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Childish Gambino song tells you what Red Clay’s ‘Ekili Munda’ is about — but it’s also more complicated

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

Through Saturday at the Dance Center, “Eliki Munda | What Lies Within” has been a decade in the making. Shortly before Vershawn Sanders-Ward formed her Red Clay Dance Company on...

Miami City Ballet at the Harris review: Two-thirds nostalgia, one-third choreographer Brian Brooks

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

“It’s our birthday!” said Patricia Barretto, president and CEO of the Harris Theater, in her Thursday night curtain speech. It was 15 years to the day since the underground marvel...

Ballet Folklorico de Mexico is traditional — it has to be — but it’s also changing for the times

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

The Palacio de Bellas Artes is a majestic art nouveau gem in the heart of Mexico City, standing on the edge of the oldest urban green space in the Americas,...

Here’s how Giordano fills the Harris Theater better than any other dance company

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

The Harris Theater can be a tough space for dance companies, swallowing up the subtleties of fine-tuned gestures, text or facial expressions. It’s got a chilly subterranean atmosphere that rarely,...

At the Dance Center, Tere O’Connor’s ‘Long Run’ asks what it means to be present

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

Choreographer Tere O’Connor splits his time between New York and Champaign, where he is a professor in the dance department at the University of Illinois. As the occasional U. of...

‘Swan Lake’ is a new Joffrey treasure — Christopher Wheeldon’s changed ending and all

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

When you consider that just a few months ago dancers of the Joffrey Ballet were standing at the lip of the Auditorium Theatre’s stage in their underwear as part of...

‘Swan Lake’ is the ballet everyone knows and loves — and the Joffrey is bringing it back

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

Every great city with a great ballet company deserves a great “Swan Lake,” and until recently, Chicago didn’t really have a full-scale production to call our own. Sure, the pre-professional...

Asherie Dance’s ‘Odeon’ has upbeat street dance, Latin dance — but the scene of violence didn’t work for me

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

If break dancing and bossa nova had a baby, it might look something like the style of Ephrat Asherie Dance, which performs its evening-length Chicago debut titled “Odeon” through Saturday...

‘Unwanted’ at MCA is a harrowing choreographed work about rape, focusing on Rwanda

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

The first thing you’ll notice walking into the Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for “Unwanted” is a striking, free-standing mural placed just off-center on the...

Everything from duets to grunge to high-energy jazz dance at Harvest Dance Fest

May 22, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

A chicly renovated lobby and some important behind-the-scenes updates to the beloved Ruth Page Center for the Arts have made a once-dilapidated space fresh and inviting for the ninth edition...

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