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II iilihaifl Street DANCE ••i Chicago mm Lou Conte, Artistic Director February 3,1996 liiiiiiliiii THE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY AT GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY The Center From the Executive Director, Richard Kordos For Arts and Technology Governors State University As you sit waiting for the lights to dim and the show to begin, think back a few years to the first time you became aware of the Richards. Kordos, Executive Director idea and heard the excitement about building a performing arts presents center here, in the south suburbs of Chicago -- perhaps in your backyard. You may have thought it was a great idea, but would Hubbard Street it ever happen? And if so, when? Now, before the lights dim, look around you at the walls, the DANC••Chicago)E seats, the carpet, the lights, the speakers, the drapes — see the colors, feel the comfort, hear the sounds of the people sitting Lou Conte Gail Kalver nearby. Look at their faces, sense the excitement. The "great Founder and Artistic Director Executive Director idea" has actually happened. THE COMPANY And as the lights are beginning to dim and the show is about to Alberto]. Arias Joseph Mooradian begin, if you were one of those visionaries who, so many years Shan Bai Patrick Mullaney ago, said "yes" to the idea and even dug deep into your Tina Brock Mary Nesvadba pocketbook and said "count me in" --then, with a great deal of Christine Carrillo Jason Ohlberg pride and with a certain sense of ownership, sit back, smile, and SandiJ. Cooksey Joseph P. Pantaleon be ever so proud of what you are about to see. You made it Ron De Jesus Josef Patrick happen. Congratulations! Maria Fenske John Ross David Gomez Jennita Russo Laura Elena Haney Krista Swenson Rhonda Henriksen Mario Alberto Zambrano The Center Staff Maria Simonetti Jonathan Ledden Todd L. Clark RehearsalDirector/ Production Lighting Ballet Mistress Stage Manager Executive Director Richard S. Kordos Supervisor Theatre Manager Melissa Vickery-Bareford SandiJ. Cooksey Shelley Washington Whitman Sales Director Dawn Leader Krista Swenson Rehearsal Director for Technical Director Bruce Holland Rehearsal Assistants The Tharp Project Sound Director Steve Carlin Anne Grove Sandra Austin S.R. "Dutch" Glatz Kilroy G. Kundalini Theatre Secretary Kathleen Scheuerman Company Manager Wardrobe Supervisor Technical Director A udio Engineer House Manager James Jackson Director of Public Affairs Constance Zonka North American Tour Direction Consultants Marie E. O'Connor John P. Luckacovic, Vice President/Maria Flotta, Managerial Associate Jeffrey Ortmann Columbia Artists Management, Inc. Musical Director Gene Barge United Airlines is the official domestic carrier for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Sponsored by Lexus of Orland Park PROGRAM Recreated by Mitchell Bloom Saturday, February 3, 1996 at 8 p.m. Original Lighting £7 Jennifer Tipton Recreated by David A. Finn READ MY HIPS Music Performed by Frank Sinatra (20 Minutes) SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU Choreography by Daniel Ezralow Christine Carrillo Joseph Patrick Costume Design by Jeffrey Jackson Lighting Design by Howell Binkley STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT Original Music by Michael Colombier Laura Elena Haney John Ross The Company ONE FOR MY BABY (AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD) The Choreography for "Read My Hips" is underwritten by Rhonda Henriksen Joseph Mooradian an anonymous donor. MY WAY Created for and premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at Carrillo, Patrick, Haney, Ross, Henriksen, Mooradian the Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, May 8,1990. SOMETHING STUPID Note: A strobe-like lighting effect will be used during this dance. Krista Swenson Alberto J. Arias ALL THE WAY Intermission Maria Fenske David Gomez FORGET DOMANI QUARTET FOR IV Sandi J. Cooksey Mario Alberto Zambrano (and sometimes one, two, or three. .) (21 Minutes) THAT'S LIFE Shan Bai Ron De Jesus Choreography^ Kevin O'Day Costume Design by Gary Lisz MY WAY Lighting Design by David A. Finn Carrillo, Patrick, Haney, Ross , Henriksen, Mooradian, Swenson, Arias, Fenske, Music by Kevin Volans Gomez, Cooksey, Zambrano, Bai, De Jesus Jennita Russo, Joseph Mooradian "Nine Sinatra Songs" is underwritten by The Tharp Project. Mary Nesvadba, Patrick Mullaney The Music for "Nine Sinatra Songs" is used with kind permission "White Man Sleeps" performed by the Kronos Quartet. Courtesy of Elektra of Mr. Sinatra and Capital Records. Nonesuch. By arrangement with Warner Special Products and G. Shirmer, Inc. agents for Chester Music, Ltd. The costume construction was executed by Euroco (New York). Premiered by Twyla Tharp Dance at the Queen Elizabeth Theahe in Intermission Vancouver, Canada, on October 14, 1982. Staged by Elaine Kudo and re-staged and rehearsed NINE SINATRA SONGS by Shelley Washington Whitman. (28 Minutes) Premiered by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at the Ordway Music Theatre, Choreography by Twyla Tharp St. Paul, Minnesota, November 13, 1992. Original Costume Design by Oscar de la Renta ALBERTO J. ARIAS (Chicago, IL) danced with Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre and was Hubbard Street Dance Chicago nominated for the 1989 Chicago Dance Coalition's Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Dancer. He choreographed a music video for MTV and assisted choreographer Harrison McEldowney LOU CONTE (Founder and Artistic Director) began dance lessons as a child in DuQuoin, Illinois. A in Don DeSilva's Fame with director David Bell in Pittsburgh and Houston. Mr. Arias has zoology major at Southern Illinois University, Mr. Conte returned to dance in 1960, inspired by Marie Hale, currently artistic director of Ballet Florida. After Mr. Conte studied in Florida, New York and at the Ellis- expanded his interests into dance administration, serving as the assistant to the company DuBouIay School in Chicago, his career took him to Broadway where in 1964, at the age of 22, he manager for HSDC. He joined HSDC in 1985. performed in the chorus of Bob Fosse's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Other Broadway credits include Cabaret and Mame, both in New York and on the road From the mid-1960s to early 1970s, SHAN BAI (Beijing, China) started her dance training at the school of the Silk Road Dance he choreographed more than 30 musicals. After 13 months in Europe with The George Reich Ballet, Mr. Company in Beijing, China. As a principal dancer, she toured the U.S., Canada, Korea, Japan Conte returned to Chicago in the mid-1970s to establish the Lou Conte Dance Studio, and in 1977 founded Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. The company has received popular and critical praise throughout the and Europe. In 1987, Ms. Bai received a scholarship to study ballet, jazz and modem dance at world, including accolades from the late Fred Astaire, who after seeing HSDCs first television special, said it Point Park College in Pittsburgh, PA where she completed her BFA. During her school years, contained "some of the greatest dancing" he had seen in years. Mr. Conte has received numerous awards, she received the Young Artist Scholarship to the American Dance Festival and to the Martha including the inaugural Urban Gateways Jessie Woods Award, the Sidney R. Yates Arts Advocacy Award Graham School. She has studied dance with David Hochoy, Doug Varone, Diane Gray and and the University Club of Chicago's Artistic Achievement Award in 1995. He has served on the Illinois Arts Pearl Lang. Ms. Bai joined HSDC in 1992. Council's Dance Panel and the National Endowment for the Arts' Dance Presenters Panel. In 1992, Mr. Conte choreographed a dance for Madonna in the film A league of Their Own TINA BROCK (Rochester, NY) studied dance on scholarship with the schools of the Boston, GAIL KALVER (Executive Director) a native Chicagoan, joined HSDC in 1984. She received a degree in Jeffrey, Cleveknd and Rochester City Ballets. She performed with the Rochester City Ballet from music education from the University of Illinois and a master's in clarinet from Chicago Musical College. Ms. 1992 to 1994 and with Disney's Pocahontas NYC premiere in Central Park. Ms. Brock began Kalver founded and managed the Windy City Wind Ensemble, taught clarinet and performed with her apprenticeship with HSDC in June 1995. ensembles and orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera and Grant Park Symphony. After serving as assistant to the manager of special services for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she joined the Ravinia Festival staff where she eventually became associate manager. Ms. Kalver was music consultant to CHRISTINE CARRILLO (South Holland, H) studied dance with Loretta Rozack, Stone & the Peabody award-winning National Radio Theatre. She has served on the board of Dance/USA and on Cameron, Richard Atve, Delores Lipinski, Margaret Lynn DiCianni and Warren Conover. She numerous funding panels, including the lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Arts Partners Panel, city, state and joined HSDC in 1989 and currently studies with Ginger Farley, Birute Barodicaite and Larry regional agency funding panels and the Dance on Tour and Challenge Panels of the National Endowment for Long. For three seasons she performed in Ruth Page's spring concerts and in the Nutcracker. the Arts. Ms. Kalver serves on the boards of the Chicago Dance Coalition and the Illinois Arts Alliance. She Ms. Carrillo also performed as a guest artist at Barat College and with the Chicago Repertory is a member of the advisory committee of the School of Music of DePaul University and serves on the Arts Advisory Council of the Arts Business Council and the Arts Advisory Council of Bowen High School in Dance Ensemble's 1988 "New Dances" program. Chicago. Ms. Kalver is the recipient of the Chicago Dance Coalition's 1988 Ruth Page Award for her \ outstanding contribution to the Chicago dance community. SANDI J. COOKSEY ffuneau, AJO started dancing in 1980 while she was a competitive gymnast in Monterey, CA. Her dance studies include Hidden Valley Dance Center, Janice Hoist MARIA SIMONETTI (Rehearsal Director/Ballet Mistress) studied at the Institute of Superior Art of the Dance School, The National Academy of Arts, Giordano Dance Center and Lou Conte Dance Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her instructors included Olga Ferri, Maria Luisa Lemos and Studio.