August Newsletter

Jul 31, 2013 | By Sid Smith

August Newsletter

 
Once a desert, August in Chicago is now, well, an august month for dance. The month starts by winding up some important late July engagements and then moves on to the annual Dance for Life benefit and the Chicago Dancing Festival -- two of the biggest events on the annual calendar.
 
Continuing engagements in the early days of the month include the Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Rhythm Worldconcerts Aug. 1 and 3 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, before the confab's Aug. 4 conclusion. There's also Pursuit Productions'"Blood Wedding" through Aug. 11 at Studio BE, 3110 N. Sheffield Av., and MOMENTA's Isadora Duncan summer intensivethrough Aug. 3 at 605 W. Lake St. in Oak Park. "Guerra: A Clown Play," by Mexico City's La Piara, continues through Aug. 4 at the new Links Hall digs at the Constellation at 3111 N. Western Av.
 
A canary torsi | Yanira Castro presents "Paradis," a performance and audio installation performed outdoors, inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's "Notre Musique," Aug. 6-8at the Garfield Park Conservatory. The Faubourg Theatre's "De'Fi de L'Esprit de la Danse Act of Swans," designed to enhance autism awareness through dance and music, arrives Aug. 9 and 11 at the Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts in the northwest suburb. Various artists come together for Season 3 of "Produce,"continuingAug. 9 and 10 at the Signal Ensemble Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice St.
 
Links Hall's "Collision Theory" match-up of dancers and musicians continues Aug. 12. That weekend, Links also hosts four new works by Catherine Tiso and other offerings in"Diverge/Connect," Aug. 16-18.
 
"Dance for Life," the annual get-together showing off a plethora of local troupes and serving as celebration of art and living, returns Aug. 17 to the Auditorium Theatre.
 
And then the end-of-summer blitz: the Chicago Dancing Festival, both free of charge and topnotch in quality, plays Aug. 20 at the Harris Theater, Aug. 22 at the Auditorium, Aug. 23 at the MCA and, outdoors and spectacular, the grand finale Aug. 24 at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. (Except for the Pritzker, reservations needed to be made earlier.)
 
But that's not August's all: J. Lindsay Brown and Friends presents choreography by her and various pals in a bill entitled"Twice Told: To the Moon and Back" Aug. 23-25 at the Drucker Center, 1535 N. Dayton St.