When day comes
Moonstone Season Opener
Sat., November 5
5:30pm VIP Event
7:00pm Performance
Tickets:
$39, general admission
$29, children ages 5 to 18
$120 for 4
$69, VIP Event, includes performance, pre-performance wine reception, priority seating, and a special gift
Ticket link:
https://winifredhaun.ticketleap.com/moonstoneseasonopener/
Athenaeum Theater, 2936 N. Southport, Chicago
Our mission at See Chicago Dance is to advocate for the dance field and strengthen a diverse range of dance organizations and artists through services and programs that build and engage audiences.
For the Year of Chicago Dance, we are conducting a study to better understand the current experiences and needs of both dancers and audiences.
Faraway figures dancing through a window, and the melody of vibrating strings from a sitar were my guide down a stone path to the entrance of Indian Boundary Park. I passed a giant wooden jungle gym and small, stone hovels and came across an old bear habitat from a decommissioned Zoo, rehabilitated into the Nature Play Center. There was no doubt I had found “Tend,” an integrative performance experience produced by Khecari, conceived and orchestrated by Artistic and Executive Director Julia Rae Antonick.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.