River North

The River North Dance company is one of the most popular and innovative dance companies in Chicago. Recently they performed at the Harris Theater as a part of their 20th anniversary program. The company, formed in 1989, has survived despite Chicago's failed support. In the review, the author, Sid Smith, uses some really cool and interesting description words to relate to the dancers and the performance. He doesn't use the normal words that most people would use to describe a dance piece such as beautiful , flowing, and graceful. Smith uses words such as, wriggle, turgid, tense, and expressive. In using terms like these it gives the reader's idea of the company a whole different feeling. He describes some of the movements of the first piece in the show. His descriptions were definitely vivid. He relates the dancing to some things we have usually seen such as, tug of war, cages, and acrobatics. At the end of that paragraph he goes on to describe the costumes. This I think, could have been left out for something else. He could have described the show as a whole and the feeling that it game him and the audience. I would have also liked it if he had described more of their repertory and how the different pieces related and didn't relate to each other. Overall I thought the article had a lot of good, interesting descriptions.