The Chicago-based contemporary ballet company PARA.MAR Dance Theatre returns to Epiphany Center for the Arts (201 S. Ashland) this May for their fourth annual Spring Season Series, MONOLITH. The program features world premieres choreographed by Cuban-born Beatriz García Diáz, Puerto Rican-born Xavier Nuñez and Bryan Arias and PARA.MAR’s founder and artistic director Stephanie Martinez.
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Windy City contemporary dance company Visceral Dance Chicago will perform the company premieres of two works by acclaimed Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano this spring. The former artistic director of Chicago’s Luna Negra Dance Theater, who has choreographed works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Nederlands Dans Theater, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Chicago’s own Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Hispánico, and many others, is working with Visceral for the first time.
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Get ready to delve into the fascinating world of James Bond like never before. The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry presents 007 Science, the first-ever official exhibition to focus on the science and technology behind the world’s longest-running movie franchise.
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As action movies go, we Americans like ours high octane, with pyrotechnics-a-plenty and full of young Hollywood stars to get the blood pumping and juices flowing. This winter at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Josh Margolin unveiled an action thriller that breaks all those rules yet gets us to a satisfying finish, all the same.
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Paula Modersohn-Becker. Girl Blowing a Flute in the Birch Forest, 1905. Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen. © Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen.
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The thing you have to know about storytelling is perspective makes all the difference. One vantage point can tell a completely different story from another. So when telling the true story of a real life character, it’s important to get it right. But what’s the right perspective when it comes to exploring the complicated life of a brilliant, young African American scholar whose heart clearly lies in the troubled, depressed Orange, New Jersey community from which he emerged?
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Sundance Film Festival 2024 entry Suncoast is Laura Chin’s debut project, and though she’s packed everything in it but the kitchen sink,
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The Sundance Film Festival kicked off its 40th anniversary celebration on Wednesday, January 18th with a riveting Q&A tapping into the insights of Sundance leadership. The event was, moderated by film producer Jason Blum, CEO & founder of Blumhouse Studios, and Sundance Institute Board Trustee. With 40 years in its rear window, the festival celebrates several notable achievements that have catapulted it to what is arguably one of the most prestigious forums for the creation of film on the planet.
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Music has, for centuries, inspired design across the spectrum of art creation. Have you ever thought about the kind of visual output the music of jazz legedn John Coltrane might inspire? Well, Norman Teague has, and his visionary exhibition on the subject is set to launch at the the Elmhurst Art Museum this January. Entitled A Love Supreme, this solo exhibition inspired byColtrane will accompnayan adjoining group exhibition in the famed Mies van der Rohe’s McCormick House featuring over 30 Chicago-based artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). The companion show is entitled A Love Supreme: McCormick House Reimagined.
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For most, opera offers a world all its own. Likewise, the source material from which opera is born can seem to encapsulate a universe of possibilities. For fans of new operatic works, however, the subject matter from which composers draw inspiration is often entirely modern.
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