Dance Top 5: November 2021

Akram Khan in “XENOS.” /Photo: Jean Louis Fernandez

1
Re/turn
(Harris Theater)
The aptly titled first program of Hubbard Street’s forty-fourth season quietly announces the long-awaited lifting of the golden curtain on Chicago’s contemporary dance treasure, with a mixed-rep program including premieres by Aszure Barton and Jermaine Maurice Spivey.
November 18 – 21

2
XENOS
(Harris Theater)
Celebrated contemporary/Kathak choreographer Akram Khan returns to the Harris in a solo performance about the trails and torments of a shell-shocked Indian colonial soldier forced into service in World War I.
November 12 & 13

3
The Yellow Wallpaper/The Attic Room
(Ebenezer Lutheran Church)
Claustrophobia, confinement and connection are the timely themes in remounts of two works by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and RE|dance Group, who split the bill for an extended run in the auditorium at Ebenezer church.
November 5 – 20

4
South Chicago Dance Festival
(Various locations)
South Chicago Dance Theatre and Seoul-based Choomna Dance Company host workshops and performances across the South Side, including a premiere at Hyde Park School of Dance on the 8th, and an online Dance for the Camera presentation on the 10th.
November 8 – 12

5
Chicago Avant-Garde: Five Women Ahead of Their Time
(Newberry Library)
Included in the Newberry’s exhibition on experimental Chicago-based female artists of the early twentieth century are the great choreographers Katherine Dunham and Ruth Page. 
Through December 30