1
Giselle
(Harris Theater)
English National Ballet returns to Chicago for the first time in over thirty years with a real stunner: Akram Kahn’s take on the tragic story-ballet that bends Western classical technique with Indian Kathak and features an original score performed live by the Chicago Philharmonic.
February 28-March 3
2
Hubbard Street Dance and Malpaso Dance Company
(Auditorium Theatre)
A first-time collaboration between Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Havana-based Malpaso has each company performing new pieces by each other’s choreographers, as well as selections from repertory.
March 2 & 3
3
La Femme Dance Festival
(Green Line Performing Arts Center)
Red Clay Dance Company’s biennial festival of new works features short pieces by emerging female choreographers of color and is a highlight of the Green Line Performing Arts Center’s inaugural season.
March 15 & 16
4
Escapes and Reversals
(Unity Lutheran Church)
Ginger Krebs and her collaborators mine the effects of surveillance in the digital age on body and psyche.
March 7-9
5
The Great Outdoors
(MCA Stage)
Annie Dorsen’s latest “algorithmic theater” invites the audience into an inflatable planetarium to consider the cosmic infinity of the internet.
March 21-24
