594 stories by "Sharon Hoyer"
Dance abounds this July and, in the great Chicago tradition, much of it outdoors and free.
Long-standing member and associate director of Chicago Tap Theatre, Molly Smith's show, made in collaboration with the CTT ensemble, honors queer artistry in tap dance and jazz music through…
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano's evening-length dance that both honors and stylistically upends the famous Spanish story and French opera standby returns to its hometown.
Whether it's communal experiences or intimate performances you seek, June dance has you covered.
PARA.MAR founder and artistic director Stephanie Martinez picked the name to upend it, pushing back on broad-stroke conceptions of Latin culture.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's spring series at the Harris Theater, entitled "Of Joy," features several remounts. There will be one piece new to Chicago eyeballs: the company premiere of Joh…
The collection of short works promises to showcase the versatility, skill and heart of this ambitious company.
CRDT has a unique structure, pairing choreographers with jazz composers to develop pieces over a long period"often years"and inspired by the personal stories of the artists and their communi…
A fevered take on the summer solstice celebrations of Alexander Ekman's native Sweden, "Midsummer Night's Dream" has nothing to do with Shakespeare's comedy. It does however contain plentifu…
May dance highlights include Chicago stalwarts Hubbard Street, Cerqua Rivera, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Lucky Plush, and Winifred Haun & Dancers and the Chicago Movement Collective.
Artistic director Julianna Rubio Slager spoke with Newcity about the premiere of "Lost Women of Juarez" and three other new works on the upcoming program.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre's fifty-fifth annual stop at the Auditorium Theatre features three distinct programs over five days. So clear your calendar.
As part of its fiftieth season, the Dance Center of Columbia College is showcasing works by local choreographers in its new Chicago Artist Spotlight Festival. Some of the most memorable perf…
April dance is in full bloom with large-scale productions on big stages.
For its seventy-fifth anniversary, the legendary New York City Ballet, founded by George Balanchine, performs its first appearance in Chicago in eighteen years. Three programs offer a sampli…
The first delicacy one notices in RE|dance Group's new work is the quality of the light. Illuminated rectangles of varying dimensions are scattered across the black floor, casting a soft glo…
The past, present and future of dance will get you on your feet.
"I know the standards for what is supposed to happen onstage and they are not things that invite that deep improvisational spirit. Things that don't invite that, we thwart."
New York-based Maria Torres, a dancer, choreographer and educator who works in film, television and Broadway, patented a Latin Jazz style that blends her Brooklyn-raised, Puerto Rican/Cuban/…
February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
Steppenwolf is the most recognizable name in Chicago theater. Since 2016 the venerable institution has become an incubator of multidisciplinary and experimental performance as well, presente…
"The puppet is a harbinger coming from a non-human world. It's like a species that arrives porously through myth and imagination and is like an apparition that becomes present. It speaks and…
A new work to kick off the new year.
Coping strategies for a violent, unjust and ever-accelerating world are at the forefront of cultural conversation these days. Enter Joanna Read and Same Planet Performance Project. Read's da…
In 1960, jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington infused Tchaikovsky's most recognizable composition with American rhythms and twentieth-century chords. The Ellington/Strayhorn "Nutcr…
