HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Sat, Jan 30, 8:00 Pm Carlson Family Stage

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Northrop Presents HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Sat, Jan 30, 8:00 pm Carlson Family Stage

Solo Echo N.N.N.N. Excerpt from Second to Last Gnawa Dear Friends of Northrop, Northrop at the University of Minnesota Presents We’re thrilled to ring in a new year with one of the most vibrant contemporary dance companies in the U.S., and a Northrop favorite: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Every time Hubbard Street’s dancers take the stage, you know you are going to see incredible artistry matched by impeccable HUBBARD STREET technique, all in service to some of the best choreography in the dance world today. Tonight’s program is no exception. DANCE CHICAGO

Crystal Pite’s Solo Echo opens the program. Pite, a Vancouver Artistic Director, GLENN EDGERTON native, is the artistic director of Kidd Pivot company. Her Executive Director, JASON D. PALMQUIST fascinating Dark Matters played at the Walker Art Center General Manager, KARENA FIORENZA INGERSOLL in 2010 (you may remember the buzz…). I’m excited that Rehearsal Director, LUCAS CRANDALL tonight’s program gives us our first opportunity to present Resident Choreographer, ALEJANDRO CERRUDO her work on the Northrop stage. Solo Echo was originally Director of External Affairs, SUZANNE APPEL created for Nederlands Dans Theater, and Hubbard Street Artistic Associate and Coordinator, Pre-Professional Programs, MEREDITH DINCOLO is the only American company it has been set on. The piece Founder, LOU CONTE Christine Tschida. Photo by Patrick O'Leary, draws inspiration from the poem “Lines for Winter” by Mark University of Minnesota. Strand, which we’ve included here in this program. Director of Production, JASON BROWN Company Manager, ISHANEE DEVAS William Forsythe’s N.N.N.N., with a soundscape from Dutch composer Thom Willems, has been described Head of Wardrobe, REBECCA M. SHOUSE by The New York Times as “astonishingly intense.” Originally staged for four men from Forsythe’s Ballett Lighting Director, KAITLYN BREEN Frankfurt in 2002, U.S. audiences likely haven’t seen it before. Again, the trailblazing Hubbard Street Stage Manager and Properties Master, JULIE E. BALLARD Dance Chicago is the first U.S. company to acquire this work, and, since Forsythe was so impressed by the Head Carpenter and Stage Operations, STEPHAN PANEK fantastic Hubbard Street female dancers, it is now performed by two men and two women. The limbs of Master Electrician, SAM BEGICH the four dancers interplay with a mathematical precision that only Forsythe could create. Audio Engineer, KILROY G. KUNDALINI Touring Wardrobe, JENNI SCHWANER LADD Remember resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo’s program opening Little mortal jump and his Manager of Artistic Operations, MARISA C. SANTIAGO cheeky PACOPEPEPLUTO from Hubbard Street’s last visit? Tonight we’ll see excerpts from his fluid and poignant piece, Second to Last, set to Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel Im Spiegel.” Hubbard Street Dancers JESSE BECHARD, JACQUELINE BURNETT, ALICIA DELGADILLO, JEFFERY DUFFY, And finally, a work that I’ve been eager to share with Northrop audiences: Spanish choreographer KELLIE EPPERHEIMER, MICHAEL GROSS, JASON HORTIN, ALICE KLOCK, EMILIE LERICHE, Nacho Duato’s haunting and sensual Gnawa. Duato draws from his Mediterranean heritage, and sets this ADRIENNE LIPSON*, FLORIAN LOCHNER, ANA LOPEZ, ANDREW MURDOCK, work—one that he created especially for Hubbard Street—to North African drumming, Spanish guitar, and PENNY SAUNDERS, DAVID SCHULTZ, KEVIN J. SHANNON, JESSICA TONG Sufi music. The mysterious beauty of this work has made it one of my favorite pieces. I hope you will feel *Hubbard Street 2 Dancer the same way.

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Christine Tschida North American Representation Director of Northrop Sunny Artist Management Ilter Ibrahimof, Director [email protected] NEXT UP AT NORTHROP: Jessica Lang Dance performs on Saturday, February 13th in a visually stunning program where design meets dance. A Mondrian painting comes alive in Lines Cubed, and Japanese ink, water, and film collide ini.n.k. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota. This presentation is also supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Minnesota State Arts Board,the Crane Group, Cover: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Ana Lopez and Florian Lochner. and General Mills Foundation. Photography © Todd Rosenberg. 2 3 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s core purpose is of public classes and pre-professional training to bring artists, art, and audiences together to under the direction of founding company member enrich, engage, educate, transform, and change Claire Bataille. Extensive Youth, Education, lives through the experience of dance. Celebrating Community, Adaptive Dance and Family Programs, Season 38 in 2015–16, under the artistic leadership led by Kathryn Humphreys, keep the organization of Glenn Edgerton, Hubbard Street continues deeply connected to its hometown. Hubbard to innovate, supporting its creative talent while Street 2, led by Terence Marling, stewards early- presenting repertory by the field’s internationally career artists, while the main company performs recognized living artists. Hubbard Street has all year long, domestically and around the world. grown through the establishment of multiple Visit hubbardstreetdance.com for artist profiles, platforms alongside the Lou Conte Dance Studio, touring schedules, and much more. entering its fifth decade of providing a wide range

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Jacqueline Burnett and Andrew Murdock. Photo © Todd Rosenberg. 4 5 SOLO ECHO N.N.N.N.

Choreography by CRYSTAL PITE Choreography, Stage Design, Lighting, and Costume Design by WILLIAM FORSYTHE Music by JOHANNES BRAHMS Music by THOM WILLEMS Lighting Design by TOM VISSER Technical Consultant, TANJA RÜHL Stage Design by JAY GOWER TAYLOR Staging by CYRIL BALDY and AMANCIO GONZÁLEZ Costume Design by JOKE VISSER and CRYSTAL PITE Staging by ERIC BEAUCHESNE JACQUELINE BURNETT, JEFFERY DUFFY, EMILIE LERICHE, KEVIN J. SHANNON

JESSE BECHARD, JACQUELINE BURNETT, ALICIA DELGADILLO, JEFFERY DUFFY, MICHAEL GROSS, EMILIE LERICHE, ANDREW MURDOCK N.N.N.N. appears as a mind in four parts, four dancers in a state of constant, tacit connection. Underscored by the sudden murmured flashes of Thom Willems’ music, these dancers enter into a complex, intense inscription. Their arms, heads, bodies, and legs become singular voices, each tuned and in counterpoint to the other. These performers write out a text of the voice of the body, slowly, then more Lines for Winter and more rapidly, coalescing over and over into a linked entity of flinging arms, folding joints, and a sharp, By Mark Strand high sense of time. Hubbard Street is honored to be the first U.S. dance company to perform William Forsythe’s N.N.N.N., restaged at the Hubbard Street Dance Center in Chicago by Forsythe with original Tell yourself cast members Cyril Baldy and Amancio González. as it gets cold and gray falls from the air that you will go on N.N.N.N. was created for and premiered by Ballett Frankfurt on November 21, 2002 at the Opernhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; walking, hearing and first performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, October 15, 2015. Original score by the same tune no matter where Thom Willems. Used by permission of Thom Willems. Hubbard Street’s acquisition of N.N.N.N. is sponsored by the Harris Theater you find yourself — for Music and Dance, with support from Sandra and Jack Guthman through the Imagine campaign. Lead Individual Sponsors of the Season 38 Fall Series celebrating William Forsythe are Jay Franke and David Herro. Additional support is provided by Individual inside the dome of dark Sponsors Pam Crutchfield, Charles Gardner and Patti Eylar, and Richard L. Rodes. The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation is the Lead or under the cracking white Foundation Sponsor of the Season 38 Fall Series. of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow. Tonight as it gets cold tell yourself SHORT PAUSE what you know which is nothing but the tune your bones play as you keep going. And you will be able for once to lie down under the small fire of winter stars. And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you find yourself where you will be at the end, tell yourself in that final flowing of cold through your limbs that you love what you are.

Created for and premiered by Nederlands Dans Theater February 9, 2012 at the Lucent Danstheater, Den Haag, the Netherlands. First performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago December 10, 2015 at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL. Music by Johannes Brahms: “Allegro non Troppo from Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Opus 38,” and “Adagio Affettuoso from Sonato for Cello and Piano in F Major, Opus 99,” from the album Brahms Sonatas for Cello & Piano, courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment. Poem by Mark Strand: “Lines for Winter,” from Selected Poems, © 1979 by Mark Strand and published by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Sara Albrecht is the Lead Individual Sponsor of the Hubbard Street premiere of Solo Echo by Crystal Pite.

INTERMISSION Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Solo Echo. Photo © Todd Rosenberg. 6 7 EXCERPT FROM SECOND TO LAST GNAWA

Choreography and Costume Concept by ALEJANDRO CERRUDO Choreography and Set Design by NACHO DUATO Music by ARVO PÄRT Music by RABIH ABOU-KHALIL, JUAN ARTECHE, HASSAN HAKMOUN, and ADAM RUDOLPH Lighting Design by MICHAEL KORSCH Lighting Design by NICHOLAS FISCHTEL Costume Design by MODESTO LOMBA ALICE KLOCK and MICHAEL GROSS Organization by MEDIAART PRODUCCIONES SL (Spain) ALICIA DELGADILLO and KEVIN J. SHANNON ANA LOPEZ and ANDREW MURDOCK JESSICA TONG, JASON HORTIN JESSICA TONG and JASON HORTIN JACQUELINE BURNETT and DAVID SCHULTZ JACQUELINE BURNETT, ALICIA DELGADILLO, ALICE KLOCK, EMILIE LERICHE, ADRIENNE LIPSON, ANA LOPEZ, PENNY SAUNDERS

Created for and premiered by Ballet Arizona at the Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, March 28, 2013. Original Set Design by Wrara JESSE BECHARD, JEFFERY DUFFY, MICHAEL GROSS, Plesoiu. Original Costume Design by Leonor Texidor. First performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as part of The Art of Falling, created for and premiered by Hubbard Street and The Second City, Inc. in collaboration at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in FLORIAN LOCHNER, ANDREW MURDOCK, DAVID SCHULTZ, KEVIN J. SHANNON Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, October 16, 2014. Music by Arvo Pärt: “Spiegel im Spiegel,” from the album Arvo Pärt: Alina, as recorded by Dietmar Schwalke, Alexander Malter, Vladimir Spivokov, and Sergei Bezrodny, courtesy of ECM Records. Used by permission of European American Music Distributors Company. The Art of Falling was commissioned by the Harris Theater for Music and Dance Global choreographer Nacho Duato, whose work the Chicago Tribune calls “gorgeously classical and pertly in Millennium Park, with support from Sandra and Jack Guthman through the Imagine campaign; was sponsored by Richard L. Rodes, R. Penny Rodes DeMott, GoodSmith, Gregg & Unruh LLP, The Walter E. Heller Foundation and Wessex 504 Corporation; and idiosyncratic,” created Gnawa exclusively for Hubbard Street in 2005. Set to evocative music by Hassan Choreographer’s Circle Members Meg and Tim Callahan, Sidney and Sondra Berman Epstein, Caryn Jacobs and Dan Cedarbaum, and Hakmoun and Adam Rudolph, this vibrant ensemble work taps the Mediterranean spirit of North Africa Sallyan Windt. The Art of Falling was partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. and Duato’s native Spain. Costumes for Gnawa are by Modesto Lomba, chairman of the Spanish Fashion Designers’ Association.

INTERMISSION Created for and premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL, March 30, 2005. Music by Hassan Hakmoun and Adam Rudolph: From the album Hassan Hakmoun and Adam Rudolph: Gift of the Gnawa: “Ma Bud Allah.” From the album Finis Africae: “Carauri,” written by Juan Arteche and published by Ediciones Cubicas (Spain). From the album Nafas: “Window,” written by Abou-Khalil, Velez, Kusur and Sarkissian, and published by ECM Records / Verlag Musik GmbH (Germany). © Nacho Duato. All rights reserved. Karen and Peter Lennon were the Exclusive Underwriters of Hubbard Street’s premiere production of Gnawa.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in Gnawa. Photo © Todd Rosenberg. 8 9 THE CHOREOGRAPHERS

Hubbard Street Resident Born in Valencia, Raised in New York and at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in Choreographer Alejandro Spain, Nacho Duato initially trained in Florida London, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Cerrudo was born began training at with Nolan Dingman and the Juilliard School in New York City. Forsythe is in Madrid, Spain and London’s Rambert Christa Long, William currently Professor of Dance and Artistic Advisor trained at the Real School at age 18, Forsythe danced with the for the Choreographic Institute at the University Conservatorio Profesional expanding his studies Joffrey Ballet and later the of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School de Danza de Madrid. His at Maurice Béjart’s Mudra Stuttgart Ballet, where he of Dance, and in 2015, was appointed Associate professional career began School in Brussels, and was appointed Resident Choreographer with the Paris Opéra Ballet. Visit in 1998 and includes completing his dance Choreographer in 1976. williamforsythe.de to learn more. work with Victor Ullate education at the Alvin Over the next seven years, Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, and Nederlands Dans Ailey American Dance Center in New York City. he created new works for the Stuttgart ensemble Born in Terrace, British Theater 2. Cerrudo joined Hubbard Street Dance He joined Sweden’s Cullberg Ballet in 1980 and, and ballet companies throughout Europe and the Columbia and raised Chicago in 2005, was named Choreographic the following year, Nederlands Dans Theater in United States. In 1984, he began a 20-year tenure on the Canadian west Fellow in 2008, and became the company’s the Hague. From 1990 to 2010, after a successful as director of Ballett Frankfurt, where he created coast, choreographer and first Resident Choreographer in 2009. Fourteen career as dancer and resident choreographer for works such as Artifact (1984), Impressing the Czar performer Crystal Pite is a works choreographed to date for Hubbard NDT 1, Duato was artistic director of Compañía (1988), Limb’s Theorem (1990), The Loss of Small former company member Street include collaborations with the Chicago Nacional de Danza under the Spanish Ministry of Detail (1991, in collaboration with composer Thom of Ballet British Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Nederlands Dans Culture’s Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas Willems and designer Issey Miyake), Eidos: Telos and William Forsythe’s Theater. These pieces and additional commissions y de la Música. Duato relocated to Russia in 2011, (1995), Endless House (1999), Kammer/Kammer Ballett Frankfurt. are in repertory at companies around the U.S. as becoming artistic director at the Mikhailovsky (2000), and Decreation (2003). After the closure Pite’s professional well as in Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Ballet in St. Petersburg, then became artistic of Ballett Frankfurt in 2004, Forsythe established choreographic debut was in 1990, at Ballet British Netherlands; touring engagements have brought director of Staatsballett Berlin beginning with a new, more independent ensemble, The Forsythe Columbia; since then, she has created more than his work still further abroad, to audiences in the 2014–15 season while remaining with the Company, founded with the support of the 40 works for companies such as Nederlands Algeria, Canada, Morocco, and Spain. In March Mikhailovsky Theatre as choreographer-in- German states of Saxony and Hesse, the cities Dans Theater, Cullberg Ballet, Ballett Frankfurt, 2012, Pacific Northwest Ballet invited Cerrudo residence. For his achievements as a dancer, of Dresden and Frankfurt am Main, and private the National Ballet of Canada, Les Ballets Jazz to choreograph his first work for the company, Duato received the VSCD Gouden Dansprijs sponsors. His works are prominently featured de Montréal, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Memory Glow, upon receiving the Joyce Theater (Golden Dance Award) in 1987. Recognition for in the repertoires of virtually every major ballet Ballet British Columbia, and Louise Lecavalier / Foundation’s second Rudolf Nureyev Prize for his creative work includes first prize at Germany’s company in the world, including the Mariinsky Fou Glorieux, plus collaborations with the Electric New Dance. Additional honors include an award International Choreographic Workshop (1983), Ballet, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Company Theatre and acclaimed director Robert from the Boomerang Fund for Artists (2011), the rank of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des the National Ballet of Canada, London’s Royal Lepage. In 2002, Pite formed the company Kidd and a Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Lettres from the French Embassy in Spain (1995), Ballet, and the Paris Opéra Ballet. Awards received Pivot, which integrates movement, original Work from the Prince Charitable Trusts (2012) a Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts from the by Forsythe and his ensembles include four New music, text, and rich visual design, balancing sharp for his acclaimed, first evening-length work, Spanish government (1998), and a Prix Benois de York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards exactitude with irreverence and risk. Kidd Pivot One Thousand Pieces. Cerrudo is one of four la Danse (Stuttgart, 2000). and three Laurence Olivier Awards in the U.K. tours nationally and internationally, performing choreographers invited by New York City Ballet He has been conveyed the title of Commandeur critically acclaimed works including Dark Matters, principal Wendy Whelan to create and perform des Arts et Lettres by the government of France; Lost Action, The You Show, and The Tempest Replica. original duets for “Restless Creature,” and he is and he has received the German Distinguished Pite is the recipient of the Banff Centre’s Clifford United States Artists’ 2014 USA Donnelley Fellow. Service Cross, the Wexner Prize, the Golden Lion E. Lee Award (1995), the Bonnie Bird North of the Venice Biennale, the Samuel H. Scripps/ American Choreography Award (2004), the American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Isadora Award (2005), two Dora Mavor Moore Achievement, and the Swedish Carina Ari Awards (2009 and 2012), a Jessie Richardson Medal. Forsythe has also been commissioned Theatre Award (2006), and the Governor General to produce architectural and performance of Canada’s Performing Arts Award, Mentorship installations by, among others, architect-artist Program (2008). Pite also received the 2011 Daniel Libeskind, ARTANGEL, Creative Time, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the inaugural Lola the SKD–Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Award in 2012, and the Canada Council’s 2012 As an educator, Forsythe is regularly invited to Jacqueline Lemieux Prize. Visit kiddpivot.org to lecture and give workshops at universities and learn more. cultural institutions; he is an Honorary Fellow Alejandro Cerrudo. Photo © Jim Newberry. William Forsythe. Photo © Dominik Mentzos. Nacho Duato. Photo © Todd Rosenberg. Crystal Pite. Photo © Michael Slobodian. 10 11 THE DANCERS

JESSE BECHARD School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and MICHAEL GROSS EMILIE LERICHE (Bolton, MA) began his Springboard Danse Montréal. Delgadillo graduated (Poughquag, NY) earned (Santa Fe, NM) began her formal ballet training at with honors from the Ailey School and Fordham a BFA in Dance from the dance training at the age age 16, graduated from University’s joint program in New York City in 2012, University of Arizona and of eight. In 2007 she began Walnut Hill School for the while a member of Hubbard Street 2, and was received much of his early her formal dance training Arts, and attended training promoted to the main company in April 2014. training from Colorado at Walnut Hill School for programs at Boston Ballet, Jazz Dance Company in the Arts, with additional Alonzo King LINES Ballet, JEFFERY DUFFY Colorado Springs, followed summer study at Joffrey and Ballet Austin. In 2000, (Adamsville, GA) began by further studies at the Midwest, Complexions having completed his dancing at age three and American Academy of Contemporary Ballet, and freshman year at the University of Chicago, he attended the Cobb County Ballet and Springboard Danse Montréal. Formerly the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. Leriche returned to dance, performing for one year with Center for Excellence in a member of River North Dance Chicago and has performed alongside the dancers of zoe | Ballet Austin and for eight with Richmond Ballet. the Performing Arts at Visceral Dance Chicago, Gross has also performed juniper, and at the WestWave Dance Festival as Bechard joined Hubbard Street in August 2010. Pebblebrook High School in with Elements Contemporary Ballet and in a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. Leriche Mableton, Georgia, Talent the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s holiday joined Hubbard Street 2 in 2011, was promoted JACQUELINE BURNETT Unlimited High School, production, Welcome Yule! Gross joined Hubbard to the main company in 2013, was named one of (Pocatello, ID) received and the Juilliard School in Street in August 2014 and thanks his friends and Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2015, and is classical ballet training New York City. He has performed with the Juilliard family for their love and support. the recipient of a 2015 Dance Fellowship from the in Pocatello, Idaho Dance Ensemble at Lincoln Center and the Chicago Princess Grace Foundation–USA. from Romanian ballet Dancing Festival, and as a guest artist with Dance JASON HORTIN master Marius Zirra, Theatre of Harlem. At the McCallum Theatre (Olympia, WA) graduated FLORIAN LOCHNER with additional summer Institute’s 2013 Choreography Festival, Duffy and from the University of (Frankenhardt, Germany) training at Ballet Idaho, Alexander Jones received the Division I Second Nevada, Las Vegas with a trained at Ballettschule Brindusa-Moore Ballet Place Prize for their original work, Open it to Speak; BFA in Dance under the Malsam in Schwäbisch Academy, the Universal Duffy is also the recipient of an Alan D. Marks direction of Louis Kavouras. Hall, Germany, and the (Kirov) Ballet Academy, the Juilliard School, and Entrepreneurship Grant, and winner of the Robert His performance career Staatliche Hochschule für the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She and Mercedes Eichholz Arts Entrepreneurship includes work with Moving Musik und Darstellende graduated magna cum laude with departmental Prize. He joined Hubbard Street in August 2015. People Dance Theatre, Erick Kunst in Mannheim, honors from the Ailey School and Fordham Hawkins Dance Company, where he was the recipient University’s joint program in New York City in KELLIE EPPERHEIMER and River North Dance Chicago. Hortin joined of its Birgit Keil Dance 2009, while an apprentice with Hubbard Street. (Los Osos, CA) began her Hubbard Street as an apprentice in August 2007 and Foundation scholarship. Lochner earned his She was promoted to the main company in August dance training in 1988 at was promoted to the main company in July 2008. master’s degree in the performing arts and joined 2009 and is a 2011–12 Princess Grace Honorarium the Academy of Dance Gauthier Dance Company in Stuttgart in 2011, recipient. and Civic Ballet of San ALICE KLOCK performing works by numerous choreographers Luis Obispo, and attended (Whidbey Island, WA) including Mauro Bigonzetti, Jiří Bubeníček, ALICIA DELGADILLO training programs at the began dancing at age 11. She Alejandro Cerrudo, Alexander Ekman, Itzik Galili, (Charlotte, NC) began her Joffrey Ballet School and trained at Interlochen Arts Eric Gauthier, Marco Goeke, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián, classical training at the the Juilliard School in New Academy from 2003–07, Christian Spuck, Cayetano Soto, Philip Taylor, Susan Hayward School of York City. A founding and in Alonzo King LINES Stephan Thoss, Paul Lightfoot, and Sol León. He Dance in San Francisco, member of Cedar Lake Ensemble (later Cedar Lake Ballet and Dominican received a “Best of the Season” nomination in California, and continued Contemporary Ballet), she joined Hubbard Street University of California’s Germany’s Dance for You! Magazine in September her studies in North 2 in January 2005, and was promoted to the main joint BFA program from 2013, and joined Hubbard Street in August 2015. Carolina with Gay Porter company in January 2007. 2007–09. Klock then joined and Bridget Porter Young Hubbard Street 2 in September 2009 and was at the Charlotte School promoted to the main company in September 2011. of Ballet. In 2004, Delgadillo began studying full time with Daniel and Rebecca Wiley at Piedmont School of Music and Dance. She has attended summer programs at Hubbard Street, the Juilliard Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely Hubbard Street dancer photos by in The Blues Project. Photography © Christopher Duggan. Todd Rosenberg and Quinn B. Wharton. 12 13 THE DANCERS

ANA LOPEZ PENNY SAUNDERS DAVID SCHULTZ JESSICA TONG (A Coruña, Spain) began (West Palm Beach, FL) (Grand Rapids, MI) began (Binghamton, NY) received her formal training at graduated from the Harid training in Michigan with her formal training at the Conservatorio de Danza Conservatory in 1995. She the School of Grand Rapids Ballet School in Salt Lake Diputacion de A Coruña. then began her professional Ballet, where he then City under Jan Clark Fugit, Upon graduating Isaac career with the American performed for four seasons as well as at the University Diaz Pardo High School, Repertory Ballet under the with its company, Grand of Utah, where she was a she continued her training direction of Septime Webre, Rapids Ballet. Schultz member of Utah Ballet. at Centro Internacional danced with Ballet Arizona joined Hubbard Street 2 in Tong danced with BalletMet de Danza Carmen Roche. and MOMIX, and was a September 2009 and was in Ohio, Eliot Feld’s Ballet Prior to joining Hubbard Street in January 2008, founding member of Cedar Lake Contemporary promoted to the main company in August 2011, Tech in New York City, and with Hubbard Street 2 Lopez danced with Joven Ballet Carmen Roche, Ballet (then Cedar Lake Ensemble). In 2004, and he is the recipient of a 2012 Princess Grace before joining the main company in January 2007. with Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 in works by Saunders joined Hubbard Street, where she began Award. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Nacho Duato and Tony Fabre, and at Ballet Theater to pursue her choreographic interests, creating for Watch” for 2009, and currently serves on Chicago Munich under the directorship of Philip Taylor. She Hubbard Street 2 in 2011 through its International KEVIN J. SHANNON Dancers United’s Ambassador Committee for was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” Commissioning Project, and premiering her first (Baltimore, MD) began Dance for Life Chicago. for 2012. work for Hubbard Street’s main company in dancing under the guidance 2013. She has since choreographed for the Nexus of Lester Holmes. He Hubbard Street 2 Dancer ANDREW MURDOCK Project, Owen/Cox Dance Group, SFDanceworks, graduated from the ADRIENNE LIPSON (St. Albert, AB) is a Whim W’Him, Grand Rapids Ballet, and Neos Baltimore School for (London, ON) began her graduate of the Juilliard Dance Theatre as a choreographer in residence at the Arts with additional dance training in London, School, from which he the University of Akron. In 2015 Saunders returned training at the School of Ontario under the tutelage received a BFA in Dance to Hubbard Street’s main company and began a American Ballet, Miami City of Jennifer Swan, and under the direction three-year choreographic residency with Grand Ballet School, Paul Taylor continued her studies at of Lawrence Rhodes. Rapids Ballet. She thanks her lovely husband and Dance Company, and Parsons Dance. He earned Ryerson University, where Prior to being a regular beautiful son for all of their support. his BFA in 2007 at the Juilliard School, toured she received a BFA with collaborator with Aszure nationally with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble honors upon her graduation Barton & Artists, Murdock and appeared in the “Live from Lincoln Center” in spring 2013. While in Toronto, Lipson performed performed with Gallim broadcast television special The Juilliard School: with Typecast Dance Company and was a founding Dance and BJM Danse, formerly Les Ballets Jazz de Celebrating 100 Years. Shannon joined Hubbard member of Rock Bottom Movement. Lipson Montréal. Additional collaborators and colleagues Street in November 2007. attended the Proarte Danza Summer Intensive and include Cherice Barton, Joshua Beamish, Andy Kenny Pearl’s Emerging Artists Summer Intensive, Blankenbuehler, Nina Chung, Joe Lanteri, Austin in addition to training programs at Hubbard Street McCormick, Michelle Mola, Abdel Salaam, and Dance Chicago, LADMMI (Montréal’s L’École Edgar Zendejas. He has appeared at the Greenwich de Danse Contemporaine), the Jacob’s Pillow Music Festival, with Zack Winokur, and with Dance Festival and Springboard Danse Montréal, Geneviève Dorion-Coupal at Just for Laughs and where she performed works by choreographers Le 400e Anniversaire de la Ville de Québec. As Aszure Barton, Barak Marshall and Robyn Mineko a rehearsal assistant to Aszure Barton, he has Williams. Lipson joined Hubbard Street 2 as an worked with American Ballet Theatre, Canada’s apprentice in August 2013 and was promoted to National Ballet School and Ballet BC, New York full company member in August 2014. University, the Steps Ensemble, Arts Umbrella, and Springboard Danse Montréal. He joined Hubbard Street in 2013.

Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely Hubbard Street dancer photos by in The Blues Project. Photography © Christopher Duggan. Todd Rosenberg and Quinn B. Wharton. 14 15 HUBBARD STREET STAFF

GLENN EDGERTON (Artistic Director) joined September 11 attacks. In 2004, he accepted the LUCAS CRANDALL (Rehearsal Director) began While in San Francisco, she served on the board Hubbard Street Dance Chicago after an position of executive director at the Washington his dance career with the Milwaukee Ballet in of the Tenderloin Community Benefit District. international career as a dancer and director. Ballet. Under his leadership, the company 1979. In 1980, he joined the Ballet du Grand Appel maintains a freelance practice as a financial At the Joffrey Ballet, he performed leading presented full performance seasons annually at Théâtre de Genève, then directed by Oscar Aráiz. and strategic management consultant for arts roles, contemporary, and classical, for 11 years the Kennedy Center and the Warner Theater, and Under the direction of Jiří Kylián, he danced with organizations, holds an MBA from Yale School of under the mentorship of Robert Joffrey. In 1989, nurtured its world-renowned school and extensive Nederlands Dans Theater for two years before Management, an MFA in Theater Management Edgerton joined the acclaimed Nederlands education and outreach programs. A graduate returning to Geneva, as soloist and later rehearsal from Yale School of Drama, and a BA from Dans Theater (NDT), where he danced for five of the University of Northern Iowa, Palmquist assistant, under the direction of Gradimir Pankov. Wesleyan University. years. He retired from performing to become currently serves on the boards of the Arts Alliance Crandall has performed and originated roles its artistic director, leading NDT 1 for a decade of Illinois and the Harris Theater for Music and in works by notable choreographers including LOU CONTE (Founder), after a performing career and presenting the works of Jiří Kylián, Hans van Dance. Aráiz, Kylián, Christopher Bruce, Nacho Duato, that included roles in Broadway musicals such as Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Mats Ek, Rui Horta, Amanda Miller, and Ohad Cabaret, Mame, and How to Succeed in Business Ek, Nacho Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul KARENA FIORENZA INGERSOLL (General Naharin. In 2000, Crandall returned to the U.S. to Without Really Trying, established the Lou Conte Lightfoot, and Sol León, among others. From Manager) brings more than a decade of experience join Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, as Associate Dance Studio in 1974. Three years later, he founded 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn Dance to Hubbard Street as a leader, fundraiser, and Artistic Director and staff at the Lou Conte what is now Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Institute at the Colburn School of Performing producer in the performing arts. Most recently, Dance Studio. His teaching and coaching career Originally the company’s sole choreographer, he Arts in Los Angeles. Edgerton joined Hubbard she served as the associate managing director of includes residencies at various U.S. universities; developed relationships with emerging and world- Street as associate artistic director in 2008; Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, where master classes and repertory workshops, both renowned dancemakers Lynne Taylor-Corbett, since 2009 as artistic director, he has built upon she line-produced and managed all new play domestically and abroad; and guest positions at Margo Sappington, and Daniel Ezralow as the more than three decades of leadership in dance development efforts, shepherding 30% growth companies including Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, company grew. Conte continued to build Hubbard performance, education, and appreciation in capacity. Previous tenures include executive Northwest Professional Dance Project, and the Street’s repertoire by forging a key relationship established by founder Lou Conte and continued director of contemporary dance company Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. Crandall’s with Twyla Tharp in the 1990s, acquiring seven by Conte’s successor, Jim Vincent. Robert Moses’ Kin (San Francisco, CA), associate choreographic work includes multiple premieres of her works as well as original choreography. managing director of Yale Repertory Theatre for Hubbard Street (Atelier, Gimme, The Set) It then became an international enterprise JASON D. PALMQUIST (Executive Director) (New Haven, CT), management fellow during and new works for Northwest Dance Project with the inclusion of works by Jiří Kylián, Nacho joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in May ArtsEmerson’s inaugural presenting year (Boston, and Thodos Dance Chicago. Crandall was Duato, and Ohad Naharin. Throughout his 23 2007, after serving the arts community in MA), annual fund manager at Aurora Theatre recently rehearsal director for Nederlands Dans years as the company’s artistic director, Conte Washington, D.C. for nearly 15 years. Palmquist (Berkeley, CA), and international experience in Theater’s main company for three years, under received numerous awards including the first began his career at the John F. Kennedy Center Mexico City working for a nonprofit humanitarian the directorships of Paul Lightfoot and former Ruth Page Artistic Achievements Award in 1986, for the Performing Arts, completing his tenure group. While in the Bay Area, Fiorenza Ingersoll Hubbard Street Artistic Director Jim Vincent. the Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award in 1995, there as vice president of dance administration. was secretary and then president of the Berkeley Crandall returned to Hubbard Street as Rehearsal and a Chicagoan of the Year award from Chicago At the Kennedy Center, he oversaw multiple Cultural Trust and a proud member of the Bay Director in April 2013. magazine in 1999. In 2003, Conte was inducted as world-premiere engagements of commissioned Area Latino Theatre Artists Network. She is also a laureate into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois, the works in dance, the formation and growth of a freelance arts management strategist and SUZANNE APPEL (Director, External Affairs) state’s highest honor, and in 2014, was named one the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and the inception artist representative, partnering with individual joined Hubbard Street in August 2015 following of five inaugural recipients of the City of Chicago’s in 1997 of the Millennium Stage, an award- artists and ensembles whose work gives voice a decade of arts leadership roles with an Fifth Star Award. He has been credited by many winning, free daily performance series that to to underrepresented stories and perspectives. emphasis on business development, revenue for helping raise Chicago’s international cultural date has served more than 3 million patrons. Recognized nationally, Fiorenza Ingersoll was generation, and producing the work of form- profile and for creating a welcoming climate for Deeply enriching the Kennedy Center’s artistic invited in 2014 by Theatre Communications Group challenging artists. Most recently she served as dance in the city, where the art form now thrives. programming, Palmquist successfully presented to be part of its SPARK Leadership Program’s managing director of The Cutting Ball Theater engagements of global dance companies inaugural class. She holds two bachelor’s degrees in San Francisco, where she nearly doubled the including the Royal Ballet, Alvin Ailey American from the University of California at Berkeley organization’s operating budget and built a two- Dance Theater, the Kirov Ballet, Paul Taylor and an MFA in Theater Management from Yale plus-month operating reserve in four years. Her Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, and University. previous roles include director of individual giving New York City Ballet. Palmquist also managed at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, the Kennedy Center’s television initiatives, associate managing director at Yale Repertory including the creation of the Mark Twain Prize Theater in New Haven, management fellow at for American Humor and a prime-time special on Berkeley Repertory Theater, and assistant director NBC memorializing the first anniversary of the of the annual fund at Wesleyan University. Photography © Kirk Richard Smith, 2015. Courtesy DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. 16 17 2015//16 2015 // 16 NORTHROP FILM SERIES NORTHROP SEASON

Alvin Ailey American Dance JESSICA LANG DANCE MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP Theater//Beyond the Steps Sat, Feb 13, 8:00 pm Wed, Mar 30, 7:30 pm Thu, Feb 25, 6:30 pm Lines Cubed Dido and Aeneas Mark Morris Dance Group// Mendelssohn/Incomplete with live orchestra, chorus, and soloists L’Allegro (PBS) Among the Stars conducted by Mark Morris Thu, Mar 24, 6:30 pm The Calling White Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de i.n.k. Montréal//Quelques pas a Paris MIAMI CITY BALLET Thu, Mar 31, 6:30 pm Wed, Apr 27, 7:30 pm SPECIAL JAZZ/FILM CLASSIC EVENT Miami City Ballet//Ballet 422 Serenade Thu, Apr 21, 6:30 pm THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE Symphony in Three Movements CINE-CONCERT Heatscape Benoît Charest, Composer-Conductor with live orchestra All screenings are located in our Wed, Feb 17, 7:30 pm 4th floor Best Buy Theater, and are free and open to the public. with live music on stage

ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER Tue, Mar 1, 7:30 pm UPCOMING EVENTS Open Door AT NORTHROP Cry Exodus Revelations CHRIS YOUNG featuring Cassadee Pope Wed, Feb 3, 7:30 pm

JASON ISBELL with Shovels & Rope Mon, Feb 22, 7:30 pm Single tickets are still available PIANO GUYS Wed, Mar 9, 7:30 pm but selling fast for some shows. Order yours today! PEPPA PIG LIVE! Sat, Mar 19, 5:00 pm

PUSCIFER with Luchafer Wed, Mar 23, 7:30 pm

Mark Morris Dance Group in Great Performances Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Rachael McLaren. L'Allegro. Photo © David Leyes. Photo © Andrew Eccles.

18 19 MORRIS//CHORUS PACKAGE SAVE $10 PER TICKET when you buy both performances using promo code: morrischorus

MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP Mar 30 Dido and Aeneas With live orchestra, chorus, and soloists conducted by Mark Morris

Mark Morris combines the Baroque vocal music of Henry Purcell’s operatic tale of love and betrayal with highly-detailed signature dance vocabulary.

TWIN CITIES GAY MEN’S CHORUS Apr 2 April 2, 2016 • 8pm • Northrop ASL interpreted performance A Night at Northrop: The 35th Anniversary Concert Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus is proud we’ve been fulfilling our mission of Gay Men Building Community Through Music for the past 35 years! Come celebrate our on-going journey at this special one night only musical fête on the Carlson Family Stage in the newly remodeled Northrop. We’ll honor our past, celebrate the present and look to the promising future with music that is sure to inspire. Plus, we’ll have a few surprises up our cufflinked sleeves! Come raise a toast to 35 years of song on this night to remember - A Night at Northrop.

U of M Tickets and Events: 612-624-2345 or tickets.umn.edu

JOIN THE CONVERSATION Chorus: 612-339-7664 or tcgmc.org

20 21 We regret to announce the cancellation of We're delighted to LES GRANDS BALLETS welcome these and CANADIENS DE MONTRÉAL other groups to Wed, Apr 6 tonight's performance Please contact the Northrop box office for options regarding tickets and subscriptions. Betty Jo's Dance School Apple Valley, MN Short Dance Studios Eagan, MN Ashley Ballet Arts Academy Edina, MN

NORTHROP COMMEMORATIVE ARM RESTS

Contempo Physical Dance with choreographer Patrick Acogny Take a piece of the old February 26–27 | 7:30 p.m. SAINT PAUL BALLET APARNA RAMASWAMY Northrop home with you! $15, $20, $25 Four Women in Choreography They Rose at Dawn Feb 12 - 14 Feb 19 - 20 Angelique Kidjo April 24 | 7 p.m. For sale at the East and West Box Offices for $25 $25, $35, $45

SHAPESHIFT Tickets: 651-690-6700 | oshag.stkate.edu Grey Skies Blue Ticket Office Hours: Mon-Sat, 12–6 p.m. Feb 26 - 28

Angelique Kidjo | Photo courtesy of the artist 612.206.3600 / thecowlescenter.org

22 23 It's a love story. Its a lie. All in a day's work. WHAT DRIVES JIGNA DESAI THREEPENNY TO THINK FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 6 music by KURT WEILL book & lyrics by BERTOLT BRECHT AUTISM IS A OPERA directed by KYM LONGHI CIVIL RIGHTS RARIG CENTER, West Bank Arts Quarter Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht: A 21st Century Celebration

ISSUE? tickets: THEATRE.UMN.EDU | 612 624-2345

Many view autism as a condition needing a cure. But what if it’s not? What if neurological differences such as autism, ADHD, and dyslexia are a valuable part of human diversity? That’s what drives Dr. Jigna Desai at the University of Minnesota to remove barriers and stigma that prevent these members of our society from reaching their full potential. “All Have a Glass, On Us brains may not be created the same,” she says, “but they all deserve equal rights.” Make your post-Theater debut at The Beacon, and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine umn.edu/desai with purchase of any lunch or dinner farm-to-fork entrée.

Reservations recommended and Private Dining available Call 612.362.6666 for reservations or visit www.beaconpublichouse.com

Crookston Duluth Morris Rochester Twin Cities

24 25 GUEST SERVICES NORTHROP STAFF FRIENDS OF NORTHROP Ground Level East & West Coat Check Norsyazana Ab Jalil, Student Production Assistant We would like to thank the following individuals whose generous support makes Northrop’s Guest Services Provide: Brian Ahlm, Digital Media Manager transformative cultural experiences possible. Make your mark on Northrop’s future by becoming »Listening devices »Coat check Tom Archibald, Event Manager Grace Berke, Student Engagement Intern a Friend today! »Large print programs »Lost and found services Henry Bielenberg, Student Production Assistant »Taxi calling service (If calling your own taxi, our address Justin Burke, Technical Director Learn more about giving opportunities at northrop.umn.edu/support-northrop is 84 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455) Jack Caughey, Student Production Assistant Robb Clasen, House Manager Surdyk’s Café Haley Cramer, External Relations Associate Surdyk’s Café is on the first floor, west side of Northrop. Brooke Dillon, Communications Manager DIRECTORS CIRCLE Hours: 7:30 am–7:00 pm, Monday–Thursday, and Sally Dischinger, Operations Director 500+ Laura Durenberger-Grunow, Systems Configuration Assistant 10,000+ Anonymous Dr. David and Katherine McGill 7:30am–5:00 pm, Friday. Surdyk’s concessions (including Welles Emerson, Annual Giving Officer Mark Baumgartner Kathleen Rothenberger James and Mary Ann McKenna wine and beer) are located on the east and west sides of Tony Engle, Finance Assistant Carlson Family Foundation R. and J. Cameron Robert and Susanna McMaster each level before and during performances happening Melanie Featherstone, Student Production Assistant Mike and Kathy Ruhland 5,000+ Colleen Carey and Val Moeller Alec George, Ticket Office Assistant Scooter on the Carlson Family Stage. 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Northrop Presents JESSICA LANG DANCE Sat, Feb 13, 8:00 pm

Lines Cubed Mendelssohn/Incomplete Among the Stars The Calling White i.n.k.

Art and design brought to life through sophisticated contemporary ballet with imaginative interactive staging