Gapers Block has ceased publication.

Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
 Thank you for your readership and contributions. 

TODAY

Thursday, March 28

Gapers Block
Search

Gapers Block on Facebook Gapers Block on Flickr Gapers Block on Twitter The Gapers Block Tumblr


A/C
« Art Around Town African American Arts Alliance of Chicago: Black Excellence Awards »

Dance Fri Oct 12 2012

A Company Reunion: Luna Negra Dance Theater's Fall Program

Luna Negra - Bate, ft. Zoltan Katona, Eugene Peabody, Diego Tortelli_ photo by Cheryl Mann.jpg

Luna Negra - Bate, ft. Zoltan Katona, Eugene Peabody, Diego Tortelli; photo by Cheryl Mann

The strength of Chicago's dance scene can be found in the array of choreographers and performance styles found within the city. Like many of their contemporaries, Luna Negra Dance Theater employs a solid and experimental group of choreographers to create challenging, contemporary works that solidify their standing as one of the most important companies in Chicago. For their latest performance entitled Reencuentros, the company welcomes new works by Brazilian choreographer Fernando Melo and as well as Luna Negra Artistic Director Gustavo Ramírez Sansano. Reencuentros, a one-night only performance, takes place on Saturday, October 13 at 8pm at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

This will not be the first time the company has welcomed Melo's work. In 2010 during the inaugural year for Artistic Director Sansano, the group performed the US premiere of Bate, a work for five men set to the music of Eydie Gorme and the Trio Los Panchos. In addition to reprising Bate for Saturday's audiences, Melo and Luna Negra will perform the world premiere of a recently commissioned work that touches on ideas of expectation and surprise. Everyday objects appear in unexpected places to be put to surprising uses by the dancers. In some ways, the work harkens back to Bate. Melo incorporates a fascination with household objects into the play of body and striking, theatrical visual elements.

18+1, Sansano's full-company world premiere, is a joyful piece that aims to look at the present as well as the future. The work is set to the mambo music of Pérez Prado, a musician Sansano has listened to throughout his life. Like past works, Sansano aims to employ his history and memory into his creative process. For last year's CARMEN.maquia, Sansano knew and grew up with the story, but didn't begin to truly understand the work until he spent more time with it. "It has been 19 years since I put my choreography on stage for the very first time," Sansano recently noted about 18+1. "Exposed in front of the audience with care, trust and hope as much as fear and insecurity. Just like a parent of a newborn baby."

Luna Negra ft. Diego Tortelli in Bate (1)_ photo by Cheryl Mann.jpg

Luna Negra ft. Diego Tortelli in Bate (1); photo by Cheryl Mann

--

Reencuentros runs one night only, Saturday, October 13 at 8pm. Tickets range from $25 to $65 and are available at the Harris Theater Box Office, by phone at 312-334-7777 or online. The Harris Theater for Music and Dance is located at 205 E. Randolph.

 
GB store
GB store

Architecture Tue Nov 03 2015

Paul Goldberger Describes the "Pragmatism and Poetry" of Frank Gehry's Architecture in His New Book

By Nancy Bishop

Architecture critic Paul Goldberger talks about Frank Gehry's life and work in a new book.
Read this feature »

Steve at the Movies Fri Jan 01 2016

Best Feature Films & Documentaries of 2015

By Steve Prokopy

Read this column »

Blogroll

ACRE
An Angry White Guy
Antena
AREA Chicago
ArchitectureChicago Plus
Arts Engagement Exchange
The Art Letter
Art or Idiocy?
Art Slant Chicago
Art Talk Chicago
Bad at Sports
Bite and Smile
Brian Dickie of COT
Bridgeport International
Carrie Secrist Gallery
Chainsaw Calligraphy
Chicago Art Blog
Chicago Art Department
Chicago Art Examiner
Chicago Art Journal
Chicago Artists Resource
Chicago Art Map
Chicago Art Review
Chicago Classical Music
Chicago Comedy Examiner
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago Daily Views
Chicago Film Examiner
Chicago Film Archives
Chicago Gallery News
Chicago Uncommon
Collaboraction
Contemporary Art Space
Co-op Image Group
Co-Prosperity Sphere
Chicago Urban Art Society
Creative Control
Defibrillator
Devening Projects
Digressions
DIY Film
ebersmoore
The Exhibition Agency
The Flatiron Project
F newsmagazine
The Gallery Crawl...
Galerie F
The Gaudy God
Happy Dog Gallery
HollywoodChicago
Homeroom Chicago
I, Homunculus
Hyde Park Artcenter Blog
InCUBATE
Joyce Owens: Artist on Art
J-Pointe
Julius Caesar
Kasia Kay Gallery
Kavi Gupta Gallery
Rob Kozlowski
Lookingglass Theatre Blog
Lumpen Blog
Marquee
Mess Hall
N'DIGO
Neoteric Art
NewcityArt
NewcityFilm
NewcityStage
Not If But When
Noun and Verb
On Film
On the Make
Onstage
Peanut Gallery
Peregrine Program
Performink
The Poor Choices Show
Pop Up Art Loop
The Post Family
The Recycled Film
Reversible Eye
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Roots & Culture Gallery
SAIC Blog
The Seen
Sharkforum
Sisterman Vintage
Site of Big Shoulders
Sixty Inches From Center
Soleil's To-Do's
Sometimes Store
Steppenwolf.blog
Stop Go Stop
Storefront Rebellion
TOC Blog
Theater for the Future
Theatre in Chicago
The Franklin
The Mission
The Theater Loop
Thomas Robertello Gallery
threewalls
Time Tells Tony Wight Gallery
Uncommon Photographers
The Unscene Chicago
The Visualist
Vocalo
Western Exhibitions
What's Going On?
What to Wear During an Orange Alert?
You, Me, Them, Everybody
Zg Gallery

GB store

 

Events


A/C on Flickr

Join the A/C Flickr Pool.



About A/C

A/C is the arts and culture section of Gapers Block, covering the many forms of expression on display in Chicago. More...
Please see our submission guidelines.

Editor: Nancy Bishop, nancy@gapersblock.com
A/C staff inbox: ac@gapersblock.com

Archives

 

A/C Flickr Pool
 Subscribe in a reader.

GB store

GB Store

GB Buttons $1.50

GB T-Shirt $12

I ✶ Chi T-Shirts $15