Hubbard Street’s Season 38 Media Kit

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Winter Series December 12–15

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Who’s reading our program book?

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performing arts audiences are: Affluent influencers with buying power More than 50% of ticket-holding households have incomes above $125,000 and net worth above $250,000. Half live in homes valued above $300,000.

Educated, culturally engaged and civically active More than 80% of ticket-holders possess college degrees, with more than 40% holding postgraduate degrees. Our patrons regularly attend cultural events, and support arts and charitable organizations.

Our audiences have a deep, emotional and lifelong connection to Hubbard Street.

How do they spend their money?

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“Exceptional, inspiring, a transformative experience.”

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“This is my second year as a season ticket holder. The more I see and know, the more I enjoy being there. I sincerely applaud your excellence. It’s always lovely attending a Hubbard Street performance.”

“We love the Harris Theater, which is a perfect venue for the fabulous performances. We always leave smiling and shaking our heads, ‘Wow!’ The combination of talent, humor, artistry and dedication is just awesome, literally. Our hearts are moved.”

What other cultural institutions do they attend?

Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Architecture Foundation Chicago Botanic Garden Chicago Dancing Festival Lyric Opera of Chicago Chicago Shakespeare Theater Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Symphony Orchestra Goodman Theatre

Source: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago audience surveys

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Top: Backstage at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Photo by Todd Rosenberg. Above: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Little mortal jump by Hubbard Street Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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Hubbard Street’s program book is a content-rich, full-color, cover-to-cover magazine featuring performance information, dancer bios and behind-the-scenes features.

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“Hubbard Street Dance Chicago ought to bottle itself as a cure for the ills of the era.” –The New York Times “Finely crafted, deeply gorgeous.”

–Time Out Chicago

About Hubbard Street

s together to enrich, artists, art and audience s core purpose is to bring Celebrating its 37th Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’ the experience of dance. and change lives through ng its creative talent engage, educate, transform innovative force, supporti Street continues to be an season in 2014–15, Hubbard artists. onal y by major internati while presenting repertor and Hubbard Dance Studio at LaSalle grew out of the Lou Conte in senior centers Hubbard Street Dance Chicago e of four dancers to perform Conte gathered an ensembl e Director. Conte Streets in 1977, when Lou company as its first Executiv hips with G. Cohen soon joined the relations Barbara grew and Chicago. across during which he initiated company for 23 years, Jiří Kylián, Ohad Ezralow, Daniel continued to direct the Duato, ed artists including Nacho both emerging and establish orbett and Twyla Tharp.

Naharin, Lynne Taylor-C Hubbard Street’s international focus, began widened Hubbard Street’s within, launching the Conte’s successor Jim Vincent cultivated growth from Symphony Orchestra and Alejandro Cerrudo to make collaboration with the Chicago Resident Choreographer inviting and p Worksho 1984 through the Inside/Out Choreographic ip provided continuity from 23 years of executive leadersh tion. his first work. Gail Kalver’s Palmquist joined the organiza Executive Director Jason 2006–07 season, when

t, moved this legacy and, together with Palmquis Artistic Director in 2009 for building repertoire, Glenn Edgerton became of a three-pronged program Inside/Out is now part for artistic development forward on multiple fronts. being a national model ment Initiative, aimed at the Choreographic Develop dance. ing contemporary concert while proactively diversify Hubbard Street deeply and other institutions keep Art Institute of Chicago relationships with its Partnerships with the CSO, e, Edgerton has extended Ek, Sharon n. To the company’s repertoir as Kyle Abraham, Mats connected to its hometow significant new voices such adding while raphers signature choreog Quijada.

Victor and Eyal, Alonzo King year the U.S. to perform all in es ensembl only the of s members comprise one d Summer Intensive Program The main company’s 18 two nationally renowne around the world, while early-career artists, was long, domestically and 2, its second company for cultivates its ranks. Hubbard Street

by Terence Marling, HS2 bring young artists into directed Now a. and Julie Nakagaw s domestically and founded in 1997 by Conte choreographers, and perform eration next-gen identifies development. young professional dancers, experimentation and audience education, collaboration, abroad in service of arts rks for arts experience s are nationwide benchma n and Community Program Hubbard Street Hubbard Street’s Educatio s of students. In 2009, impacting the lives of thousand expression. In 2014, schools, in creative tion on s apprecia emphasi and with an the Programs to teach dance physical disabilities joined launched Youth and Family spectrum disorder and s for youth with autism disease. n’s Parkinso by Adaptive Dance Program affected in the Midwest for those first dance-based program workshops and master Street began in 1974 — Hubbard in where — levels all at Studio offer training At the Lou Conte Dance variety of weekly classes expertise, while a broad ® classes allow access to Pilates®, Zumba and more.

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FALL SERIES OCTOBER 15–18, 2015 A full evening devoted to one of the world’s foremost choreographers, William Forsythe, opens Season 38 with a bang. The evening features One Flat Thing, reproduced; the return of Quintett; and the first U.S. production of N.N.N.N.

WINTER SERIES DECEMBER 10–13, 2015 Crystal Pite brings the U.S. company premiere of Solo Echo to Hubbard Street, alongside the Harris Theater debut of Waxing Moon by Robyn Mineko Williams, and a world premiere by returning company dancer and choreographer Penny Saunders.

SPRING SERIES MARCH 17–20, 2016 Innovative choreography and repertory favorites from recent seasons at Hubbard Street include The Impossible by Alejandro Cerrudo, I am Mister B

by Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, and a world premiere by Hubbard Street Rehearsal Director Lucas Crandall.

SUMMER SERIES JUNE 9–12, 2016 It’s the triumphant return of the most critically-acclaimed theatrical event of 2014: Hubbard Street + The Second City’s collaboration The Art of Falling!

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