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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 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 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 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 (20 Minutes) SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU by Daniel Ezralow Christine Carrillo Joseph Patrick Costume Design by Jeffrey Jackson Lighting Design by Howell Binkley 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 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 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 . 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 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 " 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. She has toured and performed in 12 countries with Ballet Iberio Hispanico, Giordano Mario Galizzi. In 1990 Ms. Simonetti studied on scholarship with The Jeffrey Ballet School and in 1991 completed the Professional Course in Centro Pro Danza in Havana, Cuba, where she was also an Jazz Dance Chicago and HSDC. In 1987, Ms. Cooksey joined HSDC and the faculty at Lou instructional assistant to Laura Alonso with CuBalleL She has served as guest teacher and rehearsal assistant Conte Dance Studio and has since taught master classes throughout the U.S. In 1992 she at Point Park College's International SummerDance under Roberto Munoz as well as at Magda Aunon School became a rehearsal assistant for HSDC and was awarded a Ruth Page Dance Achievement of Classical Ballet in Florida and Baltimore School for the Arts in Maryland. Ms. Simonetti joined HSDC in Award in 1995. June 1995. RON DE JESUS (Chicago, IL) began his dance training at Northeastern Illinois University. Prior ADMINISTRATION Paula Petrini Lynch to joining HSDC in 1986, he was a member of Ensemble Espafiol, Joseph Holmes Chicago Gala Coordinator Dance Theatre and the Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble. Mr. De Jesus has also appeared in Julia Glawe Ruth Page's Nutcracker and Die fledennaus. In 1990 he choreographed Shaktifor HSDC and in Administrative and Booking Manager Jacqueline S. Haywood MARKETING 1992 worked with Mr. Conte on the movie A League of Their Own. Office Manager/Business Assistant Kim Swinton Diana Anton Director of Marketing MARLA FENSKE (Edmonton, Alberta) joined HSDC in 1994. She began training in gymnastics, Educational Outreach Coordinator Keffi Corkle then studied dance at the Pacific Dance Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Banff Marketing Manager School of Fine Arts. Ms. Fenske trained three years at the School of Les Grands Ballet Angela M. Combest DEVELOPMENT Canadiennes before joining Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal where she danced from 1990-1994. Shannon Mofta Marketing/Public Relations Associate Director of Development DAVID GOMEZ (Dayton, OH) has studied and performed with the Dance Theatre of Dayton Vivienne Jones SPECIAL SERVICES Development Manager Kupferberg Goldberg and Neimark under the direction of Debbie DeRado and Melissa Swartz and later danced in the jazz program Leah M. Kaiser Auditor at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. In addition, Mr. Gomez has danced with the Salt Creek Ballet, Grants Writer & DanceMaker Akasha Dance Company and Ruth Page's Nutcracker. He joined HSDC in 1992 and thanks his Coordinator Donald I. Resnick mother for her love and support. Stefanie LaFond Jenner & Block Legal Counsel Development Assistant LAURA ELENA HANEY (Colorado Springs, CO) began her training at age four, studying with Esther Geoffrey and Michael Allen. She attended Walnut Hill School for the Arts where she graduated in 1990. Later that year, Ms. Haney moved to Chicago to study at the Lou Conte Patrick joined HSDC in 1985. He enjoys singing as well as dancing and specializes in knitting Dance Studio on scholarship. In 1991, she joined River North Dance Company, under the sweaters. He won a Chicago Dance Coalition Ruth Page Award in 1994 for his outstanding direction of Sherry Zunker-Dow, and also performed as a guest artist with David Fuszh Dance work in The Tharp Project. Company and in various commercial and industrial shows. Ms. Haney became a member of HSDCinl992. JOHN ROSS (Portland, OR) began training at the Academy of Ballet Oregon in 1985 and also studied with the Pacific Northwest Ballet where he was on summer scholarships from 1987- RHONDA HENRIKSEN (Chicago, JL) trained on a full scholarship with the Milwaukee City 1989. He has performed with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Chicago and Oregon Ballet Ballet Company, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Lou Conte Dance Studio and the Alvin Theatre. Mr. Ross most recently danced with the River North Dance Company before joining Ailey Dance Studio. Ms. Henriksen has danced throughout Europe and the U.S. with Gus HSDC in March 1995. Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Elisa Monte Dance Company, Diane Jacobowitz Dance Theatre, River North Dance Company, Ernst/Watson Dance Ensemble and Maggie Kast JENNITA RUSSO (Elgin, IL) studied dance with Donna Muzio and trained at the National Company. She joined HSDC in 1993. Ms. Henriksen would like to thank her husband David Academy of Arts in Champaign, IL, and the Pennsylvania Ballet School in Philadelphia. She has for his encouragement, support and love. danced with the Off Center Ballet in New York and Feld Ballets/NY. From 1991 -1994 Ms. Russo was with Pennsylvania Ballet under the direction of Christopher d'Amboise. She joined JOSEPH MOORADIAN (Hamilton, Ontario) was raised in Dearborn, MI, and began dancing at HSDC in 1994. the University of Michigan and Point Park College in Pittsburgh, PA. He has performed in numerous musicals with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, the Playhouse Theater Co.'s KRISTA SWENSON (Rochester, MD began dancing at an early age in the Chicago area, production of The Mystery of Edwin DroodanA an east coast production of West Side Story. studying with Rory Foster, Carol Walker and Randy Duncan. She attended high school at the Mr. Mooradian has danced in several industrials, in the Pittsburgh Opera's Mefistofele and with Interlochen Arts Academy and spent summers at various dance programs including the the Dayton Ballet. He joined HSDC in 1991 and would like to thank his mom for her love, American Dance Festival, DanceAspen and North Carolina School for the Arts. Although Ms. support and wisdom. Swenson was accepted at the Juilliard Conservatory, she decided to join the Twyla Tharp Dance Company in 1987. She became an HSDC company member in 1990 and a rehearsal assistant PATRICK MULLANEY (Chicago, IL), winner of the 1988 Ruth Page Award for "Outstanding in 1994. Dancer of the Year" and nominated in 1992 for Randy Duncan's UNARA4ED, began his training as a gymnast. Before joining Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theatre in 1985, where he studied MARIO ALBERTO ZAMBRANO (Houston, TX) studied and trained at the High School for the jazz with Randy Duncan and with Harriet Ross, he was a member of the Performing Arts in Houston and the Houston Ballet Academy. He has danced with the Houston University Dance Theatre. He attended Illinois State University and has since been on the Ballet, Corpus Christi Ballet Company and the Delia Stewart Dance Company. Mr. Zambrano faculty of Chicago National Masters Association. He has taught master classes at the Lou Conte was named one of twenty 1994 Presidential Scholars in the Arts and received a 199 5 Princess Dance Studio, the Ballet Folklorico de Mexico and the Guadalajara Academy of Ballet in Grace Award. Although offered a full scholarship to North Carolina School of the Arts and to Mexico. Mr. Mullaney joined HSDC in 1992. the Juilliard Conservatory, he chose to join HSDC in 1994.

MARY NESVADBA (Houston, TX) started ballet training at an early age. She later studied at the Fort Worth Ballet where she performed as a guest artist. Ms. Nesvadba spent two summers THE THARP PROJECT with the School of American Ballet in New York City and three years with the Houston Ballet School. During that time she received the Michael Wismond Award for most outstanding The Tharp Project, an artistic collaboration between Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and student. She became an apprentice with HSDC in 1990 and joined as a full company member internationally renowned American Choreographer Twyla Tharp, has expanded the in 1993. company's repertoire with several classic works by Tharp including Fugue, Sue's Leg, Baker's Dozen, The Golden Section and Nine Sinatra Songs. Hubbard Street Dance JASON OHLBERG (Fresno, CA) became an apprentice with HSDC in September 1995. He Chicago is honored to play a vital role in the history of American dance by preserving the attended high school at Roosevelt School of the Arts in Fresno and received scholarships with Tharp legacy for audiences worldwide. We wish to acknowledge the extraordinary the Martha Graham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey, David Howard and Lou Conte Dance Studio. generosity of the following The Tharp Project, an artistic collaboration between Hubbard Mr. Ohlberg trained at SUNY-Purchase and performed in Indianapolis, IN, with Dance Street Dance Chicago and internationally renowned American Choreographer Twyla Kaleidoscope. Most recently, he participated in the WUDOU Dance Festival in Beijing, China. Tharp, has expanded contributors who support this artistic partnership:

JOSEPH P. PANTALEON (San Diego, CA) began his training in ballet and jazz at age 19 while AT&T Foundation studying clinical psychology at San Diego State University. He was a member of the PASACAT Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Performing Arts Company and performed in many fashion, industrial and musical theater Julius Frankel Foundation productions. Since moving to Chicago, Mr. Pantaleon has worked with Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, River North Dance Company, Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble, Barat Polk Bros. Foundation College Repertory Dance Ensemble and The James Kelly Choreography Project. He joined Charitable Trusts HSDC in 1993. Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Anonymous JOSEF PATRICK (Baltimore, MD) began his dance studies at the age of ten with Ellen Young. After graduating from the School for the Arts in Baltimore, he performed with Walt Disney World Productions, Burt Reynold's Jupiter Theater and Southern Ballet Theater in Florida. Mr. HISTORY

Widely recognized as Chicago's premier dance company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago maintains a distinctive repertoire which includes works by world-class As the proud sponsor of choreographers Twyla Tharp, Daniel Ezralow, Bob Fosse, James Kudelka, Margo Sappington and Mauricio Wainrot. A living archive for significant choreographic works and an innovative force in dance, the company combines classical ballet technique, theatrical jazz and to create an unparalleled THE CENTER artistic style. for Arts & Technology

Founded in 1977 by veteran dancer/choreographer Lou Conte, the company at Governors State University began as an ensemble of four women. HSDC gave its first public performance in 1978 at a senior citizens home under the auspices of Urban Gateways, an arts education organization. Today, as an ensemble of 20 culturally diverse and internationally-acclaimed dancers, the company performs annually for a world- wide audience of more than 100,000 people. HSDC has appeared at celebrated dance venues including the American Dance Festival, DanceAspen, the Holland Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, the Kennedy Center and the Singapore Festival of the Arts. Through outreach programs annually serving more than 17,000 students and senior citizens, HSDC maintains a strong would like to extend its commitment to the community.

From its inception, HSDC has captured public attention, appearing in numerous U.S. and Canadian television programs. WTTW/Channel 11 (Chicago) produced and aired HSDC's first special in 1981. After viewing the company's television debut, Fred Astaire called the performance "some of the greatest dancing I've seen in years." A second WTTW special, hosted by Gwen Verdon, aired nationally in 1985. In 1988, the national PBS special A GrandNight - The Performing Arts Salute to Public Television featured HSDC as one of the best in American performing arts. The company appeared on NBC's Today Show'w. 1988 and on CBS's Crown Jewel, a television special honoring the sixtieth anniversary of Chicago's historic Civic Opera House in 1989. In 1986, the state of Illinois presented HSDC with the Governor's Award, a prestigious acknowledgment of the company's prominence and exemplary achievement.

Rapid artistic growth has been reflected in the financial realm as well. HSDC's budget has grown from $8,000 in 1978 to over $2 million for the 1995-1996 season. As a not-for-profit organization, HSDC annually raises over $1 million from individual, corporate, foundation and government contributions.

HSDC's 1995-1996 performance schedule includes a winter tour of California, Arizona and New Mexico; a spring tour of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; Chicago Chicago West Oak Lawn Orland a home engagement in the 1996 Spring Festival of Dance at the Shubert Theatre in 312-881-2200 312-881-2150 708-499-7600 708-403-6400 Chicago and summer engagements at Jacob's Pillow in Lee, MA, Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA and the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL. Malteson Richton Park Homewood Lockport 708-747-0200 708-747-5286 708-957-2288 708-838-5900 In 1978, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago was launched to fill a community Braidwood Blue Island Wilmington Will-Cook need. Today it stands as one of the most renowned dance companies in 815-458-2136 708-389-8855 815-476-2141 708-403-6451 America as well as an emblem of Chicago's international cultural profile.