Each year Duets For My Valentine pulls together an eclectic mix of dancers and companies from across the city to woo young lovers for one night at the historic Park West. The styles range from breakdance to ballet (and in the case of companies like Chicago Dance Crash, both at once) so both parties on the date are bound to be enthralled, if not by serial fuetes, then by windmills. This year’s lineup includes the aforementioned Dance Crash, Joel Hall Dancers, Chicago Tap Theatre, Breakdance Chicago, Elements Contemporary Ballet, Crooks Crew, Corpo Dance Company, Same Planet Different World, DanceWorks Chicago, dancer/choreographer Jeffrey Hancock, and Framework Dance Chicago. After the show, the audience is invited to put down their wine glass and take the stage to do a bit of dancing themselves. (Sharon Hoyer)
“Duets For My Valentine” plays at Park West, 322 W. Armitage, (773)929-1322. Saturday, February 13, 8pm. $25.
Seen, Unseen: A Preview of “What Remains” at the MCA Warehouse This multidisciplinary performance at the MCA's off-site warehouse space addresses issues of race, opposition, hostility, identity and disappearance, bringing into question what it means to be simultaneously surveyed and ignored as a black person in society.
Out of Darkness: A Preview of Giordano Dance at the Harris Theater Miranda Davis' new piece about hope in the face of adversity is the latest in a series of commissions intended to push the company’s boundaries and explore the intersections of jazz, modern and contemporary aesthetics.
Tribalism and Repose: A Preview of Prakriti: A History of the Present Ishti employs their unique blend of classical Indian dance, Indian folk and tribal dance, martial arts and contemporary Western dance to investigate what aspects of our human nature have brought us to the current political moment.
