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.
"The Memory Place" is the tenth iteration of Pivot Arts' annual festival of theater, music, dance and multidisciplinary performance. This year the co-curators gathered five pieces under a te…
Known for dances made alongside original music, CRDT presents an evening of work by choreographer Monique Haley. The program, centered around the world premiere of the now-complete "Soul Rem…
Dance puts a toe into the great outdoors this month
Rennie Harris' new piece, a tribute to Chicago House music and legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles, will appear alongside recent commissions from Hope Boykin, Randy Duncan, and a world premiere fr…
For Ellyzabeth Adler, founder and artistic director, T.S. Eliot's heap of broken images is a longtime literary favorite and the source material for the first dance theater piece she created …
From Frank Lloyd Wright to T.S. Eliot, dance shows its range in May.
"I get to see gay love in a way I've yearned for most of my life and never believed I would see in a ballet context."
Hedwig Dances' sequel to Oskar Schlemmer's 1922 avant-garde ballet is fascinating, playful and downright trippy. Figures parade toward the audience like a Kandinsky come to life.
I wanted to put what I'm into on stage. I've been very into an exploration of meditation and my own spiritually. And I'm very into disco.
April features ABT and an array of leading Chicago companies in full bloom.
"What would it feel like if we did this every day, working with your best friend, laughing and having fun and seeing it as a joy?"
This Saturday, Sleeping Village will become a petri dish for the femme and queer-led performance extravaganza the Fly Honey Show. In the lab will be three mad geniuses of party chemistry.
The ten companies in the new edition of the CBDLP will perform March 25 and 26 in a program entitled "Sans Pareil," celebrating the past and the present of the city.
Hubbard Street Dance, Alvin Ailey and much more pack March's dance calendar.
"When I saw the finished piece, I texted Tre and was like 'are you trying to kill my dancers?'" Yonally says. "It's six minutes of athletic, virtuosic go go go, and it's in five. A not-parti…
"I want people to not be sitting there thinking 'I could have stayed home and read this book or watched this movie.' I just want people to have a good time. It always been sort of tongue in …