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 un-enthusiasts) about their experiences and…
Guest Contributors At Physical Theater Festival, Aura CuriAtlas’s acrobats act out Steven Hawking’s story
CHICAGO — Two festivals which ran simultaneously this month — the Pivot Arts Festival in Uptown and Edgewater and the Physical Theater Festival in Lakeview — have more in common…
Lauren Warnecke First weekend of Pivot Arts Fest challenges Euro-centrism with multidisciplinary forays
CHICAGO — Summer is just beginning, and Chicago is itching to hit the beach. Last Sunday was sunny, but deceptively cold. The chill in the air didn’t stop a couple…
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 performances at the Touhill Performing…
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 around the turn of the…
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 a boil, spending much of…
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…
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 world premieres by company members…
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 dismissed chairman Roger Ailes, swapping…
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 ring of audience members stands…