Tag: Zephyr Dance
An audience-centered ‘choose your own adventure’ with Zephyr
Author: Lauren Warnecke Published Date: October 19, 2016
CHICAGO — Nearly a year after the Amid Festival, a magical gathering of performing artists grappling with aging bodies, festival curator and Zephyr Dance artistic…
Zephyr Dance pushes its limits, and ours, too (review)
Author: Lauren Warnecke Published Date: September 28, 2014
Zephyr Dance is one of those companies that sometimes escapes my radar, particularly since the departure of Emily Stein a couple years ago. To be honest,…
Dropshift dance aims to immerse and interact, and wins
Author: Lauren Warnecke Published Date: March 2, 2014
Upon first glance, one might consider Andrea Cerniglia’s four woman troupe dropshift dance (intentionally uncapitalized) to be a spin off of Zephyr Dance. Cerniglia is a…
Secret Experiments in Ballet
Author: Lauren Warnecke Published Date: May 1, 2013
Emily Stein is not an emerging artist. With more than two decades invested in the Chicago Dance Community, Emily Stein is perhaps best known for…