Thodos Dance Chicago celebrates the tenth year of its New Dances series, probably the most successful of the many Dance Company-sponsored programs for the development of new choreography. It’s not uncommon for Dance companies to have a program that encourages their members and guest artists to choreograph in a special developmental program. The Thodos Dance New Dances approach is a much more far-reaching commitment than is the norm, though.

The Company hires dancers explicitly for the additional responsibilities of teaching and choreographing, and commits an astonishing portion of their resources and their yearly schedule to this program. The production values are at the highest professional level, and over the years, many of these works have gone on to be performed again and again at festivals around the country, and in the case of those that become part of the Thodos Dance Chicago Repertoire, around the world. It all comes together July 16, 17, and 18. New Dances sold out last year, every seat, wall to wall, so you may want to mark it down now.

As Thodos Dance Chicago begins its tenth cycle of New Dances, aotpr.com is doing a series of articles to not only talk about the process of Choreography, but to look at that process from the unique perspective of Music For Dance.

Naturally, this "unique perspective of Music For Dance” very much includes my own perspective, which is the product of an unusual experience set --- so unusual that it’s probably best to dedicate the next article to explaining a little more about why a record producer, writing for an independent record label’s web site, is talking about choreography.
The Company hires dancers explicitly for the additional responsibilities of teaching and choreographing, and commits an astonishing portion of their resources and their yearly schedule to this program. The production values are at the highest professional level, and over the years, many of these works have gone on to be performed again and again at festivals around the country, and in the case of those that become part of the Thodos Dance Chicago Repertoire, around the world. It all comes together July 16, 17, and 18. New Dances sold out last year, every seat, wall to wall, so you may want to mark it down now.

As Thodos Dance Chicago begins its tenth cycle of New Dances, aotpr.com is doing a series of articles to not only talk about the process of Choreography, but to look at that process from the unique perspective of Music For Dance.

Naturally, this "unique perspective of Music For Dance” very much includes my own perspective, which is the product of an unusual experience set --- so unusual that it’s probably best to dedicate the next article to explaining a little more about why a record producer, writing for an independent record label’s web site, is talking about choreography.
The Company hires dancers explicitly for the additional responsibilities of teaching and choreographing, and commits an astonishing portion of their resources and their yearly schedule to this program. The production values are at the highest professional level, and over the years, many of these works have gone on to be performed again and again at festivals around the country, and in the case of those that become part of the Thodos Dance Chicago Repertoire, around the world. It all comes together July 16, 17, and 18. New Dances sold out last year, every seat, wall to wall, so you may want to mark it down now.

As Thodos Dance Chicago begins its tenth cycle of New Dances, aotpr.com is doing a series of articles to not only talk about the process of Choreography, but to look at that process from the unique perspective of Music For Dance.

Naturally, this "unique perspective of Music For Dance” very much includes my own perspective, which is the product of an unusual experience set --- so unusual that it’s probably best to dedicate the next article to explaining a little more about why a record producer, writing for an independent record label’s web site, is talking about choreography.
The Company hires dancers explicitly for the additional responsibilities of teaching and choreographing, and commits an astonishing portion of their resources and their yearly schedule to this program. The production values are at the highest professional level, and over the years, many of these works have gone on to be performed again and again at festivals around the country, and in the case of those that become part of the Thodos Dance Chicago Repertoire, around the world. It all comes together July 16, 17, and 18. New Dances sold out last year, every seat, wall to wall, so you may want to mark it down now.

As Thodos Dance Chicago begins its tenth cycle of New Dances, aotpr.com is doing a series of articles to not only talk about the process of Choreography, but to look at that process from the unique perspective of Music For Dance.

Naturally, this "unique perspective of Music For Dance” very much includes my own perspective, which is the product of an unusual experience set --- so unusual that it’s probably best to dedicate the next article to explaining a little more about why a record producer, writing for an independent record label’s web site, is talking about choreography.