Aerial Dance Chicago kicks off its 20th anniversary season with "Road to the Sky" -- a new works program that allows Chicago choreographers the unique opportunity to create work on the artists at ADC using aerial apparatus. Here's what Artistic Director Chloe Jensen told us about how the program was created and more on the dance makers experience in the ADC studios:
On Friday and Saturday July 26th and 27th, Aerial Dance Chicago brings their latest production, "Higher Ground" to Chicago's Ruth Page Center for the Arts. We asked Company Dancer Hannah Rosenfeld to give us an inside look at what we'll see. Here's what she told us:
Ask a dancer to jump, and they'll ask, "How high?" Chances are you will get a graceful, elegant leap. Ask a dancer to turn, and they'll ask, "How many times?" Ah, look at those lovely, effortless pirouettes. Now, ask that dancer to climb up a twenty-foot piece of fabric with the same grace and poise, and the most likely outcome is that dancer will say nothing, and all you will be staring at is one very, very skeptical and confused face. Unless, that is, that dancer happens to be one of the artists at Aerial Dance Chicago. These gravity defying
