RE|Dance Group Artistic Director Michael Estanich continues to explore his interest in how love (its desires and its pain) influences the human experience in his new dance-theatre piece, It’s About Love Again This Year.
While 2015 still looks like a shiny new coin just waiting to be spent, SeeChicagoDance thought it might be fun to explore a few new projects coming up in the new year. You can, too, and there’s no better time than now to resolve to see something new and different!
NEW COMPANY: The Cambrians
Chicago’s vibrant dance community has filled stages across the city with an abundance of quality productions throughout 2014. In lavish halls and humble storefronts, from classical tradition to edgy experimentation and bold collaborations, dance in Chicago continues to distinguish The Windy City as a go-to dance town. As hard as it is to pick favorites among so many fine performances and outstanding works, the dance writers for seechicagodance have selected a few stand-out candidates for our 2014 Critics’ Picks.
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December 19, 2014 | Moving Reflections
By Zachary Whittenburg
Seeing Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s winter season (Dec. 4-14) at the Museum of Contemporary Art gives us a chance to appreciate the superb artistry of the company’s maturing ensemble up close and personal in a smaller, more intimate venue. While its usual local performance space, the sprawling Harris Theater, gives the dancers a wonderful expansiveness, nuances of musicality, articulation, and physical and emotional responsiveness come into acute focus at close range on the MCA stage.
Just outside the downtown district - in a barren part of Pilsen - walking up to the fourth floor of the under-construction Mana Contemporary art gallery to High Concept Labs, (HCL)’s newish space feels a little like going to a secret party to which few are invited. Indeed, nestled into a very busy weekend of big, feel good dance, Sara Zalek’s Butoh-inspired workshop and performance series featuring NYC-based Vangeline may have escaped notice on your dance card – to your chagrin.
presented by Erica Mott Productions
Featuring Hope Littwin, Jenna Lyle, and Katie Mazzini
Created by Erica Mott, Ryan Ingebritsen, Fides Krucker, John Boesche, Leigh Stanton Breslau, Todd Clark, and Kristin Mariani
December 4, 2014 | Moving Reflections
What a wonderful year 2014 has been for dance in Chicago! So many outstanding creative enterprises in so many different genres make our city an ever-expanding hub for deepening dance traditions, pioneering exciting dance innovation, cross disciplinary collaborating, and world class performance.
Summing up Dances from the Underground in a brief preview seems a daunting task; the triple bill featuring The Seldoms, Peter Carpenter Performance Project, and Kate Corby & Dancers will show works in varying stages of development over two weekends at Links Hall.