Our Fall 2016 Studio Series continues with Brian Brooks and Dorrance Dance

Save your spot today for two events specifically designed for advanced, pre-professional and professional dancers in Chicago.

Studio Series Master Class with Brian Brooks
Sunday, October 30 from 1–3pm
Hubbard Street Dance Center
1147 W Jackson Blvd at S Racine Ave
$25 per person, limit 30 participants
For advanced and professional dancers

This two-hour class mirrors the rehearsal process of Brian Brooks’s 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.

BONUS: All registered participants will receive a promo code valid for discounted tickets to Hubbard Street’s Season 39 Fall Series, November 17–20, 2016 at the Harris Theater, featuring world premieres by Brian Brooks and Alejandro Cerrudo, and repertory by Jiří Kylián.

Presented in partnership with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, in conjunction with Hubbard Street’s Season 39 Fall Series featuring world premieres by Brian Brooks and Alejandro Cerrudo. The Choreographer in Residence at the Harris Theater is made possible by the Jay Franke and David Herro Choreographer in Residence Fund through the Imagine Campaign. More info and tickets.

Based in New York City, Brian Brooks serves as the inaugural Choreographer in Residence at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. He is also the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, in addition to a New York City Center Fellowship, the Jerome Robbins Foundation’s New Essential Works (NEW) grant, the Joyce Theater’s Artist Residency, and a National Dance Project Production grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts. His dance group, the Brian Brooks Moving Company, has toured nationally and internationally since 2002 with recent presentations by the Joyce Theater, the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the American Dance Festival, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of its 2013 Next Wave Festival. The American Dance Institute has commissioned Brooks’s company’s latest production, Wilderness, which premiered at New York’s The Kitchen in June 2016. As an independent artist, Brooks has been commissioned by Damian Woetzel at the Vail International Dance Festival to create three new works, featuring dancers from New York City Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet, including First Fall, one in a suite of duets comprising former NYCB principal Wendy Whelan’s “Restless Creature.” Brooks is currently touring another project with Whelan and string quartet Brooklyn Rider, “Some of a Thousand Words.” Theatre for a New Audience has invited Brooks to choreograph two off-Broadway Shakespeare productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2013), directed by Julie Taymor; and Pericles (2016), directed by Trevor Nunn. Brooks has created new dances for programs at the Juilliard School, the Boston Conservatory, the School at Jacob’s Pillow, and Harvard University; he dedicated 12 years to being a Teaching Artist of Dance at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education; and he has served part-time on the faculties of Rutgers University and Princeton University. Visit brianbrooksmovingcompany.com to learn more.

Registration closes at midnight CST on Saturday, October 29. Drop-ins are welcome, space permitting.

Studio Series Master Class with Nicholas Young (Dorrance Dance)
Tuesday, November 1, 2016 from 6–8pm
Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 
220 E Chicago Ave at N Mies Van Der Rohe Way
$25 per person, limit 30 participants
For advanced and professional dancers

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.

BONUS: Save $15* when you purchase a ticket to Dorrance Dance in ETM: Double Down, November 4–6, 2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s Edlis Neeson Theater.

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. More info and tickets.

Nicholas Young is forging a new world of dance and music with his longtime collaborator, Michelle Dorrance. Winner of the 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Music Composition / Sound Design, Young produces a broad spectrum of sounds emerging from an electronic tap floor connected to MIDI controllers, commonly used by electronic dance music creators. Young entered Tapestry Dance Company at age 16, rising to principal dancer and resident choreographer under the direction of Acia Gray and Deirdre Strand. The Austin Critics Council named Young “Best Male Dancer” in 2001, honoring him again for “Best Choreography” in 2003. Since moving to New York City, Young has performed with Manhattan Tap, Rumba Tap, and Hoofing to Hitting with Jared Grimes; with “Jazz in Motion” with Sarah and LeeLa Petronio in Paris; and most recently with Dorrance Dance. He has led classes and workshops as a master teacher at festivals worldwide, including Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s “Rhythm World,” where he has expanded his Institute for the Rhythmic Arts: a groundbreaking, integrated approach to foot, hand, body and vocal percussion.

*To purchase your ticket and get $15 off registration for this Master Class, select any performance of ETM: Double Down and add to your shopping cart your Master Class registration. The $15 discount will be applied automatically. 

If you have already purchased your tickets to ETM: Double Down, please call the MCA Box Office at 312-397-4010 to redeem your $15 discount for the Master Class. MCA Box Office hours are 10am–5pm, Tuesday through Sunday.

Hubbard Street’s Studio Series events are designed specifically for advanced, pre-professional, and professional dancers. Each Studio Series event is based on the work of dance artists performing in Chicago, or repertoire in production at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Hubbard Street 2, led by internationally recognized artistic directors, dancers and choreographers.