The Joffrey dancers are posed with new challenges this winter as the company presents a program of all twenty-first-century works, including a piece by a Chicagoan for the first time in a de…
The young wife and husband team of Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker bring their three-year-old company and their conceptual choreography to the new Links Hall. Four short pieces …
RECOMMENDED Two haunting and beautiful Chicago-based companies share a bill in an unusual move for the Dance Center of Columbia College. The gorgeously fertile partnership that is Jonathan M…
RECOMMENDED As the title suggests, Archipelago"organized by Lizzie Leopold of the Leopold Group"is a collection of solo pieces that are individually formed but conceptually linked, a greater…
RECOMMENDED Some of my first memories of watching dance are of me developing my first crush on a very young Savion Glover"a regular on Sesame Street who taught Mr. Snuffleupagus to rap and t…
RECOMMENDED For those of us who grew up on 1940s-60s Hollywood musicals, the holiday season is affiliated with heavy-lidded crooners in cozy sweaters, lilting foxtrots across moonlit terrace…
RECOMMENDED The first images that spring to mind with The Nutcracker Ballet are usually lavish costumes, plentiful fake, glittering snow and a rousing sword fight between a wooden toy and a …
RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street reprises resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's first evening-length work after a triumphant premiere last fall. “One Thousand Pieces” is inspired …
RECOMMENDED The River North Dance Company fall program is bookended by world premieres, opening with Ashley Roland's slithering, sexy "Get Out the Ghost." The piece for six dancers starts…
RECOMMENDED The Chicago Dancemakers Forum celebrates ten years of sponsoring local dance artists by filling the MCA with performances by past grant recipients. Dozens of choreographers have …
RECOMMENDED Season after season, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project seeks out rhythmic dance and percussion groups around the world and invites them to perform in Chicago. Missing a CHRP Globa…
RECOMMEDED The mother-daughter team of Hema and Krithika Rajagopalan collaborate once more with Lookingglass co-founder David Kersnar to create a fusion of classical Indian Bharata Natyam an…
RECOMMENDED A recent visit to South Africa inspired Deeply Rooted to add a suite of short repertory pieces to their fall program. The company was the first from the U.S. to attend the intern…
By Sharon Hoyer Chance is the incubator for discovery in Bill T. Jones' 2011 "Story/Time." Inspired by John Cage's "Indeterminacy," in which Cage read one-minute stories to his audience, cho…
RECOMMENDED Between Aspen Sante Fe Ballet and Hubbard Street's fall program, audiences have the opportunity to see not one but two Chicago premieres from Alejandro Cerrudo, Hubbard Street's …
RECOMMENDED You have but one night to see the virtuosic Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in their first Chicago appearance since they breezed through for an evening in 2011. Aspen Santa Fe specializes …
Before moving to Salt Lake City to take the helm of Ballet West, Adam Sklute spent twenty-three years with the Joffrey Ballet, as dancer, Ballet Master, and Associate Artistic Director. Sklu…
By Sharon Hoyer Julia Rhoads and her thoughtful dance theater company Lucky Plush have been on the road and in residency for the last two years, revising and rebuilding two evening-length pi…
It's been proven that people are more inclined to sort out their recyclables and throw less in the garbage if the can is labeled not "trash," but "landfill." One word powerfully evokes a rea…
RECOMMENDED Since the advent of MTV, music videos have been the primary source for our common dance language and YouTube just made it easier for audiences to gain fluency. Now one could lear…
RECOMMENDED The Joffrey calls upon all their considerable resources to stage massive, demanding works by three Russian greats. The centerpiece of the evening is the company's authoritative r…
RECOMMENDED The free, weeklong festival that has made Chicago a national dance destination even in the off-season now "sells out" its three indoor events in minutes. But don't worry; tickets…
RECOMMENDED This publication has categorized performances by Marc Bamuthi Joseph (this is the third I've had the pleasure to preview) as "dance." Bamuthi Joseph is a dancer and movement is a…
RECOMMENDED Although the performances are just about to open, CHRP's Rhythm World festivities have been in full swing for more than a week. The event is a global magnet for students and teac…
RECOMMENDED One of the most surprising and diverse Chicago dance events happens each summer, when Melissa Thodos provides an in-house choreographic incubator to her company members, giving t…