Deeply Rooted Dance Theater’s “Aspects of Love,” is a valentine that packs a punch, shining a fresh light on a topic you might not necessarily associate with Civil Rights, HIV/AIDS, Greed, or Feminism. And yet, all of these issues found their place on a program that also addressed love’s more traditional landscape of sensuality, intimacy, and mutual attraction.
This year’s annual dance showcase entitled “Current Rhythms” will feature exciting and innovative choreography that displays an entertaining and thought-provoking range of choreographic styles and techniques. Invited guest choreographers include Eduardo Vilaro, artistic director of New York City’s acclaimed Ballet Hispanico, and Onye Ozuzu, a performing artist, and current dance faculty and Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College Chicago. The show will also include two new works by faculty members Jeff Hancock and Joel Valentín-Martínez.
Now that February is upon us, the new year is off and running with a jam-packed roster of exciting and varied dance events. Genre lines blur as modern meets tradition, with Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre’s modern dance Valentine and Thodos Dance Chicago’s “Timeless Motion” at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. The Shen Yun Show highlights ancient Chinese tradition the Harris, while challenging programming from The Joffrey Ballet’s “Game Changers” sends us to the cutting edge in contemporary ballet at the Auditorium Theatre.
A man played a set of Tibetan bowls while seated atop a ginormous floor pillow as guests filed in for “Sleeptalk,” an evening length dance by Ashley Fargnoli that ended its run at Links Hall Jan. 15. Complemented by a psychedelic screen saver casting red, blue and green beams onto the white space’s back wall, the scene elicits a meditative feel despite the somewhat frantic push to get in the door and find a place to sit.
Hamlin Park Theater was beautifully dressed for RE|Dance Group’s winter offering Jan. 12-13. Choreographed by the group’s long distance co-director Michael Estanich, “A Place at the Edge of the World to Call Our Own” is the third of a trio of works all about love he’s been making since the company first formed.
January Dance Community Convening
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A Panel Discussion on Dance Marketing Sponsored by RDDI Chicago
Tuesday, January 24th
Chicago Dance Month Partner meeting 2pm - 3pm
Convening 3pm - 5pm
Chicago Cultural Center
1st Floor Garland Room
78 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60602
Join us for light snacks, networking, and community news with the Chicago dance community.
From 2pm - 3pm Chicago Dance Month Partner meeting, networking begins at 3pm - convening will start promptly at 3:30pm.
Paige Cunningham Caldarella has ties to the dance legend with the same name, dancing for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company fresh out of Juilliard in the early 2000s. Cunningham’s influence on Caldarella’s movement is crystal clear: with crisp, unemotional passes of classical vocabulary with a bit of a twist. Her latest work, “Verge,” showing at Links Hall through Jan. 8, is a mirror image of Caldarella’s 2012 “Off Center,” which juxtaposed ballet with vogue.
“[Liz Gerring’s Horizon] is a dance about effort and accomplishment…Horizon is a dance for heroes.”- NJArts.net
Malpaso Dance Company of Havana
Featuring Indomitable Waltz by Aszure Barton
“...elegant and bold, inventive and joyful.” – Times Union
SeeChicagoDance and our entire Audience Architects Staff wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year, filled with all the energy, excitement, drama, intrigue, imagination and discovery of dance! The year is off to a healthy start, with lots of exciting events coming up through winter and spring from both Chicago and touring companies, so plan ahead and mark your calendars!
2017 WINTER AND SPRING HIGHLIGHTS: