2014 season

The Four Seasons

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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.

2013 Season

Le Scare du Printemps

(The Rite of Spring)

Le Scare de Printemps

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.

2013 Season

One Way

One Way

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.

2013 Season

Architecture: Splintered and Cracked

Architecture: Splintered and Cracked

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.