Laura Molzahn

Imagine trying to squeeze your entire life and everyone in it — family, lovers, verbally abusive strangers, porn actors on the Internet — into 70 minutes of storytelling, structured into...

Choreographer Bill T. Jones has a restless mind. The man who created the confrontational "Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land" — which gathered nearly 50 naked Chicagoans of...

Marius Petipa's 1877 "La Bayadere," set in India, has something of a split personality. Though its famous "Kingdom of the Shades" act represents the purest form of classical ballet, the...

At 36, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has reached maturity. So it's no surprise that the two premieres in its fall series — both by current or former company dancers —...

At the center of Ballet West's big, handsome production of "The Sleeping Beauty" is a sylph, Princess Aurora. Her transformation from girl to woman, in the chrysalis of Adam Sklute's...

As surely as Lewis Carroll dropped Alice down the rabbit hole, Julia Rhoads drops the viewer into an absurd, maddening, enchanted universe in the new "Cinderbox 2.0." Tantalizing, Byzantine, and...

Carrie Hanson's "Monument" is a big, noisy children's game with a deadly serious intent. Heedless, the six Seldoms performers make faces and toss themselves and others around like toys built...

If Plato had ever pondered the ideal of pop music, "Play/Pause" might have been it. Susan Marshall's seductive, disturbing world-premiere sextet, stripped bare as her stage, mines the essence of...

These days, perhaps more than ever, ballet companies are like sharks: they must keep moving or die. But even as they look toward the future, they ignore or forget ballet's...