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ABC News
By Caryn Rousseau
August 26, 2011
Emanuel Wants Chicago to Be 'Heartbeat of Dance'
Rahm Emanuel is bringing his longtime passion for dance to his new job as Chicago mayor.
"I want Chicago to be one of the cities where dance is one of its great art forms," Emanuel said in an interview...
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Time Out Chicago
By Zachary Whittenburg
August 25, 2011
Live review | Chicago Dancing Festival 2011: “Masters”
It takes a pair to put yourself in the company of artists named Balanchine, Coralli, Forsythe, Graham, Kylián, Limón, Morris, Perrot, Robbins and Taylor.
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
August 25, 2011
Chicago Dancing Festival coming into its own in 5th year
In the beginning, the Chicago Dancing Festival seemed almost a lark, a single program of modest best hits, more picnic dessert than entree. How things change...
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
August 24, 2011
Superb performances punctuate Chicago Dance Festival
The Chicago Dancing Festival, which is expected to attract more than 20,000 people to its events by the time it culminates Aug. 27 with a big, free gala concert at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, got its official start Aug. 22 at a performance and benefit at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Time Out Chicago
By Zachary Whittenburg
August 24, 2011
Live review | Chicago Dancing Festival 2011: “Moves”
As Richard Move (as Martha Graham) said at this show’s start, there is only good dance and bad dance. He said that there would be none of the latter. He was right.
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Dance Magazine August 2011
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High Five | The Chicago Dancing Festival Expands
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
May 24, 2011
5th Chicago Dancing Fest offers expanded lineup
For its fifth outing, this August, the Chicago Dancing Festival is expanding, offering more programs at more locations and adding the Auditorium Theatre to its lineup of free events.
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Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
May 24, 2011
Dancing Festival turns 5
Companies from Chicago and elsewhere set for free shows in August.
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Time Out Chicago
By Zachary Whittenburg
May 24, 2011
Chicago Dancing Festival Announces 2011 Lineup
Going all-in for its fifth year, the Chicago Dancing Festival will produce five days of shows
and an all-day film fest for 2011, and adds the Auditorium Theatre and Chicago Cultural
Center to its stable of venues. As always, all events will be free and open to the public.
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By Dance/USA
February 10, 2011
Dance/USA announces its awardees for 2011
Lar Lubovitch and Verdery Roosevelt to be Honored by Dance/USA
Pam Crutchfield to receive Champion Award
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
January 9, 2011
Chicago's dance renaissance
While the arts still contend with recession, it has been a productive time for dance
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
December 13, 2010
Luminous and lively footwork | Banner year for premieres, classic revivals
Chicago Dancing Festival a highlight of 2010
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
August 30, 2010
Dance Festival ends with big finish
By 6:30 p.m. Saturday -- on one of the more perfect nights of the summer
here -- the masses had already begun claiming free seats in Millennium
Park's Pritzker Pavilion, and on the vast lawn beyond it.
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The TOC Blog
By Zachary Whittenburg
August 29, 2010
Chicago Dancing Festival, Days 3 and 4: Live review
Twenty-five teens from the Joffrey Ballet’s Exelon Strobel Step-Up
program (including Shawntara Mathis, profiled by TOC in April) stormed
the stage at the Pritzker Pavilion August 28 to kick off “Celebration of
Dance,” the conclusion to the 2010 Chicago Dancing Festival.
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
August 28,2010
No longer just a freebie, Dancing Fest a summer highlight
Gone were the second-string ballet selections of yesteryear. The only pure
ballet, in fact, came courtesy of the very best in the profession:
Christopher Wheeldon's "Liturgy," danced by the New York City Ballet's
Craig Hall and Wendy Whelan, the magnificent ballerina who originated
the role.
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The TOC Blog
By Zachary Whittenburg
August 28, 2010
Chicago Dancing Festival: Live review
This review covers performances August 25 at the Museum of
Contemporary Art and August 26 at the Harris Theater.
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Rogue Ballerina
By Rogue Ballerina
August 23, 2010
Chicago Dancing Festival 2010
World-class dance hits Chicago this week! Not that we don’t already have
those bragging rights with our local plethora of top-notch dance
companies, but this week the Chicago Dancing Festival brings together
an eclectic group of artists from across the country and, for the first time
in the festival’s history, an international presence represented by dancers
from the Royal Ballet of London.
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
August 20, 2010
All the Right Moves for Annual Dancing Festival
Chicago’s ‘Woodstock’ festival of dance steps up for fourth year
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Cheeky Chicago
By Lauren Shapiro
August 11, 2010
This week's feature | Chicago Dancing Festival
Cheeky Interviews Co-Founder Jay Franke
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World Arts Today
By Karen McDonough
August 9, 2010
Destination: Dance Chicago - Festival brings best of dancing to Windy City
It’s rare that a world renown choreographer who heads his own highly successful and very booked touring dance company would establish an annual dance festival, a huge undertaking that requires an enormous amount of time, energy and support.
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
August 24, 2009
9,000 Cheer Teams from Home and Away
"About 9,000 avid dance lovers filed into Millennium Park on Saturday
night for the grand finale of the third annual Chicago Dancing Festival.
And OK, maybe they couldn’t quite match the attendance numbers for the
nearby Bears opener at Soldier Field. But 9,000 is an enormously
impressive turnout for a single evening of high art operating on a
modest advertising budget."
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
August 20, 2009
A Wildly Divergent Display of Youthful Choreography
"It was a quirky catalog of the new, the bold and the frequently
beautiful Tuesday night at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. It
also was the ideal opening salvo as the Chicago Dancing
Festival set off on its third annual showcase of all facets
of American dance -- a series of events that will culminate Saturday
night at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, with all tickets
free of charge."
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
August 14, 2009
Chicago Dancing Festival is an Amazing Event at an Amazing Price
"In three years, the Chicago Dancing Festival has gone from a one-night
novelty to one of the most exciting stints on our annual dance
calendar."
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Chicago Sun-Times
By Hedy Weiss
August 14, 2009
Chicago Dancing Festival is on its Toes
"Conceived and curated by Chicago-bred, New York-based choreographer Lar
Lubovitch, dancer Jay Franke and executive director Gregory Russell,
the Chicago Dancing Festival aims to serve up a smorgasbord of styles
and companies."
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Chicago Tribune
By Sid Smith
June 5, 2009
A Breakout Summer for 3-Year-Old Festival
"Without a doubt, fest founders
Lar Lubovitch and Jay Franke
have nurtured their quixotic, one night
endeavor into one of the most
exciting and must-see events of the
annual Chicago dance calendar. "
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