Traditional ‘Moulin Rouge’ a treat for ears and eyes
"Moulin Rouge -- the Ballet" nicely transports the viewer back in time to a seductive locale steamy with earthy, Bohemian pleasure co-existing with great art. That art of late 19th-Century...
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Giordano marks 50 years with sweeping program
The troupe now known as Giordano Dance Chicago is celebrating its 50th-anniversary season, and performances over the weekend offered samples of its works drawn from a wide sweep of those...
‘Exit’ a bold but frustrating program on climate change
The Seldoms' "Exit Disclaimer: Science and Fiction Ahead" is a program as dense as its title, a rambling 80 minutes of dance and theater sometimes enticingly bold, at others obscure...
How Nan Giordano stays in step
Choosing dance as a career is tricky, even daunting — just telling your parents can mean raised eyebrows or worse. But for Nan Giordano, that career path came at her...
Hubbard Street’s luminous salute to the arts ★★★★
Beauty is truth, and truth beauty -- that's everything you need to know, John Keats taught us. It also seems an abiding principle behind "One Thousand Pieces," Alejandro Cerrudo's new...
Joffrey’s flair for reviving gems in full view
The Joffrey Ballet's fall engagement offers a glimpse of the troupe's sweeping approach to repertory, an approach that allows it to travel smoothly from 1930s expressionism to the 21st Century...
Hubbard Street ballet inspired by Chagall’s windows
How do you turn 35 gracefully? How about going somewhere you've never gone before? Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, born in the heyday of short repertory works, celebrates its 35th anniversary...
Dark ‘Walk-in’ leaves lasting images
Call it a talent to amuse and confuse: Fernando Melo, the gifted Brazilian choreographer in town for weeks working with Luna Negra Dance Theater, possesses a highly theatrical dance vision,...
Gallim Dance a sharp vision, full of vigor
Several years old, parts of it developed here in Chicago, "Blush" plays as the case of a young choreographer grabbing her art and relating it to the sensibilities of her...
For Luna Negra’s Fernando Melo, meaning is the goal
A few seasons back, Luna Negra Dance Theater introduced Chicago audiences to the colorful, carnival-like imagination of Fernando Melo, the Brazilian-born choreographer now based in Europe. Part of Melo's "Bate"...