Doreen Sayegh has been a skosh busy. Playwright and quote-machine William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year, and a few folks still like to produce his work, so […]
Chicago Dancemakers Forum announced Wednesday the four Chicago-based dance artists chosen for the organization’s 2016 Lab Artist Awards. This year’s recipients are Catherine Sullivan, Onye Ozuzu, Carole McCurdy, and Pranita […]
The best of Chicago dance and the best of Chicago comedy joined together on the Harris Theater stage this June for the second installment of The Art of Falling, a […]
On Saturday, the Auditorium Theatre closes its “Made in Chicago” series with a company that has made this city home for more than five decades–Giordano Dance Chicago. “The ‘Made in […]
The second annual Stomping Grounds series, a celebration of Chicago’s percussive dance community, comes to a close this weekend with the last of six performances. The series, presented by Chicago […]
We all know the story; Cinderella, bound to cleaning the house and being excluded from all the privileges her family has access to, falls in love with the handsome […]
This past weekend, choreographer Kyle Abraham brought his work back to Chicago with Abraham.In.Motion’s stunning When the Wolves Came In at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Abraham’s work was inspired in […]
Ballet and experimental dance collide this weekend with Emily Stein Dance’s Secret Experiments in Ballet #4: Phantom Dance at Dovetail Studios. While not normally two dance forms that go hand-in-hand, Stein […]
Christopher Wheeldon A highly anticipated holiday tradition is getting a Chicago-style makeover this upcoming December. In 2015, the Joffrey Ballet announced the close of a 28-year run of Robert Joffrey’s The […]
When the lights dim, the curtain at the Cadillac Palace Theatre rises slowly, exposing forty pairs of feet dancing perfectly in sync. The curtain pauses at knee-height, focusing your eyes […]
The glorious athletic dancers and ever-innovative choreographers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater are having a short run at the Auditorium Theatre this week – get your creaky sitz […]
Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip, the new dance-theater work from Lucky Plush Productions, defies categorization. Commissioned by the Harris Theater, the show revolves around a group of […]