco and, for two consecutive years, Chicago, the Flow Show presented a fun, kid-friendly burlesque show. That&…
Now in its fifth season, this newest iteration of Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker’s Esoteric Dance Project, with its half decade of extemporaneous choreography, provide…
This event, founded by the At the Table Collective, comprised of members Lindsay Hopkins, Mike Lahood, Jessie Marasa, Lara Oppenheimer and Bryan Saner, began in December 2013 at Hopkins a…
Few of those who taught at the School of the Art Institute haunt this festival so much as the ghost of outré artist Barbara DeGenevieve, who died suddenly in 2014, and whose performance med…
As part of the Chicago Cultural Center’s dance laboratory program, Shannahan and collaborator Jeff Hancock performed this dance, in development since 2012, drawing inspiration from the…
RECOMMENDED As part of Chicago Artists Month, Hedwig Dances reprises company member Victor Alexander’s “Line of Sighs,” a luscious meditation on human connection conceiv…
RECOMMENDED Few artists or dancers engage their subjects with anything near the capable, distinct voracity of Bradford’s punctually conceptualist, stratospherically aspirational choreo…
RECOMMENDED The new work by the young Bessie-winning choreographer and TED fellow Camille A. Brown just finished a highly acclaimed world premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York and now tr…
RECOMMENDED The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events hosts a series of free downtown dance performances through the month of November. It begins this weekend at th…
RECOMMENDED The final installment of Khecari’s five-year performance cycle takes place this fall and brings us back to the five-by-eight-foot pit that was the set for last year̵…
Newcomer Kelly Anderson follows up her Chicago dance theater debut “Message Me If…” with another evening-length show at Links Hall, this time inspired not by the trials and…
RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street dedicates their entire fall program to the great William Forsythe, reviving “Quintett,” sinking their chops into all-male quartet “N.N.N.N.…
RECOMMENDED John Neumeier’s reimagining of “Sylvia” blesses the stage with images not often seen in story ballet: those of powerful, independent women en pointe. According …
Frank Chaves, artistic director of River North Dance Chicago, steps down this December after twenty-three years leading the contemporary jazz company. In 2005 Chaves was diagnosed with syrin…
“I’ve had company for over thirty years now. It was very much about recreating work of my own,” Stephen Petronio says of his new five-year project “Bloodlines.R…
RECOMMENDED Certain arts organizations serve as cultural ambassadors"charged not just with providing an entertaining, aesthetic and perhaps thought-provoking experience, but also with purvey…
Dances by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa have been performed in Chicago before"repertory for Luna Negra back in 2009 and this past year when Scottish Ballet visited with “A Streetcar Named Desi…
