Hubbard Street to Present Two World Premieres This November

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, under the artistic direction of Glenn Edgerton, announces today, full programming for Season 39 Fall Series November 17- 20, 2016 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. Highlighting the engagement, Hubbard Street Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo's 15th original work for the company, a world premiere piece by 2013 Guggenheim Fellow and inaugural Harris Theater Choreographer in Residence Brian Brooks as well as the revival of two ensemble works by Ji?í Kylián.

Says Hubbard Street Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton: "Creating new work is at the core of what we do. I am excited to share two world premiere works and two masterworks with our home audience in Chicago by three choreographers who have inspired our dancers and audiences. Alejandro Cerrudohas been Resident Choreographer with the company since 2009. Alejandro continues to challenge himself and the dancers-this will be a significant work using the creativity of the Entire company. HavingBrian Brooks, the Inaugural Choreographer in Residence for the Harris Theater working in Our Studios has been terrific. Brian's movement quality is unique which again challenges our dancers in new ways. Having the work of these choreographers on the same program as Ji?í Kylián, an artist whose work we have a long affinity with shows the range of the company's abilities and connects Kylián's classics with today's outstanding artists."

About the Works in Hubbard Street's Season 39 Fall Series

A World Premiere by Alejandro Cerrudo for Hubbard Street's full ensemble of 17 dancers marks the 15th work by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Choreographer in Residence for the company. Cerrudo will contrast the beauty of solo piano scores by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert with movement that provides a stylistic counterpoint. Cerrudo says "The effect, I hope, is that you really hear and feel the music; that the dance brings its own complexities and nuances to the experience. I love changing the audience's perception of a piece of music through my choreography and my work with the creative team." Designers Michael Korsh (lighting) and Branimira Ivanova (Costumes) will join Cerrudo to create a work that surprises and delights audiences who loved Cerrudo's One Thousand Pieces and Little mortal jump.

In Brian Brooks' newest work, Terrain (2016), conflict and collaboration coexist in a shared, intimate space. Set for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's 17 dancers, the company moves as if propelled by diametric forces, resistant yet inextricably linked. Shockwaves spread like currents as the group continuously folds in upon itself, reshaping and redirecting energy in an ever-changing tableau that reveals startling moments of individualism and collectivism. A bold mix of sounds, including Todd Reynolds' propulsive, electronic re-composition of Terry Riley's classic minimalist score In C, heightens the inherent tension, while lighting by Nicole Pearce and Costume design by Karen Young add to the overall aesthetic of this intriguing premiere by The Harris Theater for Music and Dance's Choreographer in Residence.

Completing the Fall Series program, Hubbard Street presents two ensemble works by Czech-born, Holland-based dancemaker Ji?í Kylián. Choreographed at Nederlands Dans Theater between 1986 and 1991, Kylián's six "black and white" works are among the most influential in Western contemporary dance. In Spring of 2014, Hubbard Street added two of these works-Falling Angels (1989) andSarabande (1990)-to three pieces already in the company's repertoire: Petite Mort, Sechs Tanze andNo More Play. Sarabande is set to J.S. Bach's second partita for solo violin, with electronically manipulated sound made live by the dancers' bodies and voices. Choreographed for six men, the piece uses indelible stage imagery to suggest the cast range of psychological states experience throughout a lifetime. Falling Angels, in contrast, features eight women who all remain on stage throughout the entirety of the piece. Set to Steven Reich's Drumming: Part 1 (1970 - 71), a minimalist, phased composition inspired in part by percussion from Ghana, the group is continually fractured and recombined by the endlessly inventive pattering that Kylián exemplifies.

Hubbard Street's Season 39 Fall Series is at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Millennium Park, located at 205 East Randolph Street in Chicago, and the complete performance schedule is as follows:

• Thursday November 17, 2016 at 7:30pm
• Friday November 18, 2016 at 8pm
• Saturday November 19, 2016 at 8pm
• Sunday November 20, 2016 at 3pm

Single tickets for the Season 39 Fall Series are $30-$102 and available now, online athubbardstreetdance.com/fall. Season 39 subscriptions are also on sale, online athubbardstreetdance.com/subscribe or by phone to the Hubbard Street Ticket Office at 312-850-9744. Patrons who purchased single tickets to the Season 39 Fall Series can still upgrade to full subscriptions. All Thursday performances begin at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday performances begin at8pm, and Sunday matinée performances begin at 3pm.

The Choreographer in Residence at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance is made possible by the Jay Franke and David Herro Choreographer in Residence Fund through the Imagine campaign. The World Premiere by Alejandro Cerrudo is sponsored by Marc Miller and Chris Horsman and Richard and Barbara Silverman. Additional support is provided by John and Caroline Ballentine. Bill and Orli Staley are the Leading Supporters of New Choreography Development.Hubbard Street Dance Chicago also extends special thanks to its 2016-17 Season Sponsors: Athletico, Official Provider of Physical Therapy; and Chicago Athletic Clubs, Official Health Club; and Media Sponsor, Crain's Media.

Master Class with Brian Brooks
October 30, 2016, 1 - 3pm
Hubbard Street Dance Center | 1147 W Jackson Blvd
$25 per person, limit 30 participants
For advanced and professional dancers.

Hubbard Street, in partnership with local venues and presenters, is pleased to continue its Studio Series of master classes and workshops for Chicago's advanced, pre-professional and professional dancers.

This two-hour class will mirror the rehearsal process of Brian Brooks' new work for Hubbard Street. Brooks will guide 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.

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. Additional Studio Series events will be announced on an ongoing basis.

Friday Balcony Talk
November 18, 2016 | 7 - 7:30pm
Harris Theater Balcony | 205 E Randolph St.
Free | No advanced reservations required.

Join Alejandro Cerrudo and Brian Brooks for a casual conversation and your questions about each of their latest creations.

The First Dance
November 20, 2016 | 2:00pm
Harris Theater | 205 E Randolph St.
$10 per person, space is limited.
Advanced reservations required | RSVP: 312.850.9744.

Back for Season 39 by popular demand! Join Hubbard Street for "The First Dance" to enjoy light refreshments prior to the Sunday matinee, and get insights into the Fall Series program from Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton.

About Alejandro Cerrudo
Born in Madrid, Spain and trained at the Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid. His professional career began in 1998 and includes work with Victor Ullate Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater 2. Cerrudo joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2005, was named Choreographic Fellow in 2008 and became the company's first Resident Choreographer in 2009. Fifteen works choreographed to date for Hubbard Street include collaborations with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Nederlands Dans Theater. These pieces and additional commissions are in the repertory at companies around the U.S. as well as in Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands; touring engagements have brought his work still further abroad, to audiences in Algeria, Canada, Morocco and Spain. In March 2012, Pacific Northwest Ballet invited Cerrudo to choreograph his first work for the company, Memory Glow, upon receiving the Joyce Theater Foundation's second Rudolf Nureyev Prize for New Dance. Additional honors include an award from the Boomerang Fund for Artists (2011), and a Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work from the Prince Charitable Trusts (2012) for his acclaimed, first evening-length work, One Thousand Pieces. Cerrudo is one of four choreographers invited by New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan to create and perform original duets for Restless Creature, and he was recently announced the 2014 USA Donnelley Fellow by United States Artists.

About Brian Brooks
Choreographer Brian Brooks has recently been appointed the inaugural Choreographer in Residence at Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance. This innovative three-year fellowship supports several commissions for Brooks, including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Miami City Ballet, as well as his own New York-based group. Brooks is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. Other recent awards include a New York City Center Fellowship and The Joyce Theater's Artist Residency. His work has toured nationally and internationally since 2002 with recent presentations by The Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow, the American Dance Festival, and BAM as part of their 2013 Next Wave Festival. The American Dance Institute, where Brooks is a member of the Artist Advisory Board, has presented his company three times and supported him with two Incubator Production Residencies. 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, in which Brooks dances with former New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan. He is currently performing a full production of new work that he dances together with Whelan. 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 at schools including The Juilliard School, The Boston Conservatory, The School at Jacob's Pillow, and Harvard University. He dedicated 12 years as a Teaching Artist of Dance at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education and has been on the part-time faculties of both Rutgers University and Princeton University.

About Ji?í Kylián
Ji?í Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He enrolled in the School of the National Ballet Prague at age nine and, in 1962, was accepted into the Prague Conservatory, where he trained with Zora Semberova and other instructors, and created his first two works of choreography. In 1967, Kylián received a scholarship to study at the Royal Ballet School in London, where he met choreographer John Cranko, who invited Kylián to join Germany's Stuttgart Ballet. Kylián remained with the company as a dancer and choreographer through Cranko's sudden passing in 1973 and the subsequent direction of choreographer Glen Tetley. After creating three works for Nederlands Dans Theater as a guest choreographer, Kylián joined the company as co-artistic director, with Hans Knill. The creation of Sinfonietta for NDT to perform at the Spoleto Festival-USA in 1978 heralded Kylián's arrival as a major international artist; his Symphony of Psalms premiered the same year. In the early 1980s, Kylián's travels to Australia to study aboriginal dances inspired new ideas in his choreography and the works Stamping Ground and Dream Time. Kylián and NDT's founding managing director Carel Birnie created a second ensemble, NDT 2, for early-career artists, and between 1980 and 2000, NDT 1 commissioned Christopher Bruce, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin and many more, in addition to presenting masterworks by Hans van Manen, Glen Tetley and others. In 1990, he launched NDT 3, for accomplished dancers over the age of 40. Kylián passed the artistic directorship of NDT's three ensembles to the next generation of leadership in 1999 while remaining choreographer for the company through 2009. Visit jirikylian.com to learn more.

About Hubbard Street
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, under the artistic leadership of Glenn Edgerton, celebrates its 39th season in 2016 and 2017. Among the world's top contemporary dance companies and a global cultural ambassador, Hubbard Street demonstrates fluency in a wide range of techniques and forms, and deep comprehension of abstract artistry and emotional nuance. The company is critically acclaimed for its exuberant and innovative repertoire, featuring works by master American and international choreographers. Hubbard Street's artists hail from four countries and 12 U.S. states, and comprise a superlative ensemble of virtuosity and versatility. Since its founding by Lou Conte in 1977, Hubbard Street has grown through the establishment of multiple platforms. Each is dedicated to the support and advancement of dance as an art form, as a practice, and as a method for generating and sustaining communities of all kinds.

Hubbard Street 2, directed by Terence Marling, cultivates young professional dancers, identifies next generation choreographers, and performs domestically and abroad, in service of arts education, collaboration, experimentation and audience development.
Extensive Youth, Education and Community Programs, directed by Kathryn Humphreys, are models in the field of arts education, linking the performing company's creative mission to the lives of students and families. Hubbard Street also initiated the first dance-based program in the Midwest to help alleviate suffering caused by Parkinson's disease. Youth Dance Program classes at the Hubbard Street Dance Center include Creative Movement and progressive study of technique, open to young dancers ages 18 months to 18 years.

At the Lou Conte Dance Studio, directed by founding Hubbard Street Dancer Claire Bataille, workshops and master classes allow access to expertise, while a broad variety of weekly classes offer training at all levels in jazz, ballet, dance fitness, modern, tap, African, hip-hop, yoga, Pilates® and more.

About Harris Theater for Music and Dance
The Harris Theater, opened in 2003 in Chicago's Millennium Park, is the first multi-use performing arts venue to be built in the Chicago downtown area since 1929. The Theater hosts the most diverse offerings of any venue in Chicago, featuring the city's world-renowned music and dance institutions and the Harris Theater Presents series of acclaimed national and International Artists and ensembles.

The Harris's mission is to make the arts relevant and accessible to audiences of all ages and communities, and through its partnerships with an array of Chicago's music and dance performing arts organizations, has earned national recognition as a distinctive model for collaboration, performance, and artistic advancement.

In 2016 the Harris named its inaugural Choreographer in Residence, Brian Brooks. This Residency provides $600,000 over three years that will fund choreographer compensation, commissioning, and production support. The Residency also provides encouragement and allows choreographers to focus on creating one-to-three new works each season without the constraints of financial pressures, while providing financial support to mount and produce the new works set upon regional, national, and international dance companies.

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