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Moody 'Trisagion' the latest addition to Chicago Phil and Visceral Dance's developing friendship

Lauren Warnecke | Mar 4, 2020

Feeling a little spring in your step? It's the warmer air, the longer days—and the dance calendar

Lauren Warnecke | Mar 3, 2020

In 'Legalize Menstruation,' Loud Bodies dances about motherhood and period privilege

Emma Elsmo | Mar 2, 2020

Project Bound and Emma Draves a perfect pair in Links Hall split-bill 'The Nearest Place'

Emma Elsmo | Feb 29, 2020

Alexa, Play Chloe Johnston—exploring the voices of our every day lives

Lauren Warnecke | Feb 27, 2020

Poured concrete, free jazz and Winifred Haun make curious bedfellows at Unity Temple

Lauren Warnecke | Feb 24, 2020

Trinity Irish Dance Company breathes crossover rhythms Into traditional forms for leap day dancing at the Auditorium

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Feb 24, 2020

Palpable passion and unwavering trust in Flip Fabrique's acrobatic circus show about winter

Emma Elsmo | Feb 22, 2020

All rigor and no pith in two Same Planet premieres

Jordan Kunkel | Feb 22, 2020

Poonie’s Cabaret brightens mid-winter blues with a not-so-classic nod to the classics

Jordan Kunkel | Feb 18, 2020

Performing a book: NIC Kay launch of 'Cotton Dreams' started with a bouquet of cotton, and became about textiles, labor and the history of slavery

Jordan Kunkel | Feb 10, 2020

Mixed-rep from the here and now defines Joffrey’s 'The Times Are Racing'

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Feb 10, 2020

Punxsutawney Phil says spring is on its way—so does our dance calendar

Lauren Warnecke | Feb 3, 2020

The Cambrians dance to each other’s different drummer in 'Chicago Dances 2020'

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Feb 3, 2020

Concept Dances debut filled with freshness, collaboration and surprising 'chair-ography'

Emma Elsmo | Feb 1, 2020

Faith, catharsis and repetitive motion—Bartosik’s 'I Hunger for You' an exercise in stamina for all of us

Lauren Warnecke | Feb 1, 2020

Dystopian, Brothers Grimm-inspired ‘Water Will’ a contrarian take on free will that everyone should see

Lauren Warnecke | Jan 31, 2020

In Chicago debut, Kimberly Bartosik/daela turns hunger for connection into a visceral performance experience

Jordan Kunkel | Jan 27, 2020

'Stories of Chicago' less overt than advertised as three very different companies and a poet present works about race

Emma Elsmo | Jan 25, 2020

No choice but to watch Anthony Sims “Embody the Black Experience Through Performance," creating space for reflection

Jordan Kunkel | Jan 9, 2020