If you feel like you’ve been hearing a lot about Hubbard Street lately, that’s probably because you have.

Between our performances at Dance for Life 2014, the Chicago Dancing Festival, the start of our single ticket sales for Season 37 and a Fifth Star Award for company founder Lou Conte, there’s been a lot to talk about. Here’s a sample of recent media coverage of our artistic programs and new work:

• Chicago Tribune on the premiere of Counterpoint by Kyle Abraham: Read the preview | Read the review

• Chicago Dancing Festival previews: WGN Morning News: “Around Town” with Ana Belaval | Chicago Sun-Times | RedEye | Gapers Block | Chicagoist | Newcity | Chicago Reader | Dance Teacher | Art Intercepts

• Dance for Life 2014 coverage: Chicago Tribune | Chicago Sun-Times | Windy City Times | Newcity

• Inaugural Fifth Star Awards announcement: Chicago Sun-Times | Chicago Tribune | Chicago Reader | Newcity

• Crain’s Chicago Business feature: “Has Chicago’s dance scene turned a critical corner?”

PS: Save the date for Lou!

Please join us at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, September 17 at 7pm, to applaud Lou Conte’s induction as an inaugural Fifth Star Awards honoree! You won’t want to miss a special presentation, including guest appearances and performances, recognizing Conte alongside sculptor Richard Hunt, composer and musician Ramsey Lewis, former cultural affairs commissioner Lois Weisberg, and the landmark Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University. Admission is free; click here for more info.

Back to school, back to the studio.

The end of summer is always bittersweet but with it brings a fresh slate of classes at the Hubbard Street Dance Center, in Chicago’s bustling West Loop neighborhood.

The Lou Conte Dance Studio’s Fall Session begins September 2 and includes a broad range of offerings, from ballet to tap, Club Cardio to Pilates, Basic Modern to Pay What You Can Yoga.

» Try these classes and more, FREE at the Lou Conte Dance Studio Open House, September 21 from 11am–3pm

The Hubbard Street Youth Dance Program’s Fall Session begins September 6  and offers more than 70 classes each week, for dancers ages 18 months to 16 years.

» Try these classes and more, FREE at the Youth Dance Program Open House, September 6 from 9am–2pm

Five accomplished, early-career artists have joined Hubbard Street 2 for the ensemble’s 17th anniversary season.

On Monday, August 25, dancers Zachary Enquist and Elliot Hammans joined Jules Joseph, Katie Kozul, Andrea Thompson and promoted HS2 Apprentice Adrienne Lipson as full company members of Hubbard Street 2. Katlin Michael Bourgeois, Natalie Leibert and Megan Myers began their HS2 Apprenticeships.

These talented young artists — who hail from both coasts, Canada, Minnesota, Louisiana and points between — dove right into the creative process for our groundbreaking collaboration with The Second City. In the coming weeks they’ll also learn a wide range of recent Hubbard Street 2 repertoire and begin working with Chicago’s own Victor Alexander, one of three choreographers selected through our International Commissioning Project.

December 16 at 5:30pm, we’ll celebrate the IC Project’s 15th successful year of fostering new work, with a special program at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Save the date to see the three latest — of more than 40 total — pieces generated through this unique program. Stay tuned for more updates from Hubbard Street 2 and read more about the new group at Dance Studio Life.

Season 37 is big in Chicago, with four mainstage engagements of work by ten incredible choreographers — but first, we travel.

Our 2014–15 season — to which it’s not too late to subscribe! — includes more than 20 performances at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. But before we kick it all off this October with The Second City, we’re squeezing in a couple of trips. Tell your friends nearby about two exciting performances this month:

• September 5 at 7pm, Hubbard Street performs PACOPEPEPLUTO by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo at the Connor Palace Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio as part of PlayhouseSquare’s Dance Showcase. 

» Click here for tickets and more info

• September 12 and 13 at 8pm, Hubbard Street performs Gnawa  by Nacho Duato at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, New York City. Part of New York City Center’s 2014 Fall for Dance Festival, this stellar program also includes New York City Ballet dancers in Herman Schmerman by William Forsythe, jookin’ superstar Lil’ Buck, and the acclaimed Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company.

» Click here for tickets and more info

Hubbard Street Dancers Kellie Epperheimer, Jason Hortin and Ensemble in Gnawa  by Nacho Duato. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

Congratulations to Hubbard Street alumna Robyn Mineko Williams!

On August 15, the Princess Grace Foundation–USA announced its full list of honorees and award winners. Among these esteemed artists are Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis), David Hallberg of the Bolshoi Ballet, and Robyn Mineko Williams, 12-year member of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s main company and choreographer of Recall, Grey Horses  and Fluence.

Williams’ Work in Progress Residency, supported by the Foundation, brings her to New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center in spring 2015 and follows up her 2013 Princess Grace Award for Choreography.

Don’t forget: You can now book single tickets to  Princess Grace Awards: New Works at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s intimate Edlis Neeson Theater.

December 4–14, Hubbard Street performs Williams’ fourth original work for the company alongside a second Hubbard Street premiere by Victor Quijada, founding artistic director of Montréal’s genre-defying RUBBERBANDance Group; and the Season 37 debut of Counterpoint by Kyle Abraham, MacArthur Fellow and founding artistic director of Abraham.In.Motion.

» Click here for tickets and more info about  Princess Grace Awards: New Works