MCB the “Evening’s Big Discovery” at Chicago Dancing Festival

It was a drippy night at the Pritzker Pavilion on Saturday: The last performance of this year’s Chicago Dancing Festival pretty much laid to rest the notion that a free concert under the stars is necessarily a good thing. Yet many folks — including fully exposed unfortunates huddled under ponchos and umbrellas — stuck it out to the end of this two-hour show without intermission …

… also new was Miami City Ballet, which made its Chicago debut at this year’s festival. Strong and elegant, it brought Twyla Tharp’s wonderfully atypical “Sweet Fields” back to our city: Her company performed it here in 1996, shortly after its premiere.

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