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Richard Driehaus (pictured) receiving the 2016 Distinguished Service to the Dance Field Award at the See Chicago Dance Gala. Driehaus died March 9. (Charles Osgood Photography)

Chicago dance remembers Richard Driehaus

Lauren Warnecke | Apr 13, 2021

Chicago Tap Theatre performing "A Spring in Our Step," available online through April 4. Photo by Philamonjaro

'A Spring in Our Step' is an entertaining, more jovial version of Chicago Tap Theatre's digital formula

Emma Elsmo | Mar 30, 2021

Deez Nuts!: Black Bodies Dancing Defiance (TRAILER)

Radically Casual: Hanging with 'Deez Nuts!'

Gregory King | Mar 30, 2021

A screen shot of Penny Saunders' "In Any Event," performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Hubbard Street's 'In Any Event' blends naturalism and theatricality in multi-disciplinary storytelling

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Mar 27, 2021

As CSO piccolo Jennifer Gunn prepared a solo performance of Amanda Harberg's "Hall of Ghosts," she wanted a dancer to be part of it. Hubbard Street dancer Alyssa Allen (pictured) joins Gunn in a digital premiere on CSOtv (photo: Todd Rosenberg)

What does Hubbard Street dancer Alyssa Allen have in common with the piccolo?

Lauren Warnecke | Mar 25, 2021

Tommy Sutton teaching tumbling at Mayfair Academy (handout/Mayfair Performing Company)

The pandemic forced Tommy Sutton's Mayfair Academy to close. Generations of students ensure his legacy is not forgotten

Tristan Bruns | Mar 22, 2021

Pablo Sanchez rehearses his work "¡Viva!" at Joffrey Tower. Photo courtesy Joffrey Ballet.

Joffrey’s 'Winning Works' looks for the silver lining in a pandemic cloud

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Mar 22, 2021

Miriam-Rose LeDuc and Django Allegretti in CRB artistic director Wade Schaaf’s “Grand Pianola Music." Photo: Topher Alexander

Chicago Rep's 'Refresh' quenches thirst for the theater with reboots and two new dance films

Tristan Bruns | Mar 20, 2021

From left, Ballet 5:8 dancers Libby Dennen, Samuel Opsal, Lezlie Gray and Lorianne Robertson in "Reckless" (photo courtesy Ballet 5:8)

Ballet 5:8's 'Reckless' puts biblical figure Gomer at the center of her story

Lauren Warnecke | Mar 14, 2021

Still of Rigoberto Fernandez Saura sitting on his windowsill in “Home: A Place Within.” Photo courtesy of Hedwig Dances

Hedwig Dances' innovative media tactics and international connections keep the topic of 'home' fresh—a year into the pandemic

Jordan Kunkel | Mar 8, 2021

Dancer Summer Smith (foreground) and Winifred Haun & Dancers lean their foreheads against a white wall in Links Hall. The company presented their newest dance film. Photo by Matthew Gregory Hollis

In Winifred Haun's 'Press on, Regardless,' Links Hall's swinging door is fertile ground for images of resilience and sticktoitiveness

D'onminique Boyd | Mar 7, 2021

The Joffrey Ballet's Anais Bueno (center) with Jonathan Dole, Blake Kessler, Jose Pablo Castro Cuevas and Hyuma Kiyosawa in "Bolero" (photo courtesy Joffrey Ballet)

Joffrey’s 'Bolero': A new spin on familiar Ravel tune

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Mar 1, 2021

Eight dance organizations form CBDLP: Ayodele Drum & Dance, Chicago Multiculural Dance Company, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Forward Momentum Chicago, Joel Hall Dancers & Center, Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago, Najwa Dance Corp and Red Clay Dance Company

Legacy Project companies lean on each other to preserve and advocate for Black dance in Chicago

Tristan Bruns | Feb 27, 2021

A scene from Ballet Chicago's "Hansel & Gretel," presented as part of a seven-week series of digital programs available for free this spring. Photo by Ron McKinney Photography

This spring, virtual audiences can time travel through 20 years with Ballet Chicago

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Feb 25, 2021

South Chicago Dance Theatre presented its third annual Black History Month performance virtually, with strong performances anchored by text from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Langston Hughes. (photo by Michelle Reid)

South Chicago Dance takes worthy risks working with words of Dr. King, Langston Hughes

Tristan Bruns | Feb 21, 2021

Photo Credit: Left: Anjal Chande, photo by Samir Mirza. Right: Craig Black, photo by Todd Rosenberg

It’s the magic of the unknown that inspires artists of the '10x10 Crossbody Collaborations' to connect and create

Jordan Kunkel | Feb 8, 2021

A still from “Kaduna,” featuring The Ebinum Brothers. “Kaduna” opens the Films.Dance series, streaming through May 3 on the Harris Theater's Virtual Stage. Photo courtesy of the Harris Theater.

Real Connections: Films.Dance launch brings awareness of our mutualities with people, place and things

D'onminique Boyd | Feb 4, 2021

Ten dance artists, pictured above, were recently selected by the Chicago Dancemakers Forum to develop new dance works that use digital, online, mobile and/or virtual technologies.

Chicago dance has had a long love affair with process. Doubling down, are their audiences on board?

Lauren Warnecke | Feb 2, 2021

Actor, designer, costumer and caretaker Rebecca Shouse (right) posing with Michael Montgomery of Alonzo King LINES Ballet. (courtesy Shouse)

Art, joy and care for the dancer have been costumer Rebecca Shouse's top priorities

Vicki Crain | Feb 1, 2021

A still from “Kaduna,” featuring The Ebinum Brothers. “Kaduna” opens the Films.Dance series, streaming through May 3 on the Harris Theater's Virtual Stage. Photo courtesy of the Harris Theater.

More than 150 people from 25 countries came together to 'make something' during the pandemic. The result: Films.Dance

Jordan Kunkel | Jan 21, 2021

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