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Releases and Announcements Reviews, previews, interviews, etc.

05.24.11

Links Hall welcomes internationally renowned dance and music artists for the Dance Improvisation Fest and hosts several of Chicago’s finest movers, shakers, operatic singers, circus wranglers and a gender-ambivalent robot June 2011

05.17.11

Internationally Acclaimed Improvisational Music Artists Come to Chicago for the Dance Improvisation Fest, June 12-19, 2011

05.02.11

Links Hall and The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago Host Chicago’s First Dance Improvisation Festival June 12-19

03.31.11

Links Hall Announces its spring/summer 2011 Performance Series

03.24.11

Links Hall announces its new performance line-up, April 2011

03.15.11

Activate your imaginations and come along for the ride with dancers and a man in blue tights, April 1 -3, 2011

03.02.11

Links Hall presents To Art and Profit: What is it Good for? Defining Art’s Purpose Now, March18-20, 2011

02.21.11

Sudden Productions and the Dan Schaaf Ensemble present The Man with the Movie Camera and Aelita Queen of Mars at Links Hall, March 24-27, 2011

02.18.11

Bring in the spring at Links Hall with Gong Lab: Suite for Dreamers, a Vernal Equinox Celebration at Links Hall, March 19 & 20, 2011.

02.14.11

collision theory returns to Links Hall with a performance featuring Dhalgren Vs. Julia Mayer & Co. March 21, 2011

02.09.11

Pearl Pistol asks What is Love? A weekend of cabaret inspired theater at Links Hall March 11-13, 2011

02.09.11

enidsmithdance presents Just Resting Here at Links Hall, February 25-27, 2011

02.09.11

Links Hall announces its new line-up, March 2011

02.07.11

Internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller comes to Links Hall, March 5, 2011

02.07.11

collision_theory returns to Links Hall with a performance featuring Spires That in the Sunset Rise, feat. Michael Zerang vs. Kristina Fluty & Co. February 21, 2011

02.04.11

The Space Movement Project presents Recurrence Plot at Links Hall, February 18-20, 2011

02.04.11

Baraka de Soleil comes to Links Hall in Water Moves the Soul Immersed at Links Hall, February 13, 2011

01.24.11

Links Hall presents Figuring it Out from the Inside Out: a journey to self-awareness through dance
and spoken word, January 24, 2010

01.21.11

Links Hall announces its new performance line-up, April 2011

01.14.11

Artists Dance Their Way through February at Links Hall, February 2011

01.13.11

Links Hall presents Hexes and Heroes: a shared bill of victory, war, love and loss, January 28-30, 2010

01.12.11

collision_theory returns to Links Hall with an eerie performance featuring Male vs. Adam Rose January 17, 2011

12.21.10

Links Hall Announces its Winter 2011 Performance Series

12.07.10

Links Hall presents the 20th Annual Winter Solstice Concert with Haimd Drake and Michael
Zerang at dawn December 22, 23 & 24, 2010

12.02.10

Links Hall presents Calisthenics for Shrapnel: SMASH featuring Fulbright Fellow Patrick
Rosal and def poet Kristiana Colón , December 9 - 11, 2010

11.17.10

LinkUP Alumni Tif Bullard returns to Links Hall with FEEDBACK, December 3 -5, 2010

11.11.10

Links Hall presents Coppelius: A classic ballet gets a steam punk makeover December 17-18, 2010

11.01.10

Links Hall presents Calisthenics for Shrapnel: CRUSH featuring Dorothy Allison, award
winning author of Bastard Out of Carolina

10.25.10

Links Hall presents Don’t Hang Up on Me! Performance meets single channel videos November 5-7, 2010

10.12.10

Links Hall presents new DIALogues, performance art and Dorothy Allison in November

09.20.10

Links Hall presents In Pieces, performed by the Striding Lion Performance Group, October 15 – 17, 2010.

Links Hall and Blushing Poppy Productions announce a Butoh Workshop and performance with butoh masters Koichi and Hiroko Tamano, October 21 – 25, 2010.

09.14.10

Links Hall presents Walt Whitman enthusiasts in the buff, cunning DIALogues, celebrity obsession and the evolution of Butoh

09.07.10

Links Hall presents a nude ode to Walt Whitman with Leaves of Grass, October 1, 2010.

09.01.10

Links Hall presents a nest of digital memories and skateboard tricks with Outside of Us September 10 -12, 2010.

08.04.10

West Indian Folk Dance Company mix modern techniques with folkloric dance at Links Hall August 27 -28, 2010.

08.30.10

Links Hall renames the LinkUp program and announces the 2011 LinkUp Artists

08.02.10

Links Hall presents Fever Teeth an original play set in a Dental office populated with hallucinations, August 12-15, 2010 at Links Hall.

07.30.10

Links Hall Announces its Late Summer/ Fall 2010 Performance Series.

07.29.10

Links Hall Presents Under Construction: Socio-Analytical Perspectives on Gender Culture Through Dance, August 20 – 22, 2010

03.30.10

With two days to go Links Hall Artistic Associates raise more than $4,000 on
Kickstarter for Banners & Cranks: a festival of cantastoria, April 23 – May 9, 2010

03.12.10

LinkUp Residency Artists: Tif Bullard and Ginger Krebs present novel works with flying Bodies and haunting folk songs, March 26-28, 2010 at Links Hall.

02.08.10

Links Hall gets caught up in the circus at THAW: A Hot Night of Winter Ballyhoo at The Red Canary, February 23, 2010.

02.04.10

Links Hall scales Illinois’ mountains, tours Wrigleyville’s parking lots, and catches deadly flying carp as part of the 2010 Artistic Associate Festival DIRT, March 5-21, 2010

09.30.09
Links Hall’s Artistic Associates Rachel Damon and Dan Mohr present collision_theory

09.23.09
Links Hall celebrates its 30th Anniversary with spectacular performances in the month of October.

06.24.09
Links Hall finds its new Director!
Roell Schmidt takes the helm
July 20, 2009.

Please join us in welcoming Roell Schmidt to Links Hall and our extended community of artists and arts enthusiasts!

Links Hall is thrilled to announce Roell Schmidt as our new Director! Roell has been working in film, theater and arts administration since 1994. In addition to her organizational leadership experience, Roell has an impressive background as a producer in film and theater, her talents ranging from the administrative to the creative. Roell officially takes the helm July 20, 2009.

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6.12.11 REVIEW

Dance Improv Fest

by Sid Smith

09.02.10 REVIEW

Michael Zerang

by Chris Sienko

08.28.10 PREVIEW

Leaves of Grass

Newcity Stage

08.21.10 REVIEW

Under Construction

by Emily Disher

06.15.10 REVIEW

Dmitri Peskov Dance Theater

by Zachary Whittenberg for TimeOut Chicago

06.07.10 PREVIEW

Dmitri Peskov Dance Theater

by Sharon Hoye for Newcity Stage

05.12.10 PREVIEW

COLEctive Notions

by Alicia Wilson for Windy City Times

Margi Cole's "COLEctive Notions"

by LaShawn Williams for Gapers Block

04.22.10 PREVIEW

Banners and Cranks

by John Beer for TimeOut Chicago

03.15.10 REVIEW

Dirt

by Julia Korol for TimeOut Chicago Blog

03.12.10 REVIEW

The World Is Flat: Toy Theater Festival

by Ira S. Murfin for Chicago Art Criticism

"I was transported, in a way I rarely have been in the full-scale live theatre."

02.22.10 PREVIEW

Toy Theater Festival

by Monica Westin for Newcity Stage

02.11.10 REVIEW

Sound Paintings

by Heather Liberman for Chicago Art Mag

01.11.10 PREVIEW

Portraits Triptych/RE|Dance

by Sharon Hoye for Newcity Stage


12.19.09 PREVIEW

Preview: Trans Form /Rebecca Kling

by Sharon Hoye for Newcity Stage

Trans Form: Girlie Show

by Jason A. Heidemann for TimeOut Chicago

11.10.09 REVIEW

Collision Theory

by Sharon Hoye forNewCity Stage

"Movement artists and musicians don't meet until the performances, yielding entirely unique dance-slash-music events - somewhat in the experimental vein of Merce Cunningham..."

11.19.09 PREVIEW

1 2 3 4 5

by Asimina Chremos for TimeOut Chicago

"When something tremendous happens in our lives, we often say we feel moved. Burritt, Cunningham and the Same Planet company take this energy to the stage in full physical expression, leaving spectators to be moved as well, even as they sit in the audience."

11.30.09 REVIEW

Music and Movement

by Alan Bresloff for Epoch Times

"We traveled to Spain, Bali, India, and Africa through music and dance ... in a one hour presentaton that could easily be expanded to a full show."

10.29.09 REVIEW
Review: Hedwig Dances
by Zac Whittenberg for trailerpilot
 
“…Hedwig is a vector pointed at bracing physicality matched by confident theater, a combination I enjoy greatly…”

09.28.09 PREVIEW
30 Hours of Dance to Celebrate
30 Years at Links Hall

by Lucia Mauro for Eight-Forty-Eight, WBEZ
 
“It may be located in the heart of Chicago’s Cubs Land, but the Wrigleyville-based Links Hall exists firmly outside the boundaries of sports. It’s a fertile haven for avant-garde dancer-choreographers, musicians and performance artists. For its 30th anniversary, Links Hall will unite artists from across the generations in a 30-hour marathon concert this Friday. Dance Critic Lucia Mauro fills us in….”

09.10.09 LISTING
Jonathan Meyer: Dancing in an alternate universe
by Lucia Mauro for Examiner.com

"Links Hall presents...Body, Space, Music, by German choreographer and performance artist Raimund Hoghe..."

09.24.09 REVIEW
Antitrust Circus and Cry at Links Hall
by Gretchen Holmes

"Experimental Dance Alert: J'Sun Howard and Adam Rose emerge from their LinkUp residencies with strong/strange work. This weekend, Links Hall featured work by its fall LinkUp Residency Artists J'Sun Howard and Adam Rose. Trained as dancers, both artists present collaborative movement-based works that challenge the body's expressive range…"

09.24.09 REVIEW
Two powerful universes share one showcase.
Asimina Chremos, TimeOut Chicago

08.13.09 LISTING
Five Things to Do
TimeOut Chicago

AROUND TOWN/THEATER - Rustbelt Revival: A New Economic Stimulus Package

08.06.09 REVIEW/CRITIC'S CHOICE
The Humans and Momentum Sensorium

06.25.09 ARTICLE
Links Hall names new director
by Asimina Chremos for TimeOut Chicago

"Links Hall, the long-standing alternative dance and performance venue in Wrigleyville, has named Roell Schmidt for its leadership position."

05.28.09 FEATURE
Save Links Hall: The Wrigleyville performance venue gets lost in the Cubs crowd.
by Kris Vire for TimeOut Chicago

03.19.09 LISTING
What you're doing tonight
NBC Chicago

"Attend a party for a good cause... "THAW: Melting Point," a benefit for beloved performing arts non-profit Links Hall..."

03.11.09 BLOG
Feats Street
posted by trailerpilot

03.11.09 BLOG
Scuttlebutt.
posted by trailerpilot

03.15.09 ARTICLE
Change is afoot at Links Hall...
TimeOut Chicago

 

03.03.09 REVIEW
Poonie’s Faburet
posted by trailerpilot

“Tonight at Link’s Hall, Jyl Fehrenkamp hostessed a particularly high-powered installment of the long-running, quarterly-or-so Monday night Poonie’s Cabaret…”

03.01.09 FEATURE
Arts Professional Story: C.J. Mitchell, Links Hall
CAR

"What is Links Hall? What kinds of resources does it provide for dancers?"

03.01.09 BLOG
Everybody wins!
posted by trailerpilot

02.24.09 BLOG
Thawt you might like that.
posted by trailerpilot

02.24.09 BLOG
Poonie’s or Rhoads? Ack!
posted by trailerpilot

01.28.09 BLOG
Brooklicago or Chicooklyn?
posted by trailerpilot

01.15.09 BLOG
Workshop smorgasbord.
posted by trailerpilot

01.13.09 FEATURE
The Players:
The 50 people who really perform for Chicago

written by Fabrizio O. Almeida, Lisa Buscani, Brian Hieggelke, Sharon Hoyer, Valerie Jean Johnson, Nina Metz, Dennis Polkow, William Scott, Andy Seifert and Monica Westin for Newcity Magazine

“…CJ Mitchell is a diverse talent. Accountant by trade, artist at heart, the diplomatic, whip-smart Scotsman has steered Links into a unique niche by overseeing an experimental performance and collaboration roster rarely seen outside the world of academe….”

01.12.09 REVIEW
Links Hall series plays true to its fringe approach
by Sid Smith for Chicago Tribune

"You expect the unusual and provocative at Links Hall, a tiny space devoted to innovation, fringe enterprise and ..."


10.24.08 REVIEW
Chicago Premiere of ‘Still Black’
posted by thinkpinkradio for THINK PINK RADIO

“The “Studies N Black” festival has been going on at Links Hall for most of October, if you are lucky, then you have already seen some of it. Curated by Baraka de Soleil…”

07.16.08 INTERVIEW
Tim Miller : The naked truth
by Liz Granger for Windy City Times

“Tim Miller: I have to admit, I am actually naked right now. I suddenly realized that as you asked. … My partner Alistair and I were at the beach, and we just got back. I hosed myself off in the backyard. [ Miller laughs. ] T-M-I …
WCT: No, I love it!...”


12.07 REVIEW
Asimina Chremos: Red Swan Red Swan
by Zachary Whittenburg for Flavorpill

“…Chremos has the facility and exactitude of a ballerina, but her semi-improvised work feeds classical forms into algorithms that spit out crystalline, organic shapes,…”

 


























































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