Here is a highly condensed roundup of four recent concerts, whose dancers were uniformly superb, and whose choreographic styles and subjects were radically different.
It all began with the Joffrey Ballet at its home on the Lyric Opera stage, and was followed by Ensemble Espanol at the Auditorium Theatre. Then came the onslaught: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan at the Auditorium; Giordano Dance Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance; Visceral Dance at its handsome new home in the Avondale neighborhood; and a dramatic remount of Pina Bausch’s “The Rite of Spring” staged at the Harris.
Rosario Guillen, from left, Eduardo Zambrana, Fernando Rodriguez and Ryan Galloway of Giordano Dance Chicago in “lub-dub.” To celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding by Gus Giordano, a pioneering force in American jazz dance, the company presented a powerful sampler of six works that suggested the evolution of the jazz style over the past two decades.
And then came the program’s world premiere work, “lub-dub,” choreographed for five dancers by Cesar G. Salinas, the company’s newly-appointed associate director. Set to exuberant Afro-Caribbean music by Travis Lake and Medwyn Goodall, the dancers soared on the work’s propulsive, richly dramatic music and movement. Finally, the evening came to a close with Ray Leeper’s wonderfully exuberant 2018 work, “Soul,” set to music by Gladys Knight and the Pips, Al Green and Tina Turner.
Setting the scene for this work of primal intensity was a “performance” all its own as a large group of stagehands emptied five huge dumpsters full of peat moss over the entire surface of the stage on which its barefoot dancers would move. * On Nov. 5, Deeply Rooted, Chicago’s African American contemporary dance company, will bring a mixed repertoire program to the Auditorium Theatre with works by Ulysses Dove , as well as by artistic director Nicole Clarke-Springer and company co-founder and creative/executive director Kevin Iega Jeff. Also on the bill will be the world premiere of “Q After Dark,” a work choreographed jointly by the company’s artistic team and set to the music of the 89-year-old Chicago legend Quincy Jones.
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