Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Ted Shawn Theatre
Wednesday, August 25 - Saturday, August 28, 8pm
Saturday, August 28 & Sunday, August 29, 2pm
ADDED MATINÉE Thursday, August 26, 2pm
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
August 25-August 29, 2010
Adored by Pillow audiences and back by popular demand, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns for a dynamic Festival finale under its new artistic director, dance veteran Glenn Edgerton.
This adventurous evening of works includes Tabula Rasa, an emotional tidal wave of movement by Batsheva's Ohad Naharin set to music by Arvo Pärt in which dancers exude a sense of smooth melancholy while moving in Naharin's signature dance language.
Alejandro Cerrudo, resident choreographer of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (a position created especially for him), presents the theatrical world premiere of Deep Down Dos, set to "Music for Underground Spaces" by Chicago Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Mason Bates. Inspired by the imagery from "Underground"--tectonic plates, crystalline caverns and blazing infernos--Deep Down Dos features sweeping, cutting choreography and presents a series of "moments [that] crack as soon as they're established, and the next oozes out" (Time Out Chicago). Click here to see a video of Cerrudo and Bates discussing their collaborative process.
Also on the program is Blanco, another premiere by Cerrudo, which was choreographed as the companion piece to Deep Down Dos. Featuring music by Felix Mendelssohn and Charles-Valentin Alkan, Blanco is a stunning work of abstract movement created for four women.
Untouched, choreographed by Pillow favorite Aszure Barton and created in collaboration with Hubbard Street dancers, has been lauded as "extraordinarily eloquent, deeply emotional, theatrically sophisticated" (Chicago Sun-Times). Barton worked with each dancer and created a shared movement vocabulary that binds the dancers together while they each project their own individuality.
"This breathless new ballet [Deep Down Dos] is another winner for the gifted Cerrudo."--Chicago Tribune
"[Aszure Barton] has devised a work that is alternately mysterious, beautiful, quirky and hypnotic. And not only does it tap into the very particular qualities of each of the 12 dancers in its cast, but it muses on the complex tension between their deep interior lives "offstage," and what they might project onstage." -Chicago Sun-Times
Wednesday, August 25 - Saturday, August 28, 8pm
Saturday, August 28 & Sunday, August 29, 2pm
ADDED MATINÉE Thursday, August 26, 2pm
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