This Summer, pistils meet epistemology as The Seldoms dance company celebrates their 20th anniversary by asking, “Why is a flower beautiful?” The more you think of the question the more elusive the answer seems to be.

Perhaps spoken language is not fit for such metaphysical quandaries. Instead, perhaps the language of dance can succeed where spoken words fail.

Ballet Chicago’s new season of “Balanchine and Beyond” brought an old favorite, a genre-changing Balanchine classic, and two exciting new works to Chicago’s Harris Theater for two performances last Saturday, May 13.

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I nestled into my seat slightly late in what appeared to have once been a storefront in South Chicago. It now serves as the fictive headquarters for the “Black Panthers” and the stage for the immersive choreopoem “Panther Women: An Army for Liberation,” Directed by Myesha-Tiara and choreographed by Deja Hood.

The art and dance scene can be highly competitive, with team-ups being relegated superheroes in action movies. But in a post-pandemic world the stakes are higher and the cost of producing work is more precarious than ever. Some dancers have started to band together, choosing to work together to overcome the obstacles of an ever-shifting arts landscape.

On April 28, Visceral Dance Chicago celebrated ten years of dancemaking with “SPRINGTEN,” performed at the Harris Theatre, where the company made a splash during their inaugural season. Artistic Director Nick Pupillo has spent those years expanding his company and his enterprise. As owner of a sleek dance studio—also named “Visceral,”—he has now upgraded to an even sleeker one in Avondale. My favorite part, the back studio converts into a state-of-the-art black box theater named after legendary Chicago dance writer, Ann Barzel.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s “Deep River” (2022) dazzled Chicago audiences in an all-too-brief return to Harris Theater (May 5-6). The epic work launched the company’s 40th Anniversary season in its home-town premiere in San Francisco.

Conceived and created during the Pandemic, in collaboration with composer/musician Jason Moran and vocalist Lisa Fischer, “Deep River” soars along a highway to the heavens, taking us on a journey from chaos and despair to revelation and deliverance.