Paul Taylor troupe celebrates 60th season at Auditorium
"I had no musical training," says choreographer Paul Taylor, 83, revered for his musicality. "At Juilliard there was a class, but it was early in the morning, and it was...
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The dance of waiting in Lucky Plush’s ‘Queue’
The drama of standing in line might not be obvious. But consider: Though fraught with boredom, this pressure-cooker situation can be a microcosm of life's trials, competitions and potential for...
Joffrey’s ‘Romeo’ makes war as well as love
Political conflict is the hallmark of choreographer Krzysztof Pastor's honed, muscular new "Romeo & Juliet," a three-act ballet set not in some "universal" never-never land but in three fraught periods...
Joffrey Ballet will stage a ‘Romeo’ for our time
Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor sometimes sets off metal detectors, the shrapnel in his body a permanent reminder of violent conflict. "I was bombed in Zagreb," he says, "during the Balkan war."...
Chicago Dancing Festival announces 2014 lineup
The Chicago Dancing Festival, the annual, free summer showcase of dance, announced on Monday the lineup for its eighth season, Aug. 20-23. MacArthur grant-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham has been commissioned...
DANCE REVIEW: “Spawned Seeds, a Post Butoh Festival” in 2014
Butoh isn't your everyday entertainment. A product of post-World War II Japan, it's pointedly bizarre, glacially slow (think the MacArthur grant-winning duo Eiko & Koma) and culturally subversive. "Spawned Seeds,...
Get down with Reggie Wilson’s ‘Moses(es)’
Imagine a nightclub setting for a biblical story, and you've got some idea of Reggie Wilson's 2013 "Moses(es)." A rich pastiche of live and recorded music from the African diaspora...
Trey McIntyre joins Edward Gorey in danse macabre
Trey McIntyre didn't know he was a big fan of writer-artist Edward Gorey till a series of happy accidents. Yet a marriage between the gloomy, hilarious eccentric and this deceptively...
Trey McIntyre joins Edward Gorey in danse macabre
Trey McIntyre didn't know he was a big fan of writer-artist Edward Gorey till a series of happy accidents. Yet a marriage between the gloomy, hilarious eccentric and this deceptively...
ATOM-r creates a Frankenstein monster
Let me say right off: This review comes to you via language. Yet its subject, "The Operature," thoroughly convinced me that words and other coding systems can't begin to communicate...