Chicago Repertory Blog
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Wade Schaaf
World Premiere: March 13th (2015) The Biograph Theater, Chicago IL
Wasteland is a work exploring movement as a concept in addition to texture and imagination. Using the theater form of Butoh as a jumping off point this work is explorative and suggests a dystopian wasteland.
Choreography: Lucas Crandall
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Nathan Rohrer
CRB Premiere: March 13th (2015), The Biograph Theater (Chicago, IL)
Choreographed to Bach’s famed Goldberg Variations, this contemporary dance work is a luscious dance for 5 people with a whimsical, etherial quality.
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
Costume Design: Branimira
World Premiere: May 9th 2014, The Biograph Theater (Chicago, IL)
The Four Seasons is a one act ballet exploring the human experience as translated through the gorgeous (reimagined) score by Vivaldi. The Four Seasons is a contemporary ballet which explores love, affection, hardship, joy and change.
Choreographer: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Designer: Amanda Clegg Lyon
Costume Designer: Nathan Rohrer
Set Designer: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: June 21st, 2013 – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This futuristic look at the original narrative shows a society of people in a time after civilization as we know it has fallen, and what lies deep inside man. Schaaf uses the original libretto to take a gritty view at just what humans are capable of.
Choreographer: Jacqueline Stewart
Lighting Designer: Sarah Lackner
Costume Designer: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: June 21st 2013 – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This CRB commission began as a duet that Stewart premiered in her evening length, interactive production ‘Dance Gallery’. Expanded into a sextet, Stewart explores the posturing of runway modeling and the architecture of the runway in this work.
Choreography: Manuel Vignoulle
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: June 21st – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This stunning duet by New York choreographer Manuel Vignoulle explores human connections in our contemporary, compartmentalized, and complex world to the beautiful music of Arvo Part.
Choreography: Jessica Miller Tomlinson
Lighting Design: Nathan Tomlinson
Costume Design: Jessica Miller Tomlinson
CRB Premiere: June 21st, 2013 – The Vittum Theater (Chicago, IL)
This intense and driving work by Jessica Miller Tomlinson features her hallmark use of gesture and composition to explore the concept of architecture in it’s various forms. Tomlinson uses the human form to explore how bodies can build a structure, and manipulate that structure as it travels through space. Accompanied by the music of Shostakovich and Schnittke, this work shows is akin to looking into a kaleidoscope of cascading shapes and forms.
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Rachel Damon
Costume Design: Miodrag Gubernik
CRB Premiere: September 21st, 2012 – The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This tongue in cheek look at the urban hipster movement is a humorous jab at current pop culture.
Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
CRB Premiere: September 21st 2012 – The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This work set to Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto in F is a joyous romp for 9 dancers – one of CRB’s hallmark works.
Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
Costume Design: Nathan R. Rohrer
World Premiere: September 21st 2012, The Ruth Page Theater (Chicago, IL)
This intense and touching work by Artistic Director, Wade Schaaf explores the concept of Juxtaposition in our daily lives. Each situation that we encounter may cause multiple feelings inside of us juxtaposed one to the other, and relationships may have the same feeling. This concept is coupled with the idea as using bodies as landscape in space and the beauty that the human form can create.
