Rebound for Raphael Xavier at ‘B-Real’ hip-hop festival
Early in 2007, break dancer Raphael Xavier woke up with a sore neck and shoulders. He wasn't worried — "I usually work out really, really hard," he says — but...
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Joffrey ‘Choreographers’ filled with adventure
The concept of contemporary ballet opens up a whole new universe, not just of hybrid vocabularies but of limitless subjects — the timeless verities of the flash mob, for instance....
Dance Card: The Humans and Khecari on a double bill
Rachel Bunting is flustered, laughing. She's got glue on her hands. She brandishes a baby-face mask with feathers stuck in a headband on the stretchy back, and it looks as...
Dance Card: The Humans and Khecari on a double bill
Rachel Bunting is flustered, laughing. She's got glue on her hands. She brandishes a baby-face mask with feathers stuck in a headband on the stretchy back, and it looks as...
DanceWorks Chicago family comes together for new Harris series
Thursday night, DanceWorks Chicago inaugurated an upbeat new series at the Harris Theater with a one-off production. Like the "Eat to the Beat" lunchtime shows, a series DWC introduced in...
Keith Hennessy reveals naked truth in ‘Crotch’
In "Crotch," solo performer Keith Hennessy cycles through many roles: tortured soul, genial host, trickster, flustered intellectual, worst dancer ever, shaman. But role-playing isn't his aim; reaching the bedrock of...
Savion Glover makes great strides in ‘STePz’
The show was one night only, the house was packed, the ovation was standing. In his Harris Theater debut Friday night, former wunderkind Savion Glover proved he's all grown up,...
Dance Card: Savion Glover’s ‘STePz’ taps into artistic tradition
At 40, a relatively young age for a hoofer, Savion Glover is a tap-dance legend. Of course, he has danced professionally for three decades, ever since he starred on Broadway...
Winter 2014 in dance: Temperatures are rising
Things heat up quickly after New Year's. Dance things, that is. These are just some of the events you might want to mark on your calendars. Striding Lion Performance Group:...
Dance Chicagoan of 2013: Ashley Wheater of the Joffrey Ballet
"The first couple of years were tough," says Ashley Wheater, Joffrey Ballet artistic director since 2007. "The company was in transition, we hit a terrible recession." But an old friend,...