Adaptability and Resilience: Pivot Arts Festival and Mandala Makers Festival Make the Move Online
A few small, nimble organizations have found creative ways to shift online and hold modified, virtual versions of the live festivals planned for June.
Theater Top 5: June 2020
The Windy City continues to find creative ways of bringing the performing arts directly to audiences, not so much blowing in the wind as swinging for the fences.
A Jill of All Trades: An Interview with the Indefatigable Jillian Leff
The actor, playwright, fight choreographer and Babes With Blades ensemble member encourages aspiring polymaths to pursue all their interests.
Energy Redirected: The Freedom of Dancing in Quarantine
In our living rooms and kitchens, we’re liberated from the tyranny of the mirror.
Theater Top 5: May 2020
Ever the ingenious industry, Chicago theater and performance companies continue to find new and creative ways of bringing their art directly to audiences.
Dance Top 5: May 2020
Give Netflix a break with videos of past performances and live streamed living room shows by Chicago artists and companies.
Scholastic Media: Lyric Opera Empowers Youth During COVID-19
In the wake of a pandemic, the company’s EmpowerYouth! initiative was able to quickly adapt to the limitations and opportunities of the New Normal.
The Biggest Question: The Seldoms Take On the Existential Crisis of Our Time
The Seldoms’ founding artistic director wants to get you talking more about climate change.
Cut From Her Own Cloth: The Most Spectacular Designs of Miss Izumi Inaba
“The design process is like breaking down elements. What’s exciting in theater is you get to do it on real people and see it in real time.”
Keeping What You Need: Red Clay Dance Shifts the Celebration Online and Finds New Inspiration
“It’s good to reflect and look at everything and see if we’re at the root and purpose. Now we have a lot of time for planning and to interrogate some things.”
