Dancing Like it Matters

     This past weekend, the Matter Dance Company performed their eighth full-length concert.  Matter Dance Company is a company located in Chicago that was founded 10 years ago and is still going strong.  Their most recent show is entitled candid, and it is a "series of vignettes captur[ing] moments in time through movement, and...tell[ing] stories meant to engage and inspire".  As for the most recent performance, the show ran the gamut from pieces by Queen to pieces featuring voiceovers by Martin Luther King Jr. and Steve Jobs, all accompanied by dancing(obviously).  The show continued with a hip-hop feature, as well as a piece called Shakespearean Rhapsody that served as a Queen-style takeoff on Romeo and Juliet.  After several pieces that showed off the ballet prowess of several of its members, the show ended with an "exuberant crowd party graced with latter-day swing".  Overall, Matter Dance Company's 8th Annual show proved to be a success.