Monday, April 25, 2016
RECOMMENDED Some Chicago audiences might remember Kyle Abraham from the Harris Theater last year in the duet he created for himself and Wendy Whelan as part of her “Restless Creature&#…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
RECOMMENDED Emily Stein’s “Phantom Dance” is a reflection on how the ballet world always left her, a classically trained dancer, feeling "like a bit of a misfit intellectua…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
RECOMMENDED If you haven’t encountered the work of Felicia Holman, Aisha Josina Jean-Baptiste, Abra M. Johnson and Meida Teresa McNeal, collectively known as Honey Pot Performance, you…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2016
RECOMMENDED Percussive dance organization Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s all-free multicultural performance series returns for a second welcome year, touring the neighborhoods each …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
“Circling the Square” at the Athenaeum Theatre continues in the immersive, interdisciplinary mode for which Hedwig is known"and promises to raise the bar a notch. Also on the pro…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
RECOMMENDED Taking place over three weekends at Links Hall,”The Tea Project” tackles questions of racism in American foreign and domestic policies that have not only opened the f…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:46AM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED When one thinks of narrative dance, the first thing to come to mind is likely either story ballet"swans, princes and evil witches frolicking through a magical, wordless realm of …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
RECOMMENDED As Plato asserted, we are born with a memory of forms. Bringing together several years worth of relationship histories"between herself and lovers, friends, teachers, colleagues, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:21AM[SHARE]By Sharon Hoyer Butoh artist Michael Sakamoto and Rennie Harris, founder/artistic director of hip-hop performance group Rennie Harris Puremovement, merge dance forces into an entrancing, …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
Lucy Riner is nervous about the newest RE|Dance production. The creative partner of Wisconsin-based Michael Estanich, Riner is accustomed to Estanich taking the creative lead on a new d…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was in fine form when it made its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 bringing classic Ailey repertory, a Paul Taylor piece, recent work by …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
By Irene Hsiao From its roots as a small tap-dancing studio on the corner of Hubbard and LaSalle, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has become one of the companies that defines contemporary dance…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2016
RECOMMENDED In dance, the body speaks a language that transcends the need for speech in a mode that depends on the universality of the flesh, uttered in dialects of technique. Joe Goode Perf…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
It’s a Saturday night at Tritriangle gallery in Wicker Park. The main room, filled lengthwise with rows of folding chairs mostly filled with attendees, face a video projection on th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 01:54PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its annual return to the Auditorium Theatre March 8-13 with customary abundance: ten big dances from 1958 to the present, and every night…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, February 29, 2016
It’s of substantial note, with over three decades in dance and a record of international program outreach, including multiple programs to and at the time not-so-friendly China, that th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
RECOMMENDED Herding cats. Like most overused metaphors, there’s good reason you hear it thrown around so much. One would be hard-pressed to find any individual who works at a non-pr…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:19AM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2016
Two years ago, Hamburg Ballet was onstage at the Harris Theater when a stagehand interrupted a dress rehearsal of their production of “Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler,” an exeges…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
RECOMMENDED All architecture is created by human beings to contain their lives, but houses particularly so. Homes are the space"usually safe, sometimes otherwise"where we play out our mos…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
RECOMMENDED Carving out the social history of the Bronx promises, according to the artist statement, to provide viewers of this multidisciplinary performance with a glimpse inside the boroug…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
RECOMMENDED Many musicians stir hearts, some are worshipped, but few have been literally canonized as jazz great John Coltrane was after his brief life of inspired saxophony, destructive add…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
RECOMMENDED A longstanding collaborator of the renowned Bebe Miller Company (whose namesake performed in Chicago recently as part of the lauded aMID Festival), Hauser teams up here with Smit…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
By Michael Workman Jessica Marasa has collaborated with the leading dance improvisors in Chicago for the last ten years. Starting in February, she will host a work-in-progress series at L…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
This month, the New York-based Driscoll brings an audience-integrative approach that would have had Brecht guffawing with delight to the MCA Stage. Typically blown past in the New York press…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2016
RECOMMENDED The title of the Joffrey’s winter program references not only a stylistic theme for the movement on the stage"three pieces by contemporary choreographers"but also the music…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:20AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
RECOMMENDED You’d expect to find more examples of Information Art as text printouts or video, not incorporated into dance"but that’s precisely the conceptual background agains…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:46AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
By Irene Hsiao When Gus Giordano founded his company in 1963, jazz dance was something that fell between vaudeville, social dance and street performance, an ephemeral form that wasn't yet th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
By Sharon Hoyer Born on the West and South Sides in the eighties, footwork is a dance style that evolved out of juke and moves to a breakneck tempo of Chicago house music. Like the name sugg…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 03:04PM[SHARE]By Michael Workman Among the most exciting dance performances taking place in this young 2016 season is a lineup of mature dance talent poised to challenge our culture of youth. In a worldÂ…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Melissa Thodos certainly had compelling material to work with when she conceived of Sono's Journey, which premiered at the Auditorium Theatre Saturday. Sono Osato was, by all reports, a danc…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 11:11AM[SHARE]Friday, December 18, 2015
By Michael Workman Victoria Bradford choreographs a new dance, video records it, distributes it over social media, and produces a movement notation record and image archive of it…ev…
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