Review: Batman 1989 With the Chicago Philharmonic: Zap! Pow! Zonk!
My first experience with Batman was on television in 1966. The show blended live action with cartoonish settings and hammy acting. It never occurred to me as a 6-year-old that […]
My first experience with Batman was on television in 1966. The show blended live action with cartoonish settings and hammy acting. It never occurred to me as a 6-year-old that […]
Lewis Carroll’s tales of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were a staple of my childhood. We read the unsanitized versions and Grimm’s most grim before I saw […]
Spain has a complicated history with dance. Like most European countries, Spain’s cultural leaders would rather have a reputation for the finer arts like ballet but came to accept flamenco, […]
Complexions Contemporary Ballet emerged in 1994 as the creation of two Alvin Ailey alumni Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden. They moved the parameters around ballet with their careers and then […]
Harlem. The name evokes a sense of place, time, and for some, the halcyon days of the Harlem Renaissance. Sugar Hill is a section of Harlem where the strivers lived, […]
Tank and the Bangas are a genre of music unto themselves, so playing with the venerable Chicago Philharmonic was a further illumination of their poetry and music. The group is […]
All my life I’ve dreamt of seeing The National in concert. More accurately, I’ve dreamt of seeing them live for only the past four years, but that doesn’t sound as […]
The American Ballet Theatre is a venerable institution also known as America’s National Ballet Company. Their stop through Chicago at the Auditorium Theatre proves that it is a title well-earned […]
Brave drag queens and cowardly Russian oligarchs dominate the news these days. These fabulous queens are often incorrectly labeled as subversive while the Slavic autocrats aren’t receiving enough comeuppance for […]
I reviewed Ensemble Español back in June at the North Shore Center for the Arts and it was thrilling to see authentic flamenco here on our shores. Ensemble Español is […]
The Kyiv City Ballet was starting a world tour and were stranded in Paris when the Russian invasion began in February. They have not been able to return home. Their […]
When I think of modern or jazz-inspired dance, a few people come to mind. Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, and Katherine Dunham. Giordano Dance Chicago has established itself in my Hall […]