Wednesday's heavy summer rain left the Chicago sidewalks steaming as guests filed into the new Defibrillator Gallery space in Noble Square, just a few blocks southwest of the gallery's longt…
When Keith Elliott, Todd Kiech and Harriet Ross presented the first Dance for Life in June 1992, Chicago's dance community was in crisis. Friends and colleagues were dying at alarming rates …
It feels like a long time ago that a band of dance misfits formed Chicago Dance Crash " smooshing dance forms together to create a unique fusion style that has helped launch hip-hop onto the…
Thodos Dance Chicago's performance in the "Made in Chicago" series at the Auditorium Theatre in March marked the end of the group's run as an ensemble company, after artistic director Meliss…
"I think it's fair to say that dance in Chicago will not suffer under the new commissioner's work," said Mark Kelly just before we ended our phone conversation. After more than 30 years work…
Chicago Tap Theatre's "Changes," now at Stage 773, is a full-length narrative tap dance set to the music of David Bowie. There's not nearly enough space on Stage 773's tiny Pro Theater for a…
Flamenco is a quintessential element of Spanish culture: the women's long, ruffled skirts, the men's machismo, the fans, the scarves and the ferociously fast rhythms of Spanish dancers' feet…
There's a running joke at Side Street Studio Arts that every time Erin Rehberg hears a good idea, Elgin gets a new arts festival. Rehberg, an Elgin native, opened Side Street Studio Arts wit…
For two weeks in June, the Pivot Arts Festival presents artists of all disciplines in unconventional spaces throughout the North Side. Director Julieanne Ehre created the festival to bring a…
Friday marked the conclusion of Chicago Human Rhythm Project's two-month-long rhythmic dance festival called Stomping Grounds. A celebratory performance at the newly renovated Studebaker The…
An annual dance festival called Spring to Dance celebrated its 10th anniversary this Memorial Day weekend. St. Louisans flocked to the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Mis…
"Control versus chaos " that formula came to define my Russian experience. My journey to Russia turned up all of the stereotypes " onion domes, stacking dolls, hammers and sickles, exasperat…
Concluding its 10th season, Nomi Dance Company presents "Ten Yeared" for one night only Saturday at the Athenaeum Theatre. On the program is "Fyrsta Decad," an abstraction of Nomi's 10-year …
Called "Threepieces," Elements Contemporary Ballet's one-nighter at the beautifully renovated Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building was simply that: three pieces. Though Elements has …
New York-based choreographer Jessica Lang returned to the Harris Theater on Wednesday for a one-night-only performance of her 2014 work, "The Wanderer." "The Wanderer" is a one-act ballet se…
The main curtain at the Auditorium Theatre was already lifted as guests filed in for the Joffrey Ballet's last big event of the season. Titled "Global Visionaries," the program highlights th…
When the Stephen Petronio Company visited from New York in October 2015 to open the season at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, it performed the first episode in a dance series P…
Visceral Dance Chicago's Saturday one-nighter at the Harris Theater marked the end of its fourth season, highlighting the group's capacity to shift seamlessly between ballet and contemporary…
New York choreographer Liz Gerring presents the 2015 work "Horizon" for her Chicago debut at the Dance Center of Columbia College through Saturday. "Horizon" is a continuous hour of dancing …
With more than 200 dance companies in Chicago, those of us who are immersed in the scene can feel easily overwhelmed by the volume of dance in our city, and the depth and breadth of artists …
Friday and Saturday at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Giordano Dance Chicago's spring series displays a wide range of possibilities in American jazz dance. While some of the newer w…
Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino founded a dance company together in 1956. In the beginning, Arpino caravaned around the country with a small group of dancers while Joffrey stayed back, mana…
Through Sunday, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual Chicago engagement, the company's 47th time at the Auditorium Theatre. Though each of the programs (four in all) has…
On a recent edition of his WXRT radio spot "Lin's Bin," host Lin Brehmer defined what it means to be a classic: "A classic is a survivor. A classic transcends the winds of change. We see its…
There were a few notable changes to the seventh edition of the Joffrey Ballet's Winning Works Choreographic Competition: There are four winners this year (previously three), and a change of …