Sid Smith

The Chicago Dance Crash provides a gutsy, rip-roaring extravaganza with "Gotham City," a full-length dance assault pulsing with fun, energy, great pop dancing and in-your-face acrobatics. That's in your face...

Luna Negra Dance Theater promised edgier stuff in its "Luna Nueva" program of fresh works, and they delivered. The three pieces are heavy on frenzy, dyspeptic unease and conceptual artiness....

They're calling it "Luna Nueva," as in "new moon," and Luna Negra Dance Theater artistic director Gustavo Ramirez Sansano promises the fresh and provocative. This engagement Thursday through Sunday isn't...

There's an off-putting element to "Quintett," William Forsythe's 1993 work just added to the repertory of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Gavin Bryars' score consists of the same few lines of...

Margi Cole created her Dance COLEctive 16 years ago in part to support emerging artists, an enduring mission that includes the nurturing of new work. To that end, a program...

The loss of a loved one is a major inspiration for art, the memorial a tried-and-true type of Western art for centuries. But choreographer William Forsythe didn't exactly approach the...

An ongoing project this season has been pairing up various troupes for partnerships, and the effort reached a high point over the weekend when Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago and...

Long delayed, Ballet Chicago and its student company, backed by visiting guest stars, made an impressive Harris Theater debut over the weekend with a trio of topnotch George Balanchine classics...

During the planning phase in the 1990s, Ballet Chicago was one of the handful of companies who hoped to perform regularly in the space that became the Harris Theater. But...

No decade said goodbye to its predecessor quite like the 1980s, sneering at all that '70s rococo excess with danger-laced hostility and black, back-to-basics nihilism. New York choreographer Karole Armitage...