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Fall Series October 15–19 Gnawa by Nacho Duato Quintett by William Forsythe The Art of Falling The Impossible, a World Premiere by Alejandro Cerrudo (Thursday, Saturday and Sunday)
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This page: Hubbard Street Dancer Alicia Delgadillo watches at The Second City Mainstage before a preview of the collaboration in May 2014. Photo by Quinn B Wharton. Cover: Hubbard Street Dancers Jessica Tong, left, and Jonathan Fredrickson with Tim Mason, Head Writer and Ensemble. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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A letter from Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director To those of you here as fans of The Second City, we’re delighted to have you with us and hope you stick around for what we have lined up for the rest of our 2014–15 programs. Whether you’re a longtime subscriber or seeing the company for the first time, welcome to Season 37 at Hubbard Street. From bringing dance into classrooms every single day the Chicago Public Schools are in session, to offering movement guidance to people with Parkinson’s and other physical disabilities, we generate a wide range of activity at Hubbard Street. This weekend at the Harris Theater expresses our dedication to two more objectives central to our mission: artistic creation and collaboration. Throughout the last decade, our local partners have included the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — where we return in December for a program highlighting three unique choreographers, Princess Grace Awards: New Works. Last year, we toured with Alonzo King LINES Ballet, our first foray into shared programming, and one of our most successful engagements ever. This season alone, between the main company and Hubbard Street 2, we’ll present nine world premieres. On December 16 here at the Harris Theater, we’ll celebrate 15 years of our International Commissioning Project, which has produced 40 original works by dancemakers from around the globe. There are many reasons why I’m grateful for our audiences but, above all, I am encouraged and inspired by the fact that you are willing to embark with us on new adventures and chart unexplored creative territories. There is comfort and security in the tried and true, but that has never been the case at Hubbard Street. Our ambition has always been to explore what’s now and what’s next. The Second City shares with us this sense of adventure, and that’s what made this particular collaboration so inspiring. Over nearly a year of planning, choreographing, writing and rehearsing, we have pushed each other beyond our norms. We have all grown through this process, both as artists and as people. That’s why I am particularly excited to share the results in tonight’s performance, and why it’s important to me that we offer what we’ve learned together to the next generation. On November 2, the third event in our new Hubbard Street Studio Series will be a special workshop based on techniques developed through this collaboration, with company dancer-turned-artistic associate Meredith Dincolo, and ensemble member Carisa Barreca. I encourage you to read more about the Studio Series and register online at hubbardstreetdance.com/studioseries. Now, sit back and enjoy the beauty when laughter meets dance. Warmly,
Glenn Edgerton Artistic Director Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
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Hubbard Street + The Second City Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director Jason D. Palmquist, Executive Director Kristen Brogdon, General Manager Jason Brown, Director of Production Ishanee DeVas, Company Manager
Andrew Alexander, CEO/Executive Producer Kelly Leonard, Executive Vice President Jenna Deja, Managing Producer Nate DuFort, Producer, Theatricals Jeremy Smith, Associate Producer
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 Lisa Smeltzer, Stage Manager Improvisation coached and created by T.J. Jagodowski and Terence Marling Emma Dayhuff, 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 + Additional Contributors Carisa Barreca Joey Bland Tim Mason Tawny Newsome Rashawn Scott Travis Turner
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. Original music and sound design by Julie B. Nichols. Music by Leroy Anderson: “The Typewriter,” from the album The Typewriter, courtesy of Dance Street. Used by permission of EMI Music Publishing. Music by David Bowie: “Life on Mars,” and “Oh! You Pretty Things,” performed by Julie Nichols, from the album Hunky Dory, courtesy of Warner Music Group. Used by permission of BMG Chrysalis, Sony/ATV and Tintoretto Music. Music by Jesse Case: “Questions.” Used by permission of Jesse Case. 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 Rupert Holmes: “Escape (The Pina Colada Song),” from the album 70’s Pop #1’s, courtesy of Universal Music Entertainment. Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Publishing. 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 Axel Machens, Christoph Kunze and Achim Windel: “No Man’s Land,” 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,” “More” and “Winning at Yoga.” 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,” performed by Julie Nichols and Emma Dayhuff. Used by permission of Universal Edition, Inc. Music by Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Erik Satie) and Roger Nichols: “Gymnopédies,” performed by Julie Nichols and Emma Dayhuff. 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. Original music by Antonio Vivaldi, recomposed by Max Richter, Andre de Ridder and Konzerthaus Kammerorchester: “Spring 0,” “Spring 1,” and “Shadow 1,” courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH. Used by permission of Music Sales Group. 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. Music by John Williams: “Jurassic Park,” from the album John Williams – Greatest Hits 1969–1999, courtesy of Sony Entertainment. Used by permission of Universal Music Publishing Group.
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Hubbard Street + The Second City in rehearsal at the Hubbard Street Dance Center. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
Hubbard Street Dancers Jesse Bechard, Jacqueline Burnett, Alejandro Cerrudo, Alicia Delgadillo, Kellie Epperheimer, Jonathan Fredrickson, Michael Gross, Jason Hortin, Alice Klock, Emilie Leriche, Ana Lopez, Johnny McMillan, Andrew Murdock, Jane Rehm, David Schultz, Kevin J. Shannon, Jessica Tong Hubbard Street 2 Dancers Zachary Enquist, Elliot Hammans, Jules Joseph, Katie Kozul, Adrienne Lipson, Andrea Thompson Tyler Dean Kempf, Assistant to the Director Tommy Holmberg, Assistant to the Director Special thanks to Nick Leonard and Steve Waltien Fall Series Sponsors
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Roundtable Discussion Between Hubbard Street + The Second City One month before opening night, eight collaborators on this project met between rehearsals at the Hubbard Street Dance Center. What follows is a partial transcript of their conversation. HOW DID THIS PROJECT BEGIN? KELLY LEONARD This project started with a phone call that I made, after a project we’d done with the Lyric Opera of Chicago that was very successful, as a collaboration between two very different artistic entities. When Nate [DuFort, producer] and I and our team got together to ask, “What’s next?” immediately the answer was “Dance.” We then asked, “But who?” and again, immediately, everyone said “Hubbard Street.” So I called over and talked to Jason Palmquist and Glenn Edgerton. They both said, “Were your ears burning? Because we were just talking about The Second City.” GLENN EDGERTON It’s true. Jason came into my office and said, “The Second City just called. Let’s do something with them.” It was an immediate synthesis. KL What I didn’t know — because I didn’t know much about contemporary dance at all — is how improvisational it is, how it’s in the DNA of their work, too. So we met at an incredible place. KRISTEN BROGDON What’s been unique about this collaboration, compared to how you usually work at The Second City? BILLY BUNGEROTH I saw Hubbard Street for the first time performing One Thousand Pieces [by Alejandro Cerrudo] and loved it. I immediately wanted to get across the weight of your work, not just approach it as, “Alright, let’s think up a bunch of jokes about dancing.” Our audiences deserved more than that from us.
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TIM MASON I saw it, too, and I thought, “Man, the last thing that I want to do is take the piss out of this.” I looked at One Thousand Pieces and thought, “Wow: There’s a whole different way of talking here.” NATE DuFORT The first time we were in the studio, to watch Robyn Mineko Williams choreograph, I was amazed at how she could grab just a single motion, pull it out, ask the dancers to manipulate it, turn it into something else — without saying a single word to them — then plug the new version of that single moment back into the rest of the dance. That mapped exactly to how we work, too, but outside of language. JULIE NICHOLS I expected to walk into something that felt like a ballet class, that matched the music beat-for-beat, like, “One, two, three, four, pas de bourrée, pirouette!” So it was surprising to learn how the dancers actually worked, how often they create movement with no music and describe choreography through exaggerated gestures and sound effects like, “Whoosh!” It was so much looser and more felt than I anticipated, and the dancers are so sensitive. They connect so instantly with musical ideas which, in retrospect, it’s like, “Oh, of course.” That ended up being huge in terms of how we were able to connect creatively with one another.
HOW HAS HUBBARD STREET RESPONDED TO WORKING WITH TEXT? TERENCE MARLING For us choreographers, the whole notion of working from a script is somewhat new, and it’s helped a lot in terms of knowing where a scene is headed and what effect we’re going for. TM On the flip side, Alejandro [Cerrudo] said, “Oh, I never count,” and I said, “Excuse me?” [Laughs] Going into this project, I’d had this fear that I’d always have to be counting everything and was stressing out about it. So that was a relief. BB As far as giving the dancers a “voice,” it’s really been no different from giving voice within the kind of social satire we do at The Second City, in which a character might be a plumber or a politician or whatever. It’s still that challenge of finding what it is about a specific character that’s both ridiculous and relatable at the same time. Roundtable discussion at the Hubbard Street Dance Center, from left: Terence Marling, Julie B. Nichols, Nate DuFort, Kelly Leonard, Glenn Edgerton, Billy Bungeroth, Kristen Brogdon and Tim Mason. Still from video by Quinn B Wharton.
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HOW DID YOU CAST THE ACTORS FOR THIS PRODUCTION? KL Tim [Mason] always did excellent work, and he was always a little restless about form. He wanted to explore boundaries and is just a curious person by nature; a lot of the work he’s done since leaving The Second City has been physical in nature, and while he might not be particularly well-known as a dancer… TM Yeah, no. [Laughs] KL …he’s shown he isn’t afraid to look a little foolish. So we of course wanted to call Tim. BB And Carisa Barreca has a dance background but, really, it’s just been a question of, “Who are the best people we can get for this project?” That’s really what I want, and people who can work well together as an ensemble. KB Nate, this connects with what you’ve been telling me about watching the design and production team come together. ND Absolutely. It was great to walk into a meeting with [Set Designer] Martin Andrew, for example, who’s so willing to speak our language but at the same time, be so reactive. I’d say one word and three or four ideas would come out.
THERE’S A LOT TO LOVE ABOUT THE SECOND CITY MAINSTAGE BUT ONE THING IT ISN’T IS BIG. WHAT’S IT BEEN LIKE CREATING A PREMIERE FOR THE HARRIS THEATER? JN We’re like kids in a candy shop. There’s so much depth, so much height. TM We were talking the other day and T.J. [Jagodowski] said, “Hey Billy: How’s it feel to be directing the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympics?” [Laughs] KL We couldn’t do it without Hubbard Street and that’s what’s so exciting about it. We’re so out of our comfort zone but you have to be. There aren’t a lot of surprises left once you’ve been around for 55 years. This is a really valuable chance for us to be surprised, to be challenged, and to be scared.
HOW HAVE YOU ALL BEEN KEEPING UP WITH SUCH A LARGE CREATIVE TEAM? BB I love the work that came out of Andy Warhol’s Factory, both artistically and musically, in the ’60s. I’m also a big fan of the White Album, that period when the Beatles had so much creativity they were recording in multiple studios at Abbey Road. The people I’m working with here are all brilliant professionals who don’t need me to middle-manage them. They all know where we’re headed, so if they’re on to something, I can walk away to see what’s happening elsewhere. A lot of this production got made in four different studios at the same time. GE And then, at the end of the day, we connect to talk about what went on in those rehearsals, what we’re keeping, what needs to be worked on, what needs to be reassessed… I’m proud that Hubbard Street can do a project like this, that we’re open enough, willing enough, and have a company ready to embrace a project like this. We could’ve gotten Kelly’s call and said, “Mmm… That’s not what we do.” KL This is also, quintessentially, a Chicago thing. This doesn’t happen elsewhere. There’s an aspect of civic pride in collaboration and, also, Chicago is “The City That Works.” This is work, we like doing work and we’re proud of our work. It’s been fun, it’s been enlightening — and it doesn’t end here. Our hope is that we’ve started a conversation that can continue. We hope other people find new and interesting ways to mash up and collaborate. Hear more from this conversation and watch footage from rehearsals on our YouTube channel at HubbardStreetDance.
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Hubbard Street Staff and Board Administration Colleen Sonnefeldt Senior Manager of Finance and Administration Krista Ellensohn Manager, Pre-Professional Programs Meredith Dincolo Artistic Associate and Coordinator, Pre-Professional Programs Marisa C. Santiago Manager of Artistic Operations Jessica Lotz Accounting and Operations Coordinator Diana Drummond Hanna Morfogen Artistic Administration Interns
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PROFILES HUBBARD STREET STAFF 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 three 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. Kristen Brogdon (General Manager) joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in July 2007, after nine years at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where she first worked with Hubbard Street Executive Director Jason Palmquist. During her tenure at the Kennedy Center, Brogdon was responsible for programming the facility’s unparalleled ballet and contemporary dance season. She managed the Suzanne Farrell Ballet from its inception in September 2001 and was instrumental in the creation and growth of the Metro D.C. Dance Awards. Brogdon also created and produced a commissioning program for local choreographers, facilitating work by 20 artists from D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Prior to the Kennedy Center, she was the company manager and publicist for Li Chiao-Ping Dance, a modern dance company based in Madison, Wisconsin. Brogdon holds a Master of Arts in Business with a concentration in Arts Administration from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Duke University. Claire Bataille (Director, 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.
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HUBBARD STREET + THE SECOND CITY Kathryn Humphreys (Director, 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. Lou Conte (Founder), 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 for the company seven of her works as well as original choreography. Hubbard Street then became an international enterprise with the inclusion of pieces 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 Achievement 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, he became one of five inaugural recipients of the City of Chicago’s Fifth Star Awards.
Director Billy Bungeroth, center, with Hubbard Street 2 Dancers Andrea Thompson, left, and Adrienne Lipson. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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PROFILES CREATIVE TEAM Billy Bungeroth (Director) A blues purist, Billy Bungeroth left the Yardbirds at the height of their success to find his sound. After short stints with John Mayall and two British Supergroups, a poor review in a 1968 issue of Rolling Stone — and The Band’s Music from Big Pink record — caused him to again rethink his direction. In the years following, an affair with his best friend’s wife inspired an album and sound that would catapult him to superstardom, yet unrequited love and an uneasiness with success contributed to decades-long struggles with heroin and alcohol. At the end of the 1980s, once Bungeroth had finally found sobriety, wealth and a taste for Armani suits, a family tragedy led him back, once again, to his musical roots, where he cemented his reputation as one of the decade’s most well-known acts. In this new century, Bungeroth has often been criticized for concentrating on family and philanthropy, avoiding the spotlight entirely. Nevertheless — and now 70 — he is quite content having left life on the road, as an ambassador of blues guitar. Bungeroth wishes to thank Hubbard Street for the unforgettable experience of this cross-disciplinary creative collaboration. Julie B. Nichols (Musical Director, Original Composition, Sound Design) 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.
Hubbard Street Dancer Kevin J. Shannon, left, and writer Kate James in rehearsal. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
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HUBBARD STREET + THE SECOND CITY Carisa Barreca (Writer, Ensemble) is currently performing in her second revue on The Second City’s etc stage, Apes of Wrath. She has previously performed for The Second City on Norwegian Cruise Lines, at the UP Comedy Club in What the Tour Guide Didn’t Tell You, and also in Four Girls and a Guy. Barreca had the honor of performing last winter at the Lyric Opera of Chicago with Sir Patrick Stewart and Renée Fleming in The Second City Guide to the Opera. She is the Artistic Director and a founding member of Matter Dance Company, voted Best Dance Company, and Barreca Best Choreographer, in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago readers’ picks poll. Alejandro Cerrudo (Choreographer, Dancer) 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. Thirteen works choreographed to date for Hubbard Street include collaborations with 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. Cerrudo is one of four choreographers invited by New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan to create and perform original duets for Whelan’s “Restless Creature.” Lucas Crandall (Choreographer, 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, 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.
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PROFILES Jonathan Fredrickson (Choreographer, Dancer) 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 winner of Hubbard Street’s National Choreographic Competition and was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2011 for his choreography. Fredrickson joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in February 2011. 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 forty 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 twenty 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 eight years, and is thrilled to be collaborating with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Last year 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. Terence Marling (Choreographer; Director, 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.
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HUBBARD STREET + THE SECOND CITY Tim Mason (Head Writer, Ensemble) 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 etc stage and in the Touring Company. Mason is a member of the critically acclaimed sketch comedy troupe BRICK, and his television credits include appearances on Sirens (USA Network), Boss (Starz) and Underemployed (MTV). He has appeared in numerous TV commercials and is a member of the theater collective FlipFlap, whose inaugural production The Temp will be performed this January as part of the Chicago International Puppet Festival. Mason is thrilled to be working with Hubbard Street and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. Robyn Mineko Williams (Choreographer) is a dancer and choreographer from Chicago, Illinois. She was a member of River North Chicago Dance Company (now River North Dance Chicago) for four years before joining Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2000. During her 12 years as a company member, Williams performed works by renowned dancemakers including Ohad Naharin, Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe and Johan Inger, and originated roles in new choreography by Jorma Elo, Alejandro Cerrudo, Sharon Eyal, Aszure Barton, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovitch and others. Williams created her first work in 2001 for Hubbard Street’s Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, continuing to participate in subsequent seasons. In 2010, she and Hubbard Street 2 Director Terence Marling co-choreographed Harold and the Purple Crayon: A Dance Adventure, a full-length work premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and presented since in Chicago, Detroit, Tucson and other cities, as well as at the American Dance Festival. Williams has made works for Grand Rapids Ballet, Visceral Dance Chicago, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company and the Nexus Project, was one of two winners in 2012 of Northwest Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition, is the recipient of a 2013 Choreography Fellowship from the Princess Grace Foundation–USA and a 2015 Works in Progress residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. Hubbard Street Dancer Alicia Delgadillo, left, with choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams. Right: Hubbard Street Dancer Jason Hortin. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
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PROFILES PRODUCTION TEAM Martin Andrew’s (Set Design) recent theatrical credits include Port Authority at Writers Theatre, Proof at the Court Theatre, Gypsy at Drury Lane Theatre, The Norman Conquests and afterlife: a ghost story at Southern Rep in New Orleans, The Glass Menagerie at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Sweet Storm with The Public Theater and LAByrinth Theater Company, and The Wedding and Uncle Vanya with TUTA Theatre Chicago. His television credits include KTMD Houston’s news and weather studio, Silent Library for MTV Networks, and the Super Bowl on CBS. Andrew was 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” at the Museum of Science and Industry, August: Osage County on Broadway, CBS Upfront, ESPN’s Monday Night Football studio, and ABC/ NASCAR’s broadcast studio. 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 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, BalletX, Carolina Ballet, Cleveland Play House, DanceBrazil, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Disney Creative Entertainment, English National Ballet, MOMIX, North Carolina Dance Theatre, 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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HUBBARD STREET + THE SECOND CITY ENSEMBLE PROFILES Carisa Barreca (Ensemble) See Creative Team. Joey Bland (Ensemble) has worked for The Second City for the past eight years, during which some highlights include performing in American Mixtape and The Second City Guide to the Opera, and originating the title role in 2009’s hit musical Rod Blagojevich, Superstar. Bland was a member of The Second City’s Touring Company for two years and currently tours nationally with The Improvised Shakespeare Company. He is also a two-time Jeopardy! champion and says thanks to Heather, Jack and Ike. Tim Mason (Ensemble) See Creative Team. Tawny Newsome (Ensemble) is very happy to be part of a lovely group of people collaborating on this production, prior to which Newsome appeared in The Second City’s We’re All In This Room Together, Let Them Eat Chaos and Depraved New World. A graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University, Newsome has performed with several Chicago companies including Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Writers Theatre and Porchlight Music Theatre. She can be seen with her band Jon Langford and Skull Orchard and she just finished her first solo album — she’d love to talk to you for way too long about it. Newsome thanks Nate for always encouraging nonsense, and can be found online at tawnynewsome.com. Rashawn Scott (Ensemble) is an actor and soul singer from Tacoma, Washington and thrilled to be working with The Second City. She studied at Western Washington University, became a member of award-winning improv group The Dead Parrots Society, and was an ensemble member at Bellingham’s Upfront Theatre. In 2013, Scott relocated to Chicago, where she began teaching children and studying improv. She was recently part of the inaugural cast of The Second City’s Bob Curry Fellowship, and thanks her family and friends for all of their support — squaw! She can be found on Twitter @rashawnscott. Travis Turner (Ensemble) Turner’s credits with The Second City include last spring’s American Mixtape, also performed this summer at Denver Center for the Performing Arts. His other Second City experiences include work with the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and the La Jolla Playhouse. Turner’s regional theater credits include Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company and New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre; local credits include the Court Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Children’s Theatre, the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire and Drury Lane Theatre Oakbrook; and he can be seen in the Goodman Theatre’s upcoming production of The Upstairs Concierge. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, a graduate of Northwestern University and a newcomer to Hubbard Street, Turner encourages you to look closely to see him counting out loud while he dances.
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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 37th season in 2014–15, 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.
Hubbard Street Dancers Shan Bai, Jamy Meek and Leisa Beemer, from left, in Sechs Tänze by Jiří Kylián, 1998. Photo by William Frederking.
Choreographer Twyla Tharp works with Ron De Jesús during the creation of I Remember Clifford in Hubbard Street’s 218 South Wabash Avenue studio (now the Lou Conte Studio of Roosevelt University), 1995. Archival photo.
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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 three-pronged program for building repertoire, the Choreographic Development Initiative, aimed at being a national model for artistic development while proactively diversifying contemporary concert dance. Partnerships with the CSO, Art Institute of 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 and Victor Quijada. The main company’s 18 members comprise one of the only ensembles in the U.S. to perform all year long, domestically and around the world, while two 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 Education and Community Programs are nationwide benchmarks for arts experience and appreciation in schools, impacting the lives of thousands of students. In 2009, Hubbard Street launched Youth and Family Programs to teach dance with an emphasis on creative expression. In 2014, Adaptive Dance Programs for youth with autism spectrum disorder and physical disabilities joined the first dance-based program in the Midwest for those affected by Parkinson’s disease. 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®, Zumba® and more. Visit hubbardstreetdance.com to learn more.
Hubbard Street Dancers in Walking Mad by Johan Inger, 2008, from left: Benjamin Wardell, Jamy Meek, Kevin J. Shannon, Terence Marling, Jason Hortin and Meredith Dincolo. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
Hubbard Street Dancers Alejandro Cerrudo, Shannon Alvis and Terence Marling in The Set by Lucas Crandall, 2008. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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2014–15 DANCER PROFILES Jesse Bechard (Bolton, MA) began his formal ballet training at age 16 and graduated from Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He attended summer 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, in works by John Butler, Jessica Lang, Val Caniparoli, William Soleau, Mauricio Wainrot and Colin Conner. Bechard joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 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, 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. Burnett joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as a Center Apprentice in January 2008 while concurrently completing her BFA degree, and became a full company member in August 2009. She is also a 2011–12 Princess Grace Honorarium recipient. Alejandro Cerrudo See Creative Team. Alicia Delgadillo (Charlotte, NC) began her classical training at the Susan Hayward School of Dance in San Francisco, California. She 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 with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, American Ballet Theatre, the Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Danse Montréal. A graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Delgadillo has performed works by Sidra Bell, Jennifer Muller and Camille A. Brown, among others. She joined Hubbard Street 2 in August 2011 and was promoted to the main company in April 2014. Kellie Epperheimer (Los Osos, CA) began her dance training in 1988 at the Academy of Dance and Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo. She joined Hubbard Street 2 in January 2005 and was promoted to the main company in January 2007.
Jonathan Fredrickson (Corpus Christi, TX) See Creative Team.
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, Colorado, 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 Dance Chicago in August 2014 and thanks his friends and family for their love and support.
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Hubbard Street Dancers Johnny McMillan, left, and Emilie Leriche. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
Jason Hortin (Olympia, WA) graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a BFA in Dance under the direction of Louis Kavoura. His performance career includes work with Moving People Dance Theatre, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company and River North Dance Chicago. Hortin joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as an apprentice in August 2007 and was promoted to the main company in July 2008.
Alice Klock (Bainbridge Island, WA) began dancing at age 11. In 2003, she attended Interlochen Arts Academy, graduating with artistic and academic high honors. In 2007, Klock relocated to San Francisco to enroll in Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Dominican University of California’s joint BFA program. Klock has also studied dance at San Francisco Ballet School, the National Ballet School of Canada, Miami City Ballet School, the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, Springboard Danse MontrÊal and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She has worked professionally with San Francisco choreographer Gregory Dawson and performed with Alonzo King LINES Ballet during its fall 2008 season. Klock joined Hubbard Street 2 in September 2009 and was promoted to the main company in August 2011.
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2014–15 DANCER PROFILES 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 and was promoted to the main company in 2013. 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. Lopez danced with Joven Ballet Carmen Roche, Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 and Ballet Theater Munich before joining Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in January 2008.
Johnny McMillan (Sault Ste. Marie, ON) began his training at age 12 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy, receiving its Young Artists’ Award in dance. He has also trained at the San Francisco Conservatory and Bartholin International Seminar and worked with Gleich Dances under the direction of Julia Gleich. McMillan joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in September 2010, became a Hubbard Street 2 company member in August 2011, and was promoted in April 2012 to the main company. McMillan was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2013. Hubbard Street Dancer Kellie Epperheimer. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
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HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO 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. Murdock joined Hubbard Street’s main company in 2013. Jane Rehm (Perrysburg, OH) trained at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and San Francisco Ballet School. Rehm danced with Ballet Memphis from 2001–10, then joined Smuin Ballet, where she was featured in works by choreographers including Julia Adam, Trey McIntyre, Mark Godden, Amy Seiwert, Adam Hougland and Helen Pickett. Rehm has also choreographed for Smuin Ballet and Ballet Memphis, and has appeared as a guest artist with Robert Dekkers’ Post:Ballet. Rehm is currently working toward her Bachelor of Arts degree in the LEAP program at St. Mary’s College, and joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in September 2014. David Schultz (Grand Rapids, MI) began training in Michigan with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet and later studied at Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto. He performed for four seasons with Grand Rapids Ballet and has danced works by George Balanchine, Gordon Pierce Schmidt, Peter Sparling and Septime Webre. Schultz joined Hubbard Street 2 in September 2009 and was promoted to the main company in August 2011. Schultz 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 School Ensemble and appeared in the “Live from Lincoln Center” broadcast television special The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years. Shannon joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in November 2007. Jessica Tong (Binghamton, NY) received her formal training at the Ballet School in Salt Lake City, Utah under Jan Clark Fugit, as well as at the University of Utah, where she was a member of Utah Ballet. Her studies also included summer programs at American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet School and the Lou Conte Dance Studio. Tong danced with BalletMet in Ohio, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech in New York and with Hubbard Street 2 before joining the main company in January 2007. Tong was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2009. Headshots by Cheryl Mann, Todd Rosenberg, Quinn B Wharton and courtesy of The Second City. hubbardstreetdance.com
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2014–15 HS2 DANCER PROFILES Zachary Enquist (Plymouth, MN) began training at Summit School of Dance in Plymouth, Minnesota. 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, former principal dancer with Het Nationale Ballet (the Dutch National Ballet), and continued his ballet and modern dance education with Moving People Dance in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 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. Jules Joseph (Brockton, MA) started his dance training at the Gold School in Brockton, Massachusetts under the direction of Rennie Gold. With the Gold School he had the opportunity to perform at the Joyce Theater in New York City as part of a dance-focused anti-bullying program. After training in the Alvin Ailey School’s Certificate Program, Joseph joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in September 2012 and was promoted to full company member in August 2014.
Katie Kozul (Medford, MA) began her dance training at the Gold School in Brockton, Massachusetts under the direction of Rennie Gold and her mother, Kathy Kozul. She attended the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts, where she had the honor of performing George Balanchine’s Serenade. She completed two years at the Ailey/Fordham BFA program, placing on the Dean’s List both years. At Fordham, she had the opportunity to perform works by Francesca Harper, Jennifer Archibald, Alenka Cizmesija, and Malcolm Lowe. She also had the pleasure of performing in the annual “Ailey at the Apollo” event. Kozul joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in September 2012 and was promoted to full company member in August 2014. 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 the Theatre Dance Award, the Jack and Hedda Rothman Award, and a BFA with honors upon 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
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HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Danse Contemporaine), the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and Springboard Danse Montréal, where she performed works by choreographers 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. Andrea Thompson (Maplewood, NJ) trained at the New Jersey School of Ballet, American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and the Ailey School in New York City. Thompson has also studied at the Juilliard School, Northwest Professional Dance Project, Springboard Danse Montréal, Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Dance Company, which brought opportunities to perform choreography by Gregory Dolbashian, William Forsythe, Natalia Horecna, Jessica Lang, Marina Mascarell, Idan Sharabi, Robyn Mineko Williams, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León. At the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, under the direction of Summer Lee Rhatigan, she trained with and performed works by Christian Burns, Alex Ketley, Thomas McManus, Robert Moses, Ohad Naharin, Alessio Silvestrin and Bobbi Jene Smith. Thompson joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2013, following work in San Francisco and New York with Zhukov Dance Theatre, Chang Yong Sung, LoudHoundMovement, Backwoods Dance Project and the Foundry. 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 the company as an HS2 Apprentice in August 2014. 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 the company as an HS2 Apprentice in August 2014. Megan Myers (West Chester, OH) began her formal training in dance at age 13, with Z Company in Monroe, Ohio under the direction of Zandra Thomas, Aly Moss, and Justin Daniel. She then continued her studies at Cincinnati’s de la Dance Company with Meridith Benson, Mario Nuez and Amy Harold. Myers worked in Chicago with teachers Brian McGinnis, Cheryl Mann and Laura Wade, and has attended summer training programs at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Complexions Contemporary Ballet and the Juilliard School. She joined the company as an HS2 Apprentice in August 2014.
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THE SECOND CITY STAFF + PROFILES Andrew Alexander, CEO/Executive Producer Kelly Leonard, Executive Vice President Mike Gart, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer Beth Kligerman, Director of Talent Development Jenna Deja, Managing Producer Nate DuFort, Producer, Theatricals Jeremy Smith, Associate Producer Robin Hammond, Director of Marketing Andrew Alexander (CEO/Executive Producer, The Second City) is best known for his leadership of The Second City theater company and the hit television show SCTV. Born in London, England, Alexander 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 has gone on to produce star-studded movies and develop projects for all major television networks including HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, A&E and the CBC. In his current capacity as CEO/Executive Producer of The Second City, Alexander ensures that the company continues to innovate and inspire. Kelly Leonard (Executive Vice President, The Second City; President, Second City Theatricals) has worked at The Second City since 1988, overseeing productions with such notable performers as Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Adam McKay, Seth Meyers, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Jason Sudeikis, Keegan Michael Key, Amy Sedaris and a host of others. Leonard co-founded Second City Theatricals, the division of the company that develops an eclectic array of live entertainment all over the world. Recent productions include The Second City Guide to the Opera starring Renée Fleming and Sir Patrick Stewart with the Lyric Opera of Chicago; America All Better, nominated for a Helen Hayes Award at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.; and this world premiere collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Leonard also brokered a deal that brought The Second City to the high seas, where the company maintains full-time ensembles aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s ships. Crain’s Chicago Business has included Leonard on its “40 Under 40” list and he has been named one of Time Out Chicago’s top 40 cultural figures in the city. He recently received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Lake Forest College, and his first book, Yes, And will be published by HarperCollins in February 2015. Leonard lives in Chicago with his wife Anne Libera, and their children Nick and Nora.
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ABOUT THE SECOND CITY Rooted in the improvisational games of Viola Spolin, The Second City opened in Chicago in December 1959 and began developing its entirely unique way of creating and performing comedy. Founded by Spolin’s son, Paul Sills, along with Howard Alk and Bernie Sahlins, The Second City was experimental and unconventional in its approaches to both theater and comedy, railing against conformist culture with scenes that spoke to a younger generation. Broadway successes for Mike Nichols and Elaine May — members of The Second City’s predecessor, The Compass Players — put attention on the fledgling company. Alumni such as Alan Arkin, Barbara Harris, Robert Klein, David Steinberg and Fred Willard cemented the theater’s reputation for developing multiple generations of comedic voices. The original October 1975 cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live included alumni John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner, and The Second City became internationally recognized. The Second City’s sister theater in Canada developed its own sketch comedy series, SCTV, hailed as one of the greatest comedy series of all time with an all-star cast including Martin Short, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty and Rick Moranis. By the mid-1980s, The Second City began a new era as Second City Toronto proprietors Andrew Alexander and Len Stuart bought out Bernie Sahlins’ interest in The Second City Chicago and set in motion a new era of innovation for the company. Today, The Second City continues to produce premier comic talent, while its imprint is felt across the entertainment industry, as represented by alumni Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey and many others. The organization has diversified as it’s grown, launching Second City Training Centers in Chicago, Toronto and Los Angeles; four touring companies performing Second City revues across North America and abroad; Second City Communications, an industry leader in bringing improv-based methodologies to the corporate sector; and a growing commitment to producing innovative, original content for film, television and the digital realm. Visit secondcity.com to learn more. Ensemble member Joey Bland and Hubbard Street Dancer Alicia Delgadillo preview The Art of Falling at The Second City Mainstage, May 2014. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
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Hubbard Street gratefully acknowledges the support of the following corporations, foundations, government agencies and individuals who made gifts to our Annual Fund between September 1, 2013 and August 31, 2014:
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$50,000 and above Allstate Insurance Company Athletico Physical Therapy Chicago Athletic Clubs Harris Theater for Music and Dance Target $25,000–$49,999 The Chicago Community Trust/ The Sun-Times Foundation Exelon Grosvenor Capital Management, LP $10,000–$24,999 AbbVie ACME Hotel Company Archer Daniels Midland Company Baker & McKenzie LLP Deloitte GoodSmith Gregg & Unruh LLP ITW JPMorgan Chase MAC Cosmetics Northern Trust The PrivateBank USG Corporation Walgreens Wessex 504 Corporation
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$5,000–$9,999 Advertising Resources, Inc. Arnstein & Lehr, LLP Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Discover Higgins Development Partners Jackson National Life Insurance Company Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP Ventas Charitable Foundation Winston & Strawn, LLP $2,500–$4,999 Advocate Commercial Real Estate Brown Brothers Citizens for John Cullerton Clark Hill PLC Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP HBK Engineering, LLC Instant Technology NorthMarq Capital PhRMA William Blair & Company $1,000–$2,499 Allied Live, LLC Amsted Industries Ariel Investments AT&T Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. Baxter International Greenberg Traurig, LLP Ideal KlearSky Solutions, Inc. KPMG Priester Aviation Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Tiedemann Wealth Management Tito’s Handmade Vodka
ENJOY HUBBARD STREET AS A GROUP Did you know Hubbard Street offers specially priced packages for groups of ten or more for performances at the Harris Theater? Group ticket packages are affordable and exciting ways to reward and entertain colleagues, classmates, clubs, conventions, family members and more. Group packages are ideal for Company/corporate outings Client appreciation socials Alumni club events Convention activities
School fundraisers Family reunions Donor appreciation nights Senior group trips
Special perks for groups of 25 or more Groups of at least 25 attendees may host a pre- or post-show reception in the Harris Theater’s Donor Room for their guests. Please note all food, beverages and other related costs are the direct responsibility of the hosting organization. Use of the Donor Room is extended on a first-come, firstserved basis and is subject to availability. Backstage tours Groups may also take guided backstage tours! These include visits to the green room, wardrobe, rehearsal hall and a walk onstage. Tours are on a first-come, first-served basis and subject to availability. Take Hubbard Street home Give your group members a memento to take home with them! Hubbard Street Dance Chicago apparel and souvenirs may be purchased at a quantity discount for your group event. Additional details available upon request. Group pricing Contact us for pricing — dependent upon the size of the group and placement in the theater.
For more information, pricing, or to book your group, visit hubbardstreetdance.com/groups Hubbard Street Dancers Ana Lopez and Jesse Bechard. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
“Brilliant, engaging, moving. I was completely overcome with emotion. The way the entire piece moved from solo, to duets, to trios, to groups was striking. I loved it.” —Ericka Lashley, audience member
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RIVER NORTH DANCE CHICAGO
25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
For performance dates, workshops and celebratory events, visit RiverNorthChicago.com.
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FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
$100,000 and above The Davee Foundation National Endowment for the Arts $50,000–$99,999 Lloyd A. Fry Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation The Shubert Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous (2) Julius N. Frankel Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency Prince Charitable Trusts The Rhoades Foundation The Sage Foundation $10,000–$24,999 Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Helen Brach Foundation The Dizzy Feet FoundationTM The Field Foundation of Illinois The Irving Harris Foundation
The James S. Kemper Foundation MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Program Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Princess Grace Foundation–USA $5,000–$9,999 The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Golder Family Foundation Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation Jerome Robbins Foundation Charles & M. R. Shapiro Foundation The Siragusa Foundation A. Montgomery Ward Foundation $1,000–$4,999 Anonymous Butler Family Foundation Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Modestus Bauer Foundation The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation
CONNECT WITH HUBBARD STREET Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Go into the studio on Instagram, pin us on Pinterest, listen to playlists from our repertoire on Spotify, watch videos on YouTube and more.
Hubbard Street Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton with Gnawa choreographer Nacho Duato at the Mikhailovsky Theater. Photo by Igor Larin. hubbardstreetdance.com
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Hubbard Street gratefully acknowledges these donors for their generous support of the Hubbard Street Parkinson’s Project, one of our Adaptive Dance Programs. Michael and Roslyn Lieb Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation
Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
Find out more at: hubbardstreetdance.com/adaptivedance
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INTRODUCING HUBBARD STREET’S CORPORATE CIRCLE These generous companies support our work onstage, in schools, and in communities through membership in our Corporate Circle:
Hubbard Street Dancer Jacqueline Burnett. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.
CORPORATE LEADERS $5,000 and above
CORPORATE COMPANIONS $2,500–$4,999 The PrivateBank William Blair & Company LLC CORPORATE FRIENDS $1,000–$2,499 Amsted Industries KlearSky Solutions, LLC Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
When your company joins Hubbard Street’s Corporate Circle, it receives exclusive benefits including performance tickets and an invitation to observe company rehearsal in our West Loop studios. For more information, contact Ron Wittman, Manager of Corporate and Foundation Relations, at rwittman@hubbardstreetdance.com or call 312-850-9744 ext. 170. hubbardstreetdance.com
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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Artistic Director’s Society $50,000 and above Meg and Tim Callahan Paul and Ellen Gignilliat $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous Joyce Chelberg Marge and Lew Collens John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Bill and Orli Staley $10,000–$24,999 Sara Albrecht Joel and Katie Cory Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Sarah J. Nolan J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Richard L. Rodes R. Penny Rodes de Mott Dirk Denison and David Salkin Richard and Barbara Silverman Richard and Ann Tomlinson Randy and Lisa White $5,000–$9,999 John and Caroline Ballantine James and Edie Cloonan Elizabeth Yntema Ferguson and Mark Ferguson Harry and Marcy Harczak Carey Heckman Linda Hutson James and Margaret Johnson Peter and Karen Lennon Jim and Kay Mabie John E. Miller, Jr. Jane Ellen Murray James F. Oates Byron and Judy Pollock William and Eleanor Revelle Jane and Michael Strauss Jack and Niki Tovin Sallyan Windt Sustaining DanceMakers $2,500–$4,999 Anonymous Corinne Brophy Jack Cooksey and Brenda Russell Richard and Mary Gray John L. Hammond II Trish Harper Ron and Elise Magers Nancy Lauter McDougal Abby O’Neil and D. Carroll Joynes
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John and Mary Raitt Eric and Tammy Steele John Sweetwood Premier DanceMakers $1,000–$2,499 Anonymous (3) Greg Albiero Gary and Carolyn Beller John Blosser Stuart Brainerd Paul and Christine Branstad Jeanne Brett Nancy J. Brown John and Leslie Henner Burns Charles Capwell and Isabel Wong Gerald and Susan Cohen The Patti Selander Eylar Scholarship Fund Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Jana French and Peter Gotsch Ethel and Bill Gofen David Johnson Jim and Lisa Knight Christine Knuth Martin and Patricia Koldyke Howard and Gail Lanznar Michael and Roslyn Lieb Pamela G. Meyer Sally and Ted Miller Alexandra and John Nichols Julie O’Connell Patricia Parchem Peter and Eleanor Pollack Sally and Ellis Regenbogen Tom and Cece Ricketts Burton and Sheli Rosenberg Mary Kay Shaw Dawn Stanislaw Dusan Stefoski and Craig Savage Marilee C. Unruh Michael and Linda Welsh DancePartners $500–$999 Sheila and James Amend Robert Arensman Duncan and Denise Ashurst Lawrence Berlin Thomas Berry Marlene Breslow-Blitstein Mary Connelly Jim and Deb Ford Jo Ellen Granson Mr. Alan Hinds George T. Jones, M.D. and V. Lynn Jones Jessica Kaplan Lundeval
Lew and Laurie Leibowitz Michelle McCarthy David Mekemson and Irene Petruniak Mara Miller Edward and Gayla Nieminen Hiroshi Okano Charlene Osborne Karen Pierce Sarah Reynolds Janice Rodgers Bonnie and Michael Rothman Rhoda Sweeney and Fred Drucker Alexander Templeton Wayne F. Tjaden Mary Ellen Toll and William Heimann Paul Waas Keven and Nick Wilder Susan Wright William Ziemann $250–$499 Lorraine and Randy Barba Robert and Joell Brightfelt Kristen Brogdon and David Ulaszek Linda S. Buckley John Cochrane and Elizabeth Fama Helene Connolly Duane M. DesParte Vicki and Barry Dickerson Andrew and Diann Dincolo Thomas Durica Joan and Warren Eagle Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Julie L. Gentes Jo Ellen Granson Mary Kamraczewski Alexandra Klein Henry and Cookie Kohn Ron and Fifi Levin Donald L. MacCorquodale Peggy Madden and Richard Phillips Harry Madorin Stephen and Susan Bass Marcus Jim McMillan Sandra McNaughton Theodore Milby Leo and Cathy Miserendino Jonna Mogab Victor and Faye Morgenstern Marie E. O’Connor Steve Palmquist and Kathryn Nuss
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GoodMan THeaTre PresenTs ProducTion of
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GOODman TheaTre anD The secOnD cITy Team up TO presenT a hIlarIOus senD-up Of The DIckens hOlIDay classIc A ChristmAs CArol. The famous Victorian streets spring to frenzied life as Scrooge, Tiny Tim and those know-it-all ghosts find themselves hopelessly mixed up with characters from the Peanuts holiday special, the island of misfit toys and even little orphan Annie. Add in Second City’s trademark improvisation and it makes for a heaping host of holiday hilarity. The Second City’s Twist Your Dickens is written by former The Colbert Report writers Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort.
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Christopher Parker and Anni Luneau Sarah Pesetsky Andrew and Judy L. Porte Elizabeth Price and Louis Yecies Warner and Judy Rosenthal Richard Rusz Barbara Singer Randel Steele and Margaret Gonzales
Patricia Sternberg Hal S. Stewart Mary Summers Paul Waas Stacy Wells Keven and Nick Wilder Karen Wilmot Sharlene Young
Hubbard Street appreciates the support of the corporations, foundations and individuals who contribute gifts up to $250 and regrets the inability to list their names due to space limitations. For any corrections to program name listings please contact the Development Office at 312-850-9744 ext. 172 or ndionisio@hubbardstreetdance.com.
GIFTS IN HONOR AND MEMORY Gifts made in honor and memoriam are meaningful ways to recognize individuals with special connections to Hubbard Street. For more information or to make a gift, please contact the Development Office at 312-850-9744 ext. 172 or email ndionisio@hubbardstreetdance.com. In Honor of Donald Ablyn’s Birthday Michael and Roslyn Lieb In Honor of Meg Callahan Gerald and Carolyn Beller Gerald and Susan Cohen Alexandra Klein In Honor of Meg Callahan’s Birthday Mara Miller Martha Pineda David and Gabrielle Rousso Julie Zussman In Honor of Jim and Edie Cloonan Harry Madorin
In Honor of Elizabeth Yntema Ferguson Denise and Duncan Ashurst Peter and Hillary Tyor In Memory of Alfred L. McDougal Byron and Judy Pollock In Honor of Marc Miller’s Birthday Donald Santoski and April Brazell In Memory of Patrick Schieble Stuart and Marilyn Buxbaum Division of Anesthesiology– Geisinger Health System Nancy Fowlkes Robert and Millie Hibben John and Susan Hutchinson Marion and Irene Garrens David and Kathleen Klein Patrick Konitzer
Sarah Reynolds Henrietta Schieble and Gloria Fischer Susan Schieble Barbara Singer Allen Smart In Honor of John Vazquez Randi Grifka Charlene Osborne In Honor of Joan and Marco Weiss’ 40th Anniversary Ms. Elizabeth Hoffman Margaret and Robert Kimble Miriam Lazar In Honor of Randy and Lisa White Jonathan Basofin In Honor of Sallyan Windt Henry and Cookie Kohn
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SEASON 36 SPOTLIGHT BALL, MAY 19, 2014 Honoring Mikhail Baryshnikov Chair Richard L. Rodes $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous Meg and Tim Callahan Paul and Ellen Gignilliat Denise Stefan-Ginascol and John Ginascol Mr. Kenneth C. Griffin Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P. Sarah J. Nolan $10,000–$24,999 Allstate Insurance Company Archer Daniels Midland Company Ross Bricker and Nina Vinik JPMorgan Chase The Chicago Community Trust Marge and Lew Collens Michael and Janet Colleran Mr. William Escamilla Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Elizabeth Yntema Ferguson and Mark Ferguson David Herro and Jay Franke ITW Caryn Jacobs and Dan Cedarbaum Mr. and Mrs. David Neithercut Northern Trust The PrivateBank Ellis and Sally Regenbogen Deborah and Kelly Stonebraker Jane and Michael Strauss The Sun-Times Foundation USG Corporation $5,000–$9,999 Advertising Resources, Inc. Athletico Physical Therapy Baker & Mckenzie, LLP Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Mr. David Blickenstaff Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Mr. John Deblasio Dirk Denison and David Salkin Higgins Development Partners Mark and Julie Hosfield Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Karen Kuenster
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Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg LLP Mr. and Mrs. Paul Petricca Byron and Judy Pollock Ms. R. Penny Rodes de Mott Richard L. Rodes Mary Kay Shaw Morton and Carol Siegler Richard and Barbara Silverman Richard and Ann Tomlinson Randy and Lisa White Winston & Strawn LLP $1,000–$4,999 Sara Albrecht Allied Live Ariel Investments Mr. Robert Arensman Baxter International Inc. Ms. Meredith Bluhm-Wolf Corinne Brophy Nancy J. Brown Ms. Linda S. Buckley Joyce Chelberg James and Edie Cloonan Mr. Steven Collens Joel and Katie Cory Ms. Ann Curley Damian Dolyniuk and Kelly Royer Jones Day Philip and Marsha Dowd Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Allan and Ellen Drebin Exelon Mr. James Fiffer Mrs. Mary Galvin Mr. Mike Golden Carol and David Golder Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon Michael Grant and Carol McMahan Richard and Mary Gray Greenberg Traurig, LLP Heidi and John Grinney Ms. Deborah Gross Sandy and Jack Guthman Mr. Bruce R. Hague Mr. and Mrs. Brad Hall Ms. Jayne Hanauer Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hartmann Ms. Fay Hartog-Levin John and Leslie Henner Burns Mr. Scott Hensley Mr. Steven Hodges
Mr. Sheldon P. Holzman Ms. Jill Hutchison and Mr. David Rosholt Ideal Ms. Mary Jakocko Mr. Ron Kaminski Mrs. Anne Kaplan Ms. Kimberly Kelley Joe Klein KPMG LLP Jim and Kay Mabie Ms. Karen Matusinec Sandra McNaughton Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Mrs. Helen H. Melchior Maureen Mosh Mr. John Nersesian NorthMarq Capital James F. Oates Mr. Jason Ott Ms. Patricia and Ms. Candace Parchem Polk Bros. Foundation Ms. Ashley Quicksilver Mr. and Mrs. John Reese Camille and Kevin Rudge Mr. and Mrs. John Sabl Mr. Michael Santucci Lauren and Steve Scheibe Ms. Eileen Schiller C. Schreder and R. Musicant Dawn Stanislaw Mr. Arthur Susman Mr. Peter Thompson Tito’s Handmade Vodka Jack and Niki Tovin Mr. John Tullsen Marilee C. Unruh Mr. John E. Vazquez and Mr. Paul Gleixner Ventas Mr. Jeffrey Weidell Mr. and Mrs. Marco Weiss Sallyan Windt Hubbard Street appreciates the support of the corporations, foundations, and individuals who contributed up to $1,000 to the Season 36 Spotlight Ball and regrets the inability to list their names due to space limitations.
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Alonzo King's LINES Ballet returns to the Windy City
Griffin's Take Preeminent Sondheim interpreter Gary Griffin mounts two highly anticipated productions of the composer's works at Shakespeare Theater this season.
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Goodman Theatre will transport audiences this summer to that enchantingly wistful Scottish village with the first major US revival of the beloved Lerner and Lowes classic in 30 years.
Feast for the Eyes Gene Siskel Film Center Under Glass
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Andreas Mitisek takes the helm of Chicago Opera Theater with a new collaborative model that just may take COT to a whole new level
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Harris Theater Presents
WENDY WHELAN
RESTLESS CREATURE January 21, 2015, 7:30PM - CHICAGO PREMIERE
“America’s greatest contemporary ballerina” —The New York Times
“A chance to see the beginning of a new stage in the life of one of those dancers who has made an individual mark on her art” —The Telegraph
New York City Ballet’s Wendy Whelan debuts four commissioned duets, danced with today’s hottest choreographers
Kyle Abraham Joshua Beamish Brian Brooks Alejandro Cerrudo
Tickets $10-$95
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EDUCATION, YOUTH AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Hubbard Street Dance Chicago thanks these donors for helping us in our mission to bring dance into classrooms and communities:
Additional Funding Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Helen Brach Foundation The Crown Family Discover The Field Foundation of Illinois Golder Family Foundation Harry and Marcy Harczak William Randolph Hearst Foundation Jackson National Life Insurance Company MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education Program The PrivateBank Charles & M.R. Shapiro Foundation The Siragusa Foundation Target A. Montgomery Ward Foundation
Hubbard Street 2 Butler Family Foundation Lou Conte Dance Studio Jane Ellen Murray Foundation Principal Contributor
Dancer Development Patron The Patti Selander Eylar Scholarship Fund
Mitchell Elementary School students participate in Hubbard Street Education Programs in the classroom. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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MATCHING GIFTS
These companies contribute through matching gift programs. Ask your company to match your donation to Hubbard Street. Aetna Foundation, Inc. Allstate Insurance Company American Airlines Amsted Industries Aon Foundation Bank of America Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Chicago Community Trust Citicorp/Citibank, N.A. Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation GE Foundation IBM Corporation Johnson Controls Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation Kimberly Clark Foundation McDonald’s Corporation
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc Motorola, Inc. Nike, Inc. Northern Trust Nuveen Investments Pepsico PNC Polk Bros. Foundation Pricewaterhousecoopers Foundation Quaker Oats Company The Rhoades Foundation UBS The Walt Disney Company Washington Mutual Wells Fargo
SPECIAL SERVICES ACME Hotel Company Preferred Hotel Partner
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Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Auditor Chicago Athletic Clubs Official Health Club Communiqué Graphic Design Graphic Design Embeya Preferred Restaurant Partner HMS Media Video Services Revel Global Events Gala Décor KlearSky Solutions, LLC Web Development and Design LAZ Parking Parking Partner MAC Cosmetics Official Make-Up Sponsor M/D/R Creative Gala Lights and Sound
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CONTRIBUTED MATERIALS AND SERVICES ACME Hotel Company Andy Cohen Baker & McKenzie, LLP Bartlit Beck Herman Palanchar & Scott LLP Bloomingdales Cannonball Wine Company Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Chasm Group Chateau Marmont Hotel Chef Freddy Cuisine Chicago Athletic Clubs Chicago Bulls Sandi Cooksey Creative Artists Agency Embeya Everest Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Lindsey French HMS Media Hogsalt Hospitality JetBlue Juyamcyn Theaters
LAZ Parking Limelight Catering Lollapalooza MAC Cosmetics Meg and Tim Callahan Modern Luxury, Chicago Moët & Chandon Sarah J. Nolan Seabourn Skandal SkinnyPop Popcorn John Svoboda Terlato Wine Group The Hinckley Company The Nines, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Portland The Plaza Hotel Constance Thome Kellen Walker Hubbard Street appreciates the support of in-kind contributors of gifts valued up to $250 and regrets the inability to list their names due to space limitations.
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ENDOWMENT SUPPORT Hubbard Street gratefully acknowledges the support of the following donors to the Endowment for Health and Wellness and the Endowment for Artistic Programs, established with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation: $100,000 and above Meg and Tim Callahan Pamela Crutchfield David Herro and Jay Franke Jim and Kay Mabie Alfred L. McDougal and Nancy Lauter McDougal Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller $50,000–$99,999 Sara Albrecht John and Caroline Ballantine Ms. Deborah A. Bricker Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Jack and Sandra Guthman The Rhoades Foundation Earl J. and Sandra Rusnak Randy and Lisa White William N. Wood Prince $25,000–$49,999 Marge and Lew Collens Mrs. Harold Florsheim Paul and Ellen Gignilliat Averill and Bernard Leviton Mr. Dale R. Machalleck James F. Oates Mr. Randy A. White
$10,000–$24,999 Mr. Dean Balice Christopher J. and Kate Barber Roger and Julie Baskes Joseph and Anne Bohne Janice Y. Burnham and Raymond B. Carney Carolyn H. Clift Edie and James Cloonan Joel and Katie Cory Allan and Ellen Drebin Susan and Bryan Erler Trudene Giesel Mary Louise Gorno Ms. Jacqueline A. Hurlbutt Dina Norris and Steve Young Byron and Judy Pollock Sally and Ellis Regenbogen William and Eleanor Revelle Dana and Andre Rice Camille and Kevin Rudge Warren D. Shifferd, Jr. Denise Stefan-Ginascol Richard and Ann Tomlinson Robert and Nancy Unglaub Earl and Susan Webb Sallyan Windt $5,000–$9,999 Julia and Larry Antonatos Thomas F. Barnum The Sidney and June Barrows Foundation Corinne E. Brophy Carla J. Eyre and Peter F. Gallagher
Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Judith Grubner and Craig Jobson Stephanie J. Hickman Linda Hutson Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Sally and Ted Miller Pat Pulido Sanchez and Manuel Sanchez John B. and Dianne L. Schwartz Ken Shanoff Deborah and Kelly Stonebraker Jack and Niki Tovin $1,000–$4,999 Kathy Catrambone Tom and Lois Colberg Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Jocelyn B. Hamlar and Leighton J. Toney Joel and Diane Jastromb Rachel Corn Kluge Todd E. Magazine David Mekemson and Irene Petruniak Maureen Mosh Bill Nygren Foundation Sheila Owens Donald H. Ratner Patrick J. Schieble Steven and Frances Shapiro Richard B. Turner
Theater rental and services have been generously underwritten through the support of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. 205 E. Randolph Dr. 312-334-7777
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November 12, 2014–February 15, 2015
A L IC E David Catlin From the works of Lewis Carroll
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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 1500-seat state-of-the art performance venue located in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Opened in November 2003, the nonprofit Harris Theater was the first multiuse 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 innovate 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, Renee Fleming, the Hamburg Ballet, Lang Lang, the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opéra Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, Stephen Sondheim, and many others have graced the Harris’ Elizabeth Morse Genius Stage through this series. The Harris Theater maintains a commitment to community engagement for children, teens, and adults. Programs advance access to, and understanding of, the performing arts. They include the Family Series and the lunchtime Eat to the Beat series. Collaborating with community arts centers and health and human service agencies, the Theater has provided more than 7,000 complimentary tickets through its Access Tickets Program. Through the Teen Arts Project, the theater partners with public and private schools to provide “behind the scenes” access to visiting world-class artists through master classes, artist discussions, and other enrichment activities. hubbardstreetdance.com
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE
Officers James L. Alexander, Chairman Alexandra C. Nichols, Executive Vice Chair Caryn Harris, Vice Chair Elizabeth Hartigan Connelly, Vice Chair David Snyder, Treasurer Peter M. Ellis, Secretary Michael Tiknis, Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols President and Managing Director Endowed Chair Trustees John W. Ballantine Lee Blackwell Baur Paul S. Boulis Sunny Chico Louise Frank Jay Franke Sandra P. Guthman, Past Chairman Joan W. Harris, Past Chairman Christine N. Evans Kelly Deborah A. Korompilas Merrillyn J. Kosier Mac MacLellan P Douglas McKeen Zarin Mehta Judith Neisser Kenneth R. Norgan Abby McCormick O’Neil, Past Chairman Jason Palmquist, Ex-officio Ricardo T. Rosenkranz Patrick M. Sheahan Jeffrey D. Steele Mary Kay Sullivan Marilyn Fatt Vitale 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
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STAFF HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE
Executive Staff Michael Tiknis, Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols President and Managing Director Endowed Chair Steve Abrams, Executive Vice President & General Manager Laura Hanssel, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Cheryl Mendelson, Executive Vice President of External Affairs Administration Lori Dimun, Director of Operations & Production Emily Macaluso, Operations Coordinator Dawn Wilson, Technical Coordinator Meghan McNamara, Manager of Community Engagement & Partnerships Pradeep Nair, Finance & Accounting Manager Derek Raridon, Staff Accountant Jake Anderson, Executive Assistant Production Andy Principe, Head Carpenter Jeff Rollinson, Flyman Jeffrey Kolack, Head of Props Don Dome Jr., Head of Audio Kevin Sullivan, Electrician
Development Jodi Kurtze, Director of Campaign & Major Gifts Amanda Lawson, Director of Annual Giving Julie Eskind, Donor Relations & Annual Giving Manager Catherine Miller, Manager of Corporate & Foundation Relations Elizabeth Halajian, Campaign & Major Gifts Coordinator Emma Palermo, Development Assistant Marketing Kelly Degenhart, Director of Sales & Marketing Elizabeth Ress, Sales & Marketing Manager Natalie Drogos, Digital Communications & Design Coordinator Ticketing Services Gregg Brody, Box Office Treasurer Facilities Doug Gorzycki, Facilities Engineer Herbert Carter, Facilities Staff Shawn Robinson, Facilities Staff Lashawn Whitehead, Facilities Staff Front of House Lucas Kastning, Concessions Manager Phil Loconsole, Security Manager Hillary Pearson, House Manager Melaney Reed, Saints Coordinator The Saints, Volunteer Usher Corps
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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 312.334.2400. 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. 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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Lou Conte Dance Studio scholarship recipients Sam Gardner, left, and Giovanna Ventola. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. Fall Series 2014
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Season 37 at Hubbard Street is just getting started. See the shape of dance to come. Princess Grace Awards: New Works December 4–14 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s Edlis Neeson Theater Counterpoint by Kyle Abraham to Jóhann Jóhannsson + Johannes Brahms New Work by Victor Quijada with DJ + composer Jasper “Lil’ Jaz” Gahunia
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SUMMER SERIES n JUNE 11–14 A world premiere and special retrospective program celebrating six years of Alejandro Cerrudo’s choreographic residency at Hubbard Street
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