Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, Artistic Director David McDermott, Executive Director
PROGRAM B MAY 14 + 15, 2022
PROGRAM B As the Wind Blows by Amy Hall Garner George & Zalman by Ohad Naharin Ne Me Quitte Pas by Spenser Theberge BUSK by Aszure Barton
Welcome to Summer Series: RE/UNION A year ago, 2 months after coming back to Hubbard Street now as Artistic Director, I had still not yet met most of my colleagues in person. We were working, rehearsing, auditioning through screens. While we’re all grateful for the technology that got us through that time (and continues to), there is just no substitute for experiencing something, live and in person, as a collective. We were robbed of that sense of community, and of unity. That’s why when we started to make plans for our first live season back, I wanted to make sure it felt like a celebration. A commemoration. A reunion. With this weekend’s performances, the finale of this Season 44: RE/CHARGE, we hope you take this opportunity to reunite with loved ones, with an art form that transcends borders and language barriers, and with yourself. We hope you leave the Harris Theater recharged, your cup refilled, as we close the curtain on this Hubbard Street season. It is tempting to say that it’s hard to believe just how far we’ve come in a year. But when I look around at a performance like this, surrounded by our resilient and world-class artists, our steadfast staff and board, generous donors, the supportive Chicago dance community, and you—the audience—rooting for us and cheering us on, it really isn’t so hard to believe how far we’ve come, after all. Stay tuned for our Season 45 announcement, coming at you soon this summer. You won’t want to miss what we’ve got in store for you next. Yours in motion, Artistic Director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell
As the Wind Blows by Amy Hall Garner is supported in part by Camille and Kevin Rudge Liza Yntema Ne Me Quitte Pas by Spenser Theberge is supported in part by Marc Miller and Chris Horsman
Thank You to Our Season Partners
This program is funded in part by the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell. Photo by Paul Octavious, styling by Hogan McLaughlin. Cover: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Harris Theater for Music and Dance resides on the traditional homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Many other tribes such as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox have also called this area home. The region has long been a center for Indigenous people to gather, trade, and maintain kinship ties. Today, one of the largest urban American Indian communities in the United States resides in Chicago, and members of this community continue to contribute to the life and culture of this city. To learn more about the practice of land acknowledgement and the importance of honoring native land, visit usdac.us. The Chicagoland region is home to over 65,000 American Indians and the country’s oldest urban-based Native membership community center, American Indian Center Chicago (AIC). Visit aicchicago.org to learn more about AIC’s mission to foster physical and spiritual health in the community, an active connection with traditional values and practices, stronger families with multigenerational bonds, and a rising generation of educated, articulate, and visionary youth.
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As the Wind Blows
Amy Hall Garner, Choreography Carl Craig, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Francesco Tristano, Music Nathan Rohrer, Costume Design Harrison Pearse Burke, Lighting Design Dancers Alyssa Allen Alexandria Best Craig D. Black Jr. Jacqueline Burnett Michele Dooley
Michael Garcia Elliot Hammans Alysia Johnson Adam McGaw Andrew Murdock
Abdiel Figueroa Reyes David Schultz Kevin J. Shannon Simone Stevens
Music: Syrinx, for solo flute, L. 129 by Claude Debussy, performed by Laura Nashman; Technology—Versus Beatless Versions by Carl Craig, performed by Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano, François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles; Four Piano Blues: III. For William Kapell by Aaron Copland, performed by Mark Anderson; A Soft Shell Groove by Francesco Tristano, performed by Alice Sara Ott, Francesco Tristano, produced by Friedemann Engelbrecht.
15-MINUTE INTERMISSION George & Zalman Ohad Naharin, Choreography Shamel Pitts and Ian Robinson, Staging Arvo Pärt, Music Avi Yona Bueno, Lighting Design Rakefet Levy, Costume Design Dancers: Alyssa Allen, Alexandria Best, Jacqueline Burnett, Alysia Johnson, Simone Stevens Music: Fur Alina by Arvo Pärt, lyrics by Charles Bukowski, spoken by Bobbi Jene Smith.
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Spenser Theberge, Choreography Jacques Brel, Music Spenser Theberge, Costume Design Harrison Pearse Burke, Lighting Design Dancers: Adam McGaw, Andrew Murdock Ne Me Quitte Pas has been with me for over 10 years now, and getting the chance to revisit and reimagine it with HSDC has been a total honor. The chance to work on this piece again reminds me that process is something we have to fall in love with as dancers. My goal in this iteration of Ne Me Quitte Pas was to create a frame where the dancers can perform the act of process, and where the audience can witness the dancers caring for their work and for each other in real time.—Spenser Theberge Music: Ne Me Quitte Pas by Jacques Brel, performed by Nina Simone. Produced by Hal Mooney.
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15-MINUTE INTERMISSION BUSK Aszure Barton, Choreography & Direction Jonathan E. Alsberry, Stager V. de Moraes, August Söderman, Ljova, Moondog, Daniel Belanger, Camille SaintSaëns, David Wikander, Music Aszure Barton with Jonathan E. Alsberry, Musical Arrangement & Editing Michelle Jank, Costume Design Nicole Pearce*, Lighting & Stage Design Originally created by Aszure Barton & Artists, BUSK was conceived at The Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara during a residency hosted by Dianne Vapnek’s DANCEworks. The work was further developed in residency at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. BUSK was made possible by generous support from DANCEworks, The Banff Centre for Arts,, and the Ringling International Arts Festival, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in association with the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Additional support also provided by White Oak Conservation Center, the Howard Gilman Foundation, and The Canada Council for the Arts. BUSK, in its original form, is a full evening length work. Official premiere: Aszure Barton & Artists, October 8th, 2009, Ringling International Arts Festival. Dancers Alyssa Allen Alexandria Best Craig D. Black Jr. Jacqueline Burnett Michele Dooley
Michael Garcia Elliot Hammans Alysia Johnson Adam McGaw Andrew Murdock
Abdiel Figueroa Reyes David Schultz Kevin J. Shannon Simone Stevens
Music: Euridice composed by V. de Moraes, performed by Slava Grigoryan, courtesy of SME Australia Pty Ltd, by arrangement with Sony Music Entertainment (Canada), published by Universal Music Publishing Canada on behalf of Universal Music Corp. Ett Bondbrollop composed by August Soderman and performed by Orphei Drangär & Eric Ericson, performed with kind permission by BIS Records, Sweden. Plume composed and performed by Ljova. Queen Elizabeth Whistle composed and performed by Moondog, courtesy of Concord; these selections are used by special arrangement with Concord Music Group, Incl, on behalf of Prestige Music. All is Loneliness composed and performed by Moondog, courtesy of Concord; these selections are used by special arrangement with Concord Music Group, Incl, on behalf of Prestige Music. Amusements composed and performed by Daniel Belanger, (p) 2007 Daniel Bélanger (exclusive licensed to Audiogram). Love Potion Expired composed by Ljova, performed by Ljova and the Kontraband. Saltarelle composed by Camille Saint-Saëns and performed by Orphei Drangär & Eric Ericson, performed with kind permission by BIS Records, Sweden. Kung Liljekonvalje composed by David Wikander and performed by Orphei Drangär & Eric Ericson, performed with kind permission by BIS Records, Sweden ©Nordiska Musikförlaget/2007 Gerhrmans Musikförlag AB. *United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE is the union representing Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Sound, and Projection designers in Live Performance
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CHOREOGRAPHER PROFILES Artist and choreographer ASZURE BARTON has collaborated with celebrated dancers and companies including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Misty Copeland, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, English National Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, National Ballet of Canada, Nederlands Dans Theater, Sydney Dance Company, and Teatro alla Scala, among many others. She is a Bessie Award Honoree and has received numerous honors including the prestigious Arts & Letters Award, joining the ranks of Oscar Peterson, Karen Kain, and Margaret Atwood. She was the first Martha Duffy resident artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and is an official ambassador of contemporary dance in Canada. She is the founder of Aszure Barton & Artists, an inter-disciplinary international dance project. AMY HALL GARNER is a native of Huntsville, Alabama, and a graduate of The Juilliard School. Her work has been praised internationally and commissioned by Ailey II, ABT Studio Company, Collage Dance Collective, The Juilliard School, The Ailey School, Barnard College, The University of the Arts, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Point Park University, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Recently, she has received virtual commissions from BalletX, Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process Digital Series, ABT Studio Company, Boulder Ballet and a virtual collaboration between Miami City Ballet and Paul Taylor American Modern Dance. She personally coached Grammy Award winner Beyoncé, providing additional choreography for The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. Theatrical choreography credits include: The Color Purple (Milwaukee Repertory Theater) and Invisible Thread, associate choreographer (Second Stage Theater, NYC). In 2018, she was selected to participate in Alvin Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab supported by the Ford Foundation. Garner was one of the first recipients of the Joffrey Ballet’s Choreography of Color Award (now titled Winning Works). She is an adjunct professor at New York University’s New Studio on Broadway at Tisch School of the Arts. In 2021, Ms. Garner was a Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts. Currently, she is creating and reimagining the classical ballet narrative The Nutcracker, at Baltimore School for the Arts.
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CHOREOGRAPHER PROFILES OHAD NAHARIN is a choreographer, the House Choreographer of Batsheva Dance Company, and creator of the Gaga movement language. Born in 1952 in Mizra, Israel, he joined Batsheva Dance Company in 1974 despite having little training. During his first year, guest choreographer Martha Graham invited him to join her own company in New York, where Naharin later made his choreographic debut at the Kazuko Hirabayshi studio in 1980. For the next decade he presented works in New York and abroad, including pieces for Batsheva Dance Company, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, and Nederlands Dans Theater. Naharin worked closely with his first wife, Mari Kajiwara, until she died from cancer in 2001. In 1990, Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company, and in the same year, he established the company’s junior division, Batsheva—the Young Ensemble. He has since created over thirty works for both companies and set pieces on many others. He has also collaborated with musicians including The Tractor’s Revenge, Avi Balleli and Dan Makov, Ivri Lider, and Grischa Lichtenberger. Under the pseudonym Maxim Waratt, he composed, edited, and mixed many of his own soundtracks. Naharin’s work has been featured in several films, including Tomer Heymann’s Out of Focus (2007) and the Heymann Brothers’ Mr. Gaga (2015). In addition to his stagework, Naharin also developed GAGA, the innovative movement research and daily training of Batsheva’s dancers that has spread internationally among both dancers and non-dancers. A citizen of both Israel and the United States, Naharin currently lives in Israel with his wife, dancer and costume designer Eri Nakamura, and their daughter, Noga. SPENSER THEBERGE is a multi-hyphenate performer and creator, working across the fields of choreography, dance, movement direction, and pedagogy. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a former company member with the Nederlands Dans Theater I & II and The Forsythe Company, as well as a guest artist with Kidd Pivot, the Goteborgs Operans Danskompani, the ARIAS Company, and RGWW. Spenser’s creations are multi-disciplinary and genre-defying, continuously exploring identity, authenticity, and spectatorship. His individual work, as well as his work with partner Jermaine Spivey, has been commissioned and presented by LA Dance Project, The Broad Museum, The Philip Glass Days & Nights Festival, The Korzo Theater, Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, Place des Arts, Hollins University, PACT Zollverein, Reed College, and NAVEL. As a movement director and performer, Spenser has worked with artists, brands, and organizations such as Taylor Swift, Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty, Ben Platt, Gwen Stefani, LANY, UGG, Rami Malek, Ryan Pfluger, the Tune-yards, and the New York Times Magazine. He has also designed costumes for Andrea Miller, the ARIAS Company, and performing artist Frances Chiaverini, and is the text writer behind Alexander Ekman’s awardwinning Cacti and Hubbub. Spenser is a former dance faculty member at California Institute of the Arts, as well as guest faculty at The Juilliard School and USC Kaufman School of Dance, and at conservatories, schools, and programs across America, Europe, and Asia. Spenser is a YoungArts award winner, a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a Princess Grace Award winner. hubbardstreetdance.com
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2021–22 DANCER PROFILES Alyssa Allen (Los Angeles, CA) attended the Orange County School of the Arts. She then graduated in 2019 as a member of the inaugural class at the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under the direction of William Forsythe and Jodie Gates. She has performed works by choreographers Crystal Pite, Jiří Kylián, Johannes Wieland, George Balanchine, William Forsythe and Aszure Barton, to name a few. Alyssa has attended intensives such as Nederlands Dans Theatre, Springboard Danse Montréal, and Orsolina28 in Italy. She has performed at the Music & More SummerFest in Bosnia, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Joyce Theatre. Additional credits include dancing in music videos for Billie Eilish and Emmit Fenn, and performing at the Country Music Awards. This is her third season with HSDC. Alexandria Best (Raleigh, NC) In her formal training years, Best has acquired knowledge from various instructors across programs such as American Ballet Theatre, Arts Umbrella, Carolina Ballet, French Académie of Ballet, and HSDC. She has had the great opportunity to perform various works by choreographers such as Rena Butler, Alexandra Damiani, Jessica Hendricks, Jiří Kylián, Florian Lochner and Alice Klock (also known as “FLOCK”), and Crystal Pite. Best is most recently a graduate of Pace Univeristy, where she received her BFA, and is in her first season with HSDC. Alexandria is elated to be joining the company and for all the opportunities and experiences coming forth this season. Craig D. Black Jr. (San Jose, CA) began dancing at South Bay Dance Center at the age of ten. In 2011 Craig received his BFA from The Juilliard School where he was awarded the 2010 Princess Grace Award in Dance. He has received additional training at summer programs such as Springboard Danse Montréal, Nederlands Dans Theater Summer Intensive, and The School at Jacob’s Pillow (2011 Lorna Strassler Award for Student Excellence). Craig joined HSDC in the fall of 2017 after finishing six seasons with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. He has had the pleasure of dancing works by Kyle Abraham, Aszure Barton, Jirí Kylián, Jorma Elo, Cayetano Soto Ramirez, William Forsythe, Alejandro Cerrudo, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Robyn Mineko-Williams, Nacho Duato, and Peter Chu along with many others. He has taught and choreographed for many schools and studios throughout the U.S. as well as co-choreographed and rehearsal directed for Cardi B and Offset’s 2019 BET Awards performance. In addition, Craig is certified to teach IMAGE TECH for Dancers™ introductory level through advanced level and serves as guest faculty for the HSDC main company, Hubbard Street Professional Program, Steps on Broadway, Peridance Center, The Joffrey Academy, New York City Dance Alliance and Dupree Dance. Jacqueline Burnett (Pocatello, ID) received her formative ballet training in her hometown of Pocatello, Idaho, from Romanian Ballet Master Marius Zirra. She graduated from the Ailey School/Fordham University joint BFA degree program in 2009, while concurrently dancing as a Center Apprentice with Hubbard Street from January 2008. Jacqueline joined the main company in August 2009 and has since served as an Artistic Lead for Hubbard Street Summer Intensives, a repetitor for choreographies by Penny Saunders (Ballet Idaho, Seattle Dance Collective, Royal New Zealand Ballet), and a freelance dancer with Robyn Mineko Williams and Artists and Seattle Dance Collective. She received a Princess Grace Honorarium for Dance in 2011. Michele Dooley (Philadelphia, PA) began her dance training at The Institute of the Arts, graduated from The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, and later earned her BFA in Dance from The University of the Arts. Michele has completed programs with Bates Summer intensive, BalletX Summer Program, and DCNS Summer Dance Intensive and has worked with choreographers Gary Jeter, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Dara Meredith-Stevens, Milton Myers, Nora Gibson, and Donald Byrd. She has had the privilege of working with Eleone Dance Theatre and Spectrum Dance Theater. Michele is beyond thrilled to join Hubbard Street Dance Chicago this season!
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2021–22 DANCER PROFILES Michael Garcia (McAllen, TX) A recent graduate of The Juilliard School, he received his BFA under the direction of Alicia Graf Mack. As a dancer, he is a YoungArts Winner and an alumni of The School at Jacob’s Pillow. He has been fortunate enough to work creatively and perform works by artists such as Bryan Arias, Robert Battle, Aszure Barton, Sidra Bell, Ethan Colangelo, Shannon Gillen-Lipinski, Francesca Harper, Jessica Hendricks, Bobbi Jene Smith, Loni Landon, Donald Mckayle, Andrea Miller, Ohad Naharin, and Benoit-Swan Pouffer. Beyond dance, Michael has many passions and pursuits in both teaching and choreography that have allowed him to teach, create and assist across the country. This is Michael’s first season with HSDC and he is beyond excited for all of the opportunities and love this community has to offer. Elliot Hammans (Santa Fe, NM) began his formal dance training in 2008 with Robert Sher-Machherndl and continued his ballet and modern dance education with Moving People Dance in Santa Fe, NM, under the direction of Curtis Uhlemann. Hammans joined Moving People Dance Company as an apprentice in 2010, trained on full scholarship at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center in San Francisco, and attended Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 2011 and 2012 Summer Intensives. Following one season with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance and studies abroad at Austria’s Tanzzentrum SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), Hammans earned his BFA in Dance in 2014 from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Hammans joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2014 and was promoted to Hubbard Street’s main company in August 2016. Alysia Johnson (Dallas, TX) first found dance at Dallas Black Dance Theatre and later went on to graduate from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where she studied ballet, modern, and composition. A graduate of The Juilliard School and a two-time recipient of Juilliard’s Entrepreneurship Grant, she has served the Dallas dance community by founding and directing programs that cater to young artists in the DFW metroplex since 2015. Recently, Alysia was awarded the Princess Grace Honoraria Award for dance and she is endlessly thankful for the dance community at large for their support and unmatched creativity. Adam McGaw (Detroit, MI) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Dance at Wayne State University (2015). He has performed works by Crystal Pite, Kyle Abraham, Johannes Weiland, Fernando Melo, Maxine Doyle, and Jonathan Fredrickson amongst many others. Additional training includes Complexions Contemporary Ballet Summer Intensive, Springboard Danse Montreal, b12 Festival (Berlin, Germany) and Gaga Winter Intensive (Tel Aviv, Israel). Adam joined HSDC full time in 2019. Andrew Murdock (St. Albert, AB) is a graduate of the Juilliard School, from which he received a BFA in Dance under the direction of Lawrence Rhodes. Prior to being a regular collaborator with Aszure Barton & Artists, Murdock performed with Gallim Dance and BJM Danse, formerly Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Additional collaborators and colleagues include Cherice Barton, Joshua Beamish, Andy Blankenbuehler, Nina Chung, Joe Lanteri, Austin McCormick, Michelle Mola, Abdel Salaam, and Edgar Zendejas. He has appeared at the Greenwich Music Festival, with Zack Winokur, and with Geneviève Dorion-Coupal at Just for Laughs and Le 400e Anniversaire de la Ville de Québec. As a rehearsal assistant to Aszure Barton, he has worked with American Ballet Theatre, Canada’s National Ballet School and Ballet BC, New York University, the Steps Ensemble, Arts Umbrella, and Springboard Danse Montréal. He joined Hubbard Street in 2013.
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2021–22 DANCER PROFILES Abdiel Figueroa Reyes (Las Vegas, NV) was born and raised in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico prior to moving to the United States. Figueroa began his professional dance training at The Rock Center for Dance while attending Las Vegas Academy of the Arts as a Dance Major. In 2016, he joined the Las Vegas residential company at Contemporary West Dance Theater (formerly known as the Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater) under the direction of Bernard H. Gaddis, where he continued his training in modern, ballet, and contemporary. In 2017, Figueroa became a member of HSDC’s Professional Program (HS Pro) under the direction of Alexandra Wells where he trained under educators such as Peter Chu, Claire Bataille, and Glenn Edgerton, as well as HSDC company artists and guests. After a one-year apprenticeship, Figueroa was promoted to the main company in 2019. He is beginning his third year with the company, performing works by Aszure Barton, Kyle Abraham, Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Jermaine Spivey, Nacho Duato, Rena Butler and others, while continuing his artistic growth with HSDC. David Schultz (Grand Rapids, MI) began training in Michigan with the School of Grand Rapids Ballet, where he then performed for four seasons with its company, Grand Rapids Ballet. Schultz joined Hubbard Street 2 in September 2009 and was promoted to the main company in August 2011, and he is the recipient of a 2012 Princess Grace Award. Kevin J. Shannon (Baltimore, MD) is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts. He received additional training from the School of American Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Paul Taylor, and Springboard Danse Montréal. After receiving his BFA from The Juilliard School in 2007, Kevin was invited to join HSDC. While a dancer with Hubbard Street, he has had the privilege to work under the direction of Jim Vincent, Glenn Edgerton and the current Artistic Director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell. Kevin is honored to have performed works by Crystal Pite, Kyle Abraham, Jirí Kylián, Aszure Barton, Sharon Eyal, Twyla Tharp, Alejandro Cerrudo, Robyn Mineko Williams, William Forsythe, Peter Chu, Ohad Naharin, among many others over his fourteen years with the company. In 2013 Kevin participated in DanceMotion USA, a cross cultural exchange program between HSDC, BAM and the US State Department, where he taught and performed in North Africa and Spain. As an educator, Kevin has taught dance master classes around the world, led and programmed the HSDC Summer Intensives, and is currently a guest teacher for Hubbard Street’s main company. He has served as faculty for The Joffrey Academy, Chicago Movement Collective, and Peridance Center. In addition, Kevin is a certified IMAGE TECH for Dancers™ teacher. Simone Stevens (Atlanta, GA) earned her BA in Dance and Minor in Anthropology from Kennesaw State University in July 2017. One year post-grad, Stevens moved to Chicago and trained on scholarship at the Lou Conte Dance Studio where she was mentored by Laura Wade, Ethan Kirschbaum, and Kristina Fluty. During that time, Stevens also freelanced throughout the city and performed works choreographed by Alice Klock, Alysia Johnson, Hanna Brictson, LOUD Bodies, and Joshua Peugh among others. Most recently she performed as a company member with Katlin Bourgeois’s Ensemble180 and was on faculty with Ethan Kirschbaum’s Chicago Movement Collective before joining Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In Stevens’s first season as a member of HSDC she will be performing works choreographed by Jermaine Maurice Spivey, Aszure Barton, Rena Butler, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato and others.
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DELVE INTO DANCE
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Elliot Hammans, David Schultz, Michele Dooley, and Abdiel Figueroa Reyes. Photo by Paul Octavious, styling by Hogan McLaughlin.
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Amy Hall Garner
The renowned choreographer of As the Wind Blows speaks on working with Hubbard Street, the message of her piece, and staying in the moment. Tell us about your process—how do you create new works?
Any time I create movement, I have to find my score, my blueprint, my foundation—and that starts with the music. Then the movement comes in the moment. While I do have a specific point of view and sculpt the choreography around the vision that I have in my mind, I would say this particular work was very collaborative. This creative process was absolutely influenced by what the Hubbard Street dancers bring to the movement—their unique gifts and personalities.
What was it like to create this new work at Hubbard Street?
Effortless. It is effortless to create here at Hubbard Street. It is a joy to create with dancers who move together as one but who are also so different as individuals. They take the essence of something and extend it. As a creative person, you want to find a muse that does that—and all of these dancers, in their own way, are muses. I’ve never seen a group work so cohesively together—this entire group is collectively engaged at all times.
What do you hope the audience takes away from the experience of As the Wind Blows?
Joy that we’re back in the theater! Joy seeing the dancers on stage! I want the audience to be hit with positivity, with reverence for what the dancers are doing, and experience joy in seeing art and live dance. The title of the work is inspired by the quote “We’ll just have to adapt and change as the wind blows, taking what life gives us as it comes.” It’s so important to roll with the tide right now. We don’t know what’s going to happen as we continue living in this “new normal” that we’re in, but we still have to stay the course and do what we do. Craig D. Black Jr. and Alexandria Best. Photo by Michelle Reid
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Spenser Theberge Tell us about the origins of Ne Me Quitte Pas—we understand the story starts 10 years ago? Yes, this piece has been with me for a long time! I started working on it as a student at Juilliard— it was a solo at first. It was sort of a bridge in time, right when I was leaving school and I knew I was going to NDT [Nederlands Dans Theater]. The following year, I had an opportunity to create for a workshop performance, so I decided to source from that solo material to make a duet version, as though it were a duet all along. But that was 10 years ago and revisiting this work has been a trip! That not only was me, but elements of those choices still exist in me. Trying to figure out how to scoop a little bit in from what I care about now and also say, “Yeah, you’re still valid, Past Me,” and getting those things to show up at the same time—that has been the Hubbard Street version of the work.
What has been unique to the process of creating this version of the work for Hubbard Street? I knew right away when I came in to create on Hubbard Street, I couldn’t just work with two or four or six people—I gotta have ’em all! I wanted to see what would happen when setting different versions of the same work on different bodies, personalities, and identities. The dance was initially a duet between two male-identifying partners, and now we see lots of different constellations of partnerships because there’s a lot of different representation inside of the company.
What are your hopes for the audience experience of this new iteration of Ne Me Quitte Pas? I hope that the audience, in the sense of challenging their expectations, feels a balance of different states of being as they watch. They may not understand the work completely right away, and maybe there’s a little bit of wonder about what’s going on; maybe they lean away, maybe they also lean in, and then maybe they get exactly what they want—but perhaps it ends in a way they’re not used to things ending. I like to remind not only the audience, but also myself and performers, that we can decide how a performance goes. Rules don’t have to be followed traditionally just because we’re on stage in a theater, and we can explore in different ways.
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SPOTLIGHT ON: The Music of BUSK Like the eclectic choreographic influences inherent in BUSK, the soundscape is a fantasia of musical selections pulled from a diverse set of composers. Here are just a few facts about each of them: Vinicius de Moraes (1913–1980): Nicknamed O Poetinha (“the little poet”), V. de Moraes was a Brazilian playwright, poet, lyricist, essayist, composer, singer, and diplomat, influential to the birth of bossa nova. August Söderman (1832–1876): Söderman was a Swedish composer, closely associated with music of the Romantic Era. In addition to choral works, he wrote incidental music for about 80 plays and a number of operettas. Ljova (1978–): A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ljova is a Russian-born composer, arranger, and violist. His 2012 album Melting River features music developed in partnership with BUSK choreographer Aszure Barton. Moondog (1916–1999): Born Louis Thomas Hardin, Moondog was blinded in an accident at the age of 16 and developed his musical career after a combination of self-teaching and study. He would occasionally busk on the streets of New York City, and was praised for his compositions by many established musicians such as Philip Glass and Duke Ellington despite the general public dismissing him due to his untraditional career path and appearance. ‘Moondog’, East 51st Street, New York (1970–1979). Photo courtesy of Peter Martens/Nederlands Fotomuseum.
Daniel Belanger (1962–): Belanger is an award-winning singer-songwriter from Canada, specializing in the electro-folk genre. The Québecois artist is also active writing for theatre and film. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921): Saint-Saëns was a French conductor, pianist, organist, and composer, regarded as a child prodigy having made his concert debut at age 10. David Wikander (1884–1955): Wikander was a Swedish organist, composer, and educator. He was a significant figure in composing and arranging music for the church, but also gained popularity for his secular choral works.
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YOU MAKE AN IMPACT! Since you’re here, you either already know Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is the premier contemporary dance company in the country and among the best in the world—or you’re about to find out. Our incredible dance artists are essential to who we are, but they’re only part of our story. The other part? You! YOUR SUPPORT:
Nurtures young minds by sharing our award-winning education programs with more than 900 students annually, spanning kindergarten through grade 12, in 13 community areas all across Chicago. Students engage in creative problem-solving, learn a whole new movement language together, and gain valuable tools for integrating their bodies and brains. Brings diverse collaborators—the world’s best and brightest choreographic voices—to Chicago to work with Hubbard Street dancers and the broader community, including public school students. It also shares the unique talents of our dancers with the country and world when we tour. Generates essential conversations on art and tradition to help us explore new creative possibilities. The virtual workshops and comprehensive study guides for teachers in our UNBOXED series helped address vital topics such as diversity, prejudice, culture, and appropriation in the arts. Pushes contemporary dance in exciting, fresh directions. The Chicago Tribune praised our virtual season’s “cinematic excellence” and admired the way we showcased the “wide-ranging potential of dance on film.” Our films also won numerous awards!
Your support is essential in helping Hubbard Street enrich, engage, educate, and change lives through the experience of dance. Text ‘HSDC’ to 53-555 to make a tax-deductible gift today or visit hubbardstreetdance.com/donate. All gifts are generous and appreciated.
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SPOTLIGHT ON: HSDC Education Get to know our partners at Sidney Sawyer Elementary School! HSDC Education is proud to partner with Chicago Public Schools, including Sidney Sawyer Elementary School in the Gage Park neighborhood. Here’s a peek at some reflections from Sawyer students this year after exploring the world of expression through movement with our teaching artists:
When is a time you think you have a lot of Energy? 2nd Grade Student: “When I have a sugar RUSH!” What do you picture yourself moving through? (Moving as though they are touching something sticky): 4th Grade Student: “A melted gummy bear.” Students at Sawyer Elementary School working with HSDC Teaching Artists Anne Kasdorf and Carly Bress. Photos by HSDC Faculty & School Partners.
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After learning to manipulate the Duration and Speed of a 16-count combination: 5th Grade Student: “I appreciate doing the robot arm in one count because I liked feeling the wind on my arm.” What do you think of when you think of moving quick, in a small amount of time? (Energy/Duration) 2nd Grade Student: “When I really have to go to the bathroom…I run there!!!” Students at Sawyer Elementary School working with HSDC Teaching Artists Anne Kasdorf and Carly Bress. Photos by HSDC Faculty & School Partners.
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2021–22 HUBBARD STREET STAFF PROFILES Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell (Artistic Director) ascended to this role in 2021, after an extraordinary career as a professional dance artist and educator. Linda-Denise was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and began her dance training at the Baltimore School for the Arts under the guidance of Sylvester Campbell and Stephanie Powell. She was an apprentice with the Capitol Ballet in Washington D.C. and a full fellowship student at The Ailey School. While a student at The Juilliard School, she was invited by Hubbard Street founder Lou Conte to join the main company at the age of 19, thus beginning her professional dance career. After three seasons with Hubbard Street, Linda-Denise became a Principal Dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, under the direction of Judith Jamison. During her 13-year tenure with the company, Linda-Denise performed all over the world and was featured in the works of Alvin Ailey, Robert Battle, Talley Beatty, Ron K. Brown, John Butler, Donald Byrd, Ulysses Dove, George Faison, Rennie Harris, Geoffrey Holder, Judith Jamison, Louis Johnson, Alonzo King, Lar Lubovitch, Donald McKayle, Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, David Parsons, and Dwight Rhoden. Linda-Denise was invited to give a number of special performances throughout her career, including the White House State Dinner in honor of the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and the 12th Annual Kennedy Center Gala with Nancy Wilson and Liza Minelli. Linda-Denise has led a distinguished career as a dance educator in her hometown of Baltimore where, since 2005, she has been a Professor of Dance at Towson University and has served on the faculty of the Baltimore School for the Arts. Her research and scholarship in continuing the Ailey legacy within the Towson University and Greater Baltimore community has resulted in the Ailey II residencies from 2011-2019 hosted by Towson University and the establishment of AileyCamp Baltimore at Towson University in 2014 where she served as Director. Ms. Fisher-Harrell holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in dance from Hollins University and is an ABT® Certified Teacher. As a scholar, her entry “Alvin Ailey” has been published by the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. LindaDenise and her husband have three children. David McDermott (Executive Director) manages organization-wide strategy and administrative functions including oversight of Hubbard Street’s finances, operations, marketing, and development departments. Most recently, David led Hubbard Street through a post-COVID-19 restructuring, guided its new access-first digital strategy, and directed the company’s recent move to Water Tower Place. Prior to joining Hubbard Street David served as the First Deputy Commissioner at the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. In this role, David managed the day-to-day operations of the department and played instrumental roles in major initiatives such as creating the Chicago Cultural Plan, revitalizing the Taste of Chicago, and ensured the success of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Prior to his employment with the City, David led the Senator Durbin’s Department of Community Outreach, served as the Senator’s Political Director, and has managed political campaigns at the congressional, county, and municipal levels. David recently completed a fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Civic Leadership Academy and holds a degree in Public Policy from Trinity College at the University of Dublin.
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2021–22 HUBBARD STREET STAFF PROFILES Lou Conte (Founding Artistic Director) after a performing career that included roles in Broadway musicals such as Cabaret, Mame and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, established the Lou Conte Dance Studio in 1974. Three years later, he founded what is now Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Originally the company’s sole choreographer, he developed relationships with emerging and world-renowned dancemakers Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Margo Sappington and Daniel Ezralow as the company grew. Conte continued to build Hubbard Street’s repertoire by forging a key relationship with Twyla Tharp in the 1990s, acquiring seven of her works as well as original choreography. It then became an international enterprise with the inclusion of works by Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato and Ohad Naharin. Throughout his 23 years as the company’s artistic director, Conte received numerous awards including the first Ruth Page Artistic Achievements Award in 1986, the Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award in 1995, and a Chicagoan of the Year award from Chicago magazine in 1999. In 2003, Conte was inducted as a laureate into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, the state’s highest honor, and in 2014, was named one of five inaugural recipients of the City of Chicago’s Fifth Star Award. He has been credited by many for helping raise Chicago’s international cultural profile and for creating a welcoming climate for dance in the city, where the art form now thrives. Jessica Tong (Associate Artistic Director) trained at the University of Utah with a ballet focus and danced with the Utah Ballet for two years while finishing her high school education. She began her professional performance career with BalletMet under the leadership of David Nixon. Tong then moved to New York City, where she experimented in a wide-variety of freelance work before taking a position with Eliot Feld’s Ballet Tech, eventually joining Hubbard Street 2 in 2004 under the directorship of Julie Nakagawa. Tong advanced to the main company under Jim Vincent and continued under his successor, Glenn Edgerton, whose mentorship continues to this day. Over an 11-year span, Jessica was fortunate to dance with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on local and international stages, performing principal roles in works by Hubbard Street founder, Lou Conte, and by contemporary greats Nacho Duato, Mats Ek, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, and Twyla Tharp to name a few. She has also originated roles in works by Aszure Barton, Alejandro Cerrudo, Jorma Elo, Victor Quijada, and Robyn Mineko Williams, among others. Upon retiring from the stage, Tong assumed the role of Rehearsal Director at Hubbard Street, maintaining repertoire by the likes of Duato, Naharin, Crystal Pite and William Forsythe. Tong also assisted choreographers like Kyle Abraham, Brian Brooks, Rena Butler, and Osnel Delgado on new creations for the company. In Spring 2020, Tong was named Associate Artistic Director and led the company in a programming pivot. In this new role Tong planned and directed Hubbard Street’s first ever all-virtual Season 43, presenting five new dance films free of charge to online audiences everywhere, and created programming that partnered with Chicago DanceMakers Forum and Final Bow for Yellowface. Named one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch in 2009, Jessica has served on the Dance Ambassador committee for Dance for Life Chicago, served on national grants panels including the 92nd St Y’s Inaugural Future Dance Festival, and in 2013 had the honor of traveling to North Africa as part of DanceMotion USA, a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and Brooklyn Academy of Music that facilitated cross-cultural exchange through dance. Tong has led Hubbard Street summer intensives, translated works as a repetiteur, and conducted master classes throughout the states.
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2021–22 HUBBARD STREET STAFF PROFILES Jonathan E. Alsberry (Rehearsal Director) from Normal, IL is a dance educator, creator and coach focused on inspiring excellence and joy in the study of Ballet, Jazz, and Modern techniques with a constant dedication to the exploration of artistry and the creative process. Currently the Rehearsal Director with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Jonathan began dancing with his mother Lyndetta and went on to graduate from The Chicago Academy for the Arts where he has since been a guest faculty member. In 2006 he received his BFA from The Juilliard School where he met Aszure Barton. Jonathan a.k.a “Jojo” is now dancer, rehearsal director, and creative collaborator with Aszure Barton & Artists and has assisted Mrs. Barton in over a dozen creations including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bayerische Staatsballett and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In 2007 Jonathan also joined the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and is currently a performer, rehearsal director and teaching artist with the company. He has shared two tours with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s “Hell’s Kitchen Dance” as well as “Evolution” with Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo. Other credits include The Chase Brock Experience, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Nilas Martins Dance Company, and Eisenhower Dance Ensemble. Since 2007, Jonathan has been teaching, coaching and creating work at various educational institutions including Arts Umbrella, Harvard University, University of California at Irvine, Springboard Danse Montreal, Ballet Hispánico and University of Southern California.
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HUBBARD STREET STAFF AND BOARD Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell Artistic Director David McDermott Executive Director Artistic Staff Jessica Tong Associate Artistic Director Jonathan E. Alsberry Rehearsal Director Krista Ellensohn Manager of Training Operations Administrative Staff Abby Olson General Manager
Youth, Education, and Community Programs Eboné Harden Director of Education Teaching Artist Faculty Carly Bress Jamie Brunson Layzabeth Gonzalez Rebeca G. Griffin Charli Harris Anne Kasdorf Danielle Kfoury Mara Noguez Daisy Rueda Julia Rzonca Isabelle Taylor
Larry Gilbert Immediate Past Chair, VP of Development Yasmine Winkler VP of Membership Bija Bennett Ross B. Bricker Heather Caruso Mara S. Georges Ronda Joubert Solange Sandy Lloyd Jasminka Milpak Marc Miller Debra Moritz Richard Rodes
Tyler Wilson Head of Wardrobe
Life Directors John W. Ballantine+ Corinne Brophy Edythe R. Cloonan++* Pam Crutchfield Sondra Berman Epstein+* Stanley M. Freehling* Charles R. Gardner Paul Gignilliat Sandra P. Guthman+ Gail Kalver James Mabie++* Marie E. O’Connor++* Byron Pollock++* Timothy Schwertfeger++ Jack D. Tovin Randy White William N. Wood Prince+
Erik Kaiko Director of Marketing & Communications
Board of Directors Steven Collens Chair
+ Past Board Chair ++ Past Board President *In Memoriam
Megan Moran Manager of Marketing & Communications
Kristin Conley President
Program Book Erik Kaiko Editor
Cait Lyon Finance Associate
Production Harrison Pearse Burke Director of Production
Belina Mizrahi, Arts FMS Financial Management Services
Kate Darby Stage Manager and Head of Props
External Affairs Katie Grogan Director of Development Melissa Rosenberg Individual Giving Manager Ashley Echevarría Development Coordinator Nikki Horwitz Grants Coordinator
Casey Doyle Head of Audio Jack Horwitch Head Electrician Kevin Upham Head Carpenter and Stage Operations
Camille E. Rudge Treasurer Jodi Patt Secretary
Communiqué Graphic Design Designer
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SUPPORT We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following corporations, foundations, government agencies, and individuals who made gifts to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago between January 1, 2021 and March 31, 2022. Their support kept the company moving, even while apart, and made the performance you enjoy today possible.
Corporate, Foundation & Government Support $100,000 and above Athletico Physical Therapy Polk Bros. Foundation Pritzker Foundation $50,000–$99,999 Chicago Athletic Clubs Hearst Foundations Julius N. Frankel Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Shubert Foundation $25,000–$49,999 The Arts Work Fund CIBC Commercial Banking Crown Family Philanthropies Illinois Arts Council Agency ITW PPM America, Inc./ Jackson National Life Insurance Prince Charitable Trusts Elizabeth Louise Smith Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation Anonymous (1)
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$10,000–$24,999 AbbVie Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Daniel H. Lome Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Sage Foundation The Siragusa Family Foundation Anonymous (1) $5,000–$9,999 Butler Family Foundation Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Exelon Dr. Scholl Foundation Golder Family Foundation Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P. Irving Harris Foundation Charles & M.R. Shapiro Foundation William Blair and Company, LLC Anonymous (1) $1,000–$4,999 Council for Canadian American Relations HMS Media Kovler Family Foundation Earl S. McDaniel Jr. Foundation Plus Power LLC Sahara Enterprises, Inc.
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Individual Support $100,000 and above Nancy A. Lauter and Alfred L. McDougal Charitable Fund
Liza Yntema, In support of female leadership in dance Anonymous (1)
$25,000—$99,999 Larry and Marla Gilbert Sandra and Jack Guthman
$2,500—$4,999 Meg and Tim Callahan Andrew Francis Bruce and Jamie Hague Mara Georges and Michael Mutz Patricia Harper Howard and Gail Lanznar Eric and Tammy Steele Anonymous (2)
$10,000—$24,999 Andrew and Shaun Block Ross B. Bricker and Nina Vinik Lewis Collens Steven Collens and Caralynn Nowinski Kristin Conley and Andrew Sudds Martha Struthers Farley and Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Debra Moritz R. Penny Rodes DeMott Richard L. Rodes James R. Schulte Yasmine and George Winkler Anonymous (1) $5,000—$9,999 John and Caroline Ballantine John Blosser Joel and Katie Cory Jana French and Peter Gotsch Charlie Gardner and Patti Eylar Ian Jacobs and Valerie Chang Kay Mabie Ron and Elise Magers Anthony Milian Melissa O’Malley Jodi Patt and Wesley Crampton Eleanor and William Revelle Burton and Sheli Rosenberg Kevin and Camille Rudge Jack and Niki Tovin Randy and Lisa White
$1,000—$2,499 Sandra Bass Jeff Corbin and Massimo Pacilli Thomas Durica and Susan Jacobs Ginger Farley and Bob Shapiro Thomas J. Feie James Huberty and Marc Giles Michael Grant and Carol McMahan Paul and Dedrea Gray, In the Works Fund Adam Grymkowski Jack Hartman J Michael Hemmer Kevin Kranzusch Rebecca N. Lin Solange Sandy Lloyd Walter Mah Susan Manning and Douglas Doetsch Kathleen Miles Sally and Ted Miller Jasminka Milpak and Daniel Lapish Gregory O’Leary and Family Victoria Priola John and Chris Ricketts
Lynn Ritchie Janice Rodgers Bonnie and Michael Rothman Allyson Sand Charles and Bea Schutz Jacqueline Smalley Michael Solomon and Carol McCardell John Tullsen Paul Waas Judy Wise Michael and Debbie Zimmerman Anonymous (2) $500—$999 Sid Bala Susan Bass and Stephen Marcus Linda Bierig Robert and Joell Brightfelt Thomas Broderick Howard and Carol Burnett Hugo and Catherine Chavez Dr. Bridget C. Coughlin Barbara and Michael Davis Joseph Deal Kathy DeHoff Judy Desenis and Scott Peterson Alec Dike Dr. Margaret Dolan Anton Engelmann Dr. Allison Finnegan Julie L. Gentes Paula Gilbert Rachel and Devin Gross Ada M. Gugenheim Connie Heller Carole Hildebrandt Eloise Hirschey Ed Hu Marsha Kamen
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SUPPORT Laura and Russell Karlins Karen Kirby Catherine and Douglas Knuth Terrel Lefferts Veronica Levine Katherine Lin James Mazurek Catherine McKegney Kristin McNeil Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Terry Mostrom Susan K. Mowery-Schalk Stacey Newman David Oskandy and Martha Garcia Barrafan Kesha Pate Dr. Karen Pierce Eleanor Pollack Helene Principato Alyssa Rapp and Hal Morris Chris and Ann Redgate Barbara Reed Carleen Schreder and Ralph Musicant Elizabeth and Steven Schultz Anand Shukla Karen Teitelbaum Wayne Tjaden
Mary Toll and William Heimann Michael and Linda Welsh Jay and Donna Williams William Ziemann Anonymous (2) $250—$499 Randy and Lorraine Barba Erik Birkerts and Alison Ranney Michelle T. Boone Myriam Bransfied Cindy Delmar William Drendel Salena and Doug Elish Cathy Ethridge Richard and Marjorie Ettlinger Elizabeth Fama and John Cochrane Molly Flanagan Camille Grejczyk Martin Grochala and Fred Reuland Elizabeth Halajian and Andrew Burdick Carey Heckman William Horton Daniel Jacobs John Jawor Gina Kennedy Janet Kleve
Winston Koh Pilar and Brian Korgel Michael Krauss Mark Larsen Josh Levin Samir Mayekar Jean Millhouser Margaret Mottier Jennifer Nelson A. Paton Alyssa Peterson John Pintozzi Michael Pipkin Andrew and Judy L. Porte Tara Rodman Anne Rogers Robert and Marsha Rosner Harriet and Irwin Ross Steve Roy and Lloyd Kohler Rosanna Santana Frank Schneider Janet Carl Smith and Mel Smith Randel Steele and Margaret Gonzales Marjorie Stinespring Sandra Van Tilburg Betsy Westhoff Karen Wilmot Ann Wise
Hubbard Street appreciates the support of all its donors and regrets the inability to list those who contributed less than $250 due to space limitations. For any corrections to program name listings please contact the Development Office at giving@ hubbardstreetdance.com.
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Gifts in Honor and Memory Tribute and Memorial gifts are a meaningful way to recognize individuals who have a connection to Hubbard Street. For more information or to make a gift please contact the Development Office at giving@hubbardstreetdance.com In memory of Edythe R. Cloonan Broad Street Homecare Randy and Lisa White Lauren Wolven and Family In honor of James Schulte Sid Bala In honor of Connie Shiau David J. Briggs In honor of Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell Meg and Timothy Callahan Paula Gilbert Randy and Lisa White In honor of Caryn Jendro and Phil Fensel Geri Colesworthy In memory of Marge Collens Lew Collens In honor of James Schulte and Katie Grogan Bridget C. Coughlin In honor of Jacqueline Burnett Nicole I. Dean In honor of the Parkinson’s Project Richard and Marjorie Ettlinger Dale Schlafer In memory of Susan Heston Brian Heston In honor of Camille Rudge Carole Hildebrandt In honor of Belina Mizrahi Shirlee and Douglas Hoffman
In honor of Linda Diamond Shapiro and Mark Shapiro Joanne Howard In honor of the retirement of Marilee C. Unruh Karen Kirby In honor of Rich Rodes Kevin Kranzusch In memory of Malcolm M. Lloyd, MD Solange Sandy Lloyd In honor of C.C. McKegney Catherine McKegney In honor of Marc Miller Sally and Ted Miller In honor of Katie Grogan Sarah R. Mischner In honor of Abby, Linda-D, David, and all the amazing HS dancers Kesha Marie Pate In honor of Chris Horsman’s birthday Donald Santoski and April Brazell In memory of Claire Bataille Elizabeth Stewart In memory of Frances Glickman Barbara Vertel In honor of Steven Collens’s birthday Terry Holzman In honor of Jack Tovin Hal and Lisa Tovin Gift Fund
In memory of Byron Pollock and Don Ratner Sheldon Holzman
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Contributed Materials and Services Alexandra Wells Arts Consulting Group Athletico Physical Therapy Campbell & Company C5 create with no limits
Chicago Athletic Clubs Microsoft Corporation Taste Media Group Tessitura
Special Services Allied Integrated Marketing Advertising
Jenner & Block Legal Services
Athletico Physical Therapy Official Provider of Physical Therapy
Kathryn Humphreys Educational Consulting
Arts FMS Financial Management Services
Paul Octavious Season 44 Identity Photography
Chicago Athletic Clubs Official Health Club
Hogan McLaughlin Season 44 Identity Styling
Campbell & Company Development Consulting
Frank Ishman Headshots and Bio Photography
Arts Consulting Group Executive Search and Strategic Planning
Motion/Pictures Dance Project Inside the Studio Production Team
Colin DeJong, Jeremy Harris Accompanists
Taste Media Group 2021 Spotlight Ball Producer
Savills Real Estate
Carol Fox & Associates Public Relations
Quarles & Brady Legal Services
Communiqué Graphic Design Graphic Design
Franczek P.C. Legal Services
Celine Berthaud, Peter Chu, Paige Cunningham, Meredith Dincolo, Ashley Rockwood, Laura Wade Company Teachers
Lou Conte Founders Society
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is grateful to the following individuals who have included us in their estate plans. Our future is more secure because of their generosity. Meg and Tim Callahan Josephine H. Deutsch* Marge* and Lew Collens Denise Stefan Ginascol and John Ginascol Jane Ellen Murray Edward and Gayla Nieminen Sarah J. Nolan James F. Oates*
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Edna K. Papazian* Byron Pollock Alyssa J. Rapp Richard L. Rodes Landon N. Stigall* Sandra Van Tilburg J. Randall White *deceased
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Endowments Hubbard Street Dance Chicago gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the following donors to the Endowment for Health and Wellness and the Endowment for Artistic Programs, which was established with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation. $100,000 and above Meg and Tim Callahan Pamela Crutchfield The Davee Foundation Josephine H. Deutsch Trust The Ford Foundation Jay Franke and David Herro The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Jim and Kay Mabie Nancy A. Lauter & Alfred L. McDougal Charitable Fund Timothy R. Schwertfeger and Gail Waller $50,000–$99,999 Sara Albrecht John and Caroline Ballantine Deborah Bricker Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein Sandra and Jack Guthman Mrs. Eleanor Wood Prince William N. Wood Prince The Rhoades Foundation Earl and Sandra Rusnak Randy and Lisa White $25,000–$49,999 Lew Collens Harold Florsheim Paul and Ellen Gignilliat Bernard and Averill Leviton Dale and Dana Machalleck James F. Oates Randy White and Hope Wollman
$10,000–$24,999 Dean Balice Katherine and Christopher Barber Roger and Julie Baskes Joseph and Anne Bohne Janice Y. Burnham and Raymond B. Carney James and Edie Cloonan Joel and Katie Cory Allan and Ellen Drebin Susan and Bryan Erler Trudy Giesel Denise Stefan Ginascol and John Ginascol Mary Louise Gorno Jacqueline Hurlbutt and Norman Waite Sarah J. Nolan Dina Norris and Steve Young Byron and Judy Pollock Sally and Ellis Regenbogen Eleanor and William Revelle Dana and Andre Rice Kevin and Camille Rudge* Warren D. Shifferd Jr. Richard and Ann Tomlinson Robert and Nancy Unglaub Earl and Susan Webb Sallyan Windt $5,000–$9,999 Julia Antonatos Sanchen Barnum William and Donna Barrows The Sidney and June Barrows Foundation Corinne Brophy Carla J. Eyre and Peter F. Gallagher Patti Eylar and Charles Gardner
Judith Grubner and Craig Jobson Stephanie Hickman Linda Hutson Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Pat Pulido Sanchez and Manuel Sanchez John Schwartz Kenneth Shanoff and Steve Young Deborah and Kelly Stonebraker Jack and Niki Tovin $1,000–$4,999 Kathy Catrambone Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Carolyn Clift Thomas and Lois Colberg Jocelyn B. Hamlar and Leighton J. Toney Jastromb Family Philanthropic Fund Rachel Corn Kluge and Scott Kluge David Mekemson and Irene Petruniak Maureen Mosh Donald Ratner Patrick J. Schieble Richard Turner and David Jenkins $250–$999 Bill Nygren Foundation Todd Magazine Sheila Owens Steven and Frances Shapiro
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Harris Theater Information COVID Protocols: All audience members attending performances inside the Theater will be required to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test prior to entering the facility. In addition, all audience members will be required to wear a mask while inside the venue, regardless of vaccination status. For more information, visit harristheaterchicago.org/faqs. In Consideration of Other Patrons and the Performers: Please turn off all cell phones. Photography is not permitted in the Theater at any time and texting during performance is strictly prohibited. Film or digital images will be confiscated or deleted by the Harris Theater house staff; violators will be subject to a fine. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. Smoking is prohibited within the Harris Theater. Allowance of personal items and baggage into the auditorium space is at the sole discretion of house management. For Your Safety: Please take a moment and note the nearest exit. In the event of an emergency, follow the directions of the Harris Theater house staff. In the event of an illness or injury, inform the Harris Theater Front of House Manager. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seating locations, swing arm aisle seating, and inclusive/wheelchair accessible restrooms are available on all auditorium seating levels. The Harris is also equipped with an Infrared Assistive Listening Device system. Headsets are available for check out with a valid ID. Large print programs are available for all Harris Theater Presents engagements. Please call the Box Office in advance at 312.334.7777 regarding ticketing and accessible seating questions. If inquiring on any additional accommodation requests to enhance your performance experience, please reach out to access@harristheaterchicago.org or call 312.334.2486 at least two weeks in advance. Parking: Discounted parking validation is available for all ticket holders using the Millennium Park Garage. A validation machine is located on Lobby Level 5 (Upper Randolph). Rental Information: If you have any questions about the Harris Theater, including rental of the facility, group tours, or volunteer opportunities, please email rentals@harristheaterchicago.org. Harris Theater Mission: The Harris Theater is Chicago’s home for music and dance, connecting diverse audiences with artists from across the city, the nation, and the world. Opened in 2003 in Millennium Park, the Theater was the first multi-use performance venue built in downtown Chicago since 1929, and fulfilled the city’s need for a shared home for mid-size performing arts organizations. Today, the Harris features some of the most diverse arts and culture offerings of any venue in the city, and is a distinctive model for artistic quality, collaboration, and making the performing arts relevant and accessible to the widest possible audience. Founded on the principle of serving Chicago’s vibrant creative community, the Theater is the home venue of more than 25 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations. The Harris Theater Presents series has featured world-renowned artists and ensembles including Laurie Anderson, Batsheva Dance, English National Ballet, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, Angélique Kidjo, and Paris Opéra Ballet. The Theater’s community engagement initiatives build bridges between artists and community members, providing master classes, artist talks, and free tickets for more than 35 partner organizations throughout Chicago. To learn more about the Harris Theater, Chicago’s state-of-the-art 1,500-seat performance venue in Millennium Park, visit harristheaterchicago.org. Next page: Top left: Andrew Murdock in BUSK by Aszure Barton, 2021. Photo by Michelle Reid. Top right: Andrew Murdock in QUINTETT by William Forsythe, 2015. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. Bottom left: Kevin J. Shannon in JARDI TANCAT by Nacho Duato, 2021. Photo by Michelle Reid. Bottom right: Kevin J. Shannon in GNAWA by Nacho Duato, 2013. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
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Thank You
ANDREW & KEVIN!
Join us in celebrating Andrew Murdock and Kevin J. Shannon, retiring from Hubbard Street Dance Chicago this year. We are so grateful for the impact they have each made on HSDC, our audiences, and our community.
ANDREW MURDOCK
Company Member since 2013
KEVIN J. SHANNON
Company Member since 2007
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UP NEXT Season 45: Sapphire Season brings you an evolved Hubbard Street Dance Chicago— recharged and ready to bring artistry, entertainment, and incredible dance to the city of Chicago and beyond. Stay tuned for our season announcement Summer 2022.
Hubbard Street Dancer Alexandria Best. Photo by Michelle Reid, styling by Imani Sade.