SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER
2010-08-31 3:26:36 PM
By Sid Smith
In some ways, September is almost more a warm-up than the full-blown opening of the 2010-2011 season, leisurely rather than hectic, though certainly flush with some promising and even untypical offerings.
The somewhat small and out-of-the-way leads off when Synapse Art presents new works by Rachel Damon and Lauren Warnecke Sept. 9 and 10 at Hamlin Park. That same weekend, on Sept. 11, Kalapriya Dance performs "Tri Dhara," or "Three Streams," at the Harold Washington Library.
September offers some of our city's more temperate weather, most likely offering a perfect setting for the Dance COLEctive's site-specific outdoor performances at noon Sept. 10 and 11 on the Riverwalk just outside the Bridgehouse Museum, which is located inside the southwest tower of the Michigan Avenue Bridge. In partnership with Friends of the Chicago River (Friends) and the Chicago Park District, the COLEctive will offer a piece that uses the site's history and aspects of the physical location itself.
One of the season's more enterprising annual explorations of the innovative arrives with the Chicago Moving Company's Other Dance Festival Sept. 16-Oct. 1 at Hamlin. Molly Shanahan is one of the participants.
The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company returns Sept. 22 and 23 to the Harris Theater, with two separate programs of old and new works, including some of Lubovitch's signature collaborations with Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Then, one of the more unusual events of the fall arrives Sept. 25 with "1306--Ten Years Later," the Dance Center of Columbia College's all-day anniversary celebration of its decade at its South Loop home at 1306 S. Michigan Av. Festivities begin at 10:30 a.m. when the Midwest Ballet Theatre performs the new work, "Petite Suite," and continues all day, including the Chicago Human Rhythm Project performing at 3 p.m., a variety of artists associated past and present with the Chicago Dancemakers Forum from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. and always wild and wacky Poonie's Cabaret at 10 p.m. The ticket price is one of the great lures: It's free! Happy birthday to a beloved dance venue.
Links Hall's LinkUp fall showcase Sept. 24-26 includes Emma Draves' "Duel With an Orchid" and Lily Emerson's "a/part (like before we ever were, but with no after).
The month ends, spilling over into October, with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's fall engagement at the Harris, including a premiere by acclamed choreographer Victory Quijada, the company premiere of Nacho Duato's "Arcangelo" and Alejandro Cerrudo's "Deep Down Dos" (delayed from earlier this year), joined by his new companion piece, "Blanco."
