Laura Molzahn

For adventure, magic and a cheery message, it's hard to beat the tale of Aladdin, the poor boy who wins over a princess with the help of a genie in...

Mark Yonally is a tap evangelist, a man dismayed by the way tap dance on Broadway and in films was replaced with ballet and modern dance, beginning in the '40s...

Passionate yet elusive, Jiri Kylian proves a fascinating companion in Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's first-ever single-choreographer program. Four works, two of them Chicago premieres, take us on a journey backward...

"I had the dancers meditate for three hours a day. They hate me! I ask them to drop everything and sit still with eyes closed. Some boys snuck away as...

Robert Battle understands the value of contrast in building insight. I can't imagine the Ailey company acquiring Wayne McGregor's futuristic "Chroma" before Battle became artistic director, which happened in 2011....

With France's Compagnie Kafig, what you see is what you get — and it's a fine sample of that. Part of the B-Real hip-hop festival, Mourad Merzouki's troupe combines street...

Silenced voices propelled Kyle Abraham's 2010 "The Radio Show." One was the sound track of his life, the voice of urban stations WAMO-AM and WAMO-FM, bought out in 2009 in...

Though Robert Battle has helmed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for only three seasons, he's already put his stamp on the company, having essentially taken it into the 21st century....