Jun 9, 2022 | By Tristan Bruns A sense of spatial abstractions hit me as soon as I entered the theater to take in “rejoinder,” the latest work presented by…
Jun 18, 2019 | By Lauren Warnecke There are two basic timelines for any choreographic process. In the churn and burn world of big budget companies, two months can be…
Dropshift Dance, photo by Nadia Oussenko Feb 11, 2019 | By Brianna Alexis Heath What does it mean to be in close-proximity to another person? To be of the community…
By Michael Workman Humanoid, geometric forms shift against walls, foreshortening the perspective of long, narrow halls. People squeeze between them as they move from one room to the next, temporarily…
By Lauren Warnecke Chicago Tribune August 17, 2017 Wednesday’s heavy summer rain left the Chicago sidewalks steaming as guests filed into the new Defibrillator Gallery space in Noble Square, just…
By Lauren on June 14, 2016 FloatBrilliance, premiering this weekend at Links Hall, is the third installment of what Artistic Director Andrea Cerniglia calls the Imposter Series, a multi-year project…
By Laura Molzahn You almost feel you've stumbled into a bridal situation, with yards of tulle draped here and there, flowers littering the perimeter of the space, many glittery surfaces,…
RECOMMENDED Third in the critically lauded Imposter series from Andrea Cerniglia and her group dropshift dance, “FloatBrilliance” bows at Links Hall this weekend. Much effort goes into producing the immersive…
June 1, 2015 – Art Intercepts In her fifth season as an Artistic Director, Andrea Cerniglia continues to “go big or go home.” As a 21st Century Diaghilev of sorts, Cerniglia has…
Imagine you’re wandering around an art gallery—and all the art is moving too: changing places around the room, shifting composition within works. At times you feel you’re the one hanging…