Ballet Jazz Montreal. Photo: Thierry du Bois.

Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown and Cunningham Onstage
(Harris Theater)
September 17
New York-based Trisha Brown Company teams up with the Merce Cunningham Trust to celebrate the famed choreographer’s collaborations with artist Robert Rauschenberg. The program features pieces by Cunningham and Brown, including Cunningham’s “Travelogue” which hasn’t been performed since 1979, and Brown’s 1983 “Set and Reset” to music by Laurie Anderson.

Dance Me: The Music of Leonard Cohen
(Auditorium)
November 7
Celebrated contemporary company Ballet Jazz Montréal brings a love letter to the city’s renowned poet and songwriter. Choreographers Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Ihsan Rustem place movement to Cohen’s music in an evening that explores the cycles of life—love, loss, hope and renewal.

Sol Invictus
(Harris Theater)
November 14
Contemporary juggernaut Compagnie Hervé Koubi makes its Chicago debut with a kinetic piece named for the ancient Roman god of the sun. French Algerian Koubi blends contemporary, capoeira and street dance into a gravity-defying movement language all his own.

Published in the print edition of the September 2026 issue, with the headline “Can’t Miss Dance Events (Fall Arts Preview 2026).”