Sometimes when music so completely reflects the world we live in through sound, it can leave us a little baffled. And because Yoko – Zuna embodies so many musical forms beyond the progressive contemporary, the forward-thinking band can initially seem incomprehensible. Out of Auckland, New Zealand, the foursome is like a chameleon with an electronic …
Driven by need or opportunity, people have been packing up and leaving long established digs to find brighter futures elsewhere for millennia. Most of these odysseys have gone completely unheralded; occurring quietly and in virtual obscurity. Thanks to an imaginative and multi-focused exhibition currently on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, we see the …
Convergence in the world of dance can be rare. This past weekend’s summit at the Auditorium Theater brought together three quite different dance companies and shed new light on what contemporary dance looks like in an age glistening with technology. Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, the oldest and most traditionally grounded company of the three; …
For those who have an inkling of the progressive and liberated world of improvisational dance, last weekend’s Relations performance on the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Neeson stage must have seemed momentous. Three marvels of the technique would be sharing a dance floor for the first time. For those who have an appreciation of dance …
Listening to Tooma Abts in interviews, you’re struck by the calm of her presence. A German expat living in London, her English is excellent and her speech exceptionally articulate as she explains her approach to her art. Using words like “mood” and “feeling” and explaining the near spiritual dialog she undergoes with each piece, Abts …
There’s something startlingly unique about a Gus Giordano dance performance. And it’s not always about what’s happening on stage. If you’re in the right spot with an ideal vantage point to observe, you’ll see a profusion of contained excitement, simmering anticipation and flat out joy that just doesn’t exist in other arts space. Hugs and …
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Some have tried to shove disco and house into a tiny box and dismiss them as insignificant sounds of an age. That’s their right. But for others who understand the vastness of music’s capability to release, restore and fulfill, these two musical genres were and are Rosetta stones unlocking the key to earthly nirvana. They …
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If Kara Cooney’s explosion of revelations, insights and ruminations are any indication what learning can be like outside the classroom, hordes of hungry minds should be stampeding the Auditorium Theater’s doors for each of its National Geographic Live series. This year the theater is conducting a yearlong run dedicated to inspirational women. Cooney, a professor …
The number of significant jazz festivals held throughout the country each year easily bubble up into the hundreds. When you consider their proliferation across the globe as well as here in the United States, that number could easily slip into the thousands. From the behemoths like Newport and Monterey to that massive all-inclusive juggernaut at …
For the past three years, Roosevelt University has been presenting discussions on issues that vex the national consciousness as catalysts launching its new academic year. The challenges of providing effective and comprehensive health care, the struggle to insure the nation’s law enforcement agencies institute color blind policing standards, and the unflagging efforts to reform the …
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