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38 DANCE HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO 39 PROGRAM Gnawa Choreography and Set Design Nacho Duato HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO Lighting Design Nicholas Fischtel Costume Design Modesto Lomba TD Arena at College of Charleston May 23 at 7:00pm; May 24 and 25 at 3:00pm Music Rabih Abou-Khalil, Juan Arteche, Hassan Hakmoun, Adam Rudolph Production Coordinator Mediaart Producciones SL (Spain) Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton Dancers Kellie Epperheimer, Jason Hortin Executive Director Jason D. Palmquist Jacqueline Burnett, Alicia Delgadillo, Alice Klock, Emilie Leriche, Ana Lopez, General Manager Kristen Brogdon Bryna Pascoe, Jessica Tong Rehearsal Director Lucas Crandall Jesse Bechard, Alejandro Cerrudo, Jonathan Fredrickson, Johnny McMillan, Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo Andrew Murdock, David Schultz, Kevin J. Shannon Founder Lou Conte Global choreographer Nacho Duato, whose work the Chicago Tribune calls “gorgeously classical and pertly idiosyncratic,” created Gnawa Hubbard Street Dancers Garrett Patrick Anderson exclusively for Hubbard Street in 2005. Set to evocative music by Hassan Hakmoun and Adam Rudolph, this vibrant ensemble work taps the Jesse Bechard Mediterranean spirit of North Africa and Duato’s native Spain. Costumes for Gnawa are by Modesto Lomba, chairman of the Spanish Fashion Jacqueline Burnett Designers’ Association. Alejandro Cerrudo Alicia Delgadillo Quintett Kellie Epperheimer Choreography William Forsythe, in collaboration with Dana Caspersen, Stephen Galloway, Jonathan Fredrickson Jacopo Godani, Thomas McManus, Jone San Martin Jason Hortin Music Gavin Bryars Alice Klock Costume Design Stephen Galloway Emilie Leriche Lighting Design William Forsythe Ana Lopez Technical Consultant Tanja Rühl Johnny McMillan Dancers Jacqueline Burnett, Alice Klock Andrew Murdock Jesse Bechard, Alejandro Cerrudo, Johnny McMillan Bryna Pascoe David Schultz Quintett’s seamless progression of solos, duets and trios for five dancers runs in concert with—and counter to—themes of loss, hope, fear, Kevin J. Shannon and joy heard in Gavin Bryars’s orchestral composition from 1971, Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Exemplary of the many works created by Jessica Tong Forsythe as artistic director of Germany’s Ballett Frankfurt from 1984 to 2004, Quintett explores the strictures of classical ballet by testing their Quinn B Wharton resilience to manipulation, torsion, and fragmentation. Production Manager Joseph Futral Hubbard Street was honored to be the first US dance company to perform William Forsythe’sQuintett . Original cast members Thomas Company Manager Ishanee DeVas McManus, Dana Caspersen, and Stephen Galloway restaged Forsythe’s landmark 1993 choreography in Hubbard Street’s Chicago studios in Lighting and Technical Director Jason Brown 2012. Wardrobe Supervisor Rebecca M. Shouse Properties Master and Stage Operations Stephan Panek Audio Engineer Kilroy G. Kundalini PACOPEPEPLUTO Stage Manager and Properties Master Lisa Smeltzer Choreography Alejandro Cerrudo Master Electrician Sam Begich Music Dean Martin, Joe Scalissi Touring Wardrobe Jenni Schwaner Ladd Lighting Design Matt Miller Chief Marketing and Development Officer Bill Melamed Dancers Johnny McMillan, David Schultz, Jonathan Fredrickson Touring Coordinator and HS2 Company Manager Marisa Santiago Seven minutes of solo dancing for men set to songs popularized by “the king of cool,” Dean Martin, in the ’50s and ’60s, PACOPEPEPLUTO shows Cerrudo’s skill at balancing aesthetic austerity and sharp wit. Falling Angels Choreography Jirí Kylián Music Steve Reich Lighting Design Joop Caboort, after a concept by Jirí Kylián Costume Design Joke Visser Assistant to the Choreographer and Staging Roslyn Anderson Dancers Jacqueline Burnett, Alicia Delgadillo, Kellie Epperheimer, Alice Klock, Emilie Leriche, Ana Lopez, Bryna Pascoe, Jessica Tong Choreographed between 1986 and 1991, Jirí Kylián’s six “black and white” works are among the most influential in Western contemporary The 2014 Dance Series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. dance. In spring 2014, Hubbard Street added two of these works—Falling Angels (1989) and Sarabande (1990)—to three more already in the company’s repertoire: Petite Mort, Sechs Tänze, and No More Play. Additional support for the 2014 Dance Series is provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Eight women remain onstage throughout Falling Angels, a group continually fractured and recombined by the endlessly inventive patterning These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by of Kylián’s choreography and lighting design, both keenly illustrative of Steve Reich’s phased-percussion score. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. 440 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO 41 ABOUT THE COMPANY CREATIVE TEAM CHOREOGRAPHERS COMPANY Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s core purpose is to bring artists, GLENN EDGERTON (artistic director) NACHO DUATO (choreographer) was GARRETT PATRICK ANDERSON is from art and audiences together to enrich, engage, educate, transform joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago born in Valencia, Spain, and began Tucson, Arizona, and began his training and change lives through the experience of dance. Celebrating after an international career as a dancer training at London’s Rambert School at in Walnut Creek, California, under the its 37th season in 2014–15, Hubbard Street continues to be an and director. At the Joffrey Ballet, he age 18, expanding his studies at Maurice direction of Richard Cammack and Zola innovative force, supporting its creative talent while presenting performed leading roles, contemporary Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels, and Dishong at the Contra Costa Ballet Centre. repertory by major international artists. and classical, for 11 years under completing his dance education at He went on to study at San Francisco the mentorship of Robert Joffrey. In the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Ballet School and in Pacific Northwest Hubbard Street Dance Chicago grew out of the Lou Conte 1989, Edgerton joined the acclaimed in New York City. He joined Sweden’s Ballet School’s Professional Division. In Dance Studio at LaSalle and Hubbard Streets in 1977, when Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where Cullberg Ballet in 1980 and, the following 2001, Anderson joined San Francisco Lou Conte gathered an ensemble of four dancers to perform in he danced for five years. He retired year, Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) Ballet as a member of the Corps de Ballet senior centers across Chicago. Barbara G. Cohen soon joined from performing to become its artistic director, leading NDT in The Hague. From 1990 to 2010, after a successful career as and in 2005 was promoted to soloist. In 2008, he joined the the company as its first Executive Director. Conte continued 1 for a decade and presenting the works of Jirí Kylián, Hans dancer and resident choreographer for NDT 1, Duato was artistic Royal Ballet of Flanders in Antwerp, Belgium, as a first soloist, to direct the company for 23 years, during which he initiated van Manen, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek, Nacho director of Compañía Nacional de Danza under the Spanish under the direction of Kathryn Bennetts. In January 2011, he and grew relationships with both emerging and established Duato, Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Paul Lightfoot, and Sol León, Ministry of Culture’s Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas returned to the United States to perform with the Trey McIntyre artists including Nacho Duato, Daniel Ezralow, Jirí Kylián, Ohad among others. From 2006 to 2008, he directed the Colburn y de la Música. Duato relocated to Russia in 2011, becoming Project and joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago later that Naharin, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Twyla Tharp. Dance Institute at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los artistic director at the Mikhailovsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, year. Anderson received a scholarship from American Ballet Angeles. Edgerton joined Hubbard Street as associate artistic and will be artistic director of Staatsballett Berlin beginning Theatre’s National Training Curriculum and holds a BA in dance Conte’s successor Jim Vincent widened Hubbard Street’s director in 2008. Since 2009 as artistic director, he has built upon with the 2014–15 season while remaining with the Mikhailovsky from St. Mary’s College of California. international focus, began Hubbard Street’s collaboration with more than three decades of leadership in dance performance, Theatre as choreographer-in-residence. Duato’s acclaimed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and cultivated growth from education, and appreciation established by founder Lou Conte choreography is performed by companies worldwide. JESSE BECHARD is from Bolton, within, launching the Inside/Out Choreographic Workshop and continued by Conte’s successor, Jim Vincent. and inviting Resident Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo Massachusetts, and began his formal WILLIAM FORSYTHE (choreographer) ballet training at age 16 and graduated to make his first work. Gail Kalver’s 23 years of executive LUCAS CRANDALL (rehearsal director) began his dance career leadership provided continuity from 1984 through the 2006–07 was raised in New York and initially from Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He with the Milwaukee Ballet in 1979. In 1980, he joined the Ballet du trained in Florida with Nolan Dingman and attended summer programs at Boston season, when Executive Director Jason Palmquist joined the Grand Théâtre

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