Spring festival is resurrected in Chicago.CHICAGO--Chicago Music and Dance Theater The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German expressionist dance. Its most influential performers are Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke. , Inc., an agency recently established by Chicago Community Trust to plan and erect a state-of-the-art theater for dance in this city, also has arranged a 1994 Spring Festival of Dance at three local venues. The festival, running from April 6 to May 22, will replace the annual spring dance festival held in recent years at the Civic Opera House and administered by Civic Stages. Civic Stages went out of business when the opera house began extensive renovations last year. [See Presstime press·time n. The time at which a publication, especially a newspaper, is submitted for printing. News, January 1993, page 24.] This year's festival will include four Chicago companies: Ballet Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Joseph Holmes Joseph E. Holmes is a color, natural light, landscape photographer from California. His publications include many posters, the series of Last Wildlands calendars, produced with David Brower at Friends of the Earth for nine years, and three books, including two of the most Chicago Dance Theatre, and Mordine & Company Dance Theatre. Three touring companies, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 30 dancers as well as artistic director Judith Jamison and associate artistic director Masazumi Chaya. , Garth Fagan Dance, and Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (founded in 1968) is a dance company based in New York City and founded by Lar Lubovitch in the late 1960s. They have performed at Carnegie Hall, and worldwide. , will also appear. Chicago's midsize dance and music companies have lacked a proper venue for a long time. To remedy this situation, the Chicago Community Trust (a consortium of foundations and civic leaders) formed a committee to study possible sites for a new 1200- to 1500-seat, state-of-the-art theater, which also would include a 300-seat black box suitable for small groups. Now the site has been selected. The new theater will be located in the City Front Center, a developing area in the center of town, where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan. While conferring with the four local companies chosen as future residents of the new theater (Ballet Chicago, Hubbard Street, Joseph Holmes, and Mordine) the members of the theater committee became aware of their immediate needs, resulting in the establishment of Chicago Music and Dance. Chicago Music and Dance has pledged to raise $30 million to plan and build the theater, and to create an endowment that will ensure both the maintenance of the theater and the future of its residents. The 1994 Spring Festival is the organization's first step. Chicago Music and Dance brought the dance companies together with potential presenters. it also arranged for the three theaters in which the festival will take place, and printed a subscription brochure. it has publicized the event, and will raise funds to cover festival expenses. The local companies, for their part, will be responsible for production costs and for most of the theater rental fee. The Ailey and Fagan companies will be presented by Chicago Performing Arts. Lar Lubovitch will be presented by the Dance Center of Columbia College. The festival will take place in the Shubert Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Harold Washington Library The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is named for former Mayor Harold Washington. theater. The Shubert (approximately 1400 seats) heretofore has housed dramas and Broadway musicals. Steppenwolf is a new theater (some 600 seats), which was built for serious plays. The almost-new Harold Washington Library has a conveniently located 500-seat auditorium. Hubbard Street will appear in the Shubert, April 6-24, with a repertoire that includes the premieres of works by Daniel Ezralow and Mauricio Wainrot. Mordine & Company will perform its repertoire in the Harold Washington Library, April 7-9. Ballet Chicago plans to dance its first evening-length ballet, Hansel and Gretel Hansel and Gretel fattened up for child-eating witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56] See : Cannibalism Hansel and Gretel woodcutter’s children barely escape witch. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Grimm, 56] See : Escape , in the Steppenwolf Theatre, April 14-24, Hansel and Gretel has been choreographed by Ballet Chicago's artistic director, Daniel Duell. The Lubovitch troupe will appear in the Shubert, from April 28 to May 3. The Joseph Holmes company will follow in the Shubert, May 4-8, with a new duet by Bill T. Jones and revivals of works by Holmes. Garth Fagan will perform Griot griot African tribal storyteller. The griot's role was to preserve the genealogies and oral traditions of the tribe. Griots were usually among the oldest men. In places where written language is the prerogative of the few, the place of the griot as cultural guardian is still New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in the Shubert, May 11-14. The Ailey troupe is scheduled to present a large repertoire, including a new work by company artistic director Judith Jamison, at the Shubert, May 18-22, Special student matinees will be administered by Urban Gateways, the arts-in-education agency. |
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