Chicago Dance Crash To Remount Previously Sold-Out LXIV (six.four) – Two Nights Only!
Relaunching a previously sold-out production, Chicago Dance Crash is set to remount LXIV (six.four), a fusion of dance, storytelling, and chess, for two nights only!
One of the best things about the Chicago performing arts scene is the incredible variety. Dancing, storytelling, movement – you name it, we’ve got it. And every once in a while, you get lucky enough to have heard about a sold-out production, and have it launch once again.
LXIV (six.four) is a genre-bending Hip Hop theater work inspired by the legendary 1851 Immortal Chess Game. Told from the perspective of the Black pieces, the story begins on the board. Each chess piece is brought to life as a fully realized character navigating power, hierarchy, and human complexity. As tensions mount, the audience is drawn into the heart of the historic match, where a lowly pawn turns the tide and a shocking checkmate unfolds.
The program – which sold out in 2025 – featuring works by James Morrow, KC Bevis, and Phillip Wood in collaboration with the Ensemble, is an electrifying fusion of chess, dance, and storytelling that brings the game’s strategic brilliance to life. The performance unfolds in two dynamic halves where each chess piece is introduced as a fully realized character navigating power, hierarchy, and the complexity of the roles they have been assigned.
The production’s titular work “LXIV (six.four)” anchors the first half of the program and features an original, ensemble-driven work curated by Artistic Director KC Bevis and Rehearsal Director Phillip Wood. Built through collaboration and the amplification of each dancer’s individual strengths, Crash artists use the structure of a chessboard to frame human relationships, hierarchy, and pressure. Part battle tactics, part storytelling, this work introduces the players and transforms the chessboard into a human landscape, revealing how we are born into uneven power, enter systems already in motion, and make choices that carry lasting consequences.
In Act II, James Morrow’s “Immortal Games” dives into the strategic brilliance of chess and the intensity of dance battles. Inspired by the legendary 1851 Immortal Chess Game, the work explores themes of risk, sacrifice, and calculation through raw athleticism and real-time decision making. The sound score was composed by Rob Flax during the original presentation of the work in 2025, using a custom-built MIDI chessboard that generates sound in response to each moving chess piece. The dance score was largely improvised and guided by a set of rules that mirror the structure of the game itself, allowing strategy and instinct to unfold throughout every aspect of the work.
Chicago Dance Crash is the Midwest’s leading physical theater dance company, known for its fusion of street dance, concert dance, and physical theater. If anybody was going to relaunch a previously sold-out performance, this is the one to purchase tickets for. I’ll see you there!
Chicago Dance Crash’s LXIV (six.four) is running 3/14/26 and 3/15/2026 at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased on Chicago Dance Crash website. This production is located at the Ann Barzel Theater at Visceral Dance Center at 3121 N. Rockwell Street in Chicago.