As the numbers of the vaccinated grow and the icicles melt and crash, the twin angst-inducing events of pandemic shutdown and plain old everyday cabin fever seem to recede like the snow cover on the ground. (Memo to pet owners: please pick up after your furry friends!)
That production schedule is on hold for now, but meantime 16th Street is producing digital work by the members. Maher’s piece runs free on March 4 through 16th Street’s website.
On Friday, February 26, there will be a memorial for Sally Banes, the groundbreaking dance writer whose career began in Chicago. (She was a cofounder of the late legendary performance space, MoMing). Banes died on June 14; this free online tribute, presented by the dance division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, takes place from 1-5 PM CST. As multidisciplinary artist and scholar Asimina Chremos wrote in her appreciation of Banes for the Reader last year, “The kind of clear and finely-honed critique that Banes evidenced in her writing is born of empathy with the performers she writes about; the fresh and vivid arguments she makes about dance and performance reveal her own embodiment, artistic creativity, and unique way of seeing and understanding the world.” v
2/25-3/7: see choosechicago.com/chicago-theatre-week for offerings
