Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton are excited to announce the main company's return to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for danc(e)volve: New Works Festival, May 10-14, 2017 in the Edlis Neeson Theater, located at 220 East Chicago Avenue in Chicago. This marks the company's fourth appearance since 2012 on the MCA Stage; both previous danc(e)volve engagements as well as Princess Grace Awards: New Works have been dedicated to world premieres of contemporary dance, developed in collaboration with Hubbard Street's acclaimed ensemble, led by established and ascending choreographers.

Extending this tradition, Season 39's danc(e)volve engagement next spring will include the latest creations by Chicago-based choreographers Julia Rhoads, founding artistic director of Lucky Plush Productions; three-time Princess Grace Award-winner Robyn Mineko Williams; and 2016 International Commissioning Project choreographer Alice Klock (see details below). Completing the program will be the mainstage debut of Berceuse by 2016 Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship awardee Penny Saunders, originally developed through Hubbard Street's 2011 Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop, and set to excerpts from the opera Jocelyn (1888) by French composer Benjamin Louis Paul Godard.

Hubbard Street's third danc(e)volve: New Works Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago replaces the previously announced, two-performance Chicago Series at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. All Season 39 subscribers are guaranteed seating at a danc(e)volve: New Works Festival performance; a limited number of single tickets will be available for purchase at a later date.

In addition, March 16-19, 2017 at the Harris Theater, the Season 39 Spring Series featuring global choreographer Nacho Duato now includes Hubbard Street repertoire by Lucas Crandall and Crystal Pite. One of the first dance companies in the U.S. to perform Duato's choreography, Hubbard Street pays tribute to its two-decade relationship with the Spanish-born artist by reviving his plaintive, pastoral Jardí Tancat (1983), for three couples and set to Catalan music recorded by vocalist María del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer; and a duet from Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness (1999), Duato's two-act tribute to the composer J. S. Bach. Completing the Spring Series program are Crandall's full-company work Imprint (2016), with improvised live percussion by Hubbard Street Dancer David Schultz; and Pite's Solo Echo (2012), to music for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms.

Season 39 at Hubbard Street, as previously announced, begins with the Fall Series, November 17-20, 2016 at the Harris Theater, with Alejandro Cerrudo's 15th original work as the company's Resident Choreographer, alongside Hubbard Street's debut in choreography by 2013 Guggenheim Fellow Brian Brooks, founding artistic director of Brian Brooks Moving Company. Hubbard Street's world premiere by Brian Brooks is commissioned by the Harris Theater and is made possible by the Jay Franke and David Herro Choreographer in Residence Fund through the Imagine campaign. Completing the Fall Series program, Hubbard Street presents two contrasting ensemble works by Czech-born, Holland-based dancemaker Ji?í Kylián: Sarabande (1990) and Falling Angels (1989). Single tickets for the Season 39 Fall Series start at $30 and will be available beginning September 7 at 10am, online at hubbardstreetdance.com/fall or by phone at 312-850-9744.

June 8-11, 2017 at the Harris Theater, the Season 39 Summer Series kicks off a full year in celebration of the company's 40th anniversary season. The Summer Series combines audience favorites representing all four decades of the company's history, including Founding Artistic Director Lou Conte's full-company The 40s, Hubbard Street's longtime signature work; Conte's beloved duet Georgia, originally premiered in 1987 as part of the triptych "Rose from the Blues"; Twyla Tharp's The Golden Section, premiered on Broadway in 1981, and debuted by Hubbard Street in the Netherlands in 1991; the full-company work One Flat Thing, reproduced by William Forsythe and solo A Picture of You Falling by Crystal Pite; and excerpts including scenes from Palladio (2007) by former Hubbard Street Artistic Director Jim Vincent, and One Thousand Pieces (2012), the company's first evening-length production, created by Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo in response to Marc Chagall's America Windows at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Season 2016-17 subscriptions are $90-$306 and on sale now at the Hubbard Street Ticket Office, by phone at 312-850-9744 or online at hubbardstreetdance.com/subscribe. Thursday performances begin at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday performances begin at 8pm, and Sunday matinée performances begin at 3pm. Single tickets for the Spring Series, Summer Series and danc(e)volve: New Works Festival, as well as Ticket Trio subscriptions for all three Season 39 engagements in 2017, will be available at later dates. All programming is subject to change.

Glenn Edgerton and Terence Marling, Director of Hubbard Street 2, are also pleased to announce the 46th and 47th choreographers to receive opportunities to create original works through Hubbard Street's 17th International Commissioning Project: chuthis. artistic director Peter Chu; and Alice Klock, creator of multiple premieres through Hubbard Street's annual Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop. Edgerton and Marling congratulate the 15th and 16th dancers invited to join the main company from Hubbard Street 2 - Elliot Hammans and Adrienne Lipson - on their promotions for the 2016-17 season.

Peter Chu's IC Project-supported creation will be premiered by Hubbard Street 2 at the Velodrom Theater in Regensburg, Germany in November 2016. Alice Klock's IC Project-supported creation will be developed by Hubbard Street 2 and receive its premiere as part of the 25th anniversary season of UNCW Presents at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in advance of performances by the main company during the third danc(e)volve: New Works Festival May 10-14, 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (see above).

On Saturday, September 17 at the Hubbard Street Dance Center, Chu will also lead a four-hour workshop for advanced and pre-professional dancers, as part of Hubbard Street's Fall 2016 Studio Series. Led by internationally recognized artistic directors, dancers and choreographers, each Studio Series event is based on the work of dance artists performing in Chicago, or repertoire in production at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Hubbard Street's Fall 2016 Studio Series begins on Saturday, September 10, with a Master Class with Eri Mefri of Indonesia's Nan Jombang Dance, presented in partnership with Natya Dance Theatre in conjunction with The Incomplete Gesture, a collaboration between Mefri and Hema Rajagopalan at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.

Joining Hubbard Street 2 for its fall 2016 season, which concludes with the New York City premiere of Mariko's Magical Mix: A Dance Adventure presented by LC Kids at Lincoln Center, are Wilson S.D. Anderson III, Grand Rapids Ballet member Isaac Aoki, Nicole Ishimaru, Andy Lawson, returning HS2 member Natalie Leibert, Yue Ru Ma, and HS2 Apprentice Parker Finley.

To post a comment, you must register and login.