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2010 Spring Season - Chicago Sun-Times

Posted April 1, 2010 10:06 AM in Reviews

Frida Kahlo, any way you want her

BY HEDY WEISS Dance Critic
March 29, 2010

Chicago's Luna Negra Dance Theater invariably takes you across borders. And that certainly was the case Saturday night at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance as the company presented its spring concert, a program designed as part of the citywide Mexico 2010 celebrations honoring the 200th anniversary of the start of the Mexican War of Independence.

Meet the Artists

Miguel Mancillas

Choreographer

"Flush with imaginative counterbalances of simultaneous solo work, is Miguel Mancillas' "Fissuras," a piece about forbidden love, tress of knowledge and, ultimately, melodramatic onstage screams." - Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune