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Eiko Otake’s The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable. Photo by Ben McKeown.

Life, death and survival: Beyond performance and into relationship with Eiko Otake’s The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable

Sophie Allen | Feb 14, 2022

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Eiko Otake in "Eiko in Valparaiso." Photo by William Johnston.

Eiko Otake’s “The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable” examines how people deal with life, death, race, age and gender.

Tristan Bruns | Feb 11, 2022

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Dancers Adam Houston and Rosario Guillen perform “Take A Gambol,” choreographed by Joshua Blake Carter. Photo by Gorman Cook.

Giordano Dance Chicago begins the new year with a program of overarching joy in “Illuminate” at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.

Tristan Bruns | Feb 11, 2022

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Red Clay Dance Academy’s new class series honors the diversity of the African Diaspora

D'onminique Boyd-Riley | Feb 10, 2022

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Trinity Irish Dance Company. Photo by Lois Greenfield.

Trinity Irish Dance Company Returns To The Stage With Cross-Cultural Innovation

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Feb 3, 2022

Photo caption: Boom Crack! Dance Company performing the finale work “Organized Chaos.” Photo courtesy of Michelle Radvillas

Hip hop crew Boom Crack!, transformed for black-box theater, channels mind, body and soul in ‘Three’

Jordan Kunkel | Dec 5, 2021

Ragamala Dance Company in "Fires of Varanasi." Photo credit Kyle Flubacker.

Review: Finally back at the Harris, Ragamala's 'Fires of Varanasi' comes full circle

D'onminique Boyd-Riley | Dec 4, 2021

Alberto Velazquez and members of the Joffrey Ballet children's cast in "The Nutcracker." Photo by Cheryl Mann

Visions of sugar plums dance on for Joffrey 'Nutcracker' children's cast

Emma Elsmo | Dec 1, 2021

Mariah Eastman and dancers go door to door with mini dance grams as part of their "Holiday Dance Carol," through Dec. 19 in three separate neighborhoods. Photo courtesy Mariah Eastman.

Four shows ya gotta see this December

See Chicago Dance | Nov 30, 2021

Ragamala Dance Company, photo by Bruce Palmer

Critical Context: Ragamala Dance Company explores life, death and rebirth at the Harris

Tristan Bruns | Nov 30, 2021

A scene from Lorin Sookool's "Prayer Room," part of See Chicago Dance's Screendance Club

Screendance Club in review: You have our attention—we’re watching, part II

Gregory King | Nov 24, 2021

A scene from Cecil McDonald, Jr.'s "Pieta for America," screened as part of See Chicago Dance's monthly Screendance Club

Screendance Club in review: You have our attention—we’re watching, part I

Gregory King | Nov 23, 2021

Hubbard Street Dancers Craig D. Black Jr., Alyssa Allen, Alysia Johnson and Jacqueline Burnett performing in "Jardi Tancat" by Nacho Duato. Photo by Michelle Reid

After 20 months off stage, Hubbard Street is back and better than ever

Emma Elsmo | Nov 20, 2021

Akram Khan in "Xenos," part of the 2021-22 Harris Theater Presents series. Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez

Critical Context: Prometheus is in the building

Lauren Warnecke | Nov 12, 2021

Joseph Kim and Kia Smith in a presentation of their cross-cultural collaboration. Kim and two additional dancers participate in a residency during next week's South Chicago Dance Festival. Photo by Quinton Arthur

Language of dance transcends cultural borders in South Chicago Dance Theatre’s third annual festival

Lynn Colburn Shapiro | Nov 5, 2021

Deeply Rooted dancer Nyemah Stuart in Ulysses Dove's "Episodes." Photo by Ken Carl

Of, for and made in Chicago: Deeply Rooted's triumphant return to the stage dazzles at the Aud

Sophie Allen | Oct 26, 2021

Delayed a year by the pandemic, Akram Khan's final performances on stage will be in "Xenos" at the Harris Theater Nov. 12 and 13. Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez

Six shows ya gotta see this November

See Chicago Dance | Oct 25, 2021

Zachary Heller is retiring after 14 years with Giordano Dance Chicago. Photo by Todd Rosenberg

Giordano opens season 59 with new dancers and Zach Heller's final curtain call

Vicki Crain | Oct 20, 2021

From left, Ayako Kato, Darling Squire and Tuli Bera in "ETHOS" at South Shore Cultural Center Park. Photo by Ricardo Adame

In communion with nature, 'ETHOS' a moving reminder about stewardship

Sophie Allen | Oct 14, 2021

A scene from 'Visita a Nuestra Muertos,' a dance film created by Silvita Diaz Brown and screened in celebration of Dia de Los Muertos.

'Visita a Nuestra Muertos' a multi-sensory journey transcends time to bring us closer to those we've lost

D'onminique Boyd-Riley | Oct 14, 2021

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