René Magritte’s 1929 painting La Trahison des images is best known for the text it contains: painted in a curlicue script beneath the curved image of a pipe are the words, “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” The paradox brings us not to the depth of the pipe but the surface, gleaming with a plastic finish, […]
Tag: Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble
Posted inDance
Dances of delusion
Months of confinement and isolation inform two introspective, retrospective works on a bill shared by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and RE|Dance this November, and one thing is certain: never has an apse looked more like the inner curve of a cranial vault, and our activities within the bone-white walls of Ebenezer Lutheran Church seemed more like […]
Posted inPublic Service Announcement
Ragamala, Party People, and Red Stars
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, which will give you that wonderful overnight “extra hour” if you happen to be out and about around 2 AM on Sunday morning (you don’t have to go home, but you can’t “save” here, bwahaha!). And the time is going to change whether you’re awake or not, so don’t […]
Posted inMusic
Chicago rapper the Boy Illinois headlines his first show since dropping the triumphant Windy EP
Chicago rapper the Boy Illinois headlines his first show since dropping the triumphant Windy EP, three current and former Chicagoans set a piece of Finnegans Wake to music, and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
Little Shop of Horrors, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, and ten more new stage shows
A monstrous revival and a collaboration between Writers Theatre and Second City are among this week’s theater and performance best bets.
Posted inArts & Culture
Fringe theater goes on parade with the 26th annual Abbie Fest
The Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theatre Festival features 72 hours of performances starting with a march from Daley Plaza.
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Culture Vultures: A Double Door dance party, ancient poetry, and more
Wilfredo Rivera, artistic director of Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, saw: El Nogalar at Goodman Theatre I thought it was a very interesting take on the Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Tanya Saracho created a very unique voice and representation of the civil and social changes taking place on the Mexican border, because of the drug […]