by Sharon Hoyer | September 1, 2026Motivations to Obey Ginger Krebs brings “Protected By Invisible Fence” to the MCA.
by Sharon Hoyer | August 11, 2026Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project Honors Legacy Bearers in Dancing the Archive at the Harris Theater "We’ve been through this before. We've been through erasure. We’re asking the legacy bearers how they got through it."
by Sharon Hoyer | August 4, 2026The Long and Lively Life of “Dance For Life,” Where Dancers Help Dancers The annual benefit to alleviate the cost of medical care for folks in Chicago’s dance community, now in its thirty-fifth year, was born during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
by Eileen B. Fisher | July 21, 2026Annie Franklin Weaves Fluidity and Attack with Chicago Dance Crash in “Six Ways to Fall” In Franklin's new piece, little chapters explore various ways people experience vulnerability, relating to physical, emotional, social, relational and existential challenges, and to identity.
by Eileen B. Fisher | July 14, 2026Irene Hsiao’s “Guardians of the Earth and Sky” Offers a Garden of Delights Now in its third year, Hsiao's walking outdoor performance in Chicago Parks is a summertime must for all ages.
by Eileen B. Fisher | July 7, 2026Exercises in Trust: “between us and everyone here” at the Neo-Futurists Come to understand dance as a series of actions—actions that sit closer to everyday experience than you may have thought.
by Sharon Hoyer | June 9, 2026After the Boys of Summer Have Gone: The Joffrey Ballet’s “Eugene Onegin” Plumbs Depths of Feeling Possokhov’s ballet brings nuanced emotions to the stage in a fully realized marriage of dance, music and visual design.
by Sharon Hoyer | May 19, 2026The Next Generation of Dance Artists Bloom in “Persistent Spring” “These Gen Z artists have a lot to say. And they’re really funny."
by Sharon Hoyer | May 5, 2026The Evolution of Chicago Danztheatre’s “Architecture of Memory” In conversation with Ellyzabeth Adler on the evening-length work, premiering at Chicago Danztheatre’s space in Andersonville's Ebenezer Lutheran Church this month.
by Sharon Hoyer | April 14, 2026In Extremis: Para.Mar Dance Theatre Explores The Many Faces Women Wear in “Mujeres” Long championing the creative power of Latina women, the company's evening-length work is inspired by Chilean poet, journalist and diplomat Gabriela Mistral.
by Sharon Hoyer | April 8, 2026Round and About: The Driehaus Dance of Brendan Fernandes Fernandes’ practice encompasses just about any medium you can name—dance, sculpture and design, textiles and fashion, photography and film—and is often in conversation with the spaces that contain it.
