Nancy Maes

Prop: Body-less dresses Appearing in: "Sechs Tanze," "Petite Mort" and "No More Play," Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Background: When Jiri Kylian, artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague,...

Prop: A dragon puppet Appearing in: "Vikings! A Musical in Two Axe," Noble Fool Theater Company Background: For "Vikings! A Musical in Two Axe," costume and set designer Gene Friedman...

When Chicago composer Steve Rashid read Solomon's "Song of Songs" from the Old Testament, he was intrigued. "They are an oddity because they are eight short love poems that describe...

Prop: Six-foot tall bed with 20 mattresses Appearing in: "Once Upon a Mattress" by Emerald City Theatre Company Background: Emerald City Theatre Company needed a tall bed for "Once Upon...

Chicago Filmmakers is presenting new and old works by the co-founder of the "Millennium Film Journal," Vicki Z. Peterson, whose nature-inspired images have been compared to abstract expressionist paintings. The...

A stuffed animal is the star of "Four Seasons in the Life of Ludovic," a series of four animated films that depicts the adventures of a teddy bear as he...

The "Lunchtime Matinee" series presents films celebrating African-American History Month. Screenings include "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961) by Daniel Petrie with Sidney Poitier, Monday; "Glory" (1989) by Edward Zwick...

Doc Films is screening "Girls Can't Swim" (1999) as part of its series of contemporary French movies. First-time director Anne-Sophie Birotchronicles the anxieties of adolescence as she examines the unraveling...

In its "Music Movies" series, the Gene Siskel Film Center has scheduled "Nightclubbing: Danceteria Video Lounge." The Emily Armstrong-Pat Ivers film surveys the underground music scene in New York City...

Aurora University's Department of Diversity is presenting a Latin film festival. The series includes "Like Water for Chocolate" (1992, Mexico, directed by Alfonso Arau); "Central Station" (1998, Argentina, Walter Salles);...