Tag: Lucky Plush Productions
Meet me in St. Louis: Love Letters from Chicago’s Artistic Directors to Spring to Dance
* Note: This post was created as a special feature in collaboration with SeeChicagoDance.com* ST. LOUIS, MO — Dance St. Louis has changed Memorial Day weekend. While most Americans stuff themselves silly with burgers, hot dogs, and beer, for thousands of St. Louisians this weekend is about world-class dance performances. The Spring to Dance Festival started as a way to promote…
Lucky Plush Productions’ Fall Double Feature at Links Hall (review)
Cinderbox 2.0 is just as good the second time around… The newish Links Hall is still a work in progress. The old Viaduct seats are lumpy, the floor is a tap floor that transforms dainty landings into inelegant galumphing, and the coup de grace: a bathroom stall that’s been broken since the first week they moved in (last February). But…
Spring to Dance a strategy for butts in St. Louis dance seats
ST. LOUIS, MO — On my final day in St. Louis I spent a sweaty afternoon downtown and cooled off with two excellent shows at the Spring to Dance festival. Chicago definitely shined on this last day of three, with some of our heavy hitters appearing in both shows. I’m ashamed to admit that this was my first time seeing Lucky Plush…
Springing to a New Realm in Dance Writing
I admire dance critics, but I certainly don’t envy them. Weekends spent in a dark theater hunched over a notepad; people you barely know pretending to be your best friend; the fate of their social media lives resting in your hands. I think back to episodes such as the disastrous review of NYCB’s Nutcracker and the firestorm that followed Alastair Macaulay’s…
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