Season 60 | Catch the Light

Catch the Light. Feel the Radiance. Celebrate Giordano! America’s original jazz dance company celebrates 60 years of boundary-expanding jazz dance! Join Giordano Dance Chicago for an evening of power, sensuality, and athleticism as they demonstrate how everything is better at 60. The evening features a world premiere by GDC’s newly-appointed Associate Artistic Director, Cesar G. Salinas. Set to a score by Medwyn Goodall, Mr. Salinas’ driving quintet captures the power of community through the unification of pulse and rhythm.

Chicago's Own Humanitarian Hero Rescues Kyiv City Ballet of Ukraine with First Ever U.S. Tour

Sep 22, 2022 | By Lynn Colburn Shapiro

 

You’d never expect three 19th-century icons of classical ballet perfection to intersect with a 21st-century war and lethal international politics, but that’s exactly the crossroads where the Kyiv City Ballet of Ukraine found themselves with Russia’s brutal attack the day after the company had landed in Paris for performances. Unknowingly escaping disaster, the company had taken one of the last flights out of Kyiv and found themselves in exile from their homeland. They have not been able to return since.

Screendance Club - September 2022

Join See Chicago Dance's latest program, Screendance Club: a radically casual watch-party and discussion of short dance films. Different from a typical talk-back, Screendance Club aims to create an environment of open conversation and exploration--with artists, filmmakers, and viewers on an equal footing. SCD writers curate and facilitate conversations on viewing and interpreting dance on screen!

September 2022 Screendance Club

Artists: Nejla Yatkin & Enki Andrews
Conversation Moderated by Surinder Martignetti

The Joffrey Ballet presents Beyond Borders

The Joffrey Ballet proudly launches its 2022-23 season with Beyond Borders, a mixed repertory program that pays tribute to the Joffrey’s maverick legacy with works by artists of its past and present. A highlight of Beyond Borders is sure to be a second new work commissioned from in-demand choreographer Chanel DaSilva in addition to the return of favorites by critically acclaimed choreographer Liam Scarlett and beloved Joffrey co-founder Gerald Arpino marking the start of his centennial celebration.

Diwali: The Story of Ram

In celebration of the Indian holiday of Diwali, Mandala South Asian Performing Arts, which connects audiences and students with the vibrancy, flavors, and colors of the performing arts traditions of South Asia, presents a family-friendly performance program combining dance, music, and the 17th century art of Mewar, a region in India. Diwali: The Story of Ram takes place October 8 at 7.30 p.m. at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph, Chicago.

Shakti Chakra: The Energy Cycle

Natya looks forward to reviving its seminal work – Shakti Chakra: The Energy Cycle – for this continued celebration connecting our history to our future.

It is said that the world was brought into creation from the single word “OM”. From an infinitely small particle of eternal energy was born this universe of matter. From Creation, Sustenance, and Protection through to Purification and Dissolution, dancers cycle through the energy cycle of life and return again to nothing … and everything.

Review: Here comes the boom!; Chicago Dance Crash premieres its new work: "Booms Day"

Aug 30, 2022 | By Tristan Bruns

 

The stage at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts is transformed into a bomb-blasted battle ground as a haphazard blockade of debris — chairs, lamps, a pink bicycle — are stacked floor to ceiling, framed by a proscenium crafted out of burlap and paper, painted to look like the charred remains of a city blasted to smithereens.

Preview: Never been stronger; Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project presents "Reclamation" at the Pritzker Pavilion

Aug 25, 2022 | By Tristan Bruns

 

A comprehensive 2019 report by Candid, Sustain Arts and See Chicago Dance, titled “Mapping the Dance Landscape in Chicagoland,” shocked members of the dance community with several startling statistics: From 2002 to 2016, the number of dancemakers in Chicago had increased by 23%, but two-thirds were making less than $15,000 a year, and roughly half were people of color. Furthermore, only three out of eighty-seven nonprofit dance organizations received more than half of all philanthropic funding despite an increase of 46% in institutional philanthropic funding for dance.

Sat in a Boat, A Multimedia Modern Dance Performance

Sat in a Boat is a thought-provoking, stimulating, and emotional multimedia modern dance performance that investigates faith and reason through an intersection of movement, originally composed music, animation, singing and spoken word. In a world filled with despair and tragedy, we often feel stuck in a sea of confusion, thrashing and clawing our way to a light at the end of the tunnel. Yet amid the darkness, we are still driven by passion, evidence, hope and an innate knowledge that we are built for more, that salvation may yet be attainable.