Hubbard Street celebrates  African-American History Month with  Garfield Park Conservatory

February 2 at Garfield Park Conservatory

11 am to 2 pm
Hubbbard Street Dance Chicago Presents Family Dance Workshops, Procession and Performance. See below for the full schedule.

11 and 11:30 am
Family Storytime Dance
Bring your family and dance through stories such as In the Rainfield by Isaac O. Olaleye and Ann Grifalconi. Join one of these two sessions at any time.

12:15 – 1 pm 
Hubbard Street  Family Dance Workshop
Create a family dance all your own! Your family will go on a wonderful journey together as you learn to tell a story without using words. Explore dance vocabulary and award-winning children’s literature with Hubbard Street teaching artists.

1 pm
Family Dance Processional throughout Conservatory
Dance your way as a family through the Conservatory, making your own dance phrase you can perform in the supermarket, at church, around the dinner table, or anywhere else you travel.

1:15 pm
Family Dance Sharing Performance

1:20 - 1:45 pm
Family Dance Party 

Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

Try new equipment classes to bring your Pilates practice to new levels

Strengthen, lengthen and improve your flexibility with new equipment classes at the Pilates Studio at LCDS. No experience is required, so what's stopping you from trying this core-strengthening, mind-engaging fitness technique? 

"Reformer lessons have helped me recover from dance injuries, strengthened my body head to toe, and pushed me to be better than I thought I could be," writes Lindsay, a 26-year-old Pilates devotee.

Sign up at the LCDS front desk. New sessions start this week. More information: hubbardstreetdance.com/LCDS.

Beginning
Wednesdays 6–7 pm
Saturdays 12–1 pm

Intermediate 
Thursdays 6:30–7:30 pm
* Approval from an instructor is necessary for the Intermediate Level. 

$140.00 per session. Maximum four students; minimum two students. Make-ups within the same session are allowed. 

Keeping Dancers Dancing: Athletico Physical Therapist Travels to Russia with Hubbard Street 

Between rehearsals, performances and tours, the life of an elite performing artist is extraordinarily demanding. Staying healthy and injury-free is the key to successfully managing the everyday challenges of professional dancing. As the Official Provider of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy for Hubbard Street, Athletico keeps Hubbard Street Dancers healthy and performing to the best of their ability, providing on-site physical therapy, massage therapy and injury-prevention support for all dancers. Athletico clinicians work with the dancers in the studio, theater and on tour, both nationally and internationally.

Athletico Lincoln Park/Lakeview physical therapist Kathleen Holden joined Hubbard Street on their trip to St. Petersburg, Russia last winter. As the traveling PT, Kathleen was on call for the performers, stage crew and artistic staff. She also served as the sole healthcare provider. 

When the Company arrived and began rehearsals, they learned the theater's stage and rehearsal studio floors were "raked," or slightly angled toward the audience, a convention more common in Europe than in the U.S. Dancers who typically rehearse and perform on flat floors can find raked stages to be quite a challenge, often experiencing a few more ankle and lower leg pains than usual, which proved true this trip.

Kathleen was available for appointments with the dancers, and she also offered opportunities for dancers to drop in to have aches and injuries evaluated and treated. Most of the time, the accommodations allowed her to have access to a treatment table and a separate room for rehabilitation. At times when these were not available, she improvised, treating dancers on a bench in a hallway or on the floor. Practicing physical therapy far from home is very different from practicing in the clinic, but it makes for a very exciting experience.

Overall, the dancers remained healthy and performed to their fullest. The shows were a great success. 

Complimentary Injury Screenings
If you experience an ache or pain, Athletico offers complimentary injury screenings to all Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Dancers and fans. Complimentary injury screenings are available at all centers. For more information or to set-up a screening, call 877.ATHLETICO or visit www.athletico.com for a location near you.

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