Dance

This show, performed at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, was promoted in Buzz Center Stage (www.buzzcenterstage.com) last month as an upcoming event, and here’s the skinny on the actual performance. Spoiler alert! It was terrific – but let me share some details. We were greeted at the door…
It’s hard to find words to describe DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATRE’s performance. Phenomenal …  wondrous … magnificent … incredible – all these and more apply but even all together they’re insufficient to the task. DEEPLY ROOTED DANCE THEATRE, a Chicago-based dance company, has been expressing the transformative power of art…
In the two hundred (and five) years since Mary Shelley jolted to life her eponymous mad scientist and his monster and set them loose, Frankenstein has invaded just about every cross-section of culture. Motion pictures, of course. And literature. Sitcoms and cereal. And, based on the late Liam Scarlett’s production…
The Little Mermaid at Lyric Opera House is an incredibly beautiful and massive production that holds the audience spellbound from the moment it begins until the final magnificent scene of love transcendent.  This ballet created by John Neumeier for the Royal Danish Ballet in 2005 was way ahead of its time in that…
  It’s hard to go wrong with ballet. From a toddlers’ class giggling nervously through Swan Lake to the zaniest comic piece by Los Trocoderos, ballet excites, inspires, and delights us. All these occurred at the American Ballet Theatre performance April 14 at the Auditorium Theatre. I was very much…
Giordano Dance Chicago (GDC) has been an integral part of Chicago’s performing arts community for 60 years – more than a half century of bringing groundbreaking commissions, instruction, outreach and (most of all) performances to Chicago and audiences worldwide. This year they are celebrating that 60th anniversary with Season 60:…
You’ve never heard of Les Ballets Trockadero?? Les Ballets Trockadero (affectionately, ‘the Trocks’) is the ‘the World’s foremost all-male comic ballet company, and they’re playing at the Auditorium Theatre … wait, no … they played at the Aud on Saturday night, 2/11/23 – a one-night run But the Trocks are…
Nan Giordano, Giordano Dance Chicago’s Artistic Director and daughter of founder Gus Giordano, credits its devoted Board of Directors for GDC’s survival through ‘the dark years’ of the pandemic: “Beauty, Energy, Unity and Community are abundant.” Lockdown lifted just in time for the company’s 60th anniversary show, fittingly named CATCH…
Each season Joffrey Ballet Company presents a show comprised of works of various influential artists; this winter’s repertoire is a worldly combination of five works by four contemporary choreographers: British-born Christopher Wheeldon’s Commedia, Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili’s Mono Lisa and The Sofa, Chicago’s Stephanie Martinez’ Bliss!, and Chicago premiere of…
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