Pas de Queer: So, what’s your type?

Editor‘s Note: I’m so delighted to introduce Kaitlyn Dessoffy as a contributor to Art Intercepts, writing a new column called “Pas de Queer”. Kaitlyn will be…

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Gu Jiani’s ‘Right & Left’ Challenges Assumptions (review)

Joseph Lam, Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (CI), climbed a short set of stairs from the house of…

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Andee Scott in the edge of it, Photo by Kirk Donaldson

At the Harvest Fest, Less is More

The 6th installment of the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival (HCCDF) is trying a new format, with two programs rather than three, spread out over two…

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Bonnie Brooks | photo credit: Katie Graves

UPDATE: More Change in Store at the Dance Center

A few months after an inconspicuous note tucked in the season announcement that Bonnie Brooks would be curating its presenting series, the Dance Center of Columbia College…

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‘Sweater Weather’ Defies the Stereotype

With every class that graduates from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago comes a gaggle of tiny new dance companies, followed by an equal…

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Crash captures ‘all the feels’ for its DC debut

Chicago Dance Crash (CDC) kicked off its 13th season with an ambitious rep program for the group’s debut performance at the Dance Center of Columbia…

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Scatterdance presents a smattering of dance

Nora Sharp isn’t a typical dancer. “I grew up playing classical music intensely,” she said in an interview on Easter morning. Sharp didn’t start dancing until…

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Striding Lion examines the American Dream

  Striding Lion Performance Group’s latest endeavor, American Me, is an immersive look at the sometimes hilarious, sometimes profound, sometimes disturbing state of self-reliance and the…

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Visceral Dance Chicago joins the lot for #chidancemonth

In a month that is veritably packed with dance, on a weekend that was equitably packed with dance, Visceral Dance Chicago (VDC) offered up a…

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River North’s spring one night stand at the Auditorium Theatre

Seeing River North Dance Chicago (RNDC) at the Auditorium Theatre felt a little bizarre. Like a buffalo in the Amazon, the ornately dressed Auditorium isn’t…

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