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REVIEW: Molly Shanahan's unusual 'Virtuosity'

Laura Molzahn

The distinguishing characteristic of Molly Shanahan's choreography is that it has no distinguishing characteristics. Or, more accurately, it's distinguished by its flow, its lack of demarcation, its delicious, collapsing uncoiling. Movement pours out of her dancers, with only the barest of...

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The next wave for Hubbard Street 2
Laura Molzahn

"It's a pleasure to bring these new voices into the studio, get the right people in the room, then watch the magic happen," says Terence Marling, former Hubbard Street performer and rehearsal director, now directing Hubbard Street 2, the second company. "The dancers and choreographers both...
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REVIEW: Joffrey's 'The Nutcracker' at the Auditorium
Laura Molzahn

Let's face it: However lovely as holiday confectionery, "The Nutcracker" is sadly lacking in drama. The Act II divertissements are just the most obvious and official of the ballet's many, many distractions from the absence of story.

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Assorted 'Nutcrackers': Our list of 11 productions
Laura Molzahn

So, you want to take the family to "The Nutcracker." If you have little dancers of your own, your choice is probably made. But if not, or if you want to branch out, where to go? Timing, location, price, and quantity and quality of artists might all be factors in a dizzying field of options....
Theater Loop
REVIEW: 'Oubliette' by Khecari Dance
Laura Molzahn

Applause seemed a trivial response to an experience as profoundly disturbing as Khecari's "Oubliette," Jonathan Meyer's Beckettian exercise in the elemental and the empathic. Thoughtful, beautifully crafted, it's nevertheless no well-made dance but a radical experiment in theater.

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REVIEW: 'The Art of Falling' by Second City and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago ★★★★
Chris Jones

Aside from being a hugely entertaining and strikingly emotional show, "The Art of Falling," Second City's not-to-be-missed new collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, is a very significant formative moment in this city's long history of improvisation and sketch comedy, forms invented...
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REVIEW: 'Swan Lake' by the Joffrey Ballet ★★★★
Laura Molzahn

At what point does the animal turn into the human? Fear into love? The everyday into magic? The brilliance of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's re-imagined "Swan Lake" is to bring into high relief those transformations — as well as their reversals, in a tragic loss of art, of love.

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Video: Preljocaj's 'Snow White' suggests alternative universe
Angelin Preljocaj's "Snow White" suggests an alternate universe that is equal parts Disney, Charles Ludlam and the Brothers Grimm at their grimmest. It runs through Sunday at the Harris.
Arts & Entertainment
Opposites attract in Ailey's opening program
Laura Molzahn

DANCE REVIEW: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Auditorium ★★★★

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Compagnie Kafig explodes hip-hop universe
Laura Molzahn

DANCE REVIEW: Compagnie Kafig at B-Real Chicago ★★★★
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Kyle Abraham's 'Radio' tunes into lush life
Laura Molzahn

DANCE REVIEW: Kyle Abraham's "The Radio Show" at MCA Chicago ★★★★

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REVIEW: Ayako Kato's 'The Incidents' at the Pivot Arts Festival ★★★½
Laura Molzahn

Back in the day, I loved geometry but hated my physics class. For me there was an insurmountable chasm between the purity of concepts and the chaos of the physical world.
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Hubbard Street commissions Luna Negra choreographer
Laura Molzahn

The shutdown of Luna Negra Dance Theater in spring 2013, after nearly 15 years in operation, felt abrupt despite the rumblings that preceded its disappearance. Gustavo Ramirez Sansano had directed the company for only three years but had already put his distinctive stamp on its repertoire. Now,...
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Review: 'Dances for the Underground' at Links Hall
Laura Molzahn

Dancers move, right? They don't talk. Yet Chicago is home to a generous handful of choreographers whose funny, pointed text-laced works not only entertain but instruct, generally without any agenda or conclusion.

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REVIEW: Uplifting return by Dance Theatre of Harlem
Laura Molzahn

Dance Theatre of Harlem has risen from the dead with stunning aplomb and force. It's not a miracle, though, except perhaps of perseverance and hard work. When the company announced a yearlong hiatus in 2004, it had 44 dancers and a $2.3 million debt. Eight years later it returned from the grave...
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School to company, Visceral Dance is at Harris Theater this weekend
Laura Molzahn

If you build it, they will come: That's the hope of many dance artists. But choreographer/entrepreneur Nick Pupillo has proved especially adept at making his wish come true.
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DANCE REVIEW: 'Sun King' by Elements Contemporary Ballet
Laura Molzahn

It's an ingenious idea: Create an evening-length ballet about the progenitor of ballet, Louis XIV, and his most frequent collaborator, composer Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Arts & Entertainment
Khecari presents a dance performance in a dungeon
Christopher Borrelli

To find the latest performance piece by the rising experimental dance company Khecari — "rhymes with 'treachery,'" explains founder Jonathan Meyer — go to West Rogers Park on the Far North Side. Specifically, Indian Boundary Park on Lunt Avenue, an oasis of green hemmed in by...
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Disability is what enables Heidi Latsky Dance
Laura Molzahn

"Having people with disabilities is like having a new color as a painter to add to your palette," says choreographer Heidi Latsky. "How does that change the art, make it stronger? Incorporating people with disabilities forced me to look at dance in different ways than I had before."

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REVIEW: 'Holding Ground' by Dance COLEctive
Laura Molzahn

Sometimes very good things come in small packages. The Dance COLEctive's unassuming but decidedly artful "Holding Ground" is a short program of three short works. They lay it on the line and get out.
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All Blacks' pregame dance: Ballet before the bruising
Laura Molzahn

If you've ever seen the New Zealand All Blacks' pre-game "haka," you'd probably call it a war dance.
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REVIEW: 'Wild Grass' by Beijing Dance Theater
Laura Molzahn

Making its Chicago debut, Beijing Dance Theater offers proof positive that good dancing doesn't necessarily mean good dance.
Theater Loop
REVIEW: 'come, been and gone' at MCA Chicago ★★★
Laura Molzahn

I was whipsawed by "come, been and gone," performed Saturday by the London-based rogue ballet troupe Michael Clark Company in its Chicago debut. A tribute to David Bowie and his collaborators, it runs through Monday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in conjunction with the Bowie blitz exhibit...
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REVIEW: Giordano Dance Chicago ★★★
Laura Molzahn

A bit of blissed-out Americana, of escapist fantasy, goes down pretty easy these days. And that's what Giordano Dance Chicago delivers with Ray Leeper's new "Feelin' Good Sweet." A former Giordano student, he's gone on to choreograph for music videos and tours, television ("So You Think You Can...

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Laurie Garwood named Dancing Festival executive director
Johnny Oleksinski

The Chicago Dancing Festival named Laurie Garwood as its new executive director on Tuesday. She assumes the role effective immediately.
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Joffrey's 'Swan Lake' is set to take wing
Laura Molzahn

"You know, Degas was groundbreaking," says choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. "He painted ballet rehearsal the way it really is: The girls are sweaty, they have a bad back, they're leaning over. They're in their undergarments. He wanted to paint the blood, sweat and tears of rehearsal."
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REVIEW: 'Trade Winds' by Hedwig Dances / DanzAbierta ★★★
Laura Molzahn

Cheerful, misshapen, Hedwig Dances' shared, evening-length work with Cuba's DanzAbierta is a Frankenstein baby, too charming to be a monster but nevertheless sutured together.
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REVIEW: River North Dance Chicago ★★★½
Laura Molzahn

After 25 years, River North Dance Chicago looks stronger than ever — virtuosic, yes, but with even greater heart. Wednesday's gala program, packed with terrific music and lit to the nines, unveiled two new works and a smashing revival, which repeat Friday and Saturday at the Harris....
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REVIEW: 'All-American Celebration' by ABT ★★★
Laura Molzahn

Americans are a renegade bunch, as American Ballet Theatre's eclectic "All-American Celebration" reveals. True, its four works by three choreographers span 45 years, beginning in 1944. But even the three from the 80s are unlike one another, partly because the contrary Twyla Tharp is represented...

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