IN THIS ISSUE

Above: Hubbard Street Dancers Jesse Bechard and Jason Hortin. Concept by Alejandro Cerrudo. Photo by Quinn B Wharton.

The Season 39 Fall Series, November 17–20 only, includes the fifteenth original work for Hubbard Street by Alejandro Cerrudo, alongside the company’s debut in choreography by Guggenheim Fellow Brian Brooks, Inaugural Choreographer in Residence at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. 

Completing the program are two thrilling, contrasting works by master dancemaker Jiří Kylián: Sarabande, set to J.S. Bach’s second partita for solo violin; and Falling Angels, set to the phased-percussion composition Drumming by Steve Reich.

To choose your seats today, visit hubbardstreetdance.com/fall or contact our Ticket Office by phone at 312-850-9744, Monday through Friday,10am to 4pm. 

Great news for groups! It’s easy to enjoy Hubbard Street together, and you’ll save on every seat when you book ten tickets or more. Special event and merchandise packages are also available. Visit hubbardstreetdance.com/groups, call 312-850-9744 ext. 164 or email scristol@hubbardstreetdance.com.

This two-hour class mirrors the rehearsal process of Brian Brooks’ new work for Hubbard Street, premiering during the Season 39 Fall Series, November 17–20 at the Harris Theater. Brooks guides participants through a combination of physical warmup activities, choreographic sequences and creative methods, providing multiple points of entry and perspectives into his ways of creating and refining material. Through this series of explorations, source material taught by Brooks is altered by the participants in this class, encouraging dancers to further understand their own instincts. Click here to learn more and to register today.

Nicholas Young is a founding member of Dorrance Dance, and was a lead for nine years in the off-Broadway cast of STOMP. A master in combining locomotive tap footwork with contemporary physicality, he gives a class for advanced and professional dancers forefronting tap’s indigenous jazz vernacular as a major influence for club, experimental and street-dance forms. Presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, in conjunction with Dorrance Dance’s ETM: Double Down, copresented with the Chicago Human Rhythm Project and the Chicago Humanities Festival, and curated by Yolanda Cesta Cursach. Click here to learn more and to register today.

Hubbard Street’s Youth Dance Program will offer unique, day-long Pop-Up Camps on all 2016 dates during which regularly scheduled Chicago Public Schools classes are not in session due to a Chicago Teachers Union strike.

Based on and aligned with our Youth Dance Programs curriculum, which focuses on creativity and the techniques that support contemporary dance, these Pop-Up Camps will be offered from 9am–4pm at the Hubbard Street Dance Center.*

First registrations for Pop-Up Camps are $100 per child, per day, with the option to register additional family members at $75 per child. Full-week Pop-Up Camps registrations, subject to availability and space permitting, are $400 per child, per week. Drop-in registrations are also subject to availability, beginning at 8:30am each day before camps begin.

Hubbard Street’s Youth Dance Programs staff strongly recommend registering in advance, or calling ahead to confirm availability. For more information and to register, visit hubbardstreetdance.com/youthdance or call 312-850-9744 ext.139. For more information about the camps, email youth@hubbardstreetdance.com.

*The Hubbard Street Dance Center is located at 1147 West Jackson Boulevard at South Racine Avenue in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, easily accessible via the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290), the CTA Blue Line (Forest Park branch to Racine) and numerous CTA bus routes including 7 Harrison, 9 Ashland, 20 Madison, 60 Blue Island and 126 Jackson. 

Please note that Pop-Up Camps will not be offered on Saturdays, Sundays, or days off already scheduled by Chicago Public Schools.

Many thanks to Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda!

Thanks and much appreciation to all who joined us on Monday, September 26 for a memorable evening in conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and original star of Hamilton: An American Musical.

More than 160 invited guests who filled Studio A included students and families participating in Hubbard Street’s Youth Dance Programs; members of Hubbard Street’s Junior Ensemble, Hubbard Street 2 and the artists of our main company; staff members and special guests; individual and foundation supporters of our Education Programs; and attendees who made donations at our most recent annual gala, the Season 38 Spotlight Ball.

The evening’s discussion, hosted by Director of External Affairs Suzanne Appel, primarily focused on the importance of access to — and advocacy for — the arts for students in all public schools, as well as the ongoing need for integrated performing-arts experiences, focused on dance in particular, within communities of all kinds. 

Miranda noted how the arts had made a significant impact on his life, going back to his earliest years participating in musical theater productions, and learning how to salsa dance. “The impact of arts education on my career is complete and total,” he said, “and it saved my life.”

Click here to read more online at Broadway World.