by Sharon Hoyer | December 2, 2025From the Humane Laboratory: Mad Shak Presents the Third and Final Chapter of “Ex/Body” “This piece is being made in the midst of deep questions with the ensemble about where do we go from here? What do we do with the coexistence of these feelings of the desire to be seen? The desire to hide?"
by Sharon Hoyer | July 10, 2024Unknowable Space: Ginger Farley Explores Liminality and More in Mixed Bill “Cycles”
by Sharon Hoyer | October 18, 2023Ways of Seeing: A Preview of Mad Shak’s “Ex/Body: strike, vibrate, shatter” at Studio5
by Sharon Hoyer | August 3, 2022The Dystopian Future is Bright: Chicago Dance Crash Celebrates Twenty with Booms Day
by Sharon Hoyer | April 6, 2019Observer Effect: A Review of Mad Shak’s Of Whales, Time, and Your Last Attempt to Reach Me
by Sharon Hoyer | February 5, 2019Rising Up: Power OUCH! Festival Explores Violence and the Individual Experience
by Sharon Hoyer | March 28, 2018Creation and Control: A Preview of The Mysterious Disappearance of the Second Youngest Sister by RE|Dance
by Alyssa Motter | March 27, 2018Collective Memory from Collated Pasts: A Preview of Of Whales, Time and Your Last Attempt to Reach Me by Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak
by Michael Workman | December 9, 2016Movement Makes Us Humane A Preview of Mad Shak's Love With/out Trembling at Links Hall
by Sharon Hoyer | September 1, 2016Fall Dance Preview The Seldoms' Carrie Hanson Looks Forward to Companies That Explore What Dance Can Do
by Sharon Hoyer | February 25, 2016Preview: Trip the Light Fantastic: The Making of SuperStrip/Lucky Plush Productions
by Sharon Hoyer | November 12, 2015Review: And We Shall Be Rid of Them/Molly Shanahan with Jeff Hancock
