Category: Dance
Interviews On Dance: J e l l o 6/12
This post is part of a series cataloging and responding to interviews I’m having with people across Chicago (artists, non artists, art enthusiasts, art un-enthusiasts)…
Interviews On Dance: Elysia Banks
This post is the first in a series cataloging and responding to interviews I’m having with people across Chicago (artists, non artists, art enthusiasts, art…
Tap bookends ballet and Hubbard Street in 2019 Spring to Dance finale
ST. LOUIS, MO — On National Tap Dance Day, tappers opened and closed the final evening of Spring to Dance, capping three full days of…
Musical monotony needn’t be the rule, but at Spring to Dance, it’s a trend
ST. LOUIS, MO — It’s not a new trend. Contemporary dance has shared a kinship with minimalistic music for decades. As an undergraduate dance major…
Contemporary is king on first night of Spring to Dance
ST. LOUIS, MO — With nightly performances through Saturday at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, the annual Spring to Dance festival is slowly building to…
International dancewear brand Wear Moi finds a home in Chicago
CHICAGO — Since its humble beginnings in 1992, husband and wife business owners Christophe Ridet and Elisabeth Miegge-Ridet built their line of dance apparel called Wear Moi, going from custom orders…
Opposites attract in Hedwig’s ‘Sea Level’ at Ruth Page
CHICAGO — The two pieces which make up Hedwig Dances’s spring series are positioned as opposites. The evening, called Sea Level: Above and Below, boasts…
Saturday at the Epic Center: Beware the dance echo chamber — come to RAD Fest
KALAMAZOO, MI — In 2017, Fox News dropped the slogan “Fair and Balanced.” They claimed it was because the motto had been written by its…
RAD Fest’s first night of short works puts American gender and race politics front and center
KALAMAZOO, MI — Two rows of chairs form a semi-circle around a projection screen hung at the front of the Judy Joliffe Theater. A third…
Long works program a rare chance to see festival dances breathe
KALAMAZOO, MI — It is often the case that the dance festival setting provides a broad, but shallow view of an artist’s work. It’s an…
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