Helen Keller at age 8 in 1888, holds hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan. | AP~Courtesy of the Thaxter P. Spencer Collection, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society-Boston
Jessica Miller Tomlinson as Helen Keller (foreground) and Allisa Tollefson as Anne Sullivan in “A Light in the Dark: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan.” | Photo by Cheryl Mann
Thodos Dance Chicago founder/artistic director Melissa Thodos collaborated with Tony Award-winning Broadway star Ann Reinking on "A Light in the Dark: The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan." | Photo by Cheryl Mann
As choreographer Melissa Thodos recalled recently, it was just about two years ago — as soon as the curtain came down on the Thodos Dance Chicago company’s premiere of “The White City: Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893,” a one-act multi-media story ballet — that the …