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The Tribune's Chicagoan of the year in dance, Carrie Hanson poses for a portrait at the Pulaski Park field house on Dec. 11 2015, in Chicago.

Chicagoan of the Year in Dance: The Seldoms’ Carrie Hanson

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Politics and dance make strange bedfellows. Issue-oriented dance is generally either too oblique, burying the politics, or too overt, becoming preachy and unconvincing, except to the choir. Balancing these two...

Khecari, Blind Tiger’s ‘Ring Sour’ duets about improvising vs. order

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

A "ring sour" horse is spoiled for performance in the ring, refusing to go through its paces whether the drill is rodeo tricks or — more to the point in...

Old and new meet in Hubbard Street’s winter series

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

The life of a repertory company is never easy: all those new dances to learn all the time. But in Hubbard Street's winter lineup of four wholehearted pieces, through Sunday...

Dance Top 10 for 2015: Women had an outsized role on this year’s list

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

With shows by Wendy Whelan in January, Carrie Hanson in March, Onye Ozuzu in August, Twyla Tharp in November, and the female choreographers of Hubbard Street's winter program this weekend...

Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak: Release the core!

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Both patient and adventurous, Molly Shanahan likes to go deep, sometimes examining one issue in multiple works over as many as seven years. The payoff is a unique, gutsy contemplation...

Chicago Dance Crash moves to rhythms of disaster in ‘New Alaska’

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

What is it about disaster that excites our imaginations? For years, Chicago Dance Crash has produced apocalyptic narratives — "Tribulation and the Demolition Squad" in 2005, "Gotham City" in 2012...

Review: Farewell to Robert Joffrey’s ‘Nutcracker’

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Saying goodbye is hard. And Robert Joffrey's towering, opulently appointed 1860s American living room, laden with Christmas gifts, has been Chicago's most welcoming "Nutcracker" home for 20 years, ever since...

‘Nutcracker’ a tradition made new: Our top 4 productions

May 23, 2019 at 9:42 p.m.

Tradition is a strange animal. Though we might think that hewing strictly to the old ways will maintain our traditions, truthfully it's innovation that keeps them alive, at least in...

Gerald Arpino, shown in 2006, set up the Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation before his death in 2008. Foundation officials claim the Joffrey Ballet is behind in payments owed the foundation, which is seeking an arbitrator to settle the matter.

Foundation claims it went unpaid by Joffrey Ballet

May 22, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

In a startling move Tuesday, four days before the Joffrey Ballet opens its final run of Robert Joffrey's "Nutcracker" on Friday, the Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation announced that...

‘SYTYCD’ is coming to Chicago; what does TV dance mean for the dance world?

December 17, 2018 at 6:39 p.m.

Holding to the theory that a rising tide lifts all boats, there are some in the concert-dance world who believe TV shows like "So You Think You Can Dance" will...

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