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How To Be Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas

March 2, 2014 February 28, 2017 Johnny Nevin

Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas(Photo by Johnny Nevin) There's a band out of Detroit called Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, and just about everybody who sees them thinks they're seeing a promising new group with a cool new singer, but that's not quite all of it. When you take a good look at Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas you can see a lot more than just that, because what you're really seeing is an exorbitant take on where music can come from, an all-embracing vision of what music can be. You're looking at a stage full of gifted young jazz

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Choreography and Concert Dance

Balancing a Vision: Hubbard Street’s Alejandro Cerrudo and One Thousand Pieces

December 13, 2013 February 13, 2017 Johnny Nevin

One Thousand Pieces was a very different undertaking though; exponentially more complex, it required the synthesis of so many creative and practical possibilities that it was hard to be sure if even Cerrudo could accomplish it. How he was able to do so, and do so successfully, turns out to be a study in the art of balance as much as the art of dance, balancing personal vision with practical reality, leadership with cooperation.

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Country

Morgan Frazier Shares a Secret

December 9, 2013 March 4, 2017 Johnny Nevin

It seems like Morgan Frazier must have a secret, not just because she does so many different things so well, but because she makes it all look so easy, as if it's just a matter of being who she is. Whatever her secret is, it probably isn't one of those secrets that you're not supposed to tell, because she speaks so readily about what she's doing and why. "I'm a songwriter," she says, "and I feel like my music is a kind of open book to who I am." Still, it could be one of those secrets that you can't

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Classical and Soundtrack

One City, One Symphony: Louis Langrée and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

October 31, 2013 May 5, 2017 Johnny Nevin

On a warm summer weekend last August, something happened in Cincinnati that you would have to call a remarkable accomplishment; in complete defiance of anything you would ever realistically expect, thirty-five thousand people went to see the Symphony. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, with their widely admired new Music Director Louis Langrée conducting, performed outdoors on Saturday and Sunday in one of the city's oldest neighborhoods, while historic Music Hall was illuminated behind them in a dazzling display of synchronized light. It's an astonishing accomplishment for a Symphony Orchestra to attract crowds like a rock concert, but as you learn more

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Country

Whose Country Is it? Aaron Lewis Questions the Answers

September 22, 2013 March 4, 2017 Johnny Nevin

There's a lot of different kinds of music in this big wide world, so many different kinds of music that nobody could even name them all. Everybody could name a few though, and two kinds of music that almost everybody can name are Rock and Country. Each of them is its own wide world, and although they do share some history, they don't share a lot of artists, or a lot of audiences. There's plenty of music in America, and a lot of it's out on the road, rolling down interstates, sea to shining sea. The tour buses carrying Rock

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Choreography and Concert Dance

Manuel Vignoulle’s “In a Box” at Chicago Repertory Ballet

June 14, 2013 February 28, 2017 Johnny Nevin

Chicago Repertory Ballet's Spring / Summer Performance is exactly the kind of concert that Artistic Director Wade Schaaf was talking about, right after founding the new Chicago based Company in 2012, when he described what the Company intended to do.

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Choreography and Concert Dance

The Years It Takes To Make a Moment: Pascal Rioult Premieres Iphigenia

May 28, 2013 May 29, 2019 Johnny Nevin

Pascal Rioult is a choreographer, but he constructs his works from materials that very few others know how to find. Like an artisan with his own secret resources, he's the maker of a rich and complex cloth; he weaves moments in time from threads of imagination and makes them into Dances. He's the Artistic Director of RIOULT Dance NY, the Company that he founded in 1994 after a successful career as a principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company. He's been making dances for years, complex, captivating, intensely musical works, quite often set to full symphonic scores that few contemporary

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Choreography and Concert Dance

Jessica Deahr, Chicago Dance Crash and “The Cotton Mouth Club”

May 19, 2013 March 4, 2017 Johnny Nevin

Chicago Dance Crash is so accustomed to doing something new that even when they do something for the first time, it's like they've done it a lot already. It's a unique talent for an entire Dance Company to have, but the performers and staff who make up Dance Crash all seem to have a set of abilities --- audacity, imagination, and multi-disciplinary performance skills --- that make it possible for them to keep doing new things well. Beginning Saturday, May 25 (there's no Friday performance the opening weekend because Dance Crash is on tour) and running for three weeks, Dance

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Cool Rock

The Phone Calls Debut Is Like a Surfer’s Dream

May 15, 2013 February 28, 2017 Johnny Nevin

The Phone Calls is a mezmerizing tour through the art of writing and making a great instrumental song.

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Choreography and Concert Dance

Liaison: Chicago Tap Theatre, Tap Olé, and Tapage Bring It Together

April 18, 2013 March 5, 2017 Johnny Nevin

Of all the intriguing Dance performances that anybody is going to put together this year, the one that Chicago Tap Theatre is presenting on Saturday April 20 just has to be one of the most promising.

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