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Whelan is known as a dancer who likes to push herself, and she came to embody the quintessential late 20th century American ballerina — boyishly built but ultra-feminine, as leggy and fiercely determined as a Kentucky thoroughbred but as weightless and ethereal as a will-o’-the-wisp. While she wasn’t a ballerina who looked good in every dance on the program, she was a ballerina willing to try everything. That was who arrived on stage Thursday with her first partner, the tall and earnest Cerrudo, who was Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s first resident choreographer. His classical forms in “Ego et Tu” (2013) quickly melted into shapes echoing the gooey undulations of Batsheva Dance Company, but the risk and deep impulse that Batsheva communicates were missing.

Hundreds of Rosie the Riveter admirers gathered for the third annual Rosie Rally Home Front Festival inside the pavilion, which during World War II was turned from a Ford car plant into a factory for tanks and jeeps, Compared to the last two years when thousands of people dressed as vintage 80's red woven leather ballet bow flats 8 Rosie packed the festival in a bid for a Guinness World Record, the festival had no pressing mission except simply celebrating the fictional American icon, Rosie The Riveter — with a bandana on her head and a washed-blue jumpsuit with the motto “We Can Do It!”— has been etched into American media as an icon of female empowerment after World War II, during which women worked in factories and shipyards for the war effort as the men fought overseas..

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