5 Chicago Dancers to Observe in 2015
Lauren Warnecke The 25 to Watch List put out each year by Dance Magazine is a coveted place for any dancer, and this year Chicago is extremely well represented with Emilie Leriche,…
Lauren Warnecke
Celebration and Celebrities at the Aud’s 125th Birthday Bash
Last night the Auditorium Theatre was teeming with opulence and excitement, in addition to Chicago celebrities John Mahoney, Patti LuPone, and Mayor Rahm too. The fancies all gathered to celebrate…
Dancers Tong and Hortin dish on HSDC’s Winter Series, Victor Quijada and not the Nutcracker
CHICAGO — An abundance of choreographic royalty appears onstage at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) this weekend and next as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC)* presents its Winter Series…
Khecari’s ‘Oubliette’ will soon be gone, but not forgotten
The feeling one gets entering Khecari’s latest performance environment must be how Mary Lennox felt when she first encountered the soggy and dead secret garden on the moor. The plants…
Bread & Butter culminates
Last fall, Cristina Tadeo and Nicholas Davio premiered a miniature dance and music installation at Comfort Station called Bread & Butter. Though short on length, space, and cast, the result…
A New Lens for Dance: Pros and Cons of Live Streaming Performance
CHICAGO — Dance for the camera is nothing new, but with idevices, YouTube and the Internet literally everywhere, broadcasting dance to living room sofas is easier than ever. Chicago companies…
Christopher Preissing Looks to his Past in “The Four Attic Windows”
Shortly after his excellent collaboration with Kristina Isabelle in The Floating City last year, composer Christopher Preissing did not take any time to rest. Four antique maps inspired his suite…
Soham Dance Project is born (review)
I spent my birthday this year with Soham Dance Space for a special Moving Dialogues during Chicago Dance Month (CDM). The theme of CDM 2014 was “Open doors, open spaces,”…
BalletX opens the Dance Center’s 41st Season (review)
For the first time maybe ever, ballet fans were torn this weekend in deciding between the Joffrey’s season opener Stories in Motion and The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.…
Hope Goldman takes flight in ‘Birds in Paradise’ (preview)
I’ve been associating shiny colored swishy pants with choreographer Hope Goldman for a really long time. Her first ever evening length concert, Birds in Paradise, has gone through many iterations,…