Sid Smith

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project will begin launching in late July its long-planned and newly named American Rhythm Center, which will provide a consortium of local groups with studios, offices...

As in years past, all tickets for the upcoming Chicago Dancing Festival Aug. 20-25 are free, but indoor events, with limited seating, require advance reservations. The process is set for...

Maybe the best measure of the success of the Paris Opera Ballet's rare visit here comes from the audience. The ovations Tuesday and Friday -- the nights I attended at...

Carrie Hanson and the Seldoms are working with a troupe called WCdance, visiting here from Taiwan. The Seldoms will travel this fall to Taiwan, where the two troupes will perform...

Champagne lovers with beer-bottle pockets regularly muster the resources for the $30 imported variety over the cheap domestic knockoff--the difference in taste is enormous. But when they really splurge for...

And so, very soon, we'll always have Paris — memories of the Paris Opera Ballet, that is, on a Chicago stage for the first time in most of our lives....

Ending a long tradition, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago is dropping the "jazz, " at least from its name. As the troupe settles in downtown and prepares for its 50th anniversary,...

Three new dancers are joining the Joffrey Ballet next month: Japanese-born Yoshihisa Arai, a former Royal Ballet performer more recently with the Tulsa Ballet; French-born Guillaume Basso, formerly with the...

Saying the mission is just "to have fun," echoing 1980s beacon Cyndi Lauper, the Chicago Tap Theatre is offering "Totally Tap-ular, a collection of works set to the music of...