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Dance Top 5 of 2021

by Sharon Hoyer | December 27, 2021

by Sharon Hoyer
December 27, 2021January 7, 2022Filed under:
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Live performance dance highlights

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in “Jardi Tancat” by Nacho Duato/Photo: Todd Rosenberg Photography


Hubbard Street Dance Chicago “Re/Turn”

“An Untitled Love” by A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham. /Photo: Carrie Schneider.


A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham “An Untitled Love”

The Seldoms dancers Dee Alaba, Sarah Gonsiorowski, Damon D. Green and Maggie Vannucci in “GRASS”/Photo: Andrew Glatt


The Seldoms “GRASS”

Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre dancers Shelby Moran Amarantos and Jesse Hoisington with CRDT Jazz Band in “Identity City”/Photo: Fernando Rodriguez Photography

Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre “America/Americans”


Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater “Zafiro Flamenco”

 

Tagged:
  • Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre
  • Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater
  • Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
  • Kyle Abraham
  • The Seldoms

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