Tag: performance previews
Contemporary, classical works and a holiday favorite to fill Madison Ballet’s season
MADISON, WI — Wisconsin’s Madison Ballet will usher in the 2017-2018 season with a variety of mixed-repertory performances and its annual production of The Nutcracker –…
Beyond fairytale formula: Milwaukee Ballet presents Michael Pink’s ‘Mirror Mirror’
“Who’s the fairest of them all?” MILWAUKEE — Jealousy, vanity, the quest for attractiveness – common enough. But what happens when these things become all…
Pulling dance from a hat: Milwaukee’s ‘Genesis’ project
MILWAUKEE, WI — Every other year, Milwaukee Ballet’s artistic director Michael Pink sifts through a pile of applications one-by-one to select three choreographers. Some are…
Deeply Rooted’s 20th season opener highlights yin and yang (preview)
CHICAGO – “Time goes by quickly,” said Kevin Iega Jeff reflecting his tenure as Artistic Director of Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, “but we figure it out…
An audience-centered ‘choose your own adventure’ with Zephyr
CHICAGO — Nearly a year after the Amid Festival, a magical gathering of performing artists grappling with aging bodies, festival curator and Zephyr Dance artistic…
Choreographer Alex Sanchez makes his Goodman debut in ‘Wonderful Town’
CHICAGO — One of Dance Magazine’s 2015 “25 to watch,” choreographer Alex Sanchez makes his Goodman Theatre debut with Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town. The Chicago…
dropshift dance looks to the feminine for ‘FloatBrilliance’
CHICAGO — FloatBrilliance, premiering this weekend at Links Hall, is the third installment of what Artistic Director Andrea Cerniglia calls the Imposter Series, a multi-year…
Synapse returns to roots in ‘Openwork’
CHICAGO — A decade ago, Rachel Damon sat in a tree knitting a long red scarf. Her fledgling company performed many works like these — site-specific installations…
Robyn Mineko Williams goes UNDER(cover) at Links
CHICAGO — Robyn Mineko Williams, fast becoming one of the most recognizable names in Chicago dance, premieres a new episode of UNDER(cover) this weekend at…
RockCitizen: Peace, Love, and Civil Unrest
CHICAGO — On its surface, The Seldoms’ latest RockCitizen (premiering Thursday, May 5 at the Storefront Theater) is an exploration and celebration of rock music…