Blue Soup

“Blue Soup was the first large-scale show I created with my beloved crew, Aszure & Artists, in the early 2000’s! I was (and still am) moved by the unspeakable power of song; music has a spiritual capacity that does something epic to my heart and my body. Blue Soup celebrates our human weirdness, and through it I’d like to acknowledge Maya Angelou and David Lynch who have inspired me to practice, stretch, and create. The truth of Angelou’s voice shook my heart then and grounds me now, and Lynch’s unconventional imagination demonstrates our ability to float playfully in ever-changing ambiguity. Their wise words have had a big impact on me over the years, and their embodied expressions of our odd humanness offered me courage to imagine and revisit this wild blue world of physical emotionality... My mother named me "blue" after all!” - Aszure

The revival of Blue Soup was commissioned by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and will live in the company’s repertory for the coming seasons. The Chicago Tribune pointedly observed that “There’s a signature tension between the literal and the imagined, moments of authenticity layered with sarcasm and vaudevillian veneer…The piece points at the rot underneath the shimmer of Hollywood and the fallibility of a dream…You will leave the theater satisfied.”

Photo (above) by Don Lee, courtesy of Aszure & Artists, photos (below) by KT Miller and Michelle Reid, courtesy of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (2025). Dancers: Aaron Choate, Andrew Murdock, Jacqueline Burnett, Michelle Dooley, and Shota Miyoshi.