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The Art of Falling Billy Bungeroth, Director
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Hubbard Street + The Second City in The Art of Falling. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. hubbardstreetdance.com
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Hubbard Street Dancers Kellie Epperheimer and Andrew Murdock in The Art of Falling. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
A letter from Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director To those of you who are fans of The Second City, or are otherwise joining us for the first time: Welcome to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. As our subscribers can tell you, The Art of Falling is like nothing you have seen before, and, in that sense, it reflects everything that we do here at Hubbard Street. Since 1977, our company has exclusively presented masterworks and new choreography by living artists. The spirit of reinvention is in our DNA. What you will see onstage, however, represents just one way Hubbard Street brings people together. Our broader mission — to change lives through dance — is expressed in many ways, from offering our field-leading Education Programs to students in local classrooms, every single day Chicago Public Schools are in session, to providing classes to people with Parkinson’s, and to children on the autism spectrum. Meanwhile, The Art of Falling epitomizes two more objectives central to our mission: artistic collaboration and creation. Throughout the last decade, our dance partners have included the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and we just launched an exciting joint venture with the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. We are thrilled that The Second City shares with us this sense of adventure, and that is what has made this particular collaboration so inspiring. In 2014, we gathered five choreographers, three writers, six actors and two dozen dancers — all of whom pushed beyond their comfort zones, to grow as artists and as people. The result, which you are here to see, was so delightful and so touching that audiences have asked for its encore ever since. As an added benefit, our collaborators at The Second City now feel like part of the Hubbard Street family. Partnering with them has reaffirmed for all of us the importance of taking artistic risks, ensuring our work remains infused with new ideas and perspectives, and keeping us looking to the future. In November we kick off Season 39 at Hubbard Street, with new works by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo — his 15th for us — and by the Harris Theater’s inaugural Resident Artist, Brian Brooks. Next March, Hubbard Street’s fourth program devoted to the creative range of a single artist celebrates global choreographer Nacho Duato. In May, our Chicago Series spotlights Chicago’s own world-class dancemakers and, one very busy year from now, our 40th anniversary celebration begins, with an evening of audience favorites spanning four decades of excellence in contemporary dance. Flip over this program book to learn more, on the back cover. I hope you will join us. Now sit back, and enjoy the beauty when laughter meets dance. Warmly,
Glenn Edgerton Artistic Director Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Above: Hubbard Street Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton. Cover photo: Hubbard Street Dancer Jeffery Duffy with Carisa Barreca of The Second City. Photos by Todd Rosenberg. hubbardstreetdance.com
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Hubbard Street + The Second City Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton Executive Director Jason D. Palmquist General Manager Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll Director of Production Jason Brown
CEO/Co-Owner Andrew Alexander President, Second City Theatricals Erica Daniels Producer, Second City Theatricals Jeremy Smith
The Art of Falling Billy Bungeroth, Director Written by Tim Mason with Carisa Barreca, T.J. Jagodowski, Kate James, Chris Redd, and the casts of The Second City Julie B. Nichols, Musical Director, Original Composition, Sound Design Julie E. Ballard, Stage Manager Ishanee DeVas, Company Manager Improvisation coached and created by T.J. Jagodowski and Terence Marling John W. Lauler, David Schultz, Additional Instrumentation Martin Andrew, Set Design Michael Korsch, Lighting Design Branimira Ivanova, Costume Design Tierra G. Novy, Properties Design HMS Media, Video Design and Production Choreographers Alejandro Cerrudo Lucas Crandall Jonathan Fredrickson Terence Marling Robyn Mineko Williams
Ensemble Christina Anthony Carisa Barreca Joey Bland John-Michael Lyles Tim Mason Tawny Newsome
Rebecca M. Shouse, Head of Wardrobe Stephan Panek, Head Carpenter and Stage Operations Sam Begich, Master Electrician Kilroy G. Kundalini, Audio Engineer Jenni Schwaner Ladd, Touring Wardrobe Annelise Toft, Assistant Director Hubbard Street Dancers Jesse Bechard, Jacqueline Burnett, Alicia Delgadillo, Jeffery Duffy, Kellie Epperheimer, Michael Gross, Jason Hortin, Alice Klock, Emilie Leriche, Florian Lochner, Ana Lopez, Andrew Murdock, Penny Saunders, David Schultz, Kevin J. Shannon, Jessica Tong Hubbard Street 2 Katlin Michael Bourgeois, Zachary Enquist, Elliot Hammans, Jade Hooper, Natalie Leibert, Adrienne Lipson Understudies Understudies are never substituted for listed performers, unless noted otherwise on a program insert, or a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.
Rashawn Nadine Scott for Christina Anthony Andel Sudik for Carisa Barreca and Tawny Newsome
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Hubbard Street + The Second City in rehearsal for the world premiere of The Art of Falling. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
Hubbard Street + The Second City dedicate these performances to the memory of Sheldon Patinkin, 1935–2014. Special thanks to Andrew Alexander, Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra, Kelly Leonard, and Steve Waltien. Season 38 Sponsors
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The Art of Falling Act I Opening Alejandro Cerrudo, Choreography The Party Robyn Mineko Williams, Choreography Typewriter Alejandro Cerrudo, Choreography A New Career, In a New Town Adapted from Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies Wicked at Heart Adapted from Red Scare Robyn Mineko Williams, Choreography Penance: Boarding Jonathan Fredrickson, Choreography Acid Adapted from Let Them Eat Chaos Improvisation created and coached by Terence Marling and T.J. Jagodowski Bicycle Ride Alejandro Cerrudo, Choreography The Rehearsal Terence Marling and Robyn Mineko Williams, Choreography Questions Adapted from Sky’s the Limit (Weather Permitting) Lucas Crandall, Choreography Reconciliation: Barry’s Waltz Jonathan Fredrickson, Choreography White Office Swan Terence Marling, Choreography Don’t Be Afraid (of Love) Robyn Mineko Williams, Choreography
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Act II Second to Last (Excerpt) Second to Last was created for and premiered by Ballet Arizona in March 2013. Arvo Pärt, Music Alejandro Cerrudo, Choreography Confession: Or Crash Jonathan Fredrickson, Choreography Thanksgiving Robyn Mineko Williams, Choreography Carnival Adapted from Sky’s the Limit (Weather Permitting) Falling Jonathan Fredrickson, Choreography The Spiral Robyn Mineko Williams, Choreography Miracle Closer Terence Marling and Jonathan Fredrickson, Choreography Created for and premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and The Second City, Inc. in collaboration at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2014. The world premiere engagement of The Art of Falling was commissioned by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, with support from Sandra and Jack Guthman through the Imagine campaign; was sponsored by Richard L. Rodes; R. Penny Rodes DeMott; GoodSmith, Gregg & Unruh, LLP; The Walter E. Heller Foundation; Wessex 504 Corporation; and Choreographer’s Circle Members Meg and Tim Callahan, Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein, Caryn Jacobs and Dan Cedarbaum, and Sallyan Windt; and was partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. The Season 38 Summer Series encore engagement of The Art of Falling at the Harris Theater is sponsored by Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein; Joel and Katie Cory; Allstate, Community Engagement Partner; Baker & McKenzie, Diversity Partner; and Wessex 504 Corporation. Original music and sound design by Julie B. Nichols. Music by Carlos Alomar, David Bowie and John Winston Lennon: “Fame,” as performed by David Bowie, from the album Young Americans, courtesy of Warner Music Group. Used by permission of Downtown Music Publishing. Music by Leroy Anderson: “The Typewriter” and “Plink Plank Plunk,” from the album The Typewriter, courtesy of Dance Street. Used by permission of EMI Music Publishing and Woodbury Music Company. Music by David Bowie: “Life on Mars” and “Oh! You Pretty Things,” performed by Julie Nichols, from the album Hunky Dory; and “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” and “Suffragette City,” from the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, courtesy of Warner Music Group. Used by permission of BMG Chrysalis, Sony/ATV and Tintoretto Music. Music by Gary Brooker, Matthew Charles Fisher and Keith Reid: “Whiter Shade of Pale,” as performed by Procol Harum, from the album A Whiter Shade of Pale. Used by permission of Essex Music Inc. and Westminster Music Ltd. Music by Jesse Case: “Questions.” Used by permission of Jesse Case. Music by Bobby Darin: “Dream Lover,” from the album The Ultimate Bobby Darin, courtesy of Warner Strat. Mkt. Used by permission of Alley Music Corp, Carlin America Inc., EMI Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell. Music by Malin Dahlstrom, Gustaf Karlof and Magnus Boqvist: “Gentle Roar,” as performed by Niki & The Dove, from the album Instinct, courtesy of Mercury Records. Used by permission of Niki & The Dove. Music by James Richard David: “Girl/ Boy,” as performed by Aphex Twin, from the album Richard D. James, courtesy of Rhino Records. Used by permission of BMG Chrysalis. Music by Chris Isaak: “Wicked Game,” from the album Heart Shaped World, courtesy of Mailboat Records. Used by permission of C Isaak Music Publishing Company c/o Gelfrand, Rennert & Feldman. Music by John David Percy Keen: “Armenia City in the Sky,” as performed by The Who, from the album The Who Sell Out, courtesy of Universal Music Group. Used by permission of ABKCO Music Inc., Fabulous Music Ltd. and Spirit Music Group. Music by Axel Machens, Christoph Kunze and Achim Windel: “No Man’s Land,” as performed by The Placebo Effect, from the album Manipulated Mindcontrol, courtesy of Ausfahrt Rec. Used by permission of Axel Machens. Music by Julie Nichols: “S Waltz,” “Made in Italy” and “Swoon,” used by permission of Julie Nichols. Music by Julie Nichols and Billy Bungeroth: “Don’t Be Afraid of Love,” used by permission of Julie Nichols and Billy Bungeroth. Music by Julie Nichols and Katie Rich: “You’re Always Someone to Someone.” Used by permission of Julie Nichols and Katie Rich. Music by Arvo Pärt: “Spiegel im Spiegel,” from the album Arvo Pärt: Alina, as recorded by Dietmar Schwalke, Alexander Malter, Vladimir Spivokov, and Sergei Bezrodny, courtesy of ECM Records. Used by permission of European American Music Distributors Company. Used by permission of Universal Edition, Inc. Music by Carl Stalling: “Rubber Dog” and “Anxiety Montage,” from the album The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2. “Looney Tunes Theme,” courtesy of Warner Brothers. Music by Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Erik Satie) and Roger Nichols: “Gymnopédies,” performed by Julie Nichols and John W. Lauler. Used by permission of Universal Music. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act II: No. 13 Danses des Cygnes: VII Coda (allegro vivo),” as performed by André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra, from the album Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, courtesy of Warner Classics. Music by Scott Walker: “Copenhagen,” from the album Bish Bosch; and “Tar,” from the album Scott 3, courtesy of Mercury Records. Used by permission of Beggars Group.
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CREATIVE TEAM Billy Bungeroth (Director) is a director and musician who is proud to call Chicago home. Resident director, creative director and artistic consultant at The Second City in Chicago, his dark comedies have been staged at venues throughout the country, including the La Jolla Playhouse, the Alliance Theater in Atlanta and Washington D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre. His recent work with the Lyric Opera of Chicago won him a Joseph Jefferson Award and, as a musician, he has performed worldwide, at Lollapalooza, and by request at the inauguration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He has had the honor of directing and performing in a diverse assortment of projects, with today’s top entertainers from a wide variety of disciplines, among them Fred Armisen, Phish, Aubrey Plaza, Renée Fleming, Sir Patrick Stewart and Jeff Tweedy. He is very proud of the cast and crew of The Art of Falling, and of this show they’ve made together. Julie B. Nichols (Music Director, Sound Design, Original Composition) is an alumna of The Second City Mainstage. Her credits include Let Them Eat Chaos, Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies and the Jeff Award–nominated South Side of Heaven. Prior to life on the Mainstage, Julie was the Associate Musical Director for Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. Nichols is currently developing new works at the University of Chicago, composing for commercials, and learning about redwoods.
Carisa Barreca (Writer) is overjoyed to be returning to the Harris Theater for the encore engagement of Hubbard Street + The Second City’s collaboration, The Art of Falling. Barreca is an alumna of The Second City’s e.t.c. stage, where she performed in three resident stage revues. She was also honored to work with The Second City at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with Sir Patrick Stewart and Renée Fleming in The Second City Guide to the Opera. She was recently awarded Best Actress at The Midwest Independent Film Festival, for her work on the web series she also co-created, Doomsdate, online at doomsdateseries.com. She sends her sincere thanks for this opportunity to Billy Bungeroth, The Second City, the producers and amazing cast members of The Art of Falling, the e.t.c. stage, her friends, family and Kevin. You can follow Barreca’s infrequent and candy-fueled posts on Twitter @cinderisa. Alejandro Cerrudo (Choreographer) was born in Madrid, Spain and trained at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid. His professional career began in 1998 and includes work with Victor Ullate Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, and Nederlands Dans Theater 2. Cerrudo joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2005, was named Choreographic Fellow in 2008, and became the company’s first Resident Choreographer in 2009. Fourteen works choreographed to date for Hubbard Street include collaborations with The Second City, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Nederlands Dans Theater. These pieces and additional commissions are in repertory at companies around the U.S. as well as in Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands; touring engagements have brought his work still further abroad, to audiences in Algeria, Canada, Morocco, and Spain. In March 2012, Pacific Northwest Ballet invited Cerrudo to choreograph his first work for the company, Memory Glow, upon receiving the Joyce Theater Foundation’s second Rudolf Nureyev Prize for New Dance. Additional honors include an award from the Boomerang Fund for Artists (2011), and a Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work from the Prince Charitable Trusts (2012) for his acclaimed, first evening-length work, One Thousand Pieces. In March 2016, Switzerland’s Ballett Basel premiered his second evening-length work, Sleeping Beauty, at Theater Basel. Cerrudo was one of four choreographers invited by New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan to create and perform original duets for “Restless Creature,” and he is United States Artists’ 2014 USA Donnelley Fellow.
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Lucas Crandall (Choreographer and Rehearsal Director) began his dance career with the Milwaukee Ballet in 1979. In 1980, he joined the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, then directed by Oscar Aráiz. Under the direction of Jiří Kylián, he danced with Nederlands Dans Theater for two years before returning to Geneva, as soloist and later rehearsal assistant, under the direction of Gradimir Pankov. Crandall has performed and originated roles in works by notable choreographers including Aráiz, Kylián, Christopher Bruce, Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, Rui Horta, Amanda Miller and Ohad Naharin. In 2000, Crandall returned to the U.S. to join Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, as Associate Artistic Director and staff at the Lou Conte Dance Studio. His teaching and coaching career includes residencies at various U.S. universities; master classes and repertory workshops, both domestically and abroad; and guest positions at companies including Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Northwest Professional Dance Project, and the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. Crandall’s choreographic work includes multiple premieres for Hubbard Street (Atelier, Gimme, Imprint, The Set) and new works for Northwest Dance Project and Thodos Dance Chicago. Crandall was recently rehearsal director for Nederlands Dans Theater’s main company for three years, under the directorships of Paul Lightfoot and former Hubbard Street Artistic Director Jim Vincent. Crandall returned to Hubbard Street as Rehearsal Director in April 2013. Jonathan Fredrickson (Choreographer) studied ballet at the Munro Ballet Studios, home to Corpus Christi Ballet, under teachers Kay Boone and Cristina Munro. He received his BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts in 2006. Immediately thereafter, he joined the Limón Dance Company, performing lead roles and creating two original works. He is a former awardee of Hubbard Street’s International Commissioning Project and was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2011 for his choreography. Following four seasons as a company member and choreographer at Hubbard Street, Fredrickson joined Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in August 2015. T.J. Jagodowski (Writer) Jagodowski’s mother has been a parochial school teacher for 25 years. She went to work shaping young minds after shaping the minds of three of her own. She ran the household, ran her boys to innumerable practices and games, and ran the snakes out of Western Mass. Jagodowski’s father has been a plumber for more than 40 years. During that time, there has not been a single day in which his hands were not stained with dirt from someone’s basement, grease from a coupling pipe, or the salt of a summer sweat. These people toiled, and still do, while for 20 years their eldest son has made make-believe in Chicago. He is thrilled to have made even more make-believe with Hubbard Street, and gives his sincere thanks to Beth, his brothers Troy and Todd, Billy Bungeroth, David Pasquesi, Nana and Papa, the Boston Red Sox and his aforementioned parents, without whom he would’ve had to work for his living. Kate James (Writer) has been writing, performing and teaching with various divisions of The Second City for the past nine years, and is thrilled to be collaborating with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2013 she co-wrote The Second City Guide to the Opera with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, starring Renée Fleming and Sir Patrick Stewart. James is a founding member of the sketch comedy group Schadenfreude, with whom she enjoyed a two-year stint on Chicago Public Radio, and was nominated for a Chicago Emmy Award. Her offstage credits include Playing House (USA Network), Shameless (Showtime) and a viral video in which she played a very drunk Cubs fan. She would like to thank Steve, the best dancer she knows.
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CREATIVE TEAM Terence Marling (Choreographer and Director of Hubbard Street 2), born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, trained at the Ruth Page School of Dance with renowned ballet teacher Larry Long. Following his professional work with Patricia Wilde and Terrence S. Orr at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, and at Germany’s Nationaltheater Mannheim with director and choreographer Kevin O’Day, Marling became a member of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. During 16 years onstage, he performed works by George Balanchine, Nacho Duato, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Paul Taylor, Glen Tetley and others, originating numerous roles. Beginning in 2010 as Hubbard Street Rehearsal Director, Marling taught, coached and maintained works and premieres by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, Duato, Naharin, Aszure Barton, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Alonzo King, Susan Marshall, Victor Quijada and Twyla Tharp. Marling’s own creations have been performed by Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre as well as both of Hubbard Street’s ensembles, and he cochoreographed with Robyn Mineko Williams the company’s first family-oriented production, Harold and the Purple Crayon: A Dance Adventure. Marling became Director of Hubbard Street 2 in April 2013. Tim Mason (Head Writer) is an actor, writer and director based in Chicago. He is a veteran of The Second City where he performed on the Mainstage in the award-winning revue, South Side of Heaven, as well as in revues on the e.t.c. stage and with the Touring Company. Mason is a member of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy troupe BRICK, and his television credits include appearances on Sirens, Boss, Underemployed and in the recent movie Unexpected. He has appeared in numerous TV commercials and is a member of the theater collective FlipFlap, whose inaugural production The Temp was a part of the first annual Chicago International Puppet Festival, and he most recently debuted his first full-length musical, This is How it Goes, at the University of Chicago. Mason is thrilled to be working with Hubbard Street and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Robyn Mineko Williams (Choreographer) began her career at River North Dance Chicago, followed by twelve seasons as a member of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, during which she performed choreography by renowned artists including Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe and Johan Inger, and originated roles in new works by Jorma Elo, Sharon Eyal, Twyla Tharp and Lar Lubovitch, among others. She began making her own work in 2001 through Hubbard Street’s Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop and, in 2010, co-choreographed with Terence Marling Hubbard Street 2’s Harold and the Purple Crayon: A Dance Adventure, designed for young audiences. She has since created multiple premieres for Hubbard Street’s main company including scenes in its collaboration with The Second City, The Art of Falling, and has made work for Atlanta Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Visceral Dance Chicago and The Nexus Project, presented at the Kennedy Center, the American Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater and other venues. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2014, Williams was one of Northwest Dance Project’s 2012 International Choreography Competition winners, received a 2013 Princess Grace Choreographic Fellowship, and was selected as an E-choreographer for Springboard Danse Montréal the same year. In 2015 she completed a Princess Grace Foundation–USA Works In Progress Residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and recently received a Choreography Mentorship Co-Commission Award from the Princess Grace Foundation–USA in support of Hubbard Street 2 + Manual Cinema’s Mariko’s Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure. In 2016, Williams was named among Newcity’s Players 50 list of local leaders in the performing arts. Visit robynminekowilliams.com to learn more.
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ENSEMBLE Christina Anthony (Earnestine, Ensemble) is a writer, performer and alumna of The Second City, where she co-wrote three original revues: The Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life, Studs Terkel’s Not Working and Brother Can You Spare Some Change? Before joining The Second City Touring Company, she made her debut as Juliet in The Second City’s Romeo and Juliet Musical: The People vs. Friar Laurence, the Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet. As a vocalist and improviser, she was most recently seen off-Broadway in Hunter Bell’s Found at the Atlantic Theatre, and on T.J. Miller’s album The Extended LP. Anthony’s regional credits include the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Her film and TV credits include Key & Peele and the sketch-standup hybrid Mash Up on Comedy Central, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FXX, ER on NBC and The Dilemma from Universal Pictures. You can follow her on Twitter @christinanthony. Carisa Barreca (Kate, Ensemble) See Creative Team. Joey Bland (Richard, Ensemble), who recently relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles, has worked for the past eight years with The Second City, where his highlights include performing in The Second City Guide to the Opera and starring in the title role in the hit musical, Rod Blagojevich Superstar. Bland is a member of The Improvised Shakespeare Company, a two-time Jeopardy! champion, and he sends his thanks to Heather, Jack and Ike.
John-Michael Lyles (Gerry, Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his Chicago debut in Hubbard Street + The Second City’s collaboration The Art of Falling. In New York City, he has recently been seen relaying congressional messages (in 1776 at New York City Center’s Encores!); understudying a depressed and bespectacled film fanatic (in The Flick at Barrow Street Theatre); sangin’ like a flamboyant, oppressed tenor (in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy at the Guthrie Theater); dancing as a Rastafarian super-geek (in Brooklynite at the Vineyard Theatre); playing a no-nonsense lawyer, long deceased (in Jasper In Deadland at Prospect Theater Company); and serving tea as a nearly homeless, disabled Brit (in The Remarkable Rooming House of Mme Le Monde at La MaMa). Lyles is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and an alumnus of Pace University Musical Theater (2014). Learn more online at john-michaellyles.com and follow him on Twitter @jmlyles1. Tim Mason (Barry, Mr. Thomas, Ensemble) See Creative Team.
Tawny Newsome (Diane, Maria, Ensemble) is pumped to return to Hubbard Street + The Second City’s The Art of Falling. An alumna of The Second City’s Mainstage, e.t.c. stage and Touring Company, Newsome can currently be seen in Seeso’s original series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, has appeared on the podcast and IFC series Comedy Bang! Bang!, as well as the improvised podcast Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins. In addition to her years of work with The Second City, Newsome’s theatrical credits include productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Writers Theatre, and the world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Upstairs Concierge at the Goodman Theatre. While in Chicago, Newsome appeared on Chicago Fire (NBC), Sirens (USA) and Crisis (Fox), in accordance with her policy of only appearing on television when her character is shown inside an ambulance. Here Be Monsters is an album by Newsome’s band, Jon Langford and Skull Orchard, and Too Proud to Steal is an album she made with a host of her talented friends. Both are available on iTunes, Spotify, et al. and she is on Twitter @TrondyNewman.
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PRODUCTION TEAM Martin Andrew’s (Set Design) recent theatrical credits include An Iliad at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Port Authority at Writers Theatre, Proof at the Court Theatre, Gypsy at Drury Lane Theatre, Detroit and The Norman Conquests at Southern Rep in New Orleans, The Glass Menagerie at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sweet Storm with The Public Theater and LAByrinth Theater Company, and Uncle Vanya with TUTA Theatre Chicago. His television credits include Super Bowl XLVII on CBS, KTMD Houston’s news and weather studio, and Silent Library for MTV Networks. Martin was an associate designer for the NFL Network’s studio in Los Angeles, Coke Live at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Timon of Athens at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, “MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition” tour, ESPN’s Monday Night Football studio, ABC’s NASCAR broadcast studio, and August: Osage County on Broadway. Branimira Ivanova (Costume Design) is a graduate of both the University of Connecticut (MFA, Costume Design) and of the International Academy of Design and Technology (BFA, Fashion Design). Since beginning her career in costume design for dance in 2002, with Hubbard Street, Ivanova has continued to work with the company, creating for renowned choreographers including Alejandro Cerrudo, Lucas Crandall, Marguerite Donlon, Andrea Miller and Toru Shimazaki. In 2009 and 2010, Ivanova received Jeff Award nominations for her work for Lifeline Theatre’s productions of Treasure Island and Wuthering Heights; her work for the Gift Theatre’s Cloud 9 received a Jeff Award for Best Costume Design (Equity Wing) in 2012. In 2007, Ivanova received a Certificate for Excellence in Theatre Design from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, and her designs were included in the United States’ National Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial World Stage Expo. In 2002, she received Fashion Group International’s “Design Your Future Award” and the Driehaus Award for Fashion Excellence. Michael Korsch (Lighting Design) is a lighting and scenic designer based in Philadelphia, where he earned his BA in Theater at Temple University. Korsch has worked with numerous directors and choreographers, creating visual designs for dance and theater throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has been resident lighting and scenic designer as well as technical director for Complexions Contemporary Ballet since 1998, resident lighting designer for Ballet Arizona since 2001, and lighting and technical director for the Laguna Dance Festival since 2005. In addition to Still in Motion, The Impossible, One Thousand Pieces and his first Hubbard Street premiere, Alejandro Cerrudo’s Little mortal jump (2012), Korsch has created designs for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, BalletMet Columbus, Ballet Nice Méditerranée, BalletX, Carolina Ballet, Charlotte Ballet (formerly North Carolina Dance Theatre), Cleveland Play House, DanceBrazil, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Disney Creative Entertainment, English National Ballet, FELA! The Concert, MOMIX, Oakland Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the Royal Danish Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin and the Washington Ballet, among others. Tierra G. Novy (Properties Designer) is a Chicago-based scenic and props designer and studio artist. The Art of Falling marks her debuts with both Hubbard Street and The Second City. Novy continues to work regularly with Emerald City Theatre Company (ETC), where her past productions include Hansel and Gretel, The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Charlotte’s Web, Ramona Quimby, Stiles & Drewe’s The Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Llama Llama. Novy has previously designed sets for Paradise Lost and Four Twins with The Agency Theatre Collective, and props for You&Me Productions’ Stoop Time. Novy received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2013 from The Theatre School at DePaul University and can be found online at tierragnovy.com.
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64th Season August 2-20, 2016 Victor Yampolsky Music Director and Conductor All concerts held in the Door Community Auditorium, Fish Creek
Discover World Class Symphonic Music in the Heart of Door County! e Save th nd Dates a ! Join Us
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Opening Night
Boris Slutsky, piano
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The Princess of Cello
Denise Djokic, cello
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Accordion Wizard Alexander Sevastian, accordion Benjamin Firer, emerging conductor*
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Igor & His Strings
Igor Yuzefovich, violin Lura Johnson, harpsichord ■ Thurs, Aug 11, 2016
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Olga Kern, piano Gonzalo Farias, emerging conductor*
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2015–16 DANCER PROFILES Jesse Bechard (Bolton, MA) began his formal ballet training at age 16, graduated from Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and attended training programs at Boston Ballet, Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Ballet Austin. In 2000, having completed his freshman year at the University of Chicago, he returned to dance, performing for one year with Ballet Austin and for eight with Richmond Ballet. Bechard joined Hubbard Street in August 2010.
Jacqueline Burnett (Pocatello, ID) received classical ballet training in Pocatello, Idaho from Romanian ballet master Marius Zirra, with additional summer training at Ballet Idaho, Brindusa-Moore Ballet Academy, the Universal (Kirov) Ballet Academy, the Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors from the Ailey School and Fordham University’s joint program in New York City in 2009, while an apprentice with Hubbard Street. She was promoted to the main company in August 2009 and is a 2011–12 Princess Grace Honorarium recipient. Alicia Delgadillo (Charlotte, NC) began her classical training at the Susan Hayward School of Dance in San Francisco, California, and continued her studies in North Carolina with Gay Porter and Bridget Porter Young at the Charlotte School of Ballet. In 2004, Delgadillo began studying full time with Daniel and Rebecca Wiley at Piedmont School of Music and Dance. She has attended summer programs at Hubbard Street, the Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Danse Montréal. Delgadillo graduated with honors from the Ailey School and Fordham University’s joint program in New York City in 2012, while a member of Hubbard Street 2, and was promoted to the main company in April 2014. Jeffery Duffy (Adamsville, GA) began dancing at age three and attended the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia; Talent Unlimited High School; and the Juilliard School in New York City. He has performed with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble at Lincoln Center and the Chicago Dancing Festival, and as a guest artist with Dance Theatre of Harlem. At the McCallum Theatre Institute’s 2013 Choreography Festival, Duffy and Alexander Jones received the Division I Second Place Prize for their original work, Open it to Speak; Duffy is also the recipient of an Alan D. Marks Entrepreneurship Grant, and winner of the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Arts Entrepreneurship Prize. He joined Hubbard Street in August 2015. Kellie Epperheimer (Los Osos, CA) began her dance training in 1988 at the Academy of Dance and Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo, and attended training programs at the Joffrey Ballet School and the Juilliard School in New York City. A founding member of Cedar Lake Ensemble (later Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet), she joined Hubbard Street 2 in January 2005, and was promoted to the main company in January 2007.
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HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Michael Gross (Poughquag, NY) earned a BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona and received much of his early training from Colorado Jazz Dance Company in Colorado Springs, followed by further studies at the American Academy of Ballet and Springboard Danse Montréal. Formerly a member of River North Dance Chicago and Visceral Dance Chicago, Gross has also performed with Elements Contemporary Ballet and in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s holiday production, Welcome Yule! Gross joined Hubbard Street in August 2014 and thanks his friends and family for their love and support. Jason Hortin (Olympia, WA) graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a BFA in Dance under the direction of Louis Kavouras. His performance career includes work with Moving People Dance Theatre, Erick Hawkins Dance Company and River North Dance Chicago. Hortin joined Hubbard Street as an apprentice in August 2007 and was promoted to the main company in July 2008.
Alice Klock (Whidbey Island, WA) began dancing at age 11. She trained at Interlochen Arts Academy from 2003–07, and in Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Dominican University of California’s joint BFA program from 2007–09. Klock then joined Hubbard Street 2 in September 2009 and was promoted to the main company in September 2011.
Emilie Leriche (Santa Fe, NM) began her dance training at the age of eight. In 2007 she began her formal dance training at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, with additional summer study at Joffrey Midwest, Complexions Contemporary Ballet and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Leriche has performed alongside the dancers of zoe | juniper, and at the WestWave Dance Festival as a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. Leriche joined Hubbard Street 2 in 2011, was promoted to the main company in 2013, was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2015, and is the recipient of a 2015 Dance Fellowship from the Princess Grace Foundation–USA. Florian Lochner (Frankenhardt, Germany) trained at Ballettschule Malsam in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, and the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, where he was the recipient of its Birgit Keil Dance Foundation scholarship. Lochner earned his master’s degree in the performing arts and joined Gauthier Dance Company in Stuttgart in 2011, performing works by numerous choreographers including Mauro Bigonzetti, Jiří Bubeníček, Alejandro Cerrudo, Alexander Ekman, Itzik Galili, Eric Gauthier, Marco Goeke, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián, Christian Spuck, Cayetano Soto, Philip Taylor, Stephan Thoss, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León. He received a “Best of the Season” nomination in Germany’s Dance for You! Magazine in September 2013, and joined Hubbard Street in August 2015. Ana Lopez (A Coruña, Spain) began her formal training at Conservatorio de Danza Diputacion de A Coruña. Upon graduating Isaac Diaz Pardo High School, she continued her training at Centro Internacional de Danza Carmen Roche. Prior to joining Hubbard Street in January 2008, Lopez danced with Joven Ballet Carmen Roche, with Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 in works by Nacho Duato and Tony Fabre, and at Ballet Theater Munich under the directorship of Philip Taylor. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2012. hubbardstreetdance.com
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2015–16 DANCER PROFILES Andrew Murdock (St. Albert, AB) is a graduate of the Juilliard School, from which he received a BFA in Dance under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes. Prior to being a regular collaborator with Aszure Barton & Artists, Murdock performed with Gallim Dance and BJM Danse, formerly Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Additional collaborators and colleagues include Cherice Barton, Joshua Beamish, Andy Blankenbuehler, Nina Chung, Joe Lanteri, Austin McCormick, Michelle Mola, Abdel Salaam and Edgar Zendejas. He has appeared at the Greenwich Music Festival, with Zack Winokur, and with Geneviève Dorion-Coupal at Just for Laughs and Le 400e Anniversaire de la Ville de Québec. As a rehearsal assistant to Aszure Barton, he has worked with American Ballet Theatre, Canada’s National Ballet School and Ballet BC, New York University, the Steps Ensemble, Arts Umbrella and Springboard Danse Montréal. He joined Hubbard Street in 2013. Penny Saunders (West Palm Beach, FL) graduated from the Harid Conservatory in 1995. She then began her professional career with the American Repertory Ballet under the direction of Septime Webre, danced with Ballet Arizona and MOMIX, and was a founding member of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (then Cedar Lake Ensemble). In 2004, Saunders joined Hubbard Street, where she began to pursue her choreographic interests, creating for Hubbard Street 2 in 2011 through its International Commissioning Project, and premiering her first work for Hubbard Street’s main company in 2013. She has since choreographed for the Nexus Project, Owen/Cox Dance Group, SFDanceworks, Whim W’Him, Grand Rapids Ballet, and Neos Dance Theatre as a choreographer in residence at the University of Akron. In 2015 Saunders returned to Hubbard Street’s main company and began a three-year choreographic residency with Grand Rapids Ballet. She thanks her lovely husband and beautiful son for all of their support. David Schultz (Grand Rapids, MI) began training in Michigan with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet, where he then performed for four seasons with its company, Grand Rapids Ballet. Schultz joined Hubbard Street 2 in September 2009 and was promoted to the main company in August 2011, and he is the recipient of a 2012 Princess Grace Award.
Kevin J. Shannon (Baltimore, MD) began dancing under the guidance of Lester Holmes. He graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts with additional training at the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet School, Paul Taylor Dance Company and Parsons Dance. He earned his BFA in 2007 at the Juilliard School, toured nationally with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble and appeared in the “Live from Lincoln Center” broadcast television special The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years. Shannon joined Hubbard Street in November 2007. Jessica Tong (Binghamton, NY) received her formal training at the Ballet School in Salt Lake City under Jan Clark Fugit, as well as at the University of Utah, where she was a member of Utah Ballet. Tong danced with BalletMet in Ohio, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech in New York City and with Hubbard Street 2 before joining the main company in January 2007. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2009, and currently serves on Chicago Dancers United’s Ambassador Committee for Dance for Life Chicago.
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2015–16 HS2 DANCER PROFILES Katlin Michael Bourgeois (Gonzales, LA) began dancing in 2010 at various studios in Louisiana including NOCCA (the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) and A Touch of Class Performing Arts. After attending Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Summer Program in San Francisco in 2012, he accepted a full scholarship to join the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, from which he graduated in May 2014. Bourgeois has performed in works by numerous choreographers including Andrew Brader, Sandrine Cassini, Lee-Wei Chao, Kara Davis, Gregory Dawson, Maurya Kerr, Nikoloz Makhateli and Uri Sands. He joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in August 2014 and was promoted to full company member in August 2015. Zachary Enquist (Plymouth, MN) began training at Summit School of Dance in Plymouth, MN. He holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY–Purchase College in New York, where he performed works by choreographers Doug Varone, Lar Lubovitch, Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones and Merce Cunningham. Other training includes summer studies at the Juilliard School, Movement Invention Project and Springboard Danse Montréal, where he performed repertory by William Forsythe, Stijn Celis and Robyn Mineko Williams. Enquist spent a semester abroad at Codarts in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and was an apprentice at Mark Morris Dance Group. Enquist joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2014. Elliot Hammans (Santa Fe, NM) began his formal dance training in 2008 with Robert Sher-Machherndl and continued his ballet and modern dance education with Moving People Dance in Santa Fe, NM, under the direction of Curtis Uhlemann. Hammans joined Moving People Dance Company as an apprentice in 2010, trained on full scholarship at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center in San Francisco, and attended Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 2011 and 2012 Summer Intensives. Following one season with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance and studies abroad at Austria’s Tanzzentrum SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), Hammans earned his BFA in Dance in 2014 from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Choreographers whose work he has performed include Sean Curran, Gail Gilbert, Crystal Pite, Kendra Portier and Nathan Trice. Hammans joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2014. Jade Hooper (Riverside, CA) began training under the direction of Clifford J. Breland and Anthony Jackson at Bre Dance Studio, continuing at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Summer Program, where she received its Homer Avila Scholarship Award. She earned her BFA in dance with a minor in math and science from CalArts and joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2015.
Natalie Leibert (Moorpark, CA) began training at various dance schools in the Los Angeles area including company work with Westside Dance Project in Redondo Beach, and Pacific Festival Ballet in Agoura Hills. She continued training at the Miami City Ballet School and, most recently, completed a year in Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Training Program. Leibert has attended workshops and programs at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, the Joffrey Ballet School, the School of American Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Juilliard School, in addition to Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Dance Company. She has performed works by choreographers including Iratxe Ansa, Sandrine Cassini, Jessie Hartley, Will Johnston, Menghan Lou and Carmen Rozestraten. Leibert joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in August 2014 and was promoted to full company member in August 2015.
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HUBBARD STREET 2 Adrienne Lipson (London, ON) began her dance training in London, Ontario under the tutelage of Jennifer Swan, and continued her studies at Ryerson University, where she received a BFA with honors upon her graduation in spring 2013. While in Toronto, Lipson performed with Typecast Dance Company and was a founding member of Rock Bottom Movement. Lipson attended the Proarte Danza Summer Intensive and Kenny Pearl’s Emerging Artists Summer Intensive, in addition to training programs at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, LADMMI (Montréal’s L’École de Danse Contemporaine), the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and Springboard Danse Montréal, where she performed works by choreographers Aszure Barton, Barak Marshall and Robyn Mineko Williams. Lipson joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in August 2013 and was promoted to full company member in August 2014. HS2 Apprentice Oscar Carrillo (San Jose, Costa Rica) began his artistic studies at the Conservatorio de Castella in Heredia, majoring in visual arts with a minor in dance. Carrillo then enrolled at Point Park University, where he received a BA in ballet and jazz with a minor in business management, and has participated in summer training programs at Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Springboard Danse Montréal. Carrillo has worked professionally with Texture Contemporary Ballet in Pittsburgh, RIOULT Dance NY and Chicago Repertory Ballet, performing works by many choreographers including Christopher L. Huggins, Garfield Lemonious, Darrell Grand Moultrie and David Parsons, and joined Hubbard Street 2 as an HS2 Apprentice in August 2015. Tawny Newsome, left, and Hubbard Street Dancer David Schultz in The Art of Falling. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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About Hubbard Street Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s core purpose is to bring artists, art and audiences together to enrich, engage, educate, transform and change lives through the experience of dance. Celebrating its 38th season in 2015–16, Hubbard Street continues to be an innovative force, supporting its creative talent while presenting repertory by major international artists. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago grew out of the Lou Conte Dance Studio at LaSalle and Hubbard Streets in 1977, when Lou Conte gathered an ensemble of four dancers to perform in senior centers across Chicago. Barbara G. Cohen soon joined the company as its first Executive Director. Conte continued to direct the company for 23 years, during which he initiated and grew relationships with both emerging and established artists including Nacho Duato, Daniel Ezralow, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Twyla Tharp. Conte’s successor Jim Vincent widened Hubbard Street’s international focus, began Hubbard Street’s collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and cultivated growth from within, launching the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop and inviting Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo to make his first work. Gail Kalver’s 23 years of executive leadership provided continuity from 1984 through the 2006–07 season, when Executive Director Jason Palmquist joined the organization. Glenn Edgerton became Artistic Director in 2009 and, together with Palmquist, moved this legacy forward on multiple fronts. Inside/Out is now part of a broader strategy for building new repertoire, the Choreographic Development Initiative, which aims to be a national model for artistic development while proactively diversifying contemporary dance. Partnerships with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and other institutions keep Hubbard Street deeply connected to its hometown. To the company’s repertoire, Edgerton has extended relationships with its signature choreographers while adding significant new voices such as Kyle Abraham, Mats Ek, Sharon Eyal, Alonzo King, Crystal Pite, and Victor Quijada.
Claire Bataille, left, and Ginger Farley in Case Closed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, 1986. Photo by Jennifer Girard.
Isaac Spencer, left, and Erin Derstine in Float by Julian Barnett, 2006. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
Choreographer Mats Ek, left, rehearses Quinn B Wharton in Casi-Casa, 2012. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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Shannon Alvis, left, and Terence Marling in Extremely Close by Alejandro Cerrudo, 2008. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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The main company’s members comprise one of the only ensembles in the U.S. to perform all year long, domestically and around the world, while four nationally renowned Summer Intensive Programs bring young artists into its ranks. Hubbard Street 2, its second company for early-career artists, was founded in 1997 by Conte and Julie Nakagawa. Now directed by Terence Marling, HS2 cultivates young professional dancers, identifies next-generation choreographers, and performs domestically and abroad in service of arts education, collaboration, experimentation and audience development. Hubbard Street’s Youth, Education and Community Programs are national benchmarks for partnership, dance education and urban school research. In 2008, the Parkinson’s Project became the first dance class in the Midwest for those affected by Parkinson’s disease and, with The Autism Project pilot in 2014, it’s now part of Hubbard Street’s growing Adaptive Dance Programs. Youth Dance Programs for students ages 18 months to 18 years emphasize creative expression and are offered year-round at the Hubbard Street Dance Center. At the Lou Conte Dance Studio — where Hubbard Street began in 1974 — workshops and master classes allow access to expertise, while a broad variety of weekly classes offer training at all levels in jazz, ballet, modern, tap, African, hip-hop, yoga, Pilates® and dance fitness. Visit hubbardstreetdance.com to learn more.
Above left: Frank Chaves and Leslie Stevens in Mae by Richard Levi, 1987. Archival photo. Above right: Hubbard Street 2 in The 40s by Lou Conte, 2003. Archival photo. Center: Tobin Del Cuore, left, and Cheryl Mann in Gimme by Lucas Crandall, 2004. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. Ron De Jesús, left, Krista Ledden and Ensemble in I Remember Clifford by Twyla Tharp, 1996. Photo by Ruedi Hofmann.
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About The Second City Second City Theatricals produces an eclectic array of entertainment in venues worldwide. Recent productions include Let Them Eat Chaos (Washington D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre), and #DateMe, an original comedy created in partnership with OkCupid. Future productions include the original parody Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody, with Writers Theatre; The Second City’s Almost Accurate Guide to America, customized for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and Unelectable You, a political show developed in partnership with online magazine Slate.com. Second City Theatricals is also the exclusive provider of sketch and improv comedy for Norwegian Cruise Line. Visit secondcity.com to learn more. Born in London, Andrew Alexander (CEO/Co-Owner, The Second City) studied at Tri-State College in Indiana, and Ryerson University in Toronto. Working as a cab driver, truck driver, speakeasy operator, waiter, tree salesman, marketing manager, ad salesman, magazine editor and producer in Toronto’s alternative theater scene positioned him well for a career in comedy; that chance came in 1974 when he became the head of The Second City in Toronto. Alexander has since produced or executive-produced more than 200 Second City revues in Canada and the United States. Since acquiring The Second City Chicago in 1985, the company under Alexander’s leadership has collected 148 Jeff Award nominations and 28 wins, while Second City Toronto has won two Dora Awards and been nominated for 17 more since 1975. Alexander’s prolific career as a television producer includes co-developing and executive-producing more than 185 half-hour shows, and he produced more than 150 hours of television comedy for the series SCTV, which garnered an ACTRA Award, two Emmy Awards, and 13 Emmy nominations during its broadcast run. Alexander continues to produce and develop TV shows in the US and Canada and in his current capacity as CEO/Co-Owner of The Second City, Alexander ensures that the company continues to innovate and inspire. Erica Daniels (President, Second City Theatricals) was most recently Associate Artistic Director at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, having joined the organization in 2001 as casting director. Daniels did the original casting for Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway production of Airline Highway, and her previous projects include Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She also cast the original production of August: Osage County as well as on Broadway, at the National Theatre of London, and Sydney Theatre Company; and cast the Broadway production of Superior Donuts. Daniels previously worked as an agent for Geddes, Arlene Wilson and Shirley Hamilton, and spent a year as The Theatre Department Coordinator at William Morris in New York. Under George Lane, she has worked with such writers as John Patrick Shanley, Richard Greenberg, and Edward Albee; and directors including Michael Mayer, Robert Falls and Daniel Sullivan. Daniels began her career as a casting assistant at Jane Brody Casting, and has freelanced with various Chicago companies including Lookingglass Theatre Company, Collaboraction, About Face Theatre, and Profiles Theatre. She is currently casting the independent film Imperfections for Coin Op productions, and is adjunct faculty at Ball State University. Daniels holds a degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Jeremy Smith (Producer, Second City Theatricals) began working at The Second City in 2002, as a Stage Manager for the touring company. He has had the privilege to work on a multitude of collaborations with The Second City such as The Good, The Bad, and The I-5 (La Jolla Playhouse), Twist Your Dickens! (Goodman Theatre, Center Theatre Group), America: All Better! (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Chicago Live! (Chicago Tribune), and Rod Blagojevich Superstar (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Smith has also helped produce numerous revues at The Second City including South Side of Heaven, Sky’s The Limit (Weather Permitting), and Let Them Eat Chaos, as well as countless other productions both locally and nationally. Hubbard Street Dancer Alicia Delgadillo, left, and actor Joey Bland perform Wicked at Heart during a sneak preview of The Art of Falling at The Second City Mainstage in May 2014. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
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HUBBARD STREET STAFF PROFILES Glenn Edgerton (Artistic Director) joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago after an international career as a dancer and director. At the Joffrey Ballet, he performed leading roles, contemporary and classical, for 11 years under the mentorship of Robert Joffrey. In 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where he danced for five years. He retired from performing to become its artistic director, leading NDT 1 for a decade and presenting the works of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, among others. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn Dance Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Edgerton joined Hubbard Street as associate artistic director in 2008; since 2009 as artistic director, he has built upon more than three decades of leadership in dance performance, education and appreciation established by founder Lou Conte and continued by Conte’s successor, Jim Vincent. Jason D. Palmquist (Executive Director) joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in May 2007, after serving the arts community in Washington, D.C. for nearly 15 years. Palmquist began his career at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, completing his tenure there as vice president of dance administration. At the Kennedy Center, he oversaw multiple world-premiere engagements of commissioned works in dance, the formation and growth of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and the inception in 1997 of the Millennium Stage, an award-winning, free daily performance series that to date has served more than 3 million patrons. Deeply enriching the Kennedy Center’s artistic programming, Palmquist successfully presented engagements of global dance companies including the Royal Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Kirov Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. Palmquist also managed the Kennedy Center’s television initiatives, including the creation of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and a prime-time special on NBC memorializing the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In 2004, he accepted the position of executive director at the Washington Ballet. Under his leadership, the company presented full performance seasons annually at the Kennedy Center and the Warner Theater, and nurtured its world-renowned school and extensive education and outreach programs. A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Palmquist currently serves on the boards of the Arts Alliance of Illinois and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll (General Manager) brings more than a decade of experience to Hubbard Street as a leader, fundraiser and producer in the performing arts. Most recently, she served as the associate managing director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, where she line-produced and managed all new play development efforts, shepherding 30% growth in capacity. Previous tenures include executive director of contemporary dance company Robert Moses’ Kin (San Francisco, CA), associate managing director of Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT), management fellow during ArtsEmerson’s inaugural presenting year (Boston, MA), annual fund manager at Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA), and international experience in Mexico City working for a nonprofit humanitarian group. While in the Bay Area, Fiorenza Ingersoll was secretary and then president of the Berkeley Cultural Trust and a proud member of the Bay Area Latino Theatre Artists Network. She is also a freelance arts management strategist and artist representative, partnering with individual artists and ensembles whose work gives voice to underrepresented stories and perspectives. Recognized nationally, Fiorenza Ingersoll was invited in 2014 by Theatre Communications Group to be part of its SPARK Leadership Program’s inaugural class. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Theater Management from Yale University. Terence Marling (Director of Hubbard Street 2) See Creative Team. Alejandro Cerrudo (Resident Choreographer) See Creative Team. Lucas Crandall (Rehearsal Director) See Creative Team.
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HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Kathryn Humphreys (Director of Education, Youth and Community Programs) joined Hubbard Street in 2002. She develops and implements dance-education initiatives designed to improve teacher and teaching-artist practice and collaboration, to effect whole-school change and further the field’s understanding of the role of dance in public education. She oversees program development, implementation, and management of all of Hubbard Street’s in-school and community initiatives. With more than two decades of experience in arts education, her work supports local and national groups and, under her direction, the department has engaged in a series of in-depth research initiatives, contributing unique knowledge and assessment tools to the field, many of which have been widely published. Humphreys launched Hubbard Street Youth Dance Programs in 2007, connecting the choreographic process curricula Hubbard Street pioneered in schools with training in traditional dance techniques, for a unique and diverse slate of classes currently serving more than 1,000 students per year. The department’s Family Workshop Series brings generations together through dance, while Hubbard Street’s innovative Adaptive Dance Programs expand movement opportunities for Chicagoans with physical and mental disabilities. Humphreys consults locally and nationally on issues related to dance education, and holds an MA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. Claire Bataille (Director of the Lou Conte Dance Studio) was a founding dancer with Hubbard Street from 1977 to 1992, performing works created by Lou Conte, Twyla Tharp, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Daniel Ezralow, John McFall and Margo Sappington. She received the Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Dancer in 1992. From 1977 to 2001, Bataille also served the company as Assistant Artistic Director, Ballet Mistress and Rehearsal Director. She choreographed five works between 1978 and 1985 and toured nationally and internationally with Hubbard Street. Bataille began teaching at the Lou Conte Dance Studio in 1975 and has been teaching dance in Chicago ever since. In 2003, she earned her certification in the Pilates Method with Romana’s Pilates in New York. In 2005, Bataille was appointed Associate Director of the Lou Conte Dance Studio at the Hubbard Street Dance Center and became its Director in 2008. Suzanne Appel (Director of External Affairs) joined Hubbard Street in August 2015 following a decade of arts leadership roles with an emphasis on business development, revenue generation, and producing the work of formchallenging artists. Most recently she served as managing director of The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco, where she nearly doubled the organization’s operating budget and built a two-plus-month operating reserve in four years. Her previous roles include director of individual giving at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, associate managing director at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, management fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theater, and assistant director of the annual fund at Wesleyan University. While in San Francisco, she served on the board of the Tenderloin Community Benefit District. Appel maintains a freelance practice as a financial and strategic management consultant for arts organizations, holds an MBA from Yale School of Management, an MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama, and a BA from Wesleyan University. Lou Conte (Founding Artistic Director), after a performing career that included roles in Broadway musicals such as Cabaret, Mame and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, established the Lou Conte Dance Studio in 1974. Three years later, he founded what is now Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Originally the company’s sole choreographer, he developed relationships with emerging and world-renowned dancemakers Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Margo Sappington and Daniel Ezralow as the company grew. Conte continued to build Hubbard Street’s repertoire by forging a key relationship with Twyla Tharp in the 1990s, acquiring seven of her works as well as original choreography. It then became an international enterprise with the inclusion of works by Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato and Ohad Naharin. Throughout his 23 years as the company’s artistic director, Conte received numerous awards including the first Ruth Page Artistic Achievements Award in 1986, the Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award in 1995, and a Chicagoan of the Year award from Chicago magazine in 1999. In 2003, Conte was inducted as a laureate into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, the state’s highest honor, and in 2014, was named one of five inaugural recipients of the City of Chicago’s Fifth Star Award. He has been credited by many for helping raise Chicago’s international cultural profile and for creating a welcoming climate for dance in the city, where the art form now thrives.
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Hubbard Street Staff and Board Glenn Edgerton Artistic Director
Rebecca Edmonson Marketing Intern
John E. Vazquez Assistant Treasurer
Jason D. Palmquist Executive Director
Youth, Education and Community Programs Kathryn Humphreys Director of Youth, Education and Community Programs
Ellis Regenbogen+ Immediate Past Chair
Lou Conte Founding Artistic Director Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll General Manager Claire Bataille Director of the Lou Conte Dance Studio Terence Marling Director of Hubbard Street 2 Lucas Crandall Rehearsal Director Alejandro Cerrudo Resident Choreographer Belina Mizrahi Controller Krista Ellensohn Manager of Pre-Professional Programs Meredith Dincolo Artistic Associate and Coordinator of Pre-Professional Programs Alyssa Morales Accounting and Operations Coordinator LaMar Brown Management Associate Emma Speiser Management Assistant Mica Carson Administration and Finance Intern Foster Wattles Archive Intern Natalie Breitmeyer Erin Harner Alaya Turnbough LCDS Interns External Affairs Suzanne Appel Director of External Affairs
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ABOUT
HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance is a 1,500-seat state-of-the art performance venue located in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Opened in November 2003, the nonprofit Harris Theater was the first multi-use performance venue built in downtown Chicago since 1929. Harris Theater serves as a unique national model of collaboration between the philanthropic community and performing arts organizations in music and dance. More than a decade later, the Theater features the most diverse offerings of any venue in Chicago, hosting local, national, and internationally renowned artists and ensembles. The Harris Theater’s primary mission is to partner with an array of Chicago’s music and dance performing arts organizations to help them build the resources and infrastructure necessary to achieve artistic growth and long-term organizational sustainability. The Harris Theater’s original group of 12 resident companies has grown to include 35 diverse and exceptionally talented performing arts organizations, including internationally acclaimed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Music of the Baroque, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNow, and collaborations with Lyric Opera of Chicago, National Museum of Mexican Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Columbia College Chicago. Through these partnerships, the Theater has earned national recognition as a distinctive model for collaboration, performance, and artistic advancement. The Theater supports this mission by providing these partner organizations with subsidized rental, technical expertise, and marketing support, allowing the organizations to focus on what they do best—bringing the finest in music and dance performances to the public. The Theater offers professional development opportunities, including the innovative Learning Lab, endorsed with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Harris Theater is also dedicated to presenting internationally acclaimed music and dance organizations to enhance its reputation as well as to help build audiences for the Theater’s resident companies. Through the Harris Theater Presents series, the Theater has achieved widespread recognition as a vital cultural anchor in Chicago. Daniel Barenboim, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Renée Fleming, the Hamburg Ballet, Lang Lang, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opéra Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, Stephen Sondheim, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and many others have graced the Harris’ Elizabeth Morse Genius Stage through this series. The Harris maintains a strong emphasis on community engagement through enrichment activities and their Access Tickets Program, in which the Harris Theater partners with health and human services agencies and community organizations to provide underwritten performance tickets for individuals facing illness, disability, and challenging life circumstances. Since 2009, the Theater has provided over 8,800 tickets to children and families, representing 25 neighborhoods across the city of Chicago. Learn more about Community Engagement programs at engage.harristheaterchicago.org.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE
Officers Alexandra C. Nichols, Chairman Peter M. Ellis, Vice Chair Elizabeth Hartigan Connelly, Vice Chair Ricardo T. Rosenkranz, MD, Vice Chair Mary Kay Sullivan, Vice Chair Marilyn Fatt Vitale, Secretary David Snyder, Treasurer Caryn Harris, Executive Committee, Member at Large Michael Tiknis, Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols President and Managing Director Endowed Chair
Trustees James L. Alexander, Past Chairman John W. Ballantine Lee Blackwell Baur Paul S. Boulis Peter M. Ellis, Vice Chair Louise Frank Jay Franke Robert J. Gauch, Jr. Sandra P. Guthman, Past Chairman Caryn Harris, Executive Committee, Member at Large Joan W. Harris, Past Chairman Elizabeth Hartigan Connelly, Vice Chair Christine N. Evans Kelly Deborah A. Korompilas Merrillyn J. Kosier Mac MacLellan
Zarin Mehta Judith Neisser Alexandra C. Nichols, Chairman Kenneth R. Norgan Abby McCormick O’Neil, Past Chairman Jason Palmquist, Ex-Officio Ricardo T. Rosenkranz, MD, Vice Chair William Ruffin, Ex-Officio Patrick M. Sheahan John Q Smith David Snyder, Treasurer Susan Stark Jeffrey D. Steele Mary Kay Sullivan, Vice Chair Michael Tiknis, Ex-Officio Marilyn Fatt Vitale, Secretary Elliot Weissbluth Dori Wilson Maria Zec Life Trustees Peter M. Ascoli Cameron S. Avery Marshall Field V James J. Glasser Sarah Solotaroff Mirkin Harrison I. Steans Robin S. Tryloff (Listing as of May 25, 2016)
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STAFF
HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Michael Tiknis, Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols President and Managing Director Endowed Chair Jake Anderson, Manager of Artistic Administration Erin Swanson, Assistant to the President and Managing Director FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Laura Hanssel, Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Administration Mary Jo Rudney, Director of Finance Gena Lavery, Finance Manager EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Patricia Barretto, Executive Vice President of External Affiairs Development Josh Fox, Manager of Corporate & Foundation Relations Elizabeth Halajian, Manager of Annual Giving & Donor Relations Catherine Miller, Manager of Campaign Gifts & Board Relations Samantha Shay, Development & Special Events Coordinator Marketing Jamie Sherman, Manager of Public Relations & Communications Mary Larkin, Marketing Manager Samantha Allinson, Digital Production Designer
Community Engagement Meghan McNamara, Manager of Community Engagement & Partnerships Ticketing Services Gregg Brody, Box Office Treasurer OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION Lori Dimun, Vice President of Operations & Production Front of House Kay Harlow, House Manager Jamelle Robinson, Concessions Manager Melaney Reed, Saints Coordinator The Saints, Volunteer Usher Corps Operations Emily Macaluso, Manager of Operations Hillary Pearson, Operations Coordinator Dawn Wilson, Technical Coordinator Leticia Cisneros, Lead Day Porter Ed Mlakar, Facilities Engineer Production Jeff Rollinson, Head Carpenter & IATSE Steward Anthony Montuori, Head Flyman Jeffrey Kolack, Head of Props Don Dome Jr., Head of Audio Kevin Sullivan, Head Electrician
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INFORMATION
HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE
Rental information: If you have any questions about the Harris Theater, including rental of the facility, group tours, or volunteer opportunities, please call the administrative office Monday through Friday, 9AM–5PM, at 312.334.2407. Ticket purchases: To purchase tickets, visit HarrisTheaterChicago.org. Call or visit our Box Office at 312.334.7777 Monday through Friday, 12–6PM or until curtain on performance days. For group tickets for 10 or more people, call our Sales Office at 312.334.2419. In consideration of other patrons and the performers: Please turn off all cell phones. Photography is not permitted in the Theater at any time. Film or digital images will be confiscated or deleted by the Harris Theater house staff; violators will be subject to a fine. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. Smoking is prohibited within the Harris Theater. Allowance of personal items and baggage into the auditorium space is at the sole discretion of House Management For your safety: Please take a moment and note the nearest exit. In the event of an emergency, follow the directions of the Harris Theater house staff. In the event of an illness or injury, inform the Harris Theater house manager. Accessibility: Infrared assisted listening devices are available from the Harris Theater house staff. The Theater is equipped for easy access to all seating levels for patrons needing special access. Please advise the Box Office prior to the performance for any special seating needs. Parking: Discounted parking validation is available for all ticket holders using the Millennium Park Garage. A validation machine is located next to the Box Office on the Orchestra Level, as you enter the Theater lobby. Lost and found: Retrieved items will be held for 30 days with the Harris Theater house staff at 312.334.2403.
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SP TLIGHT BALL Thank you to the sponsors of Hubbard Street’s Season 38 Spotlight Ball Patti Eylar and Charles Gardner ITW Caryn Jacobs Jenner & Block, LLP Abby McCormick O’Neil and D. Carroll Joynes Northern Trust The PrivateBank Lauren Robishaw The Second City Deborah and Kelly Stonebraker Jamie and Rob Taylor
PRESENTING SPONSOR Kenneth C. Griffin BENEFACTORS
Sara Albrecht David Herro and Jay Franke Denise Stefan Ginascol and John Ginascol Latsko Family Foundation
PATRONS Robert and Marilyn Arensman ARI Athletico Physical Therapy Janet and Michael Colleran Dirk Denison and David Salkin Michael Downing and Kathy Bernreuter Exelon Mary Galvin
SPONSORS Allstate Berle Blitstein and Marlene Breslow-Blitstein Meg and Tim Callahan Lew Collens
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Jim Gordon, The Edgewater Funds Sandra and Jack Guthman Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Alexandra and John Nichols Byron and Judy Pollock Alyssa Rapp and Hal Morris Ellis and Sally Regenbogen Richard L. Rodes Burton X. and Sheli Rosenberg Mary Kay Shaw Richard and Barbara Silverman Richard and Ann Tomlinson John E. Vazquez and Paul Gleixner As of May 23, 2016
Thank you to the numerous additional supporters who have contributed to Hubbard Street’s Season 38 Spotlight Ball.
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Crain’s is a long-time supporter of the Chicago arts as well as the publisher of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Goodman Theatre and The Joffrey Ballet program books.
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“For nearly four decades, this talented, stylistically diverse company has been a dynamic force in the creation and performance of contemporary dance.” —The Boston Globe
SUBSCRIBERS ALWAYS SAVE 25% Season 39 at Hubbard Street is on sale now. NOVEMBER 17–20, 2016 Hubbard Street Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo unveils his 15th original creation for the company, alongside new work by the Harris Theater’s inaugural Resident Artist, Brian Brooks, and a spellbinding pair by master choreographer Jiří Kylián: Sarabande and Falling Angels.
MARCH 16–19, 2017 Hubbard Street’s fourth program devoted to the creative range of a single artist celebrates global choreographer Nacho Duato. This landmark series features the return of Duato’s stirring Rassemblement and exquisite Jardí Tancat, plus a duet from Multiplicity. Forms of Emptiness and Silence, and the Hubbard Street premiere of White Darkness.
MAY 12 + 13, 2017 Spotlighting Chicago’s own world-class dancemakers, this all-new program of premieres includes the latest from Princess Grace Award–winning choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams, Lucky Plush Productions artistic director Julia Rhoads, and more.
JUNE 8–11, 2017 The company kicks off “Hubbard Street at 40” with a thrilling evening of audience favorites, spanning four decades of excellence in contemporary dance. Enjoy The Golden Section by Twyla Tharp, duets from Lucas Crandall’s Imprint and Jim Vincent’s Palladio, William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing, reproduced, scenes from Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo’s One Thousand Pieces, and work by Founding Artistic Director Lou Conte. All performances at
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The Choreographer in Residence at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance is made possible by the Jay Franke and David Herro Choreographer in Residence Fund through the Imagine campaign.
Hubbard Street Dancer Alice Klock, far right, and ensemble in Imprint by Lucas Crandall. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.