Join us in welcoming new dancers to Hubbard Street! | Season 47
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Under the artistic leadership of Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is thrilled to welcome these artists to the stage for the upcoming 2024/25 Season 47:

DOMINICK BROWN
BIANCA MELIDOR
ANDREW MURDOCK

MAIN COMPANY DANCERS


JEMONI POWE
SYDNEY REVENNAUGH

SEASONAL GUEST ARTISTS

JOAN DWIARTANTO

COMPANY SWING

MAIN COMPANY DANCERS

DOMINICK BROWN (Company Dancer) is a professional dance artist originally from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dominick began training under the direction of CeCe Farha. While training, Dominick attended summer intensives with The Washington School of Ballet and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Dominick received a BFA from the University of The Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfeild as a Directors Scholar in 2021. While at the university, Dominick worked with Ballet Preljocaj in Aix en Provence, France. Dominick also attended The American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina. Dominick has previously danced as a company artist with Kun Yang Lin Dancers and SALT Contemporary Dance. Dominick has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Ihsan Rustem, Andrea Miller, Lauren Edson, Kun Yang Lin, Joni Mcdonald, and Peter Chu. Dominick is thrilled to join Hubbard Street for the 2024/25 season.

BIANCA MELIDOR (Company Dancer) comes from Atlanta, Georgia where she received her dance training at the Gwinnett Ballet Theater under the artistic direction of Lisa Sheppard Robson and Wade Walthall. Bianca then furthered her training as a jazz concentration at Point Park University under the direction of Ruben Graciani and Garfield Lemonius. In addition, Bianca has spent many of her summers training at intensives like Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Ballet West, Atlanta Ballet, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre. In 2018, Bianca graduated from Point Park University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Magna Cum Laude and soon after joined Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s DBDT: Encore! with the artistic direction of Nycole Ray. In 2021 she then joined Dallas Black Dance Theatre with Melissa Young as artistic director and performed in countless repertoire by Matthew Rushing, Christopher Huggins, Darrell Grand Moultrie and many more. Bianca is elated to join HSDC under Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell in her first season.

Photo by Frank Ishman.

ANDREW MURDOCK (Company Dancer) is a Canadian dancer, stager, teaching artist, and rehearsal director based out of Chicago, IL, USA. He has spent the majority of his dancing career at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Aszure Barton & Artists, Ballets Jazz Montréal, and Robyn Mineko Williams & Artists. He is a former Rehearsal Director for Ballets Jazz Montréal, guest Rehearsal Director for Para.Mar Dance Theatre, and he provides company classes and pre-professional training in the Chicagoland area. He has also staged work and assisted creations for Springboard Danse Montréal, AB&A, Ballet Jazz Montréal, RMW&A, Para.Mar Dance Theatre, Moonwater Dance Project, Arts Umbrella, American Ballet Theatre, National Ballet School of Canada, Ballet BC, Oklahoma City Ballet, Orlando Ballet, STEPS Repertory Ensemble, New York University, and is a former Artistic Lead for Hubbard Street Summer Intensives and Inside/Out choreographic workshop.

SEASONAL GUEST ARTISTS

JEMONI POWE (Seasonal Guest) started their career with a full scholarship to the Academy of Nevada Ballet Theatre. He was chosen as a Merit winner in Dance for the prestigious National YoungArts Foundation and won “Outstanding Senior Male Dancer” for the New York City Dance Alliance where he received a $20,000 college scholarship touring with them during the 2021-2022 season. Jemoni debuted professionally in a music video by Grammy award-winning Jazz artist Gregory Porter. He is currently highlighted in the November 2020 issue of Dance Spirit Magazine as one of five competition dancers to follow. Jemoni has assisted multiple works by Ethan Colangelo, including his recent debut at the Ailey School. Graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts he is a Gallim Guest artist, recently performing the works From and Sama by Andrea Miller.

SYDNEY REVENNAUGH (Seasonal Guest) is a native of Marion, IN and began her training with Dancers Edge under direction of Brandy Revennaugh and Brooke Napier, as well as Indiana Ballet Conservatory under direction of Alyona Yakovleva-Randall. She is a 2024 Juilliard School graduate where she earned a BFA in dance. During her 4 years at Juilliard she attended summer programs with Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet BC, and Arts Umbrella. She was a YoungArts Finalist in 2020 and received a silver medal for modern/contemporary dance. At the Juilliard School, she performed works by Tiler Peck, Ohad Naharin, Rena Butler, Aszure Barton, Jamar Roberts, Camille A. Brown, Omar Román De Jesús, and Kyle Abraham among others. She often performed in Student Choreographic Workshops. She is excited and eager for her first season with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as a Seasonal Guest under the direction of Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell.

COMPANY SWING

JOAN DWIARTANTO (Swing) is a multifaceted artist working as a dancer, and filmmaker. She graduated from The Juilliard School in 2022, where she worked with choreographers such as Aszure Barton, Ohad Naharin, Justin Peck, Or Schraiber, and Bobbi Jene Smith. In 2020, Joan co-directed a collaborative film for The Park Avenue Armory’s 100 Years | 100 Women event in New York City and worked with principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre, James Whiteside as the creative videographer in his own Ballet film Marilyn’s Funeral in 2021. She then went on to direct her own dance film, Crying On The Island They Own which premiered in early 2022, and has since won multiple film festival awards. Joan went on to join YYDC, a dance company founded by Yue Yin, where she performed in Yue Yin’s evening-length pieces NOWHERE (2023) and most recently, SOMEWHERE (2024) in NYC.

Look forward to experiencing these incredible artists on stage during Hubbard Street's Season 47! Renewals + New Season Subscriptions will be available later this month and tickets go on sale in September.  >> MORE DETAILS


With this news, we wish to once again celebrate and thank our outgoing Company Dancers, who we honored at the close of our Spring Series in May. 

With love and deep gratitude for their artistry, we send off Abdiel Figueroa Reyes, Alysia Johnson, and Matt Wenckowski—we thank each of them for the impact they've had on Hubbard Street, the Chicago dance community, and our audiences across the countryWe can't wait to see where they go and what they do next!

Above: Abdiel Figueroa Reyes, Alysia Johnson, and Matt Wenckowski. Photos by Frank Ishman.