Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Deeply Rooted turns thirty, and Hubbard Street brings more Fosse. Now that's a fall season!
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In an age when many dance-based organizations and venues struggle or have gone dark, bright spots remain. One such light in the darkness is Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble which has, as its fou…
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
The ten companies comprising the Black Dance Legacy Project demonstrate that Black dance"in its wide ranging diversity of rhythms, moods, modes and aesthetics"truly is American dance.
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Showcase performances and free community events celebrate the abundance of great dance in Chicago.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
The Seldoms remount their hyper-saturated celebration of nature's beauty at a garden in full bloom.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
"A Gallery of Dances" comprises short pieces and excerpts from Mariah Eastman dating back to her early work as a freelance choreographer, along with new short pieces commissioned from Mandy …
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Few ballet artists reach the pop status of household name. But if such a celebrity exists in our century it would be Christopher Wheeldon, one of the most sought-after choreographers in ball…
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"It's a continual practice that benefits myself and those around me, and it's rooted in love."
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For those in Chicago's dance, performance art, puppetry, experimental and cross-disciplinary performance worlds"pretty much any theater of the non-kitchen-sink variety"the name Links Hall ne…
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June brings many premieres, including the U.S. debut of Christopher Wheeldon's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" at Joffrey.
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This year, Trinity Irish Dance Company celebrates thirty-five years as the world's only Irish dance organization committed to artistic exploration and expansion of the form. I spoke with Tri…
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As the season nears its annual summer pause, an all-star lineup of choreographers and companies take the stage in May.
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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…
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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…
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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…
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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…
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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…
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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…
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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…
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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…
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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…
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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.
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