Artists can create under nearly any circumstance. Still, the constraints facing them these last few months have pushed them to their limit. Given the rigidity of its standard model, the theater community has had an especially hard time adapting to the limitations Covid has imposed on it. Necessity is demanding new ways of thinking about …
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On the surface, few things could seem as removed from one another as what we understand classical dance to be and the tumultuous demands for justice and equality now roaring through city streets in America. The Met doesn’t agree and has raised the profile of one of its past dance events to prove its point. …
One you didn’t get the chance to hear live nearly enough even before the lockdown and the other was completely unknown until Friday night. Thankfully, the post showing them in concert together will stay live for at least a few more weeks, giving a greater number of people the chance to enjoy two wonderful musical …
Say the word “ballet” and you’re likely get a blank stare. The kind of look that indicates complete non-interest and perhaps even mild irritation. Considered a thing of the past, an institutional relic; few of us give the dance form a chance to show what it is today. One thing it’s not is on stages …
Born just when the virus that stopped the world landed in Chicago, Gadabout, a new entrant to the Andersonville food scene, quickly got with the revised program. Having never been able to do dine in, they went immediately to the only thing they could do; distance dining. Better known as take out. Specializing in …