Lauren Warnecke

A couple weeks ago, I went to a murder mystery dinner. Like a live game of Clue, each guest was given a character profile. Rounds of questioning culminated in guesses...

What do you think of when you think of jazz dance? You think of widespread fingers, perhaps, or a top hat and a high-cut leotard. You think of Bob Fosse,...

It begins in the middle. Cathy Marston's ballet "Jane Eyre" starts with Jane running across the gloomy English countryside, escaping Thornfield Hall having just discovered that Edward Rochester, the man...

For Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater, booking Cathy Marston's "Jane Eyre" was a no-brainer. The theatrical ballet opens the company's 2019-20 season Wednesday at the Auditorium Theatre, its last...

For a decade, the Chicago Dancing Festival filled Chicago's great stages with the country's best ballet and modern dance companies, for free. It was a crazy idea, but it worked,...

More than three years of work went into Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre's first evening-length work, and on the night of the premiere, it was pouring. The rain didn't keep people...

It started as a way to get their work out there. Choreographers Nicole Gifford and Melissa Mallinson were looking for a platform to present their choreography, having little luck with...