Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will celebrate its 30th anniversary during the 2007-08 season with some new works, revivals that include Twyla Tharp’s “Baker’s Dozen,” critical additions to its staff and the troupe’s Moscow debut.
In an appointment with a touch of crosstown serendipity, Glenn Edgerton, a onetime Joffrey Ballet dancer and former artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater’s main company, will become associate artistic director of the Hubbard Street Dance Center, the troupe’s larger umbrella organization, in August. Also, Kristen D. Brogdon, recently director of dance programming at the Kennedy Center, will join the Hubbard Center as artistic administrator July 16.
An expanded fall engagement Sept. 26-Oct. 7 at the Harris Theater will include a new work by Hubbard dancer Brian Enos and revivals of “Baker’s Dozen” (restaged by former Hubbard dancer Ron De Jesus), Nacho Duato’s “Cor Perdut” and his “Rassemblement,” Daniel Ezralow’s “SF/LB,” Susan Marshall’s “Kiss,” Ohad Naharin’s “Passomezzo,” Jiri Kylian’s “Sechs Tanze” and Hubbard artistic director Jim Vincent’s recently premiered and richly complex “Palladio.”
The spring engagement at the Harris next March 26-April 5 will include, among other offerings, new works by Hubbard dancer Alejandro Cerrudo (the talented creator of “Lickety-Split”), Hubbard artistic associate Lucas Crandall and New York-based choreographer Doug Varone.
This November, Hubbard will make its Russian debut as part of the Moscow International Contemporary Dance Festival. On Jan. 11, the troupe will appear in its fifth collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center in a program of old and new works to be detailed later.
In another unusual collaboration this fall, architecture students at the Illinois Institute of Technology will team up with Enos, Cerrudo and Crandall in a project seeking to “redefine space for dance beyond the limits of the black box stage.” The effort will result in a presentation at IIT’s Crown Hall in January.
Tickets for the fall and spring Harris engagements go on sale Aug. 15. For more information, visit www.hubbardstreetdance.com.
