Sid Smith

This year's Auditorium Theatre chapter of the Chicago Dancing Festival provided a rich and varied program, including works from three 20th-Century lions: Martha Graham, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. While...

The Chicago Dancing Festival warmly embraced its community mission at the launch of this year's week of free performances, its first program anchored by original works starring, respectively, local youngsters...

These last days of August are now something of an unofficial dance week, with the Chicago Dancing Festival on view Monday through Saturday, preceded by the Dance for Life benefit...

The 30 or so folks arranged in a circle at the Senn High School gym in Chicago are tossing a ball to one another, arms raised to catch it, occasionally...

The late Sybil Shearer was both a rarity and a wonder, a pioneer who made her mark on dance despite a quiet life in suburban Northbrook and a professional approach...

The solo is a mainstay of tap dance, from the singular pioneer on the street corner to some of the most memorable sequences of Hollywood's golden era of the musical....

So much pluck and design imagination lie behind Khecari's program of two works now playing at the DCA Storefront Theater that it's a shame, in the end, both prove so...

Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago's gala benefit at the Harris Theater is typically one of the summer's more festive outings, and this year the cause for celebration was momentous —...

Four decades and counting. Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago's outing Saturday at the Harris Theater celebrates the troupe's 40th anniversary. The Bantu term "muntu" means "essence of humanity," and Amaniyea...