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LIVESTREAM: Bolshoi, Royal, Canadian, Australian, San Francisco Ballets Broadcast for 'World Ballet Day' Oct. 4, 2014 [AUDIO, VIDEO]

Five of our favorite major ballet companies will participate in the live stream event World Ballet Day on October 1. The 20-hour-long live streaming event presents a behind-the-scenes look at the company classes, rehearsals and coaching.
  • Michael Clark Company Comes to Chicago with David Bowie-Inspired Punk Ballet at Museum of Contemporary Art

    British dance ensemble Michael Clark Company will make its first-ever appearance in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art on October 25-27. The Company will perform 'come, been and gone' in conjunction with the MCA’s 'David Bowie Is' exhibit.
  • REPORT: Konfrontationen, Day 2 - 35th Festival for Free & Improvised Music @ Nickelsdorf - Andrew Choate

    Improvised music, for those of us that really love it and pursue it and listen to it regularly, is often, perhaps surprisingly, a very private music. We often listen to recordings privately, and we have private experiences with the music. But this festival provides the opportunity to experience it publicly, with a large enough amount of people (300-400) to provide the perfect framing of attention and grandeur that the music challenges itself to conjure. Not only that, but enthusiasts like myself are given the opportunity to thank the musicians who make this music and who have devoted so much of themselves to it. That opportunity to give thanks to the people who do things you really care about isn't necessarily bigger than the experience of the music, but it does perfume the air of the Jazzgalerie with another layer of love.