Chicago Repertory Blog
Choreographer: Jacqueline Stewart
Lighting Designer: Sarah Lackner
Costume Designer: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: June 21st 2013 – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This CRB commission began as a duet that Stewart premiered in her evening length, interactive production ‘Dance Gallery’. Expanded into a sextet, Stewart explores the posturing of runway modeling and the architecture of the runway in this work.
Choreography: Manuel Vignoulle
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: June 21st – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This stunning duet by New York choreographer Manuel Vignoulle explores human connections in our contemporary, compartmentalized, and complex world to the beautiful music of Arvo Part.
Choreography: Jessica Miller Tomlinson
Lighting Design: Nathan Tomlinson
Costume Design: Jessica Miller Tomlinson
CRB Premiere: June 21st, 2013 – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This intense and driving work by Jessica Miller Tomlinson features her hallmark use of gesture and composition to explore the concept of architecture in it’s various forms. Tomlinson uses the human form to explore how bodies can build a structure, and manipulate that structure as it travels through space. Accompanied by the music of Shostakovich and Schnittke, this work shows is akin to looking into a kaleidoscope of cascading shapes and forms.
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Rachel Damon
Costume Design: Miodrag Gubernik
CRB Premiere: September 21st, 2012 – The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This tongue in cheek look at the urban hipster movement is a humorous jab at current pop culture.
Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
CRB Premiere: September 21st 2012 – The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This work set to Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto in F is a joyous romp for 9 dancers – one of CRB’s hallmark works.
Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
World Premiere: September 21st 2012, The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This intense and touching work by Artistic Director, Wade Schaaf explores the concept of Juxtaposition in our daily lives. Each situation that we encounter may cause multiple feelings inside of us juxtaposed one to the other, and relationships may have the same feeling. This concept is coupled with the idea as using bodies as landscape in space and the beauty that the human form can create.
Choreography: Autumn Eckman
Lighting Design: Rachel Damon
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
World Premiere: September 21st, 2012 – The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This trio takes a look at the choreographer’s refections of her experiences with her grandmother Alice, and the effect Alzheimer’s disease played on their collective experience.
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Rachel Damon
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
World Premiere: September 21st 2012, The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This duet by Wade Schaaf set to the familiar music of Erik Satie (Gymnopedies 1. Lent et Douloureux) is a sweet and beautiful look at one’s own introspection, and the bittersweet feelings that introspection brings.
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Rachel Damon
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
World Premiere: September 21st, The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This duet, set to the iconic French pop song “La Vie en Rose” is a romantic tryst for two lovers.
Choreography: Jacqueline Stewart
Lighting Design: David Schwartz & Jacqueline Stewart
Costume Design: Jacqueline Stewart
CRB Premiere: September 21 2012, The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
Its Not Enough to Close Your Eyes fi rst premiered in April 2010, and is the Grand Prize Winner of the A.W.A.R.D. Show! Chicago 2010 granted by The Joyce Theatre Foundation. This gorgeous duet explores the complexities of individual relationships with Stewart’s hallmark visceral movement quality.
