598 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
RECOMMENDED Celebrating their sixtieth anniversary, the Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to Chicago with a dazzling mix of three repertory pieces. “Black Tuesday” is a theatr…
RECOMMENDED The aptly named Big Dance Theater constructs rich, layered performances with gusto, pulling together disparate elements into three-dimensional, moving collages. Man in a Case tel…
RECOMMENDED The second collaboration between choreographer Julia Rhoads and Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, co-founder of 500 Clown, earned the creative duo another National Dance Project award. The …
RECOMMENDED French choreographer Maud Le Pladec makes her North American debut at the MCA with "Democracy," an experimental exploration of discourse, collective action and resistance via …
RECOMMENDED Sex, violence, murder, revenge, high fashion. Angelin Preljocaj's vision of Snow White delivers the most visceral elements of the Grimm Brothers' tale with delicious aplomb. The …
RECOMMENDED Placing Shakespeare’s plays in different historical contexts is a longstanding tradition for theater companies and filmmakers: modern dress and settings are used to both il…
RECOMMENDED Where are you now? Where are you going? What lies between those spaces? "From Here to There" invites us into a literal and metaphoric journey into these questions. The collaborat…
RECOMMENDEDÂ What gives a life meaning? This may be the question, lying at the root of the human heart. Brave and Barefoot Dance Troupe prompts us to ask this question of ourselves in the…
RECOMMENDED There's a new high-profile contemporary dance company in town. Nick Pupillo's Visceral Dance Chicago, born of and named after the studio he opened on the Northwest Side, made its…
RECOMMENDED River North Dance Chicago presents a one-night repertory performance with a diverse and eclectic mix. The night features several pieces by artistic director Frank Chaves. "The Go…
RECOMMENDED What, exactly, is danz theatre? According to modern dance pioneer Rudolf Von Laban, danz theatre seeks "to unite all art media to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in huma…
RECOMMENDED March is an in-between time. One day we are hopefully braving forty-degree sunshine in sweaters and sunglasses, convincing ourselves of warmth. The next we're succumbing to parka…
RECOMMENDED Like so many experiences in life, the profundity of performance is in simple, honest moments"a gesture, the repetition of a phrase physical or sung, courageous silences"and there…
RECOMMENDED Looking at the ten-year catalog of Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project"which includes dance repertory, short films, spontaneous public performances and community-based collaboratio…
RECOMMENDED Lizzie Leopold announced this to be a year of collaboration, starting in January with a collection of short works by Chicago-based artists entitled "Archipelago." This next share…
RECOMMENDED Experience extraordinary. It's a phrase that catapults us out of closed doors and the daily grind. It's a phrase that reminds us of what possibility waits to be scratched beneath…
RECOMMENDED In the midst of a spring dance season marked by contemporary minimalism and abstraction comes Houston Ballet with an old-fashioned, family-friendly, evening-length story ballet w…
RECOMMENDED We live during the reign of tweets, selfies and Google Chat. We live in a time where ambiguous digital forces know more about the intimate details of your life than your next-doo…
RECOMMENDED The Buddha stands in meditation showered by a thin stream of golden rice. Around him the panoply of human emotion, struggle and folly plays out in dream time while the mound of r…
The opening moment of Jiri Kylian's "Sarabande" is a mass birth. Six men fall from out of the bottom of six dresses to the floor, hovering on rounded backs like overturned turtles. After a m…
RECOMMENDED Melissa Thodos and company have had several fruitful collaborations over the years, most recently with celebrated Broadway director Ann Reinking. Their winter concert reprises th…
RECOMMENDED In his third year at the helm of Alvin Ailey's renowned troupe, Robert Battle has admirably continued to honor the tradition and ethos of the company while challenging its bounda…
RECOMMENDED Expect crossover crowds at the Friday night performance of Alonzo King LINES: some to see virtuosic contemporary ballet at its height and some to hear live the legendary classica…
RECOMMENDED The creation of life, death and grieving, pure beauty, perfect love"these were the bold colors on John Neumeier's palate when he made the strokes for his monumental, abstract mas…
RECOMMENDED The end of February heats up in the South Loop with two weeks of hip-hop performances, workshops, battles and discussions hosted by the Dance Center of Columbia College. The week…
