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- Arts & Culture, Fall Theater and Dance Sep 12, 2019
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Sculpting identity—and diversity—through movement
Hubbard Street dancer Connie Shiau
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2018
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Healthy Hood wants to make sure people on the south and west sides start living better and longer
Tanya Lozano's nonprofit Youth Health Service Corps and fitness studio Healthy Hood make exercise classes and disease screenings available and affordable.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2018
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The new Suspiria manages to be about women's power without being feminist
Luca Guadagnino's remake takes too much pleasure in the destruction of women.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 21, 2018
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Sunday’s Kultura Festival filled Logan Square Emporium with the food and arts of the Philippines
There's a lot more to the culture than Spam, you know.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 9, 2018
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Breaking and tagging at the Writer's Bench 2018 Battle for the Eagle in Logan Square
Dancers, DJs, and graffiti artists celebrated out in the open, not in train tunnels.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 18, 2018
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FilmStruck spotlights the sophisticated cinema of George Cukor
George Cukor, the great Hollywood auteur hiding in plain sight, gets the "director of the week" treatment form FilmStruck.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2018
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James Cagney is more than just a tough-guy as FilmStruck's Star of the Week
James Cagney dances past his gangster persona in several of FilmStruck's "Star of the Week" selections.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 26, 2018
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Joan Crawford shines in five Hollywood classics
We boil down the iconic actress's five-decade screen career into five must-see films.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 17, 2018
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Five classic films by Latin American women
Zama, a new feature from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, inspires a look back a five other female directors from Latin America.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2018
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Dance becomes collective action in Poor People's TV Room
In a new multimedia piece, choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili shows off the strength of Nigerian women throughout history.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2018
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Hedwig Dances brings Bauhaus utilitarianism to the stage
In its spring show, Jan Bartoszek's troupe plays with space and geometry.
- Arts & Culture, Dance Apr 3, 2018
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Wendy Clinard and Akito Tsuda team up to create art out of the sights and sounds of Pilsen
Consider it a painting made from movements, beats, and the human body.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 28, 2018
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The Process v. Product Festival demystifies the art of choreography
For two weekends, dancers, poets, curators, visual artists, and ecologists will gather at Columbia College to talk about movement.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 23, 2018
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In April See Chicago Dance wants the whole city to . . . well, you know
There will be events all month, all over to get you on your feet
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2018
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A retrospective of Hubbard Street Dance choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo
The company's choreographer talks about how he builds a dance.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2018
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Alejandro Cerrudo kindles light in the darkness at Hubbard Street Dance
The company returns to the Auditorium Theatre this weekend for a retrospective of the resident choreographer’s work.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 13, 2018
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Mark Morris’s Layla and Majnun gives a modern dance spin to a classic Arabian love story
“The story has been through a lot of different points of view, and I want to unite them.”
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2018
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Cloud Gate Dance Theatre combines words, history, and movement in Formosa
Facing retirement, choreographer Lin Hwai-min brings his career full circle.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2018
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The Daphne festival elevates women and nonbinary DJs
The folks behind Daphne—including Eris Drew, Sold, and DJ Kiddo—discuss how the festival’s workshops aim to help women and nonbinary people claim their place in electronic-music history.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 16, 2018
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This Week on Filmstruck: Jacques Demy
Filmstruck presents the musical films of French master Jacques Demy.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2018
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Ayako Kato creates a radical dance experiment in silence and stillness
"When you have silence and stillness," she says, "you start to sense how movement is precious."
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2018
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Brodsky/Baryshnikov is a meditation on mortality, with a little bit of dancing
The great dancer pays tribute to his poet friend.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 30, 2018
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At the Eclipsing Festival, Amina Ross wants you to find the light in darkness
The four-day-long festival explores the links between racial injustice and language.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 4, 2018
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Catalyst Movmnt showcases the experiences of black womyn through dances of their own making
Three recent Columbia College grads bring a program of socially engaged works to Links Hall.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 13, 2017
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Ayako Kato's three-month movement workshop Art of Now III culminates with an experimental performance concert
Facilitator Ayako Kato says she started her workshop to "offer an opportunity to overcome loneliness."
