The Ballet Chicago Studio Company is celebrating its Twentieth Anniversary on Mary 6 with two concerts at the Harris Theater, with a characteristically promising program. DancerMusic asked Ballet Chicago about this remarkable accomplishment. Here's what they had to say:
If Dylan Scott and Crown Royal wanted to team up to do something together, they could have chosen a lot of different ways to go about it. What they actually chose was a lot more imaginative than anything you might have expected — a lot more imaginative and probably a lot more important.
Music video can be such a dubious art, but this brand new one from French artist FKJ is a gem.
Mayaeni is a writer, a singer, and a guitar player, all of them in the old-school style, from Detroit. Johnny Nevin caught two of her shows in Chicago, got these pictures, and talked to her all about what it is she sees, and how.
Usually, when you write your very first song and upload it to YouTube, you don't get five million views. Julia Sheer did. Julia Sheer can write a song.
When David Julien released a track called "You Dancing" last summer, it surprised a lot of people. It wasn't just that the production was so driving, or that Julien's vocal was so rich with carefully crafted power. It may have been the way that Julien can layer a vocal with emotional nuances, as only somebody who really cares what they say in a song can do.
