Dance Top 5: May 2019 by Sharon Hoyer

May dance and performance from ballet to butoh.

Observer Effect: A Review of Mad Shak's Of Whales, Time, and Your Last Attempt to Reach Me by Sharon Hoyer

Dance Top 5: April 2019 by Sharon Hoyer

Chicago dance month is packed with performances from companies near and far.

Stronger Dancers, Stronger Dance Scene: Chicago Dance Month Puts a Focus on Health and Wellness by Sharon Hoyer

Chicago is one of the great global centers of dance.

Out of Darkness: A Preview of Giordano Dance at the Harris Theater by Sharon Hoyer

Miranda Davis' new piece about hope in the face of adversity is the latest in a series of commissions intended to push the company's boundaries and explore the intersections of jazz, modern …

Fight or Flight: A Review of Escapes & Reversals at Unity Lutheran Church by Sharon Hoyer

Ginger Krebs' new hourlong performance shows us a game in which the current winner is the moneyed, narrative-owning powers that be, but the underdog team, though skittish and sustaining dama…

Dance and Performance Top 5: March 2019 by Sharon Hoyer

English National Ballet returns to Chicago for the first time in over thirty years with a real stunner.

Rising Up: Power OUCH! Festival Explores Violence and the Individual Experience by Sharon Hoyer

The four day festival at Links Hall looks at how we confront, arm ourselves against, appropriate and perhaps move beyond violence.

Dance Top 5: February 2019 by Sharon Hoyer

Dance and performance beat the February blues with festivals and performance that range from multidisciplinary to classical.

The Sacred and the Profane: The Non-Human Speaks in the International Puppet Theater Festival by Sharon Hoyer

They are descending on Chicago from around the globe to relate these stories.

Dance Top 5: January 2019 by Sharon Hoyer

Puppetry, dance and performance in January.

Players 2019: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago by Sharon Hoyer

Collaboration, in an age when funding for the arts has thinned to a pitiful trickle, turned out to be a font of creative abundance.

Player of the Moment: Roell Schmidt and Links Hall by Sharon Hoyer

It's the story of artists.

Dimensions of Self: Hubbard Street's Homegrown Choreographers Explore Identity Through Different Lenses in dance(e)solve by Sharon Hoyer

Making Dance That Means More: Gary Abbott discusses his new work for Deeply Rooted Dance Theater by Sharon Hoyer

Co-founders Kevin Iega Jeff and Gary Abbott have been making and presenting dances that celebrate community.

Dance Top 5: December 2018 by Sharon Hoyer

December Dance offerings.

Working Through Past Pain: A Preview of "Volledig" at Links Hall by Sharon Hoyer

Their Future is Our Future: A&A Ballet Presents an Art Deco Nutcracker and Trains the Next Generation of Ballet Dancers by Sharon Hoyer

The Studebaker provides unique stage for A&A's vision: one large enough to put up a spectacle of scenic design and a massive cast, while intimate enough a house to afford every audience…

Breathing Together: A preview of EKILI MUNDA/What Lies Within at the Dance Center of Columbia College by Sharon Hoyer

The collaboration between Chicago's Red Clay Dance and Kampala-based Keiga Dance Company explores how personal and cultural history rest in the body.

From Darkness to Light: A Review of Visceral Dance's TAKE at The Space at Rockwell by Sharon Hoyer

A showcase for the talents of a gifted ensemble, but also of an experimental spirit, a willingness to place dancers who perform on the Harris stage in more raw contexts

The Value of the Body: A Preview of I am (not) this body at the Studebaker Theater by Sharon Hoyer

Making Commodity From Air: Ate9 Dance Company and Wilco's Glenn Kotche Join Forces by Sharon Hoyer

Ate9 Dance Company explores the wonder of human connection and interaction. We are all really different, but we have secrets that are mutual.

Dance Top 5: November 2018 by Sharon Hoyer

November dance highlights visiting and Chicago-based companies; often in the same night.

Styles in Conversation: A Review of Ephrat Asherie Dance at the Dance Center of Columbia College by Sharon Hoyer

The most arresting moments in "Odeon" were the most intimate, with direct play between the music and movement.

Reaching for the Light: A Review of Hubbard Street Dance Fall Series by Sharon Hoyer

The collaboration between Movement Art Is, Emma Portner and Third Coast Percussion is potent, urgent and highly topical.

Dance Top 5: October 2018 by Sharon Hoyer

October dance runs the gamut from whimsical to profound, narrative to abstract, in styles and genres to suit every taste.

Immersive Alchemy: Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre Pairs Live Music and Dance in an Uplifting Experience by Sharon Hoyer

The themes in Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre center around some of the most pressing questions of our time, and the room emotionally transforms as dancers physically interpret deeply personal m…

Tribalism and Repose: A Preview of Prakriti: A History of the Present by Sharon Hoyer

Ishti employs their unique blend of classical Indian dance, Indian folk and tribal dance, martial arts and contemporary Western dance to investigate what aspects of our human nature have bro…

Intercontinental Collaboration: Bringing Together Chicago's Red Clay Dance Company with Uganda's Keiga Dance Company by Sharon Hoyer

Club and street dance styles, experimental dance and a response to surveillance, race and cultural violence all happen this fall.

Can't-Miss Fall Dance Events by Sharon Hoyer

Newcity dance's three most anticipated performances of the 2018 fall season.

Transformation From Within: Nejla Yatkin's "Conference of the Birds" Experiences the Lakefront with Fresh Senses by Sharon Hoyer

Nejla Yatkin's free participatory performance seeks to open the senses amidst the natural beauty of the Burnham Wildlife Corridor.