Luna Negra Dance Theater shutting down
In a major loss for Chicago's dance scene, Luna Negra Dance Theater is shutting down. The news comes as no surprise after months of financial difficulties. The troupe put its...
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Luna Negra Dance Theater shutting down
In a major loss for Chicago's dance scene, Luna Negra Dance Theater is shutting down. The news comes as no surprise after months of financial difficulties. The troupe put its...
‘Swan Lake’: Balanchine’s dancers help prepare Ballet Chicago’s performances
Two of George Balanchine's most accomplished ballerinas, Darci Kistler and Sandra Jennings, have visited town recently to help prepare Ballet Chicago's annual spring outing at the Harris Theater. Jennings danced...
‘Swan Lake’: Balanchine’s dancers help prepare Ballet Chicago’s performances
Two of George Balanchine's most accomplished ballerinas, Darci Kistler and Sandra Jennings, have visited town recently to help prepare Ballet Chicago's annual spring outing at the Harris Theater. Jennings danced...
Luna Negra Dance artistic director Gustavo Ramirez Sensano resigns
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano has resigned after three years as artistic director of Luna Negra Dance Theater, effective immediately. He's returning home to Spain after a brief but impressive run that...
Review: Nonstop dancing no tragedy in this ‘Othello’
Drenched in darkness and horror, "Othello," one of the best acquisitions of the Joffrey Ballet during its time in Chicago, is back at the Auditorium Theatre, the case of intoxicating...
‘Oklahoma!’: Gemze de Lappe here to bring out true colors
"It's not 'rah, rah, rah,'" Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing "Oklahoma!" The 91-year-old de Lappe hops up from her chair and stoops, bowing low and dusting...
Joffrey dancers creating evil through movement for ‘Othello’
He is guilty of "motiveless malignity," in the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- for undiluted evil, few characters in literature rival William Shakespeare's Iago. But everyone, remember, is beautiful...
‘Oklahoma!’: Gemze de Lappe here to bring out true colors
"It's not 'rah, rah, rah,'" Gemze de Lappe says in explaining how you sing "Oklahoma!" The 91-year-old de Lappe hops up from her chair and stoops, bowing low and dusting...
Joffrey dancers creating evil through movement for ‘Othello’
He is guilty of "motiveless malignity," in the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- for undiluted evil, few characters in literature rival William Shakespeare's Iago. But everyone, remember, is beautiful...