RECOMMENDED When asked how Nexus Project performances are structured, Ben Wardell pulls a stack of little, hand-torn slips of paper from his pocket. On the floor of the rehearsal studio, he …
RECOMMENDED Two years ago, in an extended interview with Alejandro Cerrudo about the premiere of his first evening-length work, the conversation momentarily turned to a side project he had b…
Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak's ongoing "Stamina of Curiosity" project dives deep into the underwater caves that form when one person performs for another, and her curiosity uncovers phenomena at …
RECOMMENDED The Seldoms share the bill for two weekends at Links Hall, presenting the first chapter of a new work by the company's intellectually driven artistic director Carrie Hanson. "Roc…
RECOMMENDED The Joffrey presents five programs throughout their season, showing works by about a dozen leading choreographers of past and present, but there’s one show that keeps the l…
RECOMMENDED Princess Grace Awards are distributed each year to emerging artists of formidable talent in the fields of dance, film and theater (one measure of Chicago's strong and growing dan…
RECOMMENDED Adler and Sullivan's dazzling landmark Auditorium Theatre turns 125 this year, and part of the celebratory programming is a welcome "Made in Chicago" music and dance series. M…
RECOMMENDED The collaboration between dancer Cristina Tadeo and sound designer Nicholas Davio openly discusses the invisible hand in the arts that dictates whose work is seen, where and b…
By Sharon Hoyer The Dance Theatre of Harlem was established in 1969, following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first black principal dancer with the New Yor…
By Sharon Hoyer Heidi Latsky is a New York-based modern choreographer who works with mixed-ability dancers to create pieces that investigate and celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of the in…
RECOMMENDED Movement is personal. Our bodies and the way we inhabit them is integral to our identity, our sense of self. And for Billy Siegenfeld, founder of the Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, pe…
RECOMMENDED The headlining piece in Giordano's fall program is a commission from Broadway and television choreographer Ray Leeper. Leeper makes commercial dances for music videos and TV danc…
Two tremendously gifted groups of craftspeople working in different mediums have joined their toolboxes and been set loose in one of the biggest workshop playgrounds in the city. A massive a…
RECOMMENDED "I was surprised," choreographer Ivan Perez said when I asked how it was to work with the dancers of River North Dance Chicago. "They're very jazz-based and I was surprised how i…
RECOMMENDED A long-growing partnership between Jan Bartoszek, founder and director of Hedwig Dances, and Susana Pous, resident choreographer of the Havana-based DanzAbierta, comes to fruitio…
RECOMMENDED "Rosas danst Rosas" is a dance out of time. Even though Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created it thirty years ago at the tender age of twenty-four, the quietly captivating piece …
RECOMMENDED Our country's highest-profile ballet company returns to the Auditorium Theatre with a performance of works by American choreographers from the American century. Two pieces by Twy…
RECOMMENDED To whet audience appetites for the fall season, the Joffrey presents a special one-weekend amuse of short narrative ballets. Two pieces are from the Joffrey rep: Antony Tudor's 1…
RECOMMENDED Chicago meets another world-class contemporary company this fall in a mixed-rep program from Philly's delightful, knockout Ballet X. Like other great companies making fresh, reso…
RECOMMENDED Cerqua Rivera brings together their full ensemble of collaborating musicians and dancers to the Ruth Page Center for their fall concert. Composer Joe Cerqua and choreographer Wil…
RECOMMENDED Happydog performance company was formed when three artists"Chicago-based designer Annie Novotny, Portland-based choreographer Muffie Connelly and New York dancer Leslie Cuyjet"em…
RECOMMENDED The best time to be in the city is, unquestionably, the summer. These are the months that remind us why we endure such brutal winters (aside from sheer Midwest obstinacy): Chicag…
In the early nineties, a dancer with the Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre named Keith Elliott was, like many artists of the time, losing friends and colleagues to complications caused by HIV/AIDS…
RECOMMENDED The fourth and final season of critically acclaimed dance-and-music-improv mashup PRODUCE is a must-see. Hosts Lauren Warnecke, dancer, writer and educator behind Art Intercepts,…
RECOMMENDED The long-distance choreographic team of Lucy Vurusic-Riner and Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich have produced, over the last five years, a body of work that is notably calm and i…