Lauren Warnecke

This weekend, Chicago dance artists and venues are opening their doors and inviting the public to stages all over the city to witness excerpts, works-in-progress and studio processes from our...

In Eric Barry's now-infamous "Goodbye Chicago" manifesto published in the Huffington Post, the aspiring comic aired all of Chicago's dirty laundry — laying out the idiosyncrasies of a place in...

"We are what we repeatedly do," said writer Will Durant, describing Aristotle's observations on the effects of practice. We now understand this as the principle of specificity. If you want...

The marriage of music and dance is what Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre is all about. And though it's a dance company, this group's fall series "Alone/Together" relies as heavily on...

"Reimagining classical Indian dance for modern times." I must have written that description a dozen times, about a dozen different works over the past few years. But pulling apart a...

Links Hall, a well-known incubator and performance venue for dance and performance artists, spent its first 30 years in a raggedy old space above a Wrigleyville pub near the confluence...

If audiences turned out to the Auditorium Theatre over the weekend expecting to see an Olympic-style spectacle, they surely left disappointed. While Shen Wei, the MacArthur "genius"-award winning director of...

It's been more than 10 years since the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, one of Chicago's top tap dance companies, last performed at the Dance Center of Columbia College. As the...

A small but enthusiastic crowd assembled at Skokie's North Shore Center for the Performing Arts for Visceral Dance Chicago's fall offering, the official season opener for the fledgling company's fifth...