Kaitlin Webster hails from Chicago Dance Crash, and has been performing in various engagements since her arrival in Chicago a few years ago. Audience members packed in tightly last weekend to support the emerging Cornish grad in her first full-length concert of independent choreography.  A cool loft above The Wormhole coffeehouse (just two doors down from Outerspace in Wicker Park) was converted into Hydra’s performance space, making for an intimate evening with a DIY feel.

“If dance only does what we assume it can do, it will expire. I keep trying to test the limits of what the word choreography means.”

The words of William Forsythe headline the top of page three in a hefty program book outlining the closing engagement for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 36th season. It seems that everything Hubbard Street does, it does well, and last weekend’s concert was no exception.

We hope you enjoy Audience Architects' new series, "Dance is...what YOU make of it." REAL audience members share REAL opinions on watching dance.

"Dance Is...", is part of Engaging Dance Audiences, administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This video series is part of a year long campaign called "Dance: A Moving Canvas" that seeks to build dance audiences and explore new exciting ways to view dance.

By Sid Smith

The final installment of the Moving Canvas series will involve work embracing one of the most profound aspects of art--its literal reach to infinity.

Rhythm rocks, whether you’re tapping, stomping, clicking or clacking, strumming or drumming, singing or humming. The exciting interplay between body and instrumental rhythms figures strongly in a variety of dance intensives throughout Chicago this summer. 

Knock your socks off with classes all day long or choose a single workshop from a sampler of master classes in Tap, Spanish, Flamenco, Afro-Latin@*, or Indian dance. Kick it up a notch with Hip-Hop en pointe, or find your passion in Body Drumming. 

The Paul Taylor Dance Company returned to the Auditorium Theater after a thirty-year hiatus  to remind us that Taylor, 83 and still creating, is one of the greats. Whether with a hit or, as sometimes happens with bold experimentation, a miss, Taylor is always exploring. The three contrasting pieces that comprised the company’s Chicago program showcased distinctive aspects of Taylor’s theatrical voice, as well as common threads that distinguish all of his work.