Dance Top 5: December 2017

Twyla Tharp and Graciela Figueroa at the Billy Rose Theatre, New York, 1969/Photo: Jack Mitchell.

1
Minimalism and Me
(MCA Stage)
Legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp reflects on the creation of twenty of her works from the late 1960s in a program created especially for the MCA.
December 7-10

2
Hubbard Street Dance
(Harris Theater)
Hubbard Street’s winter program is dedicated to the fierce, brilliant and devastatingly cool works of Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite.
December 7-10

3
Trade Routes Festival
(Links Hall)
Five Chicago dance companies or dancers pair up with an out-of-town buddy to split the bill with an out-of-town guest of their choice.
November 30-December 10

4
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater
(Logan Center for the Arts at University of Chicago)
Mining pain, healing and spirituality in Fana Tshabalala’s INDUMBA
December 8-10

5
The Nutcracker
(Auditorium Theatre)
Christopher Wheeldon’s spectacular rendition of the holiday staple, created for the Joffrey Ballet and set in Chicago during the World’s Columbian Exposition returns for a second year of glorious animated projections, ingenious set transformations and wily rat puppetry.
December 1-30