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Preview: Studio Mangiameli’s Quejíos
Flamenco artist Chiara Mangiameli. Aside from a two week workshop with Dame Libby Kamaiko about 20 years ago, I don’t know much about flamenco. So for this preview, I relied on the expertise of...
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Dancer Fundraising to get from NZ to CA
Dancer Joel Walsham dances on Karekare Beach in his native New Zealand. Photo by Kristen Walsham. New Zealand dancer Joel Walsham is heading to San Francisco…with your help. He is one of 18 dancers...
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Bite Sized: A Benefit
Dancers Jaqueline Stewart and Josh Manculich. Photo by Eddie Eng. Pursuit Productions, the “brainchild” of dancer Ahmad Simmons (River North Dance Chicago) and director Kacie Smith is throwing a...
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Preview: Striding Lion’s Dada Gert
Dancers Jeff Hancock and Annie Arnoult Beserra perform a "Sound Dance" inspired by Valeska Gert's variations on the Dada sound poem. Photo by Matthew Gregory Hollis. A duo moves across the floor...
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Movie review: Fame High
“If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late. If you’re late, you’re dead,” the teacher says. The kids in class giggle in response. With a deadly serious face, he says, “Not a...
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All Chicago Dance Shoot #ACDS
All Chicago Dance Shoot. Photo by Quinn B Wharton. What would happen if dancers from all over Chicago were invited to get together for a one-day photo shoot? Hubbard Street dancer and professional...
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Hubbard Street’s Kevin Shannon Talks DanceMotion USA (Part 2)
Hubbard Street dancer Kevin Shannon with Roma children in Spain. Some days my “job” is easy. Case in point, meeting Hubbard Street dancer Kevin Shannon on a Sunday afternoon shortly after he returned...
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Hubbard Street’s danc(e)volve 2013: Review
◄ Prev. 1/7 Next ► Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is known for taking choreographic risks. From bringing top European choreographers like Mats Ek to the Chicago stage to commissioning works from...
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Hyde Park School of Dance Turns 20!
Hyde Park School of Dance Artistic Director August Tye. Congrats to the Hyde Park School of Dance for two decades of technical dance training on Chicago’s South Side. There are two performances of En...
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Ballet Lab – Register Now!
Paige Caldarella and Emily Stein teach "Ballet Lab". Photo by Wililam Frederking. Registration is now open for the 2nd annual Ballet Lab Chicago. Take class in a one-week intensive with the fabulous...
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Chicago Repertory Ballet’s The Rite of Spring” Preview
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the controversial performance in Paris of composer Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring with choreography by Ballet Russes’ Vaslav Nijinski. The dissonant...
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BONEdanse’s bully.punk.riot: Preview
BONEdansers Cheryl Cornacchione and Nicole Scatchell in "bully.punk.riot." Photo by Carl Wiedemann. A lesson in moshing, a debate on electronic equipment, a lecture on moral hypocrisy, a futball duet,...
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Watch Out For Team McQueen!
Dancer/choreographer Jeremy McQueen. Photo by Eduardo Patino. If you haven’t heard of Jeremy McQueen; you will. The New York-based dancer/choreographer has had quite a year – and it’s only June!...
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2013 Chicago Dancing Festival
Chicago Dancing Festival at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. It’s almost that time of year again. In late August (20th-24th), the seventh annual Chicago Dancing Festival (CDF) hits...
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2013 Chicago Dancing Festival Ticket Info
Tickets for the 2013 Chicago Dancing Festival (CDF13) are available next week. The annual FREE dance fest runs Tuesday, Aug. 20 through Saturday, Aug 24 at various venues in downtown Chicago. Ticket...
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Throwback Thursday
Backyard Betty posing for the camera. Last month I was at the Chicago Repertory Ballet performance (great show, Wade Schaaf’s The Rite of Spring was awesome!) and a pre-show song jogged my memory....
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Thodos New Dances 2013
Brian Hare and Jessica Miller-Tomlinson in Panem nostrum quoditianum, choreographed by New Dances 2013 guest choreographer Ahmad Simmons. Photo credit: ©Cheryl Mann For 13 years, Thodos Dance Chicago...
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PRODUCE: What is it?
McCurdy and Zerang. So, what is PRODUCE? “It’s hard to explain,” said Lauren Warnecke of Art Intercepts. She’s the creator and co-host of the annual artistic mash-up program called PRODUCE. “I’ve yet...
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Hamburg Ballet to return in 2014!
First of all, Happy National Dance Day! I hope you’ll be tapping, pointing, smacking, twerking, turning, jumping, stomping and shimmying the day away. Big news! The Harris Theater has announced that...
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Throwback Thursday: Evil rogueness
RB as the Evil Queen in "Snow White". About a million years ago, when I was still dancing, in pointe shoes no less, I had another sign of rogueness. I was feeling in a rut and expressed to my Director...
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