“No Longer Art,” the Salvage Art Institute When art conservation first entered the jurisdiction of insurance companies, “totaled” works were routinely destroyed. Adjusters haven’t grown less depraved of heart, but at least today they consign wrecked art to storage facilities, usually for 30 years, until a condition known as “acceptable degradation” is reached and the […]
Author Archives: Jena Cutie
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Contemporary dance group Khecari’s radical Oubliette imprisons itself
Jonathan Meye’s unsettling work is weakened by a pileup of metaphors.
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It’s standing room only at the Chicago Dancing Festival
The Chicago Dance Festival returns, drawing its usual maximum-capacity crowds.
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Experimental dance project Produce mixes and matches
The experimental dance project Produce mixes and matches its performing artists.
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RE|Dance charts a journey that never gets off the ground
RE|Dance’s The Long and Forgotten Winter charts a journey that never gets off the ground.
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There’s great value in the Dance for $9.99/D49 Festival
Chicago Moving Company presents two nights’ worth of remarkable young choreographers.
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One-night dance program ‘Silk and Steel’ is up and down in a good way
“Silk and Steel,” a collaboration between Aerial Dance Chicago and Elements Contemporary Ballet, is up and down in a good way.
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An African-Latino showcase gives us history by way of cha-cha-cha
Columbia College inaugurates its new Afro-Latino dance program with four days of cross-pollinated performances.
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Best Dada Primer Without the Urinals
Annie Arnoult Beserra’s work resurrects a Weimar-era performer who embodied Dada’s anarchic gravitas.
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Best Behind-the-Scenes Dance Series
Like the best sushi, the choreography is prepared directly in front of you.
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A dance showcase where jazz, tap, and hip-hop don’t get pushed to the wall
Back for its second year, the Kaleidoscope Choreographers Festival showcases jazz, tap, hip-hop, and contemporary dance.
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The brave new human architecture of Levels and Lines
For Levels and Lines, Kristina Isabelle puts her dancers on stilts.
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Dance gets cerebral in ‘Laws of Motion’
In “Laws of Motion,” the Seldoms and Ayako Kato explore science through dance.
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Vivian Maier gets another portrait—in dance form
Bird Lady gives us another portrait of Vivian Maier, this one in dance form.
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Lucky Plush’s The Queue finds us ready and waiting
Lucky Plush’s absurdist comedy The Queue has some fun while poised over the abyss.