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Dance Top 5: November 2018

by Sharon Hoyer | October 26, 2018

by Sharon Hoyer
October 26, 2018November 30, 2018Filed under:
  • Dance
  • Recommended Dance Shows

1
The Better Half
(Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre)
Lucky Plush’s wildly inventive reflection on the joys, woes, claustrophobia and liberation of domesticity returns for an extended run at Steppenwolf’s black-box theater. 
November 2-17

2
Miami City Ballet
(Harris Theater)
The acclaimed company led by Cuban-American Lourdes Lopez brings a mixed repertory of Balanchine, Brian Brooks and a piece co-choreographed by Twyla Tharp and Jerome Robbins.
November 8-9

3
EKILI MUNDA/What Lies Within
(Dance Center of Columbia College)
A longterm collaboration between Chicago’s Red Clay Dance Company and Uganda’s Keiga Dance Company launches with an exploration of the body as cultural archive.
November 8-10

4
Calling Glenn
(Auditorium Theatre)
LA-based Ate9 Dance Company visits Chicago for the first time, bringing a collaboration with Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche. The evening features performances by Visceral Dance Chicago and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater.
November 16

5
RockCitizen
(Studio 5)
The Seldoms take the bra-scape to Evanston in a re-staging of their rock ‘n’ roll reflection on social protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
November 16 & 17

Tagged:
  • Ate9
  • Auditorium Theatre
  • Dance Center of Columbia College
  • Deeply Rooted Dance Theater
  • Harris Theater
  • Keiga Dance Company
  • Lourdes Lopez
  • Lucky Plush
  • Miami City Ballet
  • Red Clay Dance
  • Steppenwolf 1700
  • Studio 5
  • The Seldoms
  • Visceral Dance

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