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Review: Joffrey’s cast is terrific in ‘Jane Eyre,’ but bring your crib sheet

October 22, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

It begins in the middle. Cathy Marston's ballet "Jane Eyre" starts with Jane running across the gloomy English countryside, escaping Thornfield Hall having just discovered that Edward Rochester, the man...

‘Jane Eyre’ is the Joffrey’s new story ballet, opening soon — and Jane’s not the usual heroine

October 14, 2019 at 10:45 a.m.

For Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater, booking Cathy Marston's "Jane Eyre" was a no-brainer. The theatrical ballet opens the company's 2019-20 season Wednesday at the Auditorium Theatre, its last...

Review: An all-star dance lineup comes together for ‘Celebration of Lar Lubovitch’

October 6, 2019 at 11:52 a.m.

For a decade, the Chicago Dancing Festival filled Chicago's great stages with the country's best ballet and modern dance companies, for free. It was a crazy idea, but it worked,...

With live music and flamenco dance battles, Cerqua Rivera + Ensemble Español do their greatest hits at the Auditorium

March 11, 2024 at 2:07 p.m.

The Made in Chicago dance series is a risk for the Auditorium Theatre. It's not that we don't have wonderful dance companies making work in and about Chicago, it's that...

Cerqua Rivera Dance’s ‘Catracho’ is a personal, timely immigration story

September 28, 2019 at 12:28 p.m.

More than three years of work went into Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre's first evening-length work, and on the night of the premiere, it was pouring. The rain didn't keep people...

Dance? No, this weekend’s ‘Cunning Voice’ is to be an all-night outdoor sleepover party in Calumet Park

September 25, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

Loosely marked by the Great and Little Calumet Rivers and the southern shore of Lake Michigan, the Calumet Region is as far south and east as you can get in...

Review: Despair, hope and stick-to-itiveness are the themes of Harvest Dance’s first weekend

September 21, 2019 at 11:59 a.m.

It started as a way to get their work out there. Choreographers Nicole Gifford and Melissa Mallinson were looking for a platform to present their choreography, having little luck with...

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September 1, 2026 at 12:02 p.m.

DANCEEnsemble Español Brings the Heat Oct. 4 Even in the final days of her life, Dame Libby Komaiko remained involved in almost every aspect of Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater,...

Momenta’s ‘Counter Balance’ has ingenious duets and wheelchair dance, as well as some unnecessary fluff

September 9, 2019 at 12:13 p.m.

In 2003, Oak Park's Academy of Movement and Music built a ramp to make their building wheelchair accessible. It's a change that ultimately shifted the entire mission of Momenta, the...

Hema Rajagopalan, founder and artistic director of the Natya Dance Theatre, at the Academy of Dance Arts in Downers Grove.

For Hema Rajagopalan of Natya Dance, Indian dance is contemporary dance

September 6, 2019 at 11:29 a.m.

On these pages — the arts section of an American newspaper — "contemporary dance" is a label usually given to a certain aesthetic of Western concert dance. What we call...

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