"The puppet is a harbinger coming from a non-human world. It's like a species that arrives porously through myth and imagination and is like an apparition that becomes present. It speaks and…
A new work to kick off the new year.
Coping strategies for a violent, unjust and ever-accelerating world are at the forefront of cultural conversation these days. Enter Joanna Read and Same Planet Performance Project. Read's da…
In 1960, jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington infused Tchaikovsky's most recognizable composition with American rhythms and twentieth-century chords. The Ellington/Strayhorn "Nutcr…
It's the season for Nutcrackers and other holiday delights.
London-based choreographer Akram Khan brings his eponymous company to the Harris Theater for the first time, with a near-future version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" set in a rewild…
Clear your first two weekends: November is front-loaded with dance from mixed-rep to immersive storytelling.
Aszure Barton, who embarks this season on a three-year stint as resident choreographer for Hubbard Street, is reviving "return to patience," a piece she created in 2015 for students at the J…
Molly Shanahan and Mad Shak know that when she says "Bodies are so much more than what is visually perceived," she means not only that the vast interior world of individual experience is hid…
For "S45," Michelle Kranicke and Paige Cunningham-Caldarella invited three choreographers to join them in taking a section of Merce Cunningham's "Suite for Five" as a jumping off point for a…
From Frankenstein to Merce Cunningham, there's dance provocation on stage for everyone.
"We brought old and new friends together to take creative risks at multiple venues across Chicago and magic ensued. We shared a similar non-verbal language. This magic has transpired for the…
From futurism to Jungle Book revisited, this fall dance season has a big range.
On January 14 of this year, the big brother to dozens of ballet luminaries in the United States would have celebrated his hundredth birthday. To commemorate the occasion, the Gerald Arpino F…
The fall season kicks off with a series of festivals.
Harris will kick off its emerald anniversary with an all-day, outdoor festival spread across Millennium Park. Festivities culminate in a three-hour performance in the Pritzker Pavilion of a …
"Dance for Life" is an annual concert that raises money for The Dancers' Fund, which provides health care assistance for dancers and people who work in the dance field. But it also happens t…
Performances by Muntu invoke the power of the past in brilliant hues and thunderclaps: drumming, dance and song so joyfully kinetic it would be cruel to ask any other company to follow them.
Great dance heats up August: North Side, South Side, West Side and Downtown.
This Saturday, oft-overlooked artists take over the Chicago Cultural Center in the first DisFest, a daylong festival featuring multidisciplinary work by artists with disabilities. Thirty art…
This three-act visual story connects traditional African dance to twentieth and twenty-first century American forms. Through the magic of editing, West African stomps give way to tap and hip…
Ten years ago, Alice da Cunha and Marc Frost created a small festival for theater artists whose preferred method of storytelling is beyond words. Now, Physical Theater Festival Chicago works…
Dance abounds this summer, lots of it free and outdoors.
Ensemble Español's annual "Flamenco Passion" concert will give a taste of the international high-profile partnerships the organization has cultivated over its long tenure.