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Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre.
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Until American Ballet Theatre’s premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate,” my first thought upon leaving a ballet gala had never before been: “well that was hot.” ABT has found its new Valentine’s Day programming. Debbie Downers “Romeo and Juliet” and “Swan Lake” can take a rest. Spoiler alert: the star-crossed lovers in “Like Water for Chocolate” also perish together in the last scene, but the effect is, well, different. After decades of longing, Tita and Pedro are finally free to consummate their desire, and their love is so profound that at the point of climax they erupt in flames—their bed beautifully engulfed in fiery projections by Luke Halls. Though their earthly bodies are lost to the conflagration, their souls ascend to an astral plane, united for all eternity. Principal dancers Cassandra Trenary and Herman Cornejo, nearly nude, floated up into the clouds in a Kama Sutra-like tangle as the curtain fell. Ahem.
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Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre.
Continue Reading“I can’t even stand it,” exclaimed Tina Finkelman Berkett about the Perenchio Foundation grant that her dance troupe, BodyTraffic, recently received.
Continue ReadingBeneath a tree also over a century old is where I meet dancer and artist Eileen Kramer, and where the 60-minute loop will end. And it feels fitting, on the heels of her recent death on November 15, 2024, at 110-years-of-age, to start here, at effectively the end of Sue Healey’s screening of On View: Icons.
FREE ARTICLEHubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Fall Series will entertain you. Deftly curated, with choreographers ranging from Aszure Barton to Bob Fosse, Hubbard’s dancers ably morph through this riveting programme of showmanship.
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