The Salts Shows How Grandparent Friendly The Local Performance Scene Has Become

The Salts, a dance/music shindig presented by local arts collective the Inconvenience, is an exuberant mess—something the Chicago performance scene can always use more of.

That scene all but vanished by the new millennium, and The Salts isn’t likely to revive it. Nothing here exists between the cracks: Kilmurray’s choreography is almost pure, audience-friendly dance (with the occasional monologue thrown in), and the live music is performed before and after the dance concert, creating no cross-pollination. But the evening’s playful, chaotic cockiness is a bracing reminder of just how staid, starched, and grandparent-friendly most theater around town is.

Through 5/30: Thu-Sat 8:30 PM Collaboraction 1579 N. Milwaukee 312-226-9633collaboraction.org $25