217 stories by "Irene Hsiao"
"When people die, they move from the first person to the third person. They also move from the present tense to the past tense." These words are spoken by Christine (Kendra Thulin), who open…
The grounds are defined by meandering turns of grass and dirt, a rainfall of lightbulbs, a shining blue curve that sometimes picks up projections and reflections of what might be ghosts or c…
Summer is officially here, in case the sweat and lightning bugs weren't enough of a clue. In addition to the shows and artists we profiled in our summer arts preview issue this week, we've g…
For the first time since a pandemic hiatus, The Fly Honey Show is live for three days only of sparkle, sweat, and shimmy. Begun in 2010 with about 30 performers in the living room of the DIY…
The year is 1994, and rock star Jacqueline Miller (Diana DeGarmo) is zigzagging the country on a tour. Her dishonest manager has absconded with her earnings, her deadbeat saxophonist boyfrie…
Two years into this pestilence, the misery of war, the disappointment of mankind day after day weighing down desperate minds, with a future certain of nothing but social and planetary destru…
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on May 21 at 89th and Commercial on the southeast side. It celebrated the opening of Commercial Ave Alfresco, a joint initiative organized by the group Sou…
On an industrial strip of Rockwell just off Elston, beyond a white door with numbers painted in red, past a makeshift bar, through a dark curtain lies a white brick room filled with smoke. T…
The year was 1834. Indigenous communities were being displaced from their ancestral homelands on the forced march known as the Trail of Tears. Over two million people of African descent were…
Contretemps Contemporary Ballet challenges the stereotypes of the form in Heat Lightning.
Ethereal visions of swans, sylphs, shades, and sugarplums? A way of mov…
Teatro ZinZanni,the dinner circus spectacle, reopens at the Cambria Hotel.
The show begins before you enter the theater lobby on the 14th floor of the Cambria Ho…
A new interdisciplinary work digs into the roots of one of the most mythologized of flowers.
In Japan, nobility and samurai cultivated orchids as symbols of brav…
In LEGACY: Phoenix^5, Joel Hall Dancers celebrate the past and look to the future.
In March 2020, the Joel Hall Dancers were preparing for a concert celebrating …
"The potential and the sadness and beauty of big empty spaces" inspires Lucky Plush's The Map of Now.
For over a year, the Harris Theater has loomed like an abys…
Dee Alaba seeks collaborators who celebrate and respect identity.
Born in Davao in the Philippines and raised in Des Plaines, Dee Alaba began dancing at the age…
See Chicago Dance's annual celebration sustains and supports artists and audiences.
Chicago Dance Month returns for a ninth time this June with in-person events …
Hubbard Street's Unboxed spills Nutcracker tea; Final Bow for Yellowface builds a dance incubator.
Act two: a flute trill hurries over a plodding bassoon, chased…
This year's CIDF offers three days of workshops and film screenings celebrating everyday movement.
"I don't think there's much difference between dance and every…
CRDT's Wilfredo Rivera finds the past year has "magnified, amplified, and vindicated the work and the focus I've had for the past six seasons."
Cerqua Rivera Dan…
Influences from kabuki and karate inform choreographer Rika Lin's boundary-crossing body of dance work.
Black hair. A jilted woman.…
Four choreographers use images by Chicago artist Sergio Gomez to create a series of dance films in Still Inspired (?).
A figure in black caresses a length of pap…
Yoshihisa Arai choreographs a world premiere for Maurice Ravel's hugely popular composition.
Winter in a pandemic. The roads obstructed with snow.…
She's the first company alum to head the 43-year-old ensemble.
On February 4, after a yearlong search, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago announced the appointment of …
SAIC's grad students control (and explode) the frame in an online performance festival.
The performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago …
Local and international luminaries provide a "microcosm" of CDHP's archival mission.
Chicago Dance History Project commemorates five years of collecting oral his…
