606 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
As the season nears its annual summer pause, an all-star lineup of choreographers and companies take the stage in May.
Ten years ago, Vershawn Sanders-Ward created a piece about the pernicious nature of racial bigotry in America for her then young company. Now, for Red Clay's sixteenth season, Sanders-Ward i…
Dance artists and organizations have been piecing together their budgets through philanthropy, donations, collaboration and shared resources for a long time. So perhaps dance orgs will be pa…
April marks milestones for dance companies from Chicago and beyond.
The theme of the spring performance series at the Museum of Contemporary Art is "Lineages." Gutierrez speaks about how the work fits into his ongoing investigation of how art helps us naviga…
Longtime collaborators Sara Hook and David Parker have full schedules in separate cities. But the two still find time to creatively connect, and bring an evening of short dances, new and old…
March dance highlights
Ginger Krebs makes dance-based performances that point out the absurd and discomfiting wallpaper of everyday contemporary life with humor and a charming undercurrent of awkwardness. This wee…
Anderson's sense of humor characterizes the work of her eponymous company, which returns to Chicago with a new piece February 21-23 at Color Club. The piece, entitled "WEALTHcare: an episode…
Dance highlights to heat up the winter months.
In the program notes for RE|Dance Group's new evening-length performance, Michael Estanich says that spiritual themes are "long-lasting" through his work for the company, citing several piec…
an exploration of the edges…
Each January, the (especially cold and) windy city attracts hundreds of the finest puppeteers in the world to perform in what has become the biggest festival of its kind on this continent.
Frederking has been capturing lightning in a bottle for over three decades, portraying, as he puts it, "dance artists at the moments when they are fully present with the energy of live perfo…
To draw together Chicago's diverse and at times fractious tap community, Mark Yonally of Chicago Tap Theatre and M.A.D.D. Rhythms founder Bril Barrett created the Chicago Tap Allstars"an umb…
The winter wonderland is here with the holiday spirit and a lot of Nutcrackers!
This wordless "Hamlet" makes its debut in the States at the Harris Theater November 23 and 24, the first stop in its North American tour.
Nicole Clarke-Springer is an inspiring example of creative power in the face of seemingly insurmountable circumstances"something we all need, especially now.
Nicole Fosse, founder and artistic director of the Verdon Fosse Legacy, has been looking for a concert dance company to house her parents' iconic work. Bob Fosse is perhaps the best-known ch…
Many premieres, mix rep programs and dance series for November!
This weekend, Red Clay Dance will do something a little unusual for the company: present a mixed repertory concert.
Since stepping down as a principal dancer after three decades with the New York City Ballet, Wendy Whelan has stepped up as associate artistic director of the company and stepped out to expl…
"3320," playing October 25-November 3, will loosely be about experienced choreographers given space to play. Read invited veteran dance and performance makers to create short pieces for a tw…
Dance flourishes in October, from the Joffrey's latest epic to the exciting new mini-festival 3320 and so much more between.
How are powerful women celebrated? Who defines what that power should look like? These are just a couple of the many questions Mythili Prakash explores in her evening-length dance "She's Aus…
