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Elements Contemporary Ballet and Aerial Dance Chicago teamed up to perform the piece "Surge" at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday, July 19, 2014. This photo was provided by Joseph Caruana of Elements Contemporary Ballet.

REVIEW: ‘Silk and Steel’ at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts

June 17, 2018 at 12:14 p.m.

Imagine a huge canvas covered in human flesh and billowing cloth, combining Hieronymus Bosch's earthbound creatures with the angels of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment." That was the vision as the curtain...

Globe-trotting with Dance Center’s Afro-Latin@ events

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

"When people think of Latin and African forms, they think of social dances — salsa, bachata — and traditional dances like Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian," says Dance Center of Columbia College...

REVIEW: Deeply Rooted Dance ‘Emerging Choreographers’ ★★½

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

Every artist can use a little nudge now and then. And that's the point of Deeply Rooted Dance Theater's "Emerging Choreographers Showcase," to help talented young artists, both dancers and...

Chicago Tap Theatre takes music as its guide

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

Industrial, synth-pop, rave, trip-hop: All are music to the ears of Chicago Tap Theatre artistic director Mark Yonally. The reason? When he was coming of age in a homogenous Kansas...

‘Flying Bach’ will bend hip-hop to classical beat

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

"Always we are looking to make one step more than the normal break-dance show," says Mikel, a founding member of the Berlin-based Flying Steps: Germany's hip-hop franchise, with a music...

Ron De Jesus’ danced love letter to Ensemble Espanol

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

"I had not been in flamenco heels in 20-some years," says choreographer Ron De Jesus. "I was terrified of being exposed, like I was a phony because I hadn't committed...

REVIEW: Ayako Kato’s ‘The Incidents’ at the Pivot Arts Festival ★★★½

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

Back in the day, I loved geometry but hated my physics class. For me there was an insurmountable chasm between the purity of concepts and the chaos of the physical...

REVIEW: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Summer Series at Harris Theater ★★★½

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

Working with clear-cut characters and a slim, melodramatic plot, Alejandro Cerrudo takes a new tack in "The Impossible." Yet it's unmistakably his: a dream world beautifully designed, choreographed and danced...

Solo piece ‘greatBIGworld’ slyly explores loneliness

June 18, 2018 at 9:24 a.m.

Former Trisha Brown dancer and recent Chicago transplant Melinda Jean Myers has proved herself a winning performer, boasting a brilliantly unstudied comic touch, in text-laced works by Lucky Plush Productions...

Photographer Vivian Maier captured in dance in ‘Bird Lady’

May 22, 2019 at 9:39 a.m.

"Bird lady" was the nickname North Shore teenagers gave Vivian Maier, the Chicago-area nanny/photographer who gained fame only after she died in 2009, penniless, at 83. The moniker was a...

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