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Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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The uncanny choreography of World Order

Following Grimes's Tumblr pays off yet again.
- by Miles Raymer
- Tags: Whoa, Arts, Music, Dance, Grimes, Tumblr, World Order, Genki Sudo, David Byrne, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, May 14, 2013
RIP Luna Negra Dance Theater

The Latino dance troupe announced it's closing its doors.
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Arts, Dance, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Monica Cervantes, Eduardo Zuniga, Eduardo Vilaro, Latino dance

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2013
Artistic director Gustavo Ramirez Sansano leaves Luna Negra Dance Theater

On the cusp of its 15th season, and in the midst of "financial restructuring," the Chicago troupe loses another key member.
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Arts, Dance, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Monica Cervantes, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Eduardo Vilaro, Latin dance

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 23, 2013
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Don't fear the reaper: Geezer dance breaks down ageist barriers

Shows from Agree Performance, Perceptual Motion, and Ginny Sykes show that old people can still shake it.
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Arts, Dance, Agree Peformance, Annie Rudnick, Frank Schmidlin, Links Hall, Constellation, Carol Duet, Perceptual Motion, Lin Shook, Helene Alter-Dyche, Mildred Rivera, Edith Piaf, next Theatre, Ginny Sykes, Elaine Bachman, aging

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 18, 2013
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Quick: Deadline for city artist's grant is one minute before midnight, tomorrow

You can still apply for a Chicago artist's grant; the deadline is Fri 4/19.
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Music, Visual Art, Dance, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, DCASE Individual Artists Grant Program, artists' grants

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 13, 2013
This week in Bollywood: ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) 3-D

A review of the latest Bollywood musical to play at the River East 21
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Dance, ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) 3-D, Remo D'Souza, dance, choreography, Prabhu Deva, Bollywood musicals, River East 21, Spinz

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2013
Music + Movement = new, local choreography at Auditorium Theatre

Roosevelt University's Auditorium Theatre has commissioned eleven new dance works by local companies for a Music + Motion festival this spring.
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Dance, Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center’s Bryant Ballet, DanceWorks Chicago, Full Effect Entertainment Theatrical Dance Company, Joel Hall Dancers, Kalapriya Dance Company, Kuumba Lynx, Mexican Dance Ensemble, Thodos Dance Chicago, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Giordano Dance Chicago

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 23, 2012
Joffrey Ballet's The Green Table, this weekend at the Auditorium Theatre

Joffrey Ballet's The Green Table, this weekend at the Auditorium Theatre
- by Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Arts, Dance, Joffrey Ballet, The Green Table, Kurt Jooss, Fabrice Calmels, Auditorium Theatre, Frederick Cohen

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 19, 2012
Arsonists, altruists, and assassins: new performing arts reviews

Fresh opinions from Reader critics
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, The Arsonists, Trap Door Theatre, The Altruists, Two Lights, Chopin, Night Over Erzinga, Silk Road Rising, Assassins, Billy Pacholski, Viaduct, Fools Tango, Theatre Zarko, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Bailiwick, National Pastime, Titus Andronicus, Right Brain Project, Broken Glass, Redtwist, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Chicago Children's Theatre, Ruth Page, Chicago's Weird Grandma, Barrel of Monkeys, Neo-Futurarium, Fugitive Pieces, Ex-Pats, the Basement, Honeybuns, Collaboraction, The Millionairess, ShawChicago, Ruge Page, One 'Man' Show, Stage 773, Pontypool, Strawdog, Questionable Lullabies, Urlakis, Cusick, Stage 773, Existencia Esencia

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 12, 2012
Sunday in the Park With George and midnight with zombies: new performing arts reviews

Fresh reviews from Reader critics
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Boobs of the Dead: A Walking Dead Burlesque, Gorilla Tango, Scarrie, Hell in a Handbag, Mary's Attic, Splatter Theater, Annoyance, The Death of Life, WildClaw, Storefront, Frankenstein, City Lit, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Strawdog, Nightmares on Lincoln Avenue, Conservatory, Sonday in the Park With George, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Great Fire: A Traveling Truck Show, Making Noise Quietly, Steep, The Amen Corner, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men, Goodman, Unnatural Spaces, Guld Literary Complex, Catholic Repertory, American Theater Company, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, Neo-Futurists, Happiness, Alluvium Group, Oracle, The Mistakes Madeline Made, LiveWire, Greenhouse, One Name Only, Black Ensemble, Ruby Wilder, Tympanic, Teatro Luna, Luna Negra Dance Theater

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2012
Good People and bad dads: new performing arts reviews

From "pointless" to "devastatingly beautiful"
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Good People, Steppenwolf, Sweet Bird of Youth, Goodman, Armageddon Pie, Avenue Q, Seascape, The Big Knife, Remy Bumppo, NightBlue, Stage 773, Greenhouse, Raven, Don't Give That Beast a Name, Mammals, Zoo Studio, The Call Me Mister Fry, School Teacher Productions, Busted City, Prop Thtr, Dirty, Gift, Dearly Departed, Circle, The Skriker, Red Tape, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Mary Arrchie, I Love Lucy, Broadway Playhouse, Godspell, Brown Paper Box, Collaboraction, A Very Terrible Father, Dream, Woody Sez, Northlight, Woyzeck on the Highveld, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ground Effect, Links Hall, David Lindsay-Abaire, David Cromer, Jonathan Berry, Jack Fry

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 21, 2012
A queer Hamlet and an earthbound turkey: new Reader performing arts reviews

Fresh reviews from the Reader's performing arts critics
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Hamlet, Writers Theatre, All in the Timing, Bard + Fool Theater Group, Barnstormers, Drinking + Writing Theater, Iphigenia 2.0, Next Theatre, Jitney, Court Theatre, One Nation Under 1%, Second City, People in the City, Dominizuelan, Teatro Luna, Shaw vs. Chesterton: The Debate, Provision Theater, A Skull in Connemara, Shapeshifters Theatre, Spitfire Grill, BoHo Theatre Ensemble, Tusk Tusk, Piven Theatre, What Was Mine to Do, Strangeloop Theatre, Woman in White, Lifeline Theatre, Wrens, Rivendell Theatre, Wrong Mountain, Rare Terra Theatre, Xanadu, Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook, Brilliant Corners, Cover Band

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Blogs, Bleader, Sep 14, 2012
"Goofball perfection" to emotion-killing monologues: this week's performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Iron Stag King, After, Profiles Theatre, Chopin Theatre, Annee Pocalypse, Mary's Attic, Blagojevich, A Class Act, Athenaeum Theatre, Theater Wit, Commedia King John, Den Theatre, Illegal Use of Hands, Victory Gardens Theater, Impenetrable, The Last Five Years, The North Star, Once Upon a Rom Com, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Shakespeare's Female Women, Skokie Theatre, Six Dead Queens, Greenhouse Theater, Spirits to Enforce, Studio BE, Voices of Strength, Columbia College Dance Center

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 17, 2012
Genderfucks and bouncing boobies: new performing arts reviews

Fresh reviews from Reader performing arts critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, All-American Genderfuck Cabaret, All Kinds of Crazy, Holy Bouncing Boobies: A Batman Burlesque, Antigone, Bally Hoo, Untitled, Man of La Mancha, Abbie Hoffman, Dance Critic's Choice

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 10, 2012
Pop Sophocles and stormy Shakespeare: midsummer performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews by Reader critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, Airline Miles, Devil in the Dirt, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Here Lies Henry, Julius Caesar, Savage Land, Sordid Lives, That Was It, Michael Jackson, Thirty Thousand One, COMEDY MINIS, Barack All Night @ iO (8/4, Sat midnight) (AK), Finally Alone . . . Together @ Annoyance (8/5, Sun 8 PM) (ZT)

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 3, 2012
Tapping and Taming: this week's new performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Adrift, Ah Wilderness, Alice in Wonderland, The Glass Menagerie, The Monument, Ren Faire A Fistful of Ducats, The Taming of the Shrew, That's Weird Abuelita, Yo Solo Festival, Ignition Festival, Juba!, tap dance, theater & performance

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 1, 2012
Serious about pleasure

On two recent films that mix politics and pop, Step Up Revolution and the Taiwanese feature Girlfriend Boyfriend
- by Ben Sachs
- Tags: Film, Dance, Step Up Revolution, Trevor Link, Girlfriend Boyfriend, Gf*Bf, Yang Ya-che, Busby Berkeley, dance, protest, tracking shots, George Romero, Stephanie Rothman

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 26, 2012
Smartphones and Soirees: new performing art reviews

New performing arts reviews from Reader critics from the July 26, 2012 issue
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Dance, The American Plan, The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter, Nickel History: the Nation of Heat, Girls Night: The Musical, Sleeping Beauty, Reefer Madness, Richard III, Smartphones: A Pocket-Sized Farce, La Soiree, The Vortex, WTC View, Noel Coward, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Khecari dance company, Pales, Thodos Dance Chicago

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
Pole dancers and playground injuries: the Reader's latest performing arts reviews

Fresh opinions from Reader critics
- by Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Crowns, Three Sisters, Butley, Disney, musicals, Beauty and the Beast, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Hound of the Baskervilles, Anton Chekhov, Sherlock Holmes, Love Thy Neighbor Till It Hurts, Windy City Burlesque Festival, Audible Odyssey, Sound + Resound

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 10, 2012
The American Rhythm Center? You know—it's in the emerging dance corridor

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project announces the American Rhythm Center
- by Laura Molzahn
- Tags: Arts, Dance, Fine Arts Building, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Kalapriya, Luna Negra Dance Theater, River North Dance Chicago

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