IN THE LIMELIGHT:
BONEdanse presents bully.punk.riot | June 20-23 & 27-30 | Links Hall | Not just another dance concert... we promise. Only BONEdanse brings you a rebellion event that digs into the inherent herding mentality found in all of us. Are you friend or foe?
JUNE NEWSLETTER
By Sid Smith
The first weekend of June is flush with activity actually begun in late May, all worth noting, however. Ayako Kato and the Art Union Humanscape celebrate their 15th anniversary with "Let Be" through June 2 at the Chicago Cultural Center at Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue. Matter Dance continues its collection of works under the umbrella title "Spectrum" through June 2 at Stage 773. And "The Cotton Mouth Club," the latest full-length extravaganza from the Chicago Dance Crash, plays through June 9 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater.
The "Braiding Rivers" series continues through June 2 via Links Hall at the Constellation, 3111 N. Western Av., with a program including DanceworksMilwaukee and the Ananya Dance Theatre. Meanwhile, the circus troupe Aloft presents "Sephira" June 1 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in that northwest suburb. The Dance Center of Columbia College launches its improvisational dance festival June 3 at the Constellation and then moves June 6 and 7 to the Center's home at 1306 S. Michigan Av. DanceWorks Chicago offers another Dance Chance June 3 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago serves up a major event with its latest "danc(e)volve" segment of original works by company artists, playing June 6-16 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Synapse Arts group teams up with other Midwest artists for interdisciplinary programs June 6-9 at the Constellation. Aloft returns with its "El Circo Cheapo Cabaret" June 8 at 2041 W. Carroll Av. in the city. And the Visceral Dance Center presents its studio company June 14 at the Athenaeum Theatre.
In a happily long run, Aerial Dance Chicago explores "Gravity" in an assortment of works June 15-July 14 at the Ruth Page Center. Mayfair Academy celebrates its 55th anniversary with some 600 students performing June 16 at the Harris.
Atalee Judy (sporting a deep red Mohawk these days) and BONEdanse return with "Bully.Punk.Riot" June 20-30 at the Constellation. Ensemble Espanol presents its annual American Spanish Dance & Music Festival June 21-23 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Jan Bartoszek continues her collaboration with paper sculptor Barbara Cooper in "ASCENDance," June 21 and 22 at the Athenaeum. The Alliance Dance Company offers up a new choreography festival called "Kaleidoscope" June 21-23 at Theatre Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Av.
The Chicago Tap Theatre presents its 11th tap opera, this one called "Mama's Boy," and with a new twist: Mark Yonally will again choreograph, but veteran mainstay Harrison McEldowney is joining the production as its director. It runs June 21-30 at Stage 773.