Dance does not produce a tangible, scalable product that can be sold, wrapped in a box, handed to you, unwrapped, placed on a mantle and admired. In a season of giving, what do you get from dance? Open our post to unwrap your present…
On the day after Thanksgiving, we reflect on a very successful year and give thanks to everyone who helped make our show The Past is Prologue possible.
The Dance Team and Friends present a rotating three-evening show of new and revisited works at Links Hall examining the past, present and future.
As you may already know, The Dance Team’s Christopher Knowlton is currently working on his Ph.D. in Bioengineering. So when the national Dance Your Ph.D. Contest announced its fourth annual competition, it was too good to pass up.
Co-curators Lauren Warnecke and Russell Weiss promise we’ll “witness the deconstruction and regeneration of existing works thrust into unforeseen territories.” But what can we actually expect from Art Intercepts’ four-Friday PRODUCE series?
Three days until the first performance of HUB AND SPOKE by The Dance Team at the Chicago Fringe Festival. Or maybe it’s over by now, and you saw it. And you might be the type of person wondering, “What should I expect from this show? Why should it interest me?”
2012 has been a big year for The Dance Team. (And since the apocalypse was supposed to make 2012 the last year ever, it felt good to go out with a bang!) But we at The Dance Team are big on backup plans – we made it through with nothing worse than a hangover and a mild sense of regret, so here’s what you can look forward to in 2013. Continue reading
If you haven’t already, get on Facebook and “Like” The Dance Team! It’s the best way to stay current with the most up-to-date information on classes, workshops, performances, video, photos, side projects and all things The Dance Team. Why, you say? Below are some stills of Steve May from our showing in May at Links … Continue reading
Dance Teammates Sammy Spriggs and Chris Knowlton, along with friends of The Dance Team Rachel Damon, Katie Matteson and Megan Rhyme, will be teaching open company class for Synapse Arts Collective! Classes are Wednesdays 10:30am at Belle Plaine Studio (2014 W Belle Plaine Ave, Chicago, IL) through the end of September. Drop by and support hardworking, emerging … Continue reading
As of May 9th, The Dance Team: Chicago Squad has been granted fiscal sponsorship under the national non-profit artist organization Fractured Atlas! Check out our profile and our new big brother. What does this mean for you? It means that all cash and non-cash (tangible items) donations made to The Dance Team are now tax-deductible. Every donation … Continue reading
Chris Knowlton of the Dance Team: Chicago Squad recently premiered his solo The Box the Gift Came In at the Links Hall annual benefit THAW: A Night of Hot Ballyhoo at the DANK Haus German America Cultural Center in Chicago. And by “benefit”, we mean a full-on balls-to-the-wall 30+ performer line-up dance extravaganza laced with food, drinks … Continue reading
First off, let’s get something clear. I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, but I like you anyway. Everyone is coming from different ideas and backgrounds and personal histories and it all has a place here. And here is WEDNESDAY MORNING STUDY GROUP. We have been meeting at McCarren Park in Brooklyn at … Continue reading
It had humble beginnings. It was still cold, I remember. Some proddings to explore our own work. Sneaking into a rec center with borrowed IDs. Dropping our name into a chance lottery. A Sunday routine. Getting kicked out of a rec center. A 10 minute piece. A casual showing. Some conversation, some cheese and that was going … Continue reading
We back on the internets, y’all. Check out the Chicago page for what’s a-happening with the piece Hub and Spoke, which will be in the Chicago Fringe Festival. Check out the NYC/Brooklyn page to see what’s shakin’ with Wednesday Morning Study Group. Ready, break. Continue reading
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