Accommodations provided by Chicago's Lenox Suites Hotel. Opening night reception courtesy of Eli's The Place For Steak. This concert staging of a new opera, based on historic events in Mississippi, invokes a young woman's search for spiritual balance in the real world. The central figure, Doxy, is flanked by Mother Song and a magnificent female congregation. Stricken by the drugs, prison, and premature deaths afflicting their men, the women come together to invoke a blessing for new life and communal hope.
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Bob Emmott Choreographer Rennie Harris returns to Chicago with a hip-hop opera based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, by way of West Side Story. In this collaboration with writer Ozzie Nelson, the feuding Montagues and Capulets are now the Monster Qs and the Caps, street rivals in a tumultuous dance of life and death. This tragedy of forbidden love and tight families is performed by the dynamic dancers of Rennie Harris Puremovement serenaded by an emcee and deejays. Rennie Harris Puremovement are pioneers in hip-hop choreography. A one-week residency for students and community groups starts Feb. 19.