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A new show that blends surrealist poetry, improvisatory opera techniques, new music and dance.
Medina Theater Collective's inaugural production about daily life in Palestine is smart, tender, at times funny and a consistently compassionate script.
"The thought about doing something that maps the richness, the ecology of our performing arts field"and literally with the geography on the map"began to excite me."
Theater and dance performances to experience in June
Yoshinojo Fujima and puppeteers Tom Lee and Ryugyoku Nishikawa each developed separate performances based on a popular classic Kabuki scene of young heartache, focusing on what Fujima calls …
May brings flowers and the first buds of live performance in over a year.
The company's season kickoff is one of the first live, in-person performances under a roof in more than thirteen months.
"In the essence of contemporary dance and contemporary meaning, now, there are a lot of voices out there that maybe we haven't explored. There are choreographers who haven't had the opportun…
Chicago theater greets spring with imaginative performance spaces, from parking garages to auditory realms.
This new short dance film serves as a gentle reminder that magic can still happen, even during a year in quarantine.
Denise Yvette Serna discusses how she and the Strawdog ensemble devised a theater/film hybrid that interprets the stories of Chicagoans living and moving through a frenetic and claustrophobi…
March roars in with virtual one-on-one plays, an alt dance festival and a gradual return to in-person performance.
Thanks to the ingenuity of Chicago's dance community through a lean ten years and a hellish ten months, Chicago remains, and will remain a mecca for dance.
Live readings, new dances and festivals streaming to you this February.
The company successfully created a new live shadow puppet cinema work in time for this physically distanced holiday season.
December theater seeks to comfort, celebrate and connect in a difficult holiday season.
Freeman's creative obsessions"brown paper, burlap and Audre Lorde"feature in her new collaboration with Jordan Phelps and VAM Studio.
Election month performances live stream commentary on our current world, and imagine a better one.
The dancer/writer's short films respond to art about a rapidly changing Beijing with echoes of nostalgia for performances that never were.
Winifred Haun & Dancers site-specific work is steeped in the beauty of the locale and the grace of bodies in motion.
Hedwig Dance uses interactions of the body and the video technology in a reflection on the effects of months of quarantine amidst socio-political upheaval.
October proves Chicago performers will find powerful ways to speak to the moment, with or without traditional stages.
Links Hall 96 Hours: Links Hall throws performance in the pressure cooker with a competitive cooking show approach to making new work.
Ellen Chenoweth, director of the Dance Presenting Series at Columbia College, talks about how she and the entire Dance Center faculty and staff reimagined the Fall season, looking for abunda…
Three great events to kick off the fall season.
