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In conversation with Ellyzabeth Adler on the evening-length work, premiering at Chicago Danztheatre’s space in Andersonville's Ebenezer Lutheran Church this month.
May dance highlights
Long championing the creative power of Latina women, the company's evening-length work is inspired by Chilean poet, journalist and diplomat Gabriela Mistral.
Fernandes' practice encompasses just about any medium you can name"dance, sculpture and design, textiles and fashion, photography and film"and is often in conversation with the spaces that c…
Three pieces will premiere in Hedwig's program, which incorporate objects to reveal how human bodies are conversant with and transformed by the designed world.
April dance is in full bloom.
Through the Festival and year-round at Red Clay's studio, Vershawn Sanders-Ward celebrates and nurtures the creativity of Black female artists.
Full-spectrum emotionally gratifying theater, signed and sealed in a love letter to pop culture.
There is clear urgency and a call to action in Carrie Hanson's piece, which is even more relevant now, six years after its making.
The spring program honors American choreographers; appropriate for a ballet company that made its name touring the United States while pushing the boundaries of classicism in dance. Newcity …
Dance highlights in the months ahead
The largest puppet theater festival in North America returns to warm up crowds with a vast array of artistry from around the globe, including an adaptation of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Ha…
A one-night stop in the Windy City.
The Chicago-centric version of the holiday classic, set the winter before the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, turns ten.
"This piece is being made in the midst of deep questions with the ensemble about where do we go from here? What do we do with the coexistence of these feelings of the desire to be seen? The …
A new evening-length holiday show by South Chicago Dance Theatre founder and director Kia S. Smith is aimed at fostering a sense of audience connection.
The skill of the company is on full display in a stacked program of mic-drop numbers, old and new.
Wade Schaaf's spinoff of "Romeo and Juliet" follows Lord and Lady Capulet, carrying on clandestine affairs of their own.
In a rare Harris Theater appearance, the Joffrey Ballet presents new works by two extraordinary women choreographers: a Chicago-set love story by Chanel DaSilva and a tribute to Frida Kahlo …
"Starting a company of all women is not just about dance. It's about sisterhood. It's about community."
October offers a sweet haul of dance options.
Liam Scarlett's adaptation of the Georges Bizet opera feels timeless in the vein of Hollywood's golden era.
Three performances by Chicago artists this weekend grow joy and find ways through grief via the body, music, ritual and remembrance.
This season marks multiple milestones for the Joffrey Ballet: it's the company's seventieth season and also its thirtieth year since it relocated from New York to the Third Coast. With its t…
Deeply Rooted turns thirty, and Hubbard Street brings more Fosse. Now that's a fall season!
