Dance experiences a Spanish influx
Like so many before them, they come for opportunity. "I think you find so many Spanish dancers here in Chicago and all over the world because there's so little dance...
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Artistic director to premiere new work with Luna Negra
From the sounds of it, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano was born to dance. Growing up in San Fulgencio, a village of about 2,000 people on the eastern Spanish coast, a village...
10 best bets for Chicago dance
There are no blockbuster visitors this fall, such as a major international ballet company. But the season promises some new faces, innovative bits of programming here and there, and a...
In this competition dancers are stars
Chicago's second year of "The A.W.A.R.D. Show" dance competition is under way, with another round of preliminaries Friday and a winner to be chosen at Saturday's finals. The Dance Center...
Genre-defying Ameba takes dance in a different direction
Leotards, tights, leg warmers and ballet slippers — these are bedrock accessories visible at most dance studios. But add ropes, pulleys, harnesses, Bungee cords and even such exotic-sounding implements as...
2009/10
You want to lose weight, become a better person or save the world. Why not start a bit smaller, with stuff that you can do for fun? Here are some...
DANCE CLASS
Dance can often strike the newcomer -- especially the male newcomer -- as among the most mysterious and intimidating of art forms. Tribune reporter Christopher Borrelli, a devotee of cinema...
FALL PREVIEW: DANCE MUST-SEES
This unusually fertile fall season is heavily front-loaded, with the first weekend in October something of a historic feast. Here are but a few highlights: 1. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane...
Joffrey Ballet dancer takes on challenge of playing Othello
Casting "Othello" isn't easy -- the title dancer must be romantic, a convincing soldier and able to pass as a Moor. In the case of the Joffrey Ballet, performing Lar...
The history behind ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’
A quick primer on some of the historical and cultural items alluded to in Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll": Alexander Dubcek: The Czechoslovakian political leader who ran the country between...