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Home » Arts & Culture » Dance Critic's Choice

Category: Dance Critic’s Choice

Krithika Rajagopalan's circle of lithe
Posted inArts & Culture

Sita Ram gives heat for the holidays

by Laura Molzahn December 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago Children’s Choir, Natya Dance Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre revive Sita Ram

Casi-Casa: jigs, bagpipes, and a dark heart
Posted inArts & Culture

Bagpipes, a vacuum, and a wide-legged jig

by Laura Molzahn December 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presents its winter show at Harris Theater

Ladies and Gentle Men: The 1970s feminism-for-kids media franchise goes dancing!
Posted inArts & Culture

Trey McIntyre Project arrives from Boise by way of the world

by Laura Molzahn November 28, 2012August 19, 2021

Idaho’s Trey McIntyre Project performs three original works at the Harris Theater

ScrapArtsMusic, literally playing all that racket.
Posted inArts & Culture

ScrapArtsMusic plumbs the musical potential of plumbing

by Laura Molzahn November 21, 2012August 19, 2021

ScrapArtsMusic plumbs the musical potential of plumbing

Jessica Wolfrum in Nejla Yatkin's Renatus
Posted inArts & Culture

New blood on the dance floor

by Laura Molzahn November 14, 2012August 19, 2021

River North Dance Chicago performs its fall program

Butoh, minus the angst.
Posted inArts & Culture

Nicole LeGette’s angst-free butoh

by Laura Molzahn November 7, 2012August 19, 2021

Butoh dancer-choreographer Nicole LeGette’s angst-free Of Marrow, Moonlight & Mirth

A cast this feminine is uncommon in the tap world
Posted inArts & Culture

All-female tap troupe Jorstap dances on the glass ceiling

by Laura Molzahn October 31, 2012August 19, 2021

Kendra Jorstad leads her new, all-female tap troupe in “Disruption,” at Stage 773

Exit through the Seldom shop
Posted inArts & Culture

Dancing around the issue

by Laura Molzahn October 24, 2012August 19, 2021

The Seldoms’s Carrie Hanson premieres Exit Disclaimer: Science and Fiction Ahead

Here we see the unseen forces (see below) in Kato's dance
Posted inArts & Culture

Dear Bach . . . Love, Ayako Kato

by Laura Molzahn October 17, 2012August 19, 2021

Dancer-choreographer Ayako Kato waxes eloquent in “Existencia Esencia”

Soap opera meets samba in Bate
Posted inArts & Culture

Under a luna negra

by Laura Molzahn October 10, 2012August 19, 2021

Luna Negra Dance Theater presents “Reencuentros”

Kristina Isabelle's The Floating City: Solo
Posted inArts & Culture

No drought at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival

by Laura Molzahn October 3, 2012August 19, 2021

Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival offers 28 artists in three programs

Choreographers Colleen Halloran, Liz Burritt, and Paige Cunningham Caldarella contribute
Posted inArts & Culture

A normal sort of damage

by Laura Molzahn September 26, 2012August 19, 2021

Choreographers Colleen Halloran, Liz Burritt, and Paige Cunningham Caldarella contribute to “Ground Effect.”

Shineflug asks five adapters to shine
Posted inArts & Culture

Greatest hips

by Laura Molzahn September 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Matthew Hollis, Atalee Judy, and others cover Nana Shineflug dances

Quartiers Libre
Posted inArts & Culture

“Voices of Strength” and bodies, too

by Laura Molzahn September 12, 2012August 19, 2021

“Voices of Strength” offers four works by five African women choreographers

Teenagers practicing the nearly martial onslaughts of Touch of Soul
Posted inArts & Culture

Come see a lot of people dancing

by Laura Molzahn August 15, 2012August 19, 2021

The 2012 Chicago Dancing Festival features a couple of large-cast works

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