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Glenn Edgerton Artistic Director

Spring Series March 12–15 Featuring Sarabande + Falling Angels by Jiří Kylián Cloudless Alejandro Cerrudo Gnawa bybyNacho Duato AQuintett Picture of Falling

by Crystal Pite HUBBARD STREET PREMIERE byYou William Forsythe (Thursday, Saturday and Sunday) IThe am Impossible, Mister B by Gustavo Sansano WORLD PREMIERE a WorldRamírez Premiere

by Alejandro Cerrudo

Falling Angels by Jiří Kylián (Friday only) PACOPEPEPLUTO by Alejandro Cerrudo (Friday only)

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Hubbard Street Dancer Kellie Epperheimer. Photo by Quinn B Wharton. hubbardstreetdance.com

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A letter from Glenn Edgerton, Artistic Director Thank you for joining us for the Spring Series, our third program in Season 37.

I’m excited to welcome back a choreographer familiar to Chicago’s dance community, and to present a new voice known throughout the world of contemporary dance.

I’ve watched Gustavo Ramírez Sansano since his earliest days as a professional dancer. While I was in Holland, directing Nederlands Dans Theater’s main company, Gustavo was part of the junior ensemble NDT 2. He was also with Hubbard Street for a brief tenure, which happened before my time, but we reconnected when he returned to Chicago as artistic director of Luna Negra Dance Theater. Gustavo has quickly and justifiably grown as a creative force, commissioned throughout Europe and the United States, and I’m thankful for the Harris Theater’s help in making his world premiere possible.

Tchaikovsky’s score for Gustavo’s new piece, I am Mister B, will be familiar to many dance fans. In 1947, the great 20th century master of American ballet, George Balanchine, used it to create his Theme and Variations — still a landmark work of neoclassicism. Forty-seven years later, Jiří Kylián borrowed its rousing finale for Arcimboldo, made in celebration of the 35th anniversary of NDT and Kylián’s 20th year with the company. Gustavo has performed both works and now we have his own interpretation to share, created by a new generation of dance artists, drawing upon their unique talents and techniques.

We’re also celebrating Hubbard Street’s first presentation of choreography by Crystal Pite. Our company premiere, A Picture of You Falling, is an intimate work for a single dancer, and I encourage you to return for our 2015–16 season here at the Harris Theater for more from this incredible, international artist. More of what to expect during our 38th season will be announced shortly.

Completing this Spring Series program are Alejandro Cerrudo’s poetic women’s duet Cloudless, Kylián’s haunting yet playful Sarabande, and his vibrant Falling Angels. We’re thrilled to be able to bring back Third Coast Percussion, whose dynamic drumming brings Steve Reich’s score for Falling Angels to vivid life. Thank you for sharing this evening with us — we hope you enjoy it.

Yours truly,

Glenn Edgerton Artistic Director Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

Left: Choreographer Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, foreground, in rehearsal with Hubbard Street Dancer Ana Lopez. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

Cover: Hubbard Street Dancers Alice Klock, left, and Jonathan Fredrickson.

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Glenn Edgerton Artistic Director

Jason D. Palmquist Executive Director

Lou Conte Founder

Terence Marling Director, Hubbard Street 2

Lucas Crandall Rehearsal Director

Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll General Manager

Alejandro Cerrudo Resident Choreographer

Claire Bataille Director, Lou Conte Dance Studio Jason Brown Director of Production

Rebecca M. Shouse Wardrobe Supervisor

Marisa C. Santiago Manager of Artistic Operations and HS2 Company Manager

Julie E. Ballard Stage Manager and Properties Master

Ishanee DeVas Company Manager

Stephan Panek Head Carpenter and Stage Operations

Bill Melamed Chief Marketing and Development Officer

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Kathryn Humphreys Director, Education, Youth and Community Programs Season Sponsors

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This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.

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Commissioning Partners, I am Mister B by Gustavo RamĂ­rez Sansano: Harris Theater for Music and Dance & See the Dance Consortium.

Additional support from the Imagine campaign is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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Preferred Hotel Partner Hubbard Street Dancers Johnny McMillan and Emilie Leriche. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.

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Thank you to our Commissioning Partners

I am Mister B is commissioned by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and the See the Dance Consortium, with additional support from the Imagine campaign provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Harris Theater is also pleased to recognize the following individuals who made a new or additional gift to the See the Dance Consortium in support of this project: Ethel and Bill Gofen

Pamela Crutchfield, Lead Commissioning Partner

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Kristin Conley and Andrew Sudds

Sandra McNaughton

Jennifer and Scott Edgcomb

James Peterson and Kathleen Beaulieu

Patti Eylar and Charles Gardner

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Terri and Stephen Geifman

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Choreographer Gustavo RamĂ­rez Sansano. Photo by Jonathan Mackoff. hubbardstreetdance.com

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Q&A with Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, choreographer of I am Mister B In dance, most people associate Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 3 for Orchestra with George Balanchine, who used it for his 1947 ballet Theme and Variations. How long have you wanted to choreograph your own version?

I’m always thinking of the classics I might do, although I never actually did my own version of one until Carmen. Quixoteland [in 2011] didn’t really have much to do with [the Imperial Russian ballet Don Quixote]; we used the same music, but the book more as a metaphor.

All of the ballets that really spoke to me came from George Balanchine. To me, he was the one who figured out how to use ballet. It doesn’t work so well for telling stories. Ballet was his way of speaking, and he found the perfect setting for it, where the beauty and the energy of the body and more simple concepts could come across.

Even though I’ve known for a long time I’ve wanted to do something with Theme and Variations, I didn’t know exactly how. I was listening to the music and imagined a voice, which is how I came to involve Mario [Alberto Zambrano, a former Hubbard Street company member turned novelist], to start working on the text. And then it happened that I would come to choreograph for Hubbard Street through the Harris Theater commission, and [Glenn Edgerton and I] were talking about the other pieces on this program — the Kylián pieces, this Crystal Pite solo and Alejandro’s duet — and it all made sense for my Theme and Variations to happen here and now.

But this isn’t your first-ever “Mr. B” piece, correct?

Right. I did a duet called 2 and 1 for Mr. B. The “2” referred to the dancers, who were Mario and me, and the “1” was a cellist. It was commissioned to open a gala in Cannes in 2004, Les Étoiles de Ballet, which celebrates awards given by the European dance magazine Ballet2000. Balanchine was the focus that year, as it would’ve been his 100th birthday.

What other “Mr. B” pieces would you like to do?

Someday I would love to do my version of his Sylvia Pas de Deux.

Were you at all intimidated by the Tchaikovsky? It’s such big music, especially that closing Polonaise.

A few people have asked me that question since I got here, [Laughs] but no, not really. I have so much love for Balanchine and his work, for his energy and his way, that inspires me to move and to enjoy dance. It’s all positive, for me, to be inspired to make something.

There’s no bad feeling.

Tell us about coming back to Hubbard Street. You joined the company after being in Nederlands Dans Theater 2…when?

In 2000 and 2001 and, after that, I started choreographing. I was in Hubbard Street for only one season, when the [West Loop] building was brand new. I was overloaded in Holland, and it was exciting to get back to enjoying dancing again.

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How do you mean “overloaded”?

We danced way too much in NDT 2 — too many shows, all through the summer. I was already exhausted when I got to Chicago. Here I had the space to think about choreographing more, to make that decision which, still, I think I made the right choice, to transition then into being a choreographer.

Hubbard Street’s Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, the annual showcase of dancercreated work, began during that time. Did you participate?

Yes, that was the first one. I think I might’ve had something to do with it starting, actually. From the day I arrived at Hubbard Street, I kept asking Jim [Vincent, then Artistic Director], “Let me choreograph something. Anything!” [Laughs] He saw I was already having trouble focusing on being a dancer and, at the end of the season, he created Inside/Out for all of the dancers who wanted to try choreography. I made a piece called Tito, which I later turned into a longer piece for some dancers in Barcelona.

The company dancers have been saying two things since you arrived: That they’re having a lot of fun working with you, and that it’s really, really difficult choreography.

[Laughs] Well, it’s good that they’re enjoying themselves. I love working with everyone here. Being a choreographer, it’s not so much about having knowledge. It’s about transmitting something, I think, through the body, in conversation. I know what it is to do my movement, in my body, but I don’t know what it is, finally, as choreography, until I teach it to someone else.

Dancing is so personal — you need to constantly be checking in with other people while you build it up. Even the very best dancers, like at Hubbard Street: You can’t just give them a piece like this, all at once. And it takes many years of working with many, many different dancers to learn how to help people understand you.

How do you like being back in Chicago?

No other place has made me feel as welcome. I’ve been in New York a lot in the past year and been complaining about it, comparing it to Chicago. [Laughs] Do you have more choreographic adaptations in the works this year?

Yes, I have to premiere The Rite of Spring for Ballet BC [in Vancouver, Canada] and, in Lucerne, [Switzerland] I have a Giselle.

The entire Romantic ballet Giselle?

[Nods “Yes.”] Where has home been for you, for the last year and a half?

It’s supposed to be in Spain, in Alicante, where I’m from — but I never see it. I only change suitcases there.

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You’ve worked with Luis Crespo a few times before, including for CARMEN. maquia, your 2012 reimagining of Bizet’s opera.

How did you ask him to approach designing the décor for I am Mister B? I just told him the feeling that I wanted, that sense of a gala. We talked about George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations — something elegant, a celebration — and also court dances. He started with the court dance idea and came up with this whole “torso,” where the top [of the proscenium] has a bow, like the neckties Balanchine would wear, which makes the curtains, then, like his jacket and shirt, in a way.

And that echoes the costume designs.

Right. The dancers: They’re all Balanchine, who was commonly known as “Mister B.” In this piece, the stage is like his imagination, his soul.

Above: Set design concept for I am Mister B by Luis Crespo.

Below: Costume design concept for I am Mister B by Branimira Ivanova.

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Sarabande Jiří Kylián, Choreography, Set Design, Lighting Design Concept Glenn Edgerton, Urtzi Aranburu, Staging Johann Sebastian Bach, Music, electronically arranged by Dick Heuff Joop Caboort, Lighting Design Realization Joost Biegelaar, Technical Adaptation Joke Visser, Costume Design

Falling Angels Jiří Kylián, Choreography Steve Reich, Music Joop Caboort, Lighting Design, after a concept by Jiří Kylián Joost Biegelaar, Technical Adaptation Joke Visser, Costume Design Roslyn Anderson, Assistant to the Choreographer and Staging Choreographed between 1986 and 1991, Jiří Kylián’s six “black and white” works are among the most influential in Western contemporary dance. In spring 2014, Hubbard Street added two of these works — Falling Angels (1989) and Sarabande (1990) — to three more already in the company’s repertoire: Petite Mort, Sechs Tänze and No More Play.

For six men and set to Bach’s second partita for solo violin, with electronically manipulated sound made live by the dancers’ bodies and voices, Sarabande uses indelible stage imagery to suggest the vast range of psychological states experienced throughout a lifetime.

Eight women remain onstage throughout Falling Angels, a group continually fractured and recombined by the endlessly inventive patterning of Kylián’s choreography and lighting design, both keenly illustrative of Steve Reich’s phased-percussion score.

Sarabande was created for and premiered by Nederlands Dans Theater at the AT&T Danstheater, September 13, 1990, Den Haag, the Netherlands. Falling Angels was created for and premiered by Nederlands Dans Theater at the AT&T Danstheater, November 23, 1989, Den Haag, the Netherlands. Both works were first performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL, March 13, 2014. Music for Sarabande is by Johann Sebastian Bach: “Partita No. 2 in D Minor,” from the album J.S. Bach: 3 Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin, as performed by Gidon Kremer. Electronically arranged by Dick Heuff, courtesy of Dick Heuff. Used by permission of Universal Music Group. Music for Falling Angels is by Steve Reich: “Drumming: Part I,” performed by Third Coast Percussion. By arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, publisher and copyright owner.

Sarabande and Falling Angels are sponsored by Sara Albrecht and Richard L. Rodes. Additional support is provided by Choreographer’s Circle Member Sarah J. Nolan.

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Cloudless Alejandro Cerrudo, Choreography Nils Frahm, Music Burke Brown, Lighting Design Branimira Ivanova, Costume Design A pair of women echo, reflect and shadow each other in Alejandro Cerrudo’s intimate, encrypted first duet for female dancers. Berlin-based composer Nils Frahm’s progression from classical student — scholar Nahum Benari was an early teacher — to contemporary creative artist mirrors Cerrudo’s own path into and through choreography.

Created for and premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago October 10, 2013 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL. Music by Nils Frahm: “Less” and “Kind,” from the album Felt. Courtesy of Erased Tapes Music. Used by permission of Manners McDade. Cloudless is funded in part by 2013 Fall Series sponsors Marge and Lew Collens, J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation, and John and Jeanne Rowe. Individual sponsors are Dirk Denison and David Salkin.

Additional support is provided by Choreographer’s Circle Members Meg and Tim Callahan.

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A Picture of You Falling Crystal Pite, Choreography and Text Owen Belton, Music Kate Strong, Voice Alan Brodie, Lighting Design Linda Chow, Costume Design Peter Chu, Staging Hubbard Street’s debut in choreography by acclaimed artist Crystal Pite, A Picture of You Falling exists in two versions, both of which premiered in 2008: a duet for dancers Peter Chu and Anne Plamondon, and this solo, first performed by Pite herself for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award Gala in Ottawa.

“I am fascinated by the shared narratives that live in our bodies — the familiar, repetitive storylines that move across cultures and generations — and the body’s role as their illustrator,” says Pite. “I’m curious about the ways in which the body can convey profound meaning through the simplest of gestures, and how distortion, iteration and analysis of familiar human action provide opportunities to recognize and re-frame ourselves in one another.”

Created and first performed by choreographer Crystal Pite at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 3, 2008. Duet version further adapted for and premiered by Kidd Pivot as part of The You Show, premiered at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, November 4, 2010. Solo version first performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago March 12, 2015 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL. Original music by Owen Belton. A Picture of You Falling is sponsored by Choreographer’s Circle Member Sara Albrecht. Special thanks to Jim French, Nederlands Dans Theater and NDT alumnus Jiří Pokorný, and Peter Chu.

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I am Mister B Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, Choreography Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Music Mario Alberto Zambrano, Text Jared B. Moore, Lighting Design Luis Crespo, Set Design Branimira Ivanova, Costume Design “It’s very special for me to return to Chicago, a city that’s shown so much love and support for my work, and to Hubbard Street, where I danced early in my career as a performer. This occasion has inspired me to create a little celebration of dance, in tribute to George Balanchine, whose Theme and Variations was a favorite work of mine to perform when I was a ballet dancer. With I am Mister B, I hope to keep the energy and feeling of that classic piece alive.” —Gustavo Ramírez Sansano This original work for Hubbard Street’s ensemble, set to the final movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s third suite for orchestra in G major (op. 55, 1884), reunites the creative team behind Ramírez Sansano’s 2012 choreographic interpretation of Bizet’s opera, CARMEN.maquia.

Created for and premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL, March 12, 2015. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “Theme & Variations: Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55, IV: Theme,” and “Theme & Variations: Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55, IV: Variations I–XII,” from the album Tchaikovsky: Onegin, Theme and Variations, Ballet Imperial. As performed by Lovro von Matačič and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano. Courtesy of Warner Music Group. I am Mister B was commissioned by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and the See the Dance Consortium, with additional support from the Imagine campaign provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, foreground, in rehearsal with Hubbard Street Dancers Ana Lopez, left, and David Schultz.

Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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Hubbard Street Staff and Board Administration Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll General Manager 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 and Company Manager, Hubbard Street 2 Jessica Lotz Accounting and Operations Coordinator Grace Kowalski Sofia Pilar Artistic Administration Interns Natalie Breitmeyer LCDS Kemper Fellow Jennifer McAllister LCDS Intern External Affairs Bill Melamed Chief Marketing and Development Officer Kalena Chevalier Associate Director of Development Ronia Holmes Associate Director of Marketing Nicole Dionisio Annual Fund Manager Allan Waite Manager of Ticketing and Patron Services Zachary Whittenburg Manager of Communication Ron Wittman Manager of Corporate and Foundation Relations Victoria Palmer Marketing Coordinator Meghan Pioli Development Coordinator Sidney Cristol Advertising, Sales and Ticketing Jose E. Gaona Holden Scheidel Development Interns Sarah Godlewski Video Production Intern

Education, Youth and Community Programs Kathryn Humphreys Director, Education, Youth and Community Programs Sarah McCarty Senior Manager of School Partnerships

Meg Siegler Callahan+, Immediate Past Chair Caryn Jacobs, VP of Development Karen H. Lennon+, VP of Board Development Alyssa Rapp, Assistant VP of Board Development

Kelsey Allison Youth Programs Manager

Marc Miller+, VP of the Artist Training Continuum

Michelle Modrzejewski Community Programs Manager

Richard F. Tomlinson II, VP of Facilities

Jennifer Gunter Youth Programs Fellow

Marge Collens+ Sarah J. Nolan Byron Pollock++ Denise Stefan-Ginascol Randy White

Jessica Madden Teaching Artist Fellow Kayla White Intern Production Staff Jason Brown Director of Production Ishanee DeVas Company Manager Julie E. Ballard Stage Manager and Properties Master Kilroy G. Kundalini Audio Engineer Stephan Panek Head Carpenter and Stage Operations Sam Begich Master Electrician Toria Gibson Production Intern Wardrobe Staff Rebecca M. Shouse Wardrobe Supervisor Carol Miller Constance Thome Drapers Redding Baker Eli Hunstand Stitchers Jenni Schwaner Ladd Touring Wardrobe Board of Directors Mayor Rahm Emanuel Honorary Chair Executive Committee Ellis Regenbogen++, Chair Sara Albrecht, President Camille E. Rudge, Secretary

Directors at Large Ross B. Bricker Corinne Brophy Joel Cory Dirk Denison Damian V. Dolyniuk Michael Downing Allan Drebin Paul Gignilliat Linda Hutson Karen Kuenster Betsy Stelle Morgan Maureen Mosh James F. Oates+ Sheila Owens Lauren Robishaw Ross Shelleman Deborah Stonebraker John E. Vazquez Life Directors Sandra P. Guthman+ John W. Ballantine+ Edythe R. Cloonan++ Sondra Berman Epstein+ Stanley M. Freehling Charles R. Gardner James Mabie++ Marie E. O’Connor++ Timothy Schwertfeger++ Jack D. Tovin Sallyan Windt William N. Wood Prince+ + Past Board Chair ++ Past Board President

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CHOREOGRAPHER PROFILES Alejandro Cerrudo (Dancer and Resident Choreographer) was born in Madrid, Spain and trained at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid. His professional career began in 1998 and includes work with Victor Ullate Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater 2. Cerrudo joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2005, was named Choreographic Fellow in 2008, and became the company’s first Resident Choreographer in 2009. 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 “Restless Creature,” and he was recently announced the 2014 USA Donnelley Fellow by United States Artists. Photo by Jim Newberry.

Peter Chu (Staging, A Picture of You Falling) began training as a competitive gymnast before nurturing his artistry at Dussich Dance Studio on Florida’s Merritt Island. Chu pushed further into his study of technique while making his first forays into choreography under the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, where he was awarded the Hector Zaraspe Prize for Choreography upon completion of his BFA. He has performed and toured internationally with Edgar Zendejas’ ezdanza, Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, and BJM Danse, formerly Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal; his commercial work includes A New Day in Las Vegas, starring Celine Dion, and the lead role in singer Christina Perri’s music video for “Jar of Hearts.” Choreographic credits include two seasons of So You Think You Can Dance on Fox TV and the ARTV series Meneuse de Claques in Québec; original works for Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Orlando Ballet Theatre, Houston Met Dance Company, Nederlands Dans Theater’s Summer Intensive and the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival; and Naomi Stikeman’s Çaturn, consulted by Robert Lepage. Chu has guest-taught and served as faculty for numerous programs and organizations throughout Canada and the U.S. including BODYTRAFFIC, the 24 SEVEN Dance Convention, Western Michigan University, the Movement Invention Project and Springboard Danse Montréal. In 2008, Chu formed his own project-based company, chuthis, which has offered intensive programs in Fresno and Costa Rica, and presented its popular production Nothing Sticks in Vancouver, Las Vegas and New York City. He recently commenced a new solo while in residence at Vancouver’s theater and gallery for contemporary art, The Cultch; the project premieres in spring 2015 at the West Las Vegas Library Theatre. Visit chuthis.net to learn more. Photo by Levi Walker.

Choreographer Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He enrolled in the School of the National Ballet Prague at age nine and, in 1962, was accepted into the Prague Conservatory, where he trained with Zora Semberova and other instructors, and created his first two works of choreography. In 1967, Kylián received a scholarship to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, where he met choreographer John Cranko, who invited Kylián to join Germany’s Stuttgart Ballet. Kylián remained with the company as a dancer and choreographer through Cranko’s sudden passing in 1973 and the subsequent direction of choreographer Glen Tetley. After creating three works for Nederlands Dans Theater as a guest choreographer, Kylián joined the company as co–artistic director, with Hans Knill. The creation of Sinfonietta for NDT to perform at the Spoleto Festival–USA in 1978 heralded Kylián’s arrival as a major international artist; his Symphony of Psalms premiered the same year. In the early 1980s, Kylián’s travels to Australia to study aboriginal dances inspired new ideas in his choreography and the works Stamping Ground and Dream Time. Kylián and NDT’s founding managing director Carel Birnie created a second ensemble, NDT 2, for early-career artists, and

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SPRING SERIES between 1980 and 2000, NDT 1 commissioned Christopher Bruce, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin and many more, in addition to presenting masterworks by Hans van Manen, Glen Tetley and others. In 1990, he launched NDT 3, for accomplished dancers over the age of 40. Kylián passed the artistic directorship of NDT’s three ensembles to the next generation of leadership in 1999 while remaining choreographer for the company through 2009. Kylián has created more than 100 original works to date; recent projects include the film Between Entrance & Exit (2013). Kylián’s honors and recognitions include the ranks of Commander of the Legion of Honor (France) and Officer of the Order of Oranje Nassau (the Netherlands), a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Venice Biennale, three Nijinsky Awards for Choreography (Monaco), two Prix Benois de la Danse prizes (Moscow, Berlin), two Sir Laurence Olivier Awards (London), a Knight’s Cross from President Aleksander Kwaśniewski (Poland), a cultural award for Arts and Sciences from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, a Golden Medal for Outstanding Merits from President Václav Havel of the Czech Republic, honorary doctorates from the Juilliard School (United States) and the Music Academy Prague (Czech Republic), La Medaille d’Or from the city of Lyon (France), an award for Exceptional Achievements in Choreography and Dance (Czech Ministry of Culture), an Angel Award from the Edinburgh International Festival, the First Cultural Award of the City of the Hague (the Netherlands), a Dance Magazine Award, a Carina Ari Medal (Stockholm), the Dvořák Award (Prague), the West End Theatre Award (London), the Hans Christian Andersen Ballet Award (Copenhagen) and the Prix Italia for Video (Torino). Visit jirikylian.com to learn more. Photo copyright Mike van Sleen.

Born in Terrace, British Columbia and raised on the Canadian west coast, choreographer and performer Crystal Pite is a former company member of Ballet British Columbia and William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt. Pite’s professional choreographic debut was in 1990, at Ballet British Columbia; since then, she has created more than 40 works for companies such as Nederlands Dans Theater, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt, the National Ballet of Canada, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, and Louise Lecavalier / Fou Glorieux, plus collaborations with the Electric Company Theatre and acclaimed director Robert Lepage. In 2002, Pite formed the company Kidd Pivot, which integrates movement, original music, text and rich visual design, balancing sharp exactitude with irreverence and risk. Kidd Pivot tours nationally and internationally, performing critically acclaimed works including Dark Matters, Lost Action, The You Show and The Tempest Replica. Pite is the recipient of the Banff Centre’s Clifford E. Lee Award (1995), the Bonnie Bird North American Choreography Award (2004), the Isadora Award (2005), two Dora Mavor Moore Awards (2009 and 2012), a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award (2006) and the Governor General of Canada’s Performing Arts Award, Mentorship Program (2008). Pite also received the 2011 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the inaugural Lola Award in 2012, and the Canada Council’s 2012 Jacqueline Lemieux Prize.

Visit kiddpivot.org to learn more. Photo by Michael Slobodian.

Gustavo Ramírez Sansano (San Fulgencio, Spain) was artistic director of Chicago’s Luna Negra Dance Theater from 2009–13 following four years directing proyectoTITOYAYA in Valencia, Spain. Awards and recognitions he’s received for his choreography include first prizes at the Ricard Moragas competition in Barcelona, the Prix Dom Pérignon in Hamburg, and Las Artes Escénicas de la Comunidad Valenciana. International companies that have commissioned new works by Ramírez Sansano include Balé Teatro Guaíra, Ballet BC, Ballet Hispanico, Ballet Junior de Genève, BalletMet Columbus, Balletto dell’Esperia, Budapest Dance Theater, Compañía Nacional de Danza, Gyori Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, IT Dansa, Nederlands Dans Theater, Norrdans, Otra Danza and TanzTheater München. During his career onstage, Ramírez Sansano performed works by choreographers Jacopo Godani, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián, Paul Lightfoot, Hans van Manen, Ohad Naharin, Victor Ullate and others, often originating roles, at Ballet Joven de Alicante, Ballet Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid, Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Ramírez Sansano was named one of 15 choreographers to watch by POR LA DANZA magazine for its 15th anniversary, one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine, and a Chicagoan of the Year in the arts and entertainment by the Chicago Tribune in 2012. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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About Hubbard Street Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s core purpose is to bring artists, art and audiences together to enrich, engage, educate, transform and change lives through the experience of dance. Celebrating its 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.

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 strategy 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 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and other institutions keep Hubbard Street deeply connected to its hometown. To the company’s repertoire, Edgerton has extended relationships with its signature choreographers while adding significant new voices such as Kyle Abraham, Mats Ek, Sharon Eyal, Alonzo King and Victor Quijada.

Claire Bataille, left, and Ginger Farley in Case Closed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, 1986. Photo by Jennifer Girard.

Isaac Spencer, left, and Erin Derstine in Float

by Julian Barnett, 2006. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

Choreographer Mats Ek, left, rehearses Quinn B Wharton in Casi-Casa, 2012. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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Shannon Alvis, left, and Terence Marling in Extremely Close

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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 Youth, Education and Community Programs are national benchmarks for partnership, dance education and urban school research. In 2008, the Parkinson’s Project became the first dance class in the Midwest for those affected by Parkinson’s disease and, with The Autism Project pilot in 2014, it’s now part of Hubbard Street’s growing Adaptive Dance Programs. Youth Dance Programs for students ages 18 months to 16 years emphasize creative expression and are offered year-round at the Hubbard Street Dance Center.

At the Lou Conte Dance Studio — where Hubbard Street began in 1974 — workshops and master classes allow access to expertise, while a broad variety of weekly classes offer training at all levels in jazz, ballet, modern, tap, African, hip-hop, yoga, Pilates® and dance fitness.

Visit hubbardstreetdance.com to learn more.

Above left: Frank Chaves and Leslie Stevens in Mae by Richard Levi, 1987.

Archival photo.

Above right: Hubbard Street 2 in The 40s by Lou Conte, 2003. Archival photo.

Center: Tobin Del Cuore, left, and Cheryl Mann in Gimme

by Lucas Crandall, 2004. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

Ron De Jesús, left, Krista Ledden and Ensemble in I Remember Clifford

by Twyla Tharp, 1996. Photo by Ruedi Hofmann.

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STAFF PROFILES Glenn Edgerton (Artistic Director) joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago after an international career as a dancer and director. At the Joffrey Ballet, he performed leading roles, contemporary and classical, for 11 years under the mentorship of Robert Joffrey. In 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where he danced for five years. He retired from performing to become its artistic director, leading NDT 1 for a decade and presenting the works of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, among others. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn Dance Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Edgerton joined Hubbard Street as associate artistic director in 2008; since 2009 as artistic director, he has built upon more than three decades of leadership in dance performance, education and appreciation established by founder Lou Conte and continued by Conte’s successor, Jim Vincent.

Jason D. Palmquist (Executive Director) joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in May 2007, after serving the arts community in Washington, D.C. for nearly 15 years. Palmquist began his career at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, completing his tenure there as vice president of dance administration. At the Kennedy Center, he oversaw multiple world-premiere engagements of commissioned works in dance, the formation and growth of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and the inception in 1997 of the Millennium Stage, an award-winning, free daily performance series that to date has served more than 3 million patrons. Deeply enriching the Kennedy Center’s artistic programming, Palmquist successfully presented engagements of global dance companies including the Royal Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Kirov Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet. Palmquist also managed the Kennedy Center’s television initiatives, including the creation of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and a prime-time special on NBC memorializing the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. In 2004, he accepted the position of executive director at the Washington Ballet. Under his leadership, the company presented full performance seasons annually at the Kennedy Center and the Warner Theater, and nurtured its world-renowned school and extensive education and outreach programs. A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Palmquist currently serves on the boards of the Arts Alliance of Illinois and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

Karena Fiorenza Ingersoll (General Manager) brings more than a decade of experience to Hubbard Street as a leader, fundraiser and producer in the performing arts. Most recently, she served as the associate managing director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, where she line-produced and managed all new play development efforts, shepherding 30% growth in capacity. Previous tenures include executive director of contemporary dance company Robert Moses’ Kin (San Francisco, CA), associate managing director of Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT), management fellow during ArtsEmerson’s inaugural presenting year (Boston, MA), annual fund manager at Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA), and international experience in Mexico City working for a nonprofit humanitarian group. While in the Bay Area, Fiorenza Ingersoll was secretary and then president of the Berkeley Cultural Trust and a proud member of the Bay Area Latino Theatre Artists Network. She is also a freelance arts management strategist and artist representative, partnering with individual artists and ensembles whose work gives voice to underrepresented stories and perspectives. Recognized nationally, Fiorenza Ingersoll was invited in 2014 by Theatre Communications Group to be part of its SPARK Leadership Program’s inaugural class. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA in Theater Management from Yale University, where she received the August Coppola Scholarship and the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Scholarship.

Terence Marling (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 co-choreographed with Robyn Mineko Williams the company’s first familyoriented 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 DANCE CHICAGO Lucas Crandall (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.

Alejandro Cerrudo (Dancer and Resident Choreographer) See Choreographer Profiles.

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.

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.

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 seven of her works as well as original choreography. It then became an international enterprise with the inclusion of works by Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato and Ohad Naharin. Throughout his 23 years as the company’s artistic director, Conte received numerous awards including the first Ruth Page Artistic Achievements Award in 1986, the Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award in 1995, and a Chicagoan of the Year award from Chicago magazine in 1999. In 2003, Conte was inducted as a laureate into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, the state’s highest honor, and in 2014, was named one of five inaugural recipients of the City of Chicago’s Fifth Star Award. He has been credited by many for helping raise Chicago’s international cultural profile and for creating a welcoming climate for dance in the city, where the art form now thrives.

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2014–15 DANCER PROFILES Garrett Patrick Anderson (Tucson, AZ) began his training in Walnut Creek, California under the direction of Richard Cammack and Zola Dishong at the Contra Costa Ballet Centre. He went on to study at San Francisco Ballet School and in Pacific Northwest Ballet School’s Professional Division. In 2001, Anderson joined San Francisco Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet and in 2005 was promoted to soloist. In 2008, he joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp, Belgium as a first soloist, under the direction of Kathryn Bennetts. In January 2011, he returned to the United States to perform with Trey McIntyre Project and joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago later that year. Anderson received a scholarship from American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Program and holds a BA in dance from St. Mary’s College of California.

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 Choreographer Profiles.

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.

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HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO 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) 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 International Commissioning Project 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.

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, CO, 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.

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 Montréal 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, was promoted to the main company in 2013, and was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2015.

Ana Lopez (A Coruña, Spain) began her formal training at Conservatorio de Danza Diputacion de A Coruña. Upon graduating Isaac Diaz Pardo High School, she continued her training at Centro Internacional de Danza Carmen Roche. 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.

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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.

Hubbard Street Dancers Emilie Leriche and Kevin J. Shannon. Photo by Quinn B Wharton. hubbardstreetdance.com

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2014–15 HS2 DANCER PROFILES Zachary Enquist (Plymouth, MN) began training at Summit School of Dance in Plymouth, MN. He holds a BFA in Dance from SUNY–Purchase College in New York, where he performed works by choreographers Doug Varone, Lar Lubovitch, Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones and Merce Cunningham. Other training includes summer studies at the Juilliard School, Movement Invention Project and Springboard Danse Montréal, where he performed repertory by William Forsythe, Stijn Celis and Robyn Mineko Williams. Enquist spent a semester abroad at Codarts in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and was an apprentice at Mark Morris Dance Group. Enquist joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2014.

Elliot Hammans (Santa Fe, NM) began his formal dance training in 2008 with Robert Sher-Machherndl, 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, NM. 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. Most recently she 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.

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Adrienne Lipson (London, ON) began her dance training in London, Ontario under the tutelage of Jennifer Swan, and continued her studies at Ryerson University, where she received a BFA with honors upon her graduation in spring 2013. While in Toronto, Lipson performed with Typecast Dance Company and was a founding member of Rock Bottom Movement. Lipson attended the Proarte Danza Summer Intensive and Kenny Pearl’s Emerging Artists Summer Intensive, in addition to training programs at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, LADMMI (Montréal’s L’École de Danse Contemporaine), the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and Springboard Danse Montréal, where she performed works by choreographers Aszure Barton, Barak Marshall and Robyn Mineko Williams. Lipson joined Hubbard Street 2 as an apprentice in August 2013 and was promoted to full company member in August 2014.

HUBBARD STREET 2 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 joins Hubbard Street 2 following work in San Francisco and New York with Zhukov Dance Theatre, Chang Yong Sung, LoudHoundMovement, Backwoods Dance Project and the Foundry. Thompson joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2013.

HS2 Apprentice 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.

HS2 Apprentice 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.

HS2 Apprentice Megan Myers (West Chester, OH) began her formal training in dance at age 13, with Z Company in Monroe, OH 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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THIRD COAST PERCUSSION Sean Connors Robert Dillon

Peter Martin David Skidmore

Chicago’s Third Coast Percussion returns to Hubbard Street for the Spring Series, performing Steve Reich’s Drumming live for our performances of Falling Angels.

Hailed by The New Yorker as “vibrant” and “superb,” Third Coast Percussion explores and expands the extraordinary sonic possibilities of the percussion repertoire, delivering exciting performances for audiences of all kinds. Since its formation in 2005, Third Coast Percussion has gained national attention with concerts and recordings that meld the energy of rock music with the precision and nuance of classical chamber works.

These “hard-grooving” musicians (The New York Times) have become known for ground-breaking collaborations across a wide range of disciplines, including concerts and residency projects with engineers at the University of Notre Dame, architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, astronomers at the Adler Planetarium, and more. The ensemble enhances the performances it offers with cutting-edge media, including free iPhone and iPad apps that allow audience members to create their own musical performances and take deeper looks at the music performed by Third Coast Percussion.

In 2013, Third Coast Percussion became Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and had the honor of creating the center’s first permanent, progressive residency program. The ensemble also performs multiple recitals annually at Notre Dame, as part of the DeBartolo’s Presenting Series season.

Third Coast’s passion for community outreach includes a wide range of residency offerings while on tour, in addition to a long-term residency with the Davis Square Park Community Band on Chicago’s South Side.

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Third Coast Percussion in performance. Photo by Barbara Johnson, copyright the University of Notre Dame.

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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago gratefully acknowledges the support of the following corporations, foundations, government agencies and individuals who made gifts between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2014.

ATHLETICO CORPORATE SUPPORT

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If using our tagline, it should always appear as a complete sentence: Better for every body.

$50,000 and above Allstate Insurance Company Archer Daniels Midland 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 Baker & McKenzie LLP Deloitte GoodSmith Gregg & Unruh LLP ITW JPMorgan Chase MAC Cosmetics Northern Trust The PrivateBank Tiedemann Wealth Management USG Corporation Walgreens Wessex 504 Corporation $5,000–$9,999 Advertising Resources, Inc. Arnstein & Lehr, LLP Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Brown Brothers Harriman Higgins Development Partners Jackson National Life Insurance Company Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP Neiman Marcus Power Rogers & Smith, P.C. Schiff Hardin LLp United Airlines Ventas Charitable Foundation Winston & Strawn, LLP Zachys Wine and Liquor $2,500–$4,999 Advocate Commercial Real Estate AT&T Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. Citizens for John Cullerton Clark Hill PLC Deluxe Corporation Foundation 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 Baxter International Belgravia Group, Ltd Greenberg Traurig, LLP Ideal KlearSky Solutions, Inc. KPMG Priester Aviation Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Tito’s Handmade Vodka

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BOLD MOVES FOR BOLD WOMEN

THANK YOU Honorary Chairs

Committee

Maureen Mosh

Aurora Abella Austriaco

(as of January 12)

Komal Patel

Pamela Cullerton

Meg Siegler Callahan

Event Chair

Brandon Frein

Sarah J. Nolan

Nene Foxhall

Colleen Chinlund

Dietrich Klevorn Karen Kuenster Marie Lona Laura Lau Marinelli Betsy Stelle Morgan

Lead Sponsors

Diversity Partner

Contributing Sponsors

Alyssa Rapp Richard L. Rodes Mary Kay Shaw Hank Shulruf Sharilee Kempa Smentek Deborah Stonebraker John E. Vazquez Randy White Keven Wilder

Event Sponsors AT&T Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc. Senate President John Cullerton HBK Engineering, LLC PhRMA Spirits Sponsor

Hubbard Street Dancers Ana Lopez, left, and Jacqueline Burnett in Cloudless by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo.

Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

$100,000 and above The Davee Foundation National Endowment for the Arts $50,000–$99,999 The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Illinois Arts Council Agency William Randolph Hearst Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Polk Bros. Foundation Princess Grace Foundation-USA The Rhoades Foundation The Shubert Foundation $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous (2) The Chicago Community Trust Julius N. Frankel Foundation Walter E. Heller Foundation Prince Charitable Trusts The Sage Foundation $10,000–$24,999 Robert & Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc. Helen Brach Foundation

Children’s Care Foundation The Field Foundation of Illinois The Irving Harris Foundation Jack and Goldie Wolfe Miller Fund The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust $5,000–$9,999 The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Golder Family Foundation Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation National Parkinson’s Foundation John R. Halligan Charitable Fund National Parkinson’s Foundation Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation Jerome Robbins Foundation Charles & M. R. Shapiro Foundation The Siragusa Foundation $1,000–$4,999 Anonymous Butler Family Foundation Levitetz Family Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Modestus Bauer Foundation The Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation

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Richard and Marjorie Ettlinger Michael and Roslyn Lieb Hiroshi and Kathleen Okano

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Parkinson’s Project Sponsor

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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 Allegro Dance Boutique Deluxe Corporation Foundation The PrivateBank William Blair & Company LLC CORPORATE FRIENDS $1,000–$2,499 Amsted Industries Belgravia Group, Ltd. 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 Joyce Chelberg Marge and Lew Collens Lauren Robishaw John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Bill and Orli Staley $10,000–$24,999 Sara Albrecht Joel and Katie Cory James and Margaret Johnson Sarah J. Nolan J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Richard L. Rodes R. Penny Rodes DeMott Richard and Barbara Silverman Elizabeth Louise Smith Jane and Michael Strauss Richard and Ann Tomlinson Randy and Lisa White $5,000–$9,999 John and Caroline Ballantine James and Edie Cloonan Allan and Ellen Drebin Adrienne Parker and Peter Foley Elizabeth Yntema Ferguson and Mark Ferguson Denise Stefan-Ginascol and John Ginascol Harry and Marcy Harczak Carey Heckman Linda Hutson Peter and Karen Lennon Jim and Kay Mabie John E. Miller, Jr. Marc Miller and Chris Horsman Jane Ellen Murray James F. Oates Byron and Judy Pollock William and Eleanor Revelle Jack and Niki Tovin Sallyan Windt Sustaining DanceMakers $2,500–$4,999 Anonymous (2) Corinne Brophy Jack Cooksey and Brenda Russell Richard and Mary Gray John L. Hammond II Patricia Harper

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Dietrich and Andrew Klevorn Ron and Elise Magers Nancy Lauter McDougal Abby O’Neil and D. Carroll Joynes John and Mary Raitt Eric and Tammy Steele Premier DanceMakers $1,000–$2,499 Anonymous (3) Greg Albiero and Mark Zampardo Joanne Baizer 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 E. Knuth Martin and Patricia Koldyke Howard and Gail Lanznar Michael and Roslyn Lieb Sandra McNaughton Richard Melman Diane and Bob Merna Pamela G. Meyer Sally and Ted Miller Alexandra and John Nichols Julie O’Connell Patricia and Candace Parchem Eleanor Pollack Ellis and Sally 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 Steve Abrams James and Shelia Amend Robert Arensman

Duncan and Denise Ashurst Lawrence Berlin Tom and Tina Berry Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein Mary and Jack Connelly Michael Downing and Kathy Bernreuter Jim and Deb Ford Jill Glaser Jo Ellen and Peter Granson Michael Grant and Carol McMahan Madeleine Grynsztejn and Tom Shapiro Alan Hinds George T. Jones, M.D. and V. Lynn Jones Jessica Kaplan Lundevall and Torjus Lundevall Kevin Kranzusch Linda and Peter Krivkovich Lew and Laurie Leibowitz Sydney Leung Robert Liem Michelle McCarthy Helen Melchior Mara Miller Jon and Lois Mills Edward and Gayla Nieminen Hiroshi and Kathleen Okano Charlene Osborne Karen Pierce Jonathan and Robin Plotkin Elizabeth Price and Louis Yecies Sarah Reynolds Janice Rodgers Bonnie and Michael Rothman John Ruckrich Nikki and Fredric Stein Patricia Sternberg Kimberly Taylor Alexander Templeton and Krystyna Kiel Wayne F. Tjaden Mary Ellen Toll and William Heimann Paul Waas Keven and Nick Wilder Susan Wright William Ziemann and Virginia Tallman $250–$499 Gregg Auby Lorraine and Randy Barba Linda Bierig Robert and Joell Brightfelt

LOU CONTE

founders society

THE LOU CONTE FOUNDERS SOCIETY recognizes individuals whose generosity and foresight provide future gifts to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago through planned giving. Members of the Society receive special invitations throughout the year and ongoing recognition of their commitment but, most importantly, members have the deep satisfaction of supporting Hubbard Street’s future.

Including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in your estate plans will: S upport the continued artistic growth of the company B ring the newest choreographic voices to the stage n E nrich the lives of students both in and out of the classroom n Broaden and engage new audiences through Youth, Education and Community Programs n Build our endowment to guarantee the future of Hubbard Street n n

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 Edward and Gayla Nieminen Richard L. Rodes

Sarah J. Nolan James F. Oates Edna K. Papazian* Byron Pollock Alyssa J. Rapp

Denise Stefan-Ginascol and John Ginascol Landon N. Stigall* J. Randall White *deceased

Notifying us of your commitment to Hubbard Street allows us to thank you today for your future generosity. Please join the Lou Conte Founders Society and help ensure the future of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. For more information, please contact Bill Melamed, Chief Marketing and Development Officer, at bmelamed@hubbardstreetdance.com or 312-850-9744 ext. 127.

If you have already included us in your estate plan, please let us know so you can enjoy the many benefits of the Lou Conte Founders Society.

Hubbard Street founder Lou Conte, center, founding member Claire Bataille, left, and former Rehearsal Director Monica Trogani rehearse Conte’s The 40s for the company’s 25th anniversary season and tour, December 2003. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

MARLEY MEMBER Join Hubbard Street’s monthly giving program.

Your monthly gift can have a tremendous impact: n

10 a month will fund the construction $ of a costume for a dancer in a World Premiere production.

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50 a month will give a Chicago Public $ School student a scholarship to the Youth Dance Program.

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$100 a month allows us to create and present a professional development workshop for an entire school’s teachers.

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200 a month allows hundreds of students $ to attend an interactive Hubbard Street performance at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

With your monthly gift, you will invest in dance, and we will get to keep making it.

For more information, contact Nicole Dionisio, Annual Fund Manager, at 312-850-9744 ext. 172 or ndionisio@hubbardstreetdance.com

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Hubbard Street Dancer and Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo in Jiří Kylián’s 27’52”. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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Kristen Brogdon and David Ulaszek Linda S. Buckley John Cochrane and Elizabeth Fama Helene Connolly Janet Dauparas Robert and Quinn Delaney Cindy Delmar and Dwight Dick Duane M DesParte Barry and Vicki Dickerson Andrew and Diann Dincolo Buck Dodson Thomas Durica Warren and Joan Eagle William and Jean Fischer Joel Frader Arthur L. Frank, M.D. Julie L. Gentes Alan and Linda Goldberg Alan Jones Mary Kamraczewski Linda and Bernard Kastory Alexandra Klein Henry and Cookie Kohn Monica Leccese Ron and Fifi Levin Steven Maass

Donald L. MacCorquodale Peggy Madden and Richard Phillips Harry and Karyn Madorin Stephen and Susan Bass Marcus Maria McCabe Jim McMillan David Mekemson and Irene Petruniak Theodore Milby Leo and Cathy Miserendino Jonna Mogab Victor and Faye Morgenstern Stacey Newman Marie E. O’Connor Tom and Jeanne Olofson Steve Palmquist and Kathryn Nuss Cathy Peponis Christopher Parker and Anni Luneau Sarah Pesetsky Andrew and Judy L. Porte Ruud Roggekamp Warner and Judy Rosenthal Richard Rusz Sue Samuels Nick Sarros

Barbara Singer Randel Steele and Margaret Gonzales Hal S. Stewart George Streeter and Kristina Howard William and Mary Summers James Tanner and Catherine Allegra Stacy Wells Jennifer Weuve and Jeffrey Gitelle 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 Sara Albrecht Madeleine Grynsztejn and Tom Shapiro

In Honor of Bill Melamed and Jamey Lundblad Buck Dodson and Kevin Purvis

In Honor of William Carlos Angulo Esther Angulo

In Honor of Marc Miller’s birthday David and Kathryn Donovan June Dorn Michael Grant and Carol McMahan Renee Haber-Schwartz George Horsman Linda and Bernard Kastory Steven Maass Ron and Elise Magers Robert and Barbara Mason Sally and Thomas Miller Wayne Myers and Sarah Caldicott Ruth Nelson Tom and Jeanne Olofson

In Honor of Meg Callahan Jonathan and Robin Plotkin John Ruckrich In Honor of Edie and James Cloonan Harry and Karyn Madorin In Honor of Meredith Dincolo Andrew Dincolo In Honor of Chris Horsman’s birthday Donald Santoski and April Brazell In Honor of Ben Johnson and Katie Blaski Drew Bishop

In Honor of Marie O’Connor’s induction as a Hubbard Street Life Director Rosemary McManamon In Honor of Jason Palmquist Brooke Flanagan In Honor of Rich Rodes Kevin Kranzusch In Honor of Anya Jean Sweetwood John W. Sweetwood

In Honor of Jim Oates’ 90th Birthday Randy and Lisa White hubbardstreetdance.com

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DANCE TRANSFORMS LIVES. SUPPORT DANCE AND DANCE EDUCATION Hubbard Street Dance Chicago brings dance into local classrooms while our Adaptive Dance Programs provide support and new ways of moving.

Your contribution supports health and wellness and keeps communities culturally vibrant.

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Nurture this mission with a gift of support today.

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Harris Theater Presents the Chicago Debut

SCOTTISH BALLET A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE May 7-9, 2015, 7:30PM

Photo by Graham Wylie

“FIERCE PHYSICALITY . . . SO COOL, IT’S HOT” —The Herald Scotland Tickets: $10-$95

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Season Sponsor

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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 Children’s Care Foundation The Crown Family The Field Foundation of Illinois Golder Family Foundation Harry and Marcy Harczak William Randolph Hearst Foundation Jackson National Life Insurance Company Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation National Parkinson’s Foundation Byron and Judy Pollock 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

Hubbard Street 2 Dancer Jules Joseph with Mitchell Elementary School students at the Hubbard Street Dance Center.

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

Park Grill Preferred Restaurant Partner

Allied Live Advertising

The PrivateBank Financing and Banking Services

Athletico Physical Therapy Official Provider of Physical Therapy

Franczeck Radelet, P.C. Jenner & Block LLP Mosher & Wagenmaker, LLC Legal Services

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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Seasons 52 Preferred Restaurant Partner Sunny Artist Management North American Representation Ilter Ibrahimof, Director ilter@sunnyartistmanagement.com Synapse Networks, Inc IT Services Tito’s Handmade Vodka Spirits Sponsor Todd Rosenberg Photography Photography Tourwerks Entertainment Travel Tour Housing Negotiation Kathleen Weber, M.D. Senaida Echevarria Midwest Orthopedic at Rush

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CONTRIBUTED MATERIALS AND SERVICES ACME Hotel Company Andy Cohen Robert Baizer Baker & McKenzie, LLP Bartlit Beck Herman Palanchar & Scott Llp Bloomingdales Cannonball Wine Company Charles Gardner and Patti Eylar Chasm Group Chateau Marmont Hotel Chef Freddy Cuisine Chicago Athletic Clubs Chicago Bulls Sandi Cooksey Creative Artists Agency Embeya Everest Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac Lindsey French Goose Island Brew Co. HMS Media Hogsalt Hospitality Jetblue Juyamcyn Theaters LAZ Parking Limelight Catering

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Lollapalooza MAC Cosmetics Meg and Timothy Callahan Modern Luxury, Chicago Moet & Chandon Sarah J. Nolan Park Grill Andrew Salzman Seabourn Seasons 52 Sepia Restaurant Ross Shelleman and Tricia Rooney Skandal SkinnyPop Popcorn Svoboda, John Terlato Wine Group, The Hinckley Company The Nines, A Luxury Collection Hotel, Portland The Plaza Hotel Constance Thome Kellen Walker Zachys Wine and Liquor 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 Edie and James Cloonan Joel and Katie Cory Allan and Ellen Drebin Susan and Bryan Erler Trudene Giesel Mary Louise Gorno Jacqueline A. Hurlbutt Sarah J. Nolan Dina Norris and Steve Young Byron and Judy Pollock Sally and Ellis Regenbogen William and Eleanor Revelle Dana and Andre Rice Kevin and Camille 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 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 Carolyn H. Clift 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.

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SAVE THE DATE June 1, 2015 at 6pm Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Honorary Chairs Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Tables and tickets available now!

To purchase tickets or tables, please email us at events@hubbardstreetdance.com or call us at 312-850-9744 ext. 130.

Choreographer William Forsythe.

Photo by Dominik Mentzos.

“Brilliant, inscrutable and wildly entertaining by turns…at once a ballet purist and the high priest of post-structural contemporary dance.”

—London’s The Observer

“Few choreographers today have made a bigger impact on the field than William Forsythe. His incredible, four-decade career — still going strong — has raised countless questions that shape the way we define, observe and perform choreography today.”

—Hubbard Street Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton

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2015 Hubbard Street’s Youth Summer Camps offer creative and technical performance opportunities all summer long for young dancers, beginning to advanced.

SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

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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.

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We have partnered with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for nine years to support its work bringing together artists, art, and audiences to change lives through the experience of dance.

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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, Renée 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 engaging Chicago residents of all ages and communities. Programs like the popular Eat to the Beat and Exelon Family Series advance access to and understanding of the performing arts. The Theater partners with health and human service agencies, K–12 schools, and community arts organizations, providing more than 8,450 underwritten performance tickets through the Access Tickets Program since 2009. The Theater also connects gifted young artists and students to presented artists through master classes, artist talks, and other enrichment activities. Learn more about Community Engagement programs at engage.harristheaterchicago.org. 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 William Ruffin, Ex-officio 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

(Listing as of February 15, 2015)

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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, Interim Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President of External Affairs Administration Lori Dimun, Director of Operations & Production Mary Jo Rudney, Director of Finance Emily Macaluso, Operations Coordinator Dawn Wilson, Technical Coordinator Meghan McNamara, Manager of Community Engagement & Partnerships Derek Raridon, Staff Accountant Jake Anderson, Assistant to the President & Managing Director 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 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 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 Phil Loconsole, Security Manager Hillary Pearson, House Manager Jamelle Robinson, Concessions Manager Melaney Reed, Saints Coordinator The Saints, Volunteer Usher Corps

(Listing as of February 15, 2015)

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INFORMATION HARRIS THEATER FOR MUSIC AND DANCE

Rental information: If you have any questions about the Harris Theater, including rental of the facility, group tours, or volunteer opportunities, please call the administrative office Monday through Friday, 9AM–5PM, at 312.334.2407.

Ticket purchases: To purchase tickets, visit HarrisTheaterChicago.org. Call or visit our Box Office at 312.334.7777 Monday through Friday, 12–6PM or until curtain on performance days. For group tickets for 10 or more people, call our Sales Office at 312.334.2419.

In consideration of other patrons and the performers: Please turn off all cell phones.

Photography is not permitted in the Theater at any time. Film or digital images will be confiscated or deleted by the Harris Theater house staff; violators will be subject to a fine. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the house management. Smoking is prohibited within the Harris Theater.

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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STUDIO RENTALS

Conveniently located in Chicago’s West Loop, the Lou Conte Dance Studio has studio space to fit your needs! Our state-of-the-art facilities and studio spaces are available for auditions and rehearsals, as well as photo and video shoots.

Studios are equipped with mirrors, sprung Marley floors, pianos and high-quality sound systems.

LCDS has rented its studios to more than 90 organizations, hosting auditions and rehearsals for musicals, dance companies and internationally renowned performers such as: American Ballet Theatre Beyoncé Carnival Cruises Dancing with the Stars Disney’s The Lion King The Julliard School Pilobolus Riverdance San Francisco Ballet School Universal Studios Japan Wicked

America’s Best Dance Crew Busch Gardens The Color Purple Destiny’s Child Goodman Theatre Mamma Mia! Princess Cruise Lines River North Dance Chicago Savion Glover Urban Bush Women

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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, or contact Sidney Cristol at scristol@hubbardstreetdance.com.

Hubbard Street Dancer Jessica Tong. 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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ALL-CERRUDO SUMMER. JUNE 11–14 The Summer Series is our second-ever program devoted to a single artist and you won’t want to miss what he has in store for you. Celebrate six years of Alejandro Cerrudo’s prolific creative residency at Hubbard Street, with his 14th world premiere for the main company alongside audience favorites.

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