Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts carries on the best in new jazz and improvisation. You can see her on May 21st at the Chicago Cultural Center or check out her recently released album ‘Chicago Project’.
Matana Roberts

The San Francisco Bay Area will be treated to a series of dance performances by a host of cutting-edge companies for three weeks in May. AXIS Dance Company, Compañía Y, Dandelion Dancetheater and Mayday Dance Company will perform new physically integrated dance works from May 9-24th at CELLspace and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum.

Photo credit Margot Hartford

The Irish company Storytellers Theatre is touring a new adaptation of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw. You can see this chilling tale April 25 & 26 at Hawks Well Theatre in Sligo, Ireland and at several other tour venues through May 10th.
Storytellers Theatre Company

Dancer and choreographer Karole Armiitage’s group Armitage Gone! Dance will make it’s Chicago debut at The Dance Center of Columbia College, April 17th- 19th. The program will include ‘Ligeti Essays’, a suite of concise jewel-like movements choreographed to music by the Hungarian composer.
Armitage Gone! Dance

Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble, a new Portuguese group focuses on the combination of acoustic instruments and the latest electronic technology. You can see them at the Teatro Gil Vicente in Coimbra, Portugal on April 10th.
Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble