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Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: March 4th 2016, The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, (Chicago IL)
This full length ballet is CRB’s ballet adaptation of William Shakespeare’s original work of the same title. This ballet explores Shakespeare’s characters in a contemporary world built by Schaaf with projections by designer John Pobojewski. Enjoy all the drama, passion and political intrigue of this full length ballet.
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: David Goodman-Edberg
Costume Design: Nathan Rohrer
World Premiere: March 13th 2015, The Biograph Theater (Chicago, IL)
Bolero is a fun, flirtatious tribute to all things love. This contemporary dance features four moving walls that bring us in to various vignettes of affection and amorous fun!
Choreography: Wade Schaaf
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Nathan Rohrer
CRB Premiere: March 13th 2015, The Biograph Theater (Chicago IL)
This is one of a trio of solos titled “Dancer, Net”. This solo is a shot wordless story of a baby bird breaking free from its shell and learning to fly.
Choreography: Tenley Dickey
Lighting Design: Sarah Lackner
Costume Design: Tenley Dickey
CRB Premiere: March 13th 2015 The Biograph Theater, (Chicago IL)
Still Life is a beautiful contemporary dancer for 7 dancers. Set to the music of Franz Schubert this dance is a luscious exploration of relationship, movement and the beautify of music.
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.
