Lauren Warnecke

The first of two programs in this year's Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival (through Sept. 16 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts) begins with Alicia Diaz's "Deep Listening,"...

Conversations about a Hip Hop Studies minor at Columbia College Chicago began about three years ago, as choreographer and educator Onye Ozuzu was transitioning from chair of the dance department...

Marie Casimir was still the associate director of Links Hall when she and Steve Marquette conceived the first Instigation Festival in 2016, a joint venture to create a cultural exchange...

When Victor Alexander was preparing for the next phase of his career, gradually reducing his stage time as a performer in Hedwig Dances and dabbling with choreography, he never imagined...

In its second year, Collaboraction's Peacebook Festival shares some commonalities with the now-defunct Sketchbook Festival, presenting an exhaustive display of short, multidisciplinary pieces, divided into three unique performances, each addressing...

When a play premieres, it feels fresh and crisp, like a new pair of jeans. But living in those "jeans" for a while sometimes yields an entirely different production by...

Wednesday's heavy summer rain left the Chicago sidewalks steaming as guests filed into the new Defibrillator Gallery space in Noble Square, just a few blocks southwest of the gallery's longtime...

When Keith Elliott, Todd Kiech and Harriet Ross presented the first Dance for Life in June 1992, Chicago's dance community was in crisis. Friends and colleagues were dying at alarming...