In “(glowing),” Japanese American choreographer Kota Yamazaki finds harmony in contrast, uniting movements from very different traditions in one choreography of subtlety and cele…
RECOMMENDED A new local company makes their debut this weekend at the Ruth Page Center. Chicago Repertory Ballet is the brainchild of Wade Schaaf, a hometown boy and former company member of…
RECOMMENDED Things that occurred: a group of girls chatting on the street abruptly realized there was a dancer just two feet behind them softly ruffling her nest of paper behind a showcas…
By Sharon Hoyer Chicago has, over the last decade, become an epicenter of world-class dance, both as creative incubator for new and established companies and"thanks to a half dozen high-prof…
Kate Corby plumbed the darkest chapters of human history for her evening-length dance "In Whole or in Part," which takes its title from the UN definition of genocide: "a series of acts commi…
RECOMMENDED Truth to power comes in many forms. For John Jota Leaños, one subversive medium is children's animation, where alphabet songs and Western fairy tales become vehicles of satire…