Dim Sum Dance. Photo by Rachel Tredon.
Just around the bend: Dim Sum Dance and Tiffany Rhynard’s quadruple-bill at Hamlin Park.
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:20::2009
Fresh Fever: Flavor Edition
Posted in Flavorpill, News | Tags: dim sum dance, Flavorpill, hamlin park fieldhouse, rachel tredon, tiffany rhynard
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:18::2009
Work, Paris, Dupree, MTV.
You may very well be aware of Vogue Evolution‘s fabulous throwback invasion of American televisions web-enabled devices but, in case you are not, check it.
Also fairly fascinating: We Are Heroes‘ choreographic précis on Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).
(via Think Pink Radio)
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:18::2009
What I’m not blogging about:
This.
Posted in Blather, News | Tags: dancing with the stars, tom delay
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:18::2009
Out and proud.
Les Ballets Grandiva. Photo by Eduardo Patino.
Are you sitting down? I’m gay.
The Center on Halsted, gorgeous home to everything from About Face Theatre to community services galore to, uh, suddenly-not-so-cool Whole Foods perhaps unsurprisingly loves dance, too. How do I know? They have a program series called danceOUT of which there’s one remaining event this month (there were two, but Friday’s conversation with Les Ballets Grandiva has apparently and unfortunately been cancelled). Wednesday, August 26 at 7:00pm, the Center’s Hoover-Leppen Theatre welcomes River North Chicago Dance Company‘s AD Frank Chaves to moderate a conversation and stage rehearsal with his immensely-talented dancers. RSVP is requested, via email to culture (at) centeronhalsted (dot) org, or by telephone at (773) 661-0763; tickets are $10. Get out, and go.
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:18::2009
Fests n’ duets.
Museum of Contemporary Art. Photo by Naoko Kawachi.
The Chicago Dancing Festival dominates this week’s calendar of events for those like, well, yourself, but that doesn’t mean you need to be relegated solely to spectation. Ncounter is getting into the spirit of Wednesday’s event at the MCA, Artists Up Close: The Art of the Duet, by getting those waitlisted as well as just happening by to make some duets of their own — the theme is “bring a friend.”
N traditional Ncounter fashion, there’s no need to bring, do, reserve or pay anything, just get or make a friend, show up at the museum’s front entrance at 6:30pm and cut the ru– er, pavement. Live music will be on hand to inspire. How much dancing have you done outside this summer? Not enough.
Posted in Free, News | Tags: chicago dancing festival, museum of contemporary art, ncounter
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:18::2009
Get your lunch to go and your ass to Millennium Park!
Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak in Stamina of Curiosity. Photo by Sandbox Studio.
Look at the clock: Today, Tuesday (incidentally a wonderful Frida Hyvönen song) at noon, Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak takes the stage at the Pritzker Pavilion for a free performance from their current project, Stamina of Curiosity, bringing movement as sinuous and beguiling as the amphitheater’s architecture. Can you make it? Go! Go! Go!
Posted in Free, News | Tags: frida hyvönen, millennium park, molly shanahan/mad shak
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:14::2009
Julian Plenti is Skyscraper.
OMG Paul Banks. Photo by Brian Appio.
I know I know, this isn’t a music blog. But really, folks: Bright Lights kinda changed my life and I’ve been a fairly fanatic Interpol lover ever since. I may or may not frequently think stinky things watching Daniel Kessler play beautifully inside his private world. Well Paul Banks, he of weapons-grade aloofness and boom, has released a solo record as Julian Plenti and, deep breath, it’s fucking great — just thought you should know.
Posted in Not Dance | Tags: daniel kessler, interpol, julian plenti, matador records, paul banks
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:14::2009
Fresh Flavor: Best of the Fest Edition
Emily Bowen of Houston Ballet in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. Photo by Amitava Sarkar.
A week from now we’ll be smack dab in the middle of the Chicago Dancing Festival, but for now all we can do is wait. Why don’t you pass the time by drinking in Stephen Galloway‘s fabulous costume design (above) and trippin’ on over to Flavorpill for some hot new preview action?
Posted in Flavorpill, Free, News, Roundups | Tags: chicago dancing festival, emily bowen, Flavorpill, houston ballet, stephen galloway, william forsythe
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:13::2009
August: Onstage County
Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in Ulysses Dove's Vespers. Photo by Andy Snow.
Quite the stretch on this month’s punny headline, I know — something about the long-delayed heat seems to have torpified my corny. Anyhow, hop on over to the Windy City Times for August’s Dancin’ Feats or freshen up that lemonade, crank up the fan and hit the jump. Read More…
Posted in News, Roundups, windy city times | Tags: agnes de mille, alberto podestá, alvin ailey, american ballet theatre, athenaeum theatre, autism illinois, bharatanatyam, bill t. jones, chicago dancing festival, chicago human rhythm project, cory stearns, dayton contemporary dance company, dim sum dance, duncan sheik, faubourg school of ballet, hamlin park fieldhouse, hanover park, harris theater for music and dance, harrison mceldowney, hee seo, hema rajagopalan, houston ballet, jerome robbins, josh weckesser, julie mayo, kalapriya dance company, lar lubovitch, les ballets grandiva, linda-denise fisher-harrell, link's hall, marcus galante, millennium park, museum of contemporary art, natya dance theatre, peter gabriel, randy duncan, ruth page center for the arts, spring awakening, step afrika!, the building stage, the galaxie, tiffany rhynard, twyla tharp, ulysses dove, vittum theater, william forsythe
Posted by: trailerpilot | 08:11::2009
Momentum Sensorium/The Humans
I saw who i am (who i am not), choreographed by Rachel Bunting, not long ago: It was the first piece on the first program of The A.W.A.R.D. Show! at Columbia’s Dance Center. Although its remount for a double bill at Links Hall last weekend came quick, The Humans (Bunting and Precious Jennings) had it reworked quite a bit. More fleshed out as an installation — there were a number of setpieces at Links, as opposed to just the “chime portal” onstage at Columbia — who i am was able to delve even further into its odd universe. Beginning naked and barely lit in a far corner, Bunting dresses before us facing a folding screen up against the back wall. Whereas in most cases such screens create an impromptu closet from a sliver of room, here the sliver was the room itself, the dressing and preparatory space the vast expanse of the stage and house combined. I relished the implications of this slow and casual reveal; Bunting was making no mystery of inviting us into her personal territory. As a matter of fact, there was no invitation at all — she merely announced that’s where we were. Read More…
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