New City’s Sharon Hoyer picks MATADORA as part of its September 2025 Top Five. The new work by Camila Rivero Pooley, aka Insékta, explores the power of Latine rage in a new Latine Futurist dance theater work.
The Columbia Chronicle’s Nico Waugh covers the recent Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s Rhythm World at the Dance Center. The week-long festival brought together a community of dancers, including audience members with little tap experience.
The Columbia Chronicle features ‘Guardians of the Earth and Sky,’ a performance that blended Asian American history with Chinese culture through dance. Senior dance major Areli Ramirez was assistant producer for the performance.
La Crónica / The Columbia Chronicle's Sofía Oyarzún writes about Compañía de Teatro Físico’s ‘Los Regalos’ (‘The Gifts’): “La actuación de baile contó la historia del ciclo de la vida de dos hijos y su papá, con una escena parecida a la ciudad nativa de la compañía peruana.”
Like all of Natya Dance Theatre’s canon, “Sharīra Sharīri – Held Within” is representative of Artistic Director Hema Rajagopalan’s philosophy, put simply, “to get better, to love each other, to share, to lose one’s ego.” Rather than narrating philosophy, Natya’s work embodies it, allowing the audience to experience phenomenally the interconnection of all beings and how they are intertwined with the source of life, a message as old as the practice of philosophy itself, re-imagined by a classical dance company whose tradition is to be contemporary.
The Seldoms’ postponed “Floe” about climatechange premieres in a hotter world. New City Stage’s Sharon Hoyer talks to Carrie Hanson about The Seldoms’s upcoming premiere of FLOE at the Dance Center.
Sharon Hoyer of New City Stage picked The Seldoms’s premiere of FLOE as part of a Dance Top Five for February and March 2026!
