Friday, April 11, 2014
RECOMMENDED There's a new high-profile contemporary dance company in town. Nick Pupillo's Visceral Dance Chicago, born of and named after the studio he opened on the Northwest Side, made its…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:00PM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED River North Dance Chicago presents a one-night repertory performance with a diverse and eclectic mix. The night features several pieces by artistic director Frank Chaves. "The Go…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
RECOMMENDED What, exactly, is danz theatre? According to modern dance pioneer Rudolf Von Laban, danz theatre seeks "to unite all art media to achieve an all-embracing, radical change in huma…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
RECOMMENDED March is an in-between time. One day we are hopefully braving forty-degree sunshine in sweaters and sunglasses, convincing ourselves of warmth. The next we're succumbing to parka…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2014
RECOMMENDED Like so many experiences in life, the profundity of performance is in simple, honest moments"a gesture, the repetition of a phrase physical or sung, courageous silences"and there…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
RECOMMENDED Looking at the ten-year catalog of Boise-based Trey McIntyre Project"which includes dance repertory, short films, spontaneous public performances and community-based collaboratio…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
RECOMMENDED Lizzie Leopold announced this to be a year of collaboration, starting in January with a collection of short works by Chicago-based artists entitled "Archipelago." This next share…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
RECOMMENDED Experience extraordinary. It's a phrase that catapults us out of closed doors and the daily grind. It's a phrase that reminds us of what possibility waits to be scratched beneath…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
RECOMMENDED In the midst of a spring dance season marked by contemporary minimalism and abstraction comes Houston Ballet with an old-fashioned, family-friendly, evening-length story ballet w…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2014
RECOMMENDED We live during the reign of tweets, selfies and Google Chat. We live in a time where ambiguous digital forces know more about the intimate details of your life than your next-doo…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
RECOMMENDED The Buddha stands in meditation showered by a thin stream of golden rice. Around him the panoply of human emotion, struggle and folly plays out in dream time while the mound of r…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The opening moment of Jiri Kylian's "Sarabande" is a mass birth. Six men fall from out of the bottom of six dresses to the floor, hovering on rounded backs like overturned turtles. After a m…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
RECOMMENDED Melissa Thodos and company have had several fruitful collaborations over the years, most recently with celebrated Broadway director Ann Reinking. Their winter concert reprises th…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
RECOMMENDED In his third year at the helm of Alvin Ailey's renowned troupe, Robert Battle has admirably continued to honor the tradition and ethos of the company while challenging its bounda…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
RECOMMENDED Expect crossover crowds at the Friday night performance of Alonzo King LINES: some to see virtuosic contemporary ballet at its height and some to hear live the legendary classica…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
RECOMMENDED The creation of life, death and grieving, pure beauty, perfect love"these were the bold colors on John Neumeier's palate when he made the strokes for his monumental, abstract mas…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
RECOMMENDED The end of February heats up in the South Loop with two weeks of hip-hop performances, workshops, battles and discussions hosted by the Dance Center of Columbia College. The week…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
The Joffrey dancers are posed with new challenges this winter as the company presents a program of all twenty-first-century works, including a piece by a Chicagoan for the first time in a de…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The young wife and husband team of Brenna Pierson-Tucker and Christopher Tucker bring their three-year-old company and their conceptual choreography to the new Links Hall. Four short pieces …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
RECOMMENDED Two haunting and beautiful Chicago-based companies share a bill in an unusual move for the Dance Center of Columbia College. The gorgeously fertile partnership that is Jonathan M…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
RECOMMENDED As the title suggests, Archipelago"organized by Lizzie Leopold of the Leopold Group"is a collection of solo pieces that are individually formed but conceptually linked, a greater…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
RECOMMENDED Some of my first memories of watching dance are of me developing my first crush on a very young Savion Glover"a regular on Sesame Street who taught Mr. Snuffleupagus to rap and t…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
RECOMMENDED For those of us who grew up on 1940s-60s Hollywood musicals, the holiday season is affiliated with heavy-lidded crooners in cozy sweaters, lilting foxtrots across moonlit terrace…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2013
RECOMMENDED The first images that spring to mind with The Nutcracker Ballet are usually lavish costumes, plentiful fake, glittering snow and a rousing sword fight between a wooden toy and a …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:42AM[SHARE]RECOMMENDED Hubbard Street reprises resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's first evening-length work after a triumphant premiere last fall. “One Thousand Pieces” is inspired …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2013
RECOMMENDED The River North Dance Company fall program is bookended by world premieres, opening with Ashley Roland's slithering, sexy "Get Out the Ghost." The piece for six dancers starts…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2013
RECOMMENDED The Chicago Dancemakers Forum celebrates ten years of sponsoring local dance artists by filling the MCA with performances by past grant recipients. Dozens of choreographers have …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2013
RECOMMENDED Season after season, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project seeks out rhythmic dance and percussion groups around the world and invites them to perform in Chicago. Missing a CHRP Globa…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2013
RECOMMEDED The mother-daughter team of Hema and Krithika Rajagopalan collaborate once more with Lookingglass co-founder David Kersnar to create a fusion of classical Indian Bharata Natyam an…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2013
RECOMMENDED A recent visit to South Africa inspired Deeply Rooted to add a suite of short repertory pieces to their fall program. The company was the first from the U.S. to attend the intern…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2013
By Sharon Hoyer Chance is the incubator for discovery in Bill T. Jones' 2011 "Story/Time." Inspired by John Cage's "Indeterminacy," in which Cage read one-minute stories to his audience, cho…
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