Auditorium Theatre 2018-19 Issue 2 Hubbard Street Dance

6 | HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO & MALPASO DANCE COMPANY | MARCH 2 + 3, 2019 HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO DANCERS Jacqueline Burnett received classical ballet training in Pocatello, ID from Romanian ballet master Marius Zirra, with additional summer training at Ballet Idaho, Brindusa-Moore Ballet Academy, the Universal (Kirov) Ballet Academy, The Juilliard School, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors from the Ailey School and Fordham University’s joint program in New York City in 2009, while serving as an apprentice with Hubbard Street. She was promoted to the main company in August 2009 and is a 2011-12 Princess Grace Honorarium recipient. Craig D. Black Jr. finished his sixth season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet prior to joining Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in the fall of 2017. The California native was captain of his San Jose high school’s nationally-ranked dance team. Black received his BFA from The Juilliard School, where he was awarded the 2010 Princess Grace Award in Dance. He won the 2011 Lorna Strassler Award for Student Excellence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Black’s summer programs were at Springboard Danse Montréal, Nederlands Dans Theater, and the Pillow. Rena Butler hails from Chicago, IL. She has danced with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company, David Dorfman Dance, Manuel Vignoulle/M-Motions, Yara Travieso, The Kevin Wynn Collection, and Pasos Con Sabor Salsa Dance Company. She began her studies at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, studied overseas at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. She has acted as repetiteur for Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. Butler’s choreographic work has been featured on the School at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s BFA program, the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, in the Young Choreographer’s Festival in New York City, the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art (in collaboration with the world-renowned jazz composer Terrence Blanchard), and the CHTV Stories television program in Switzerland. Alicia Delgadillo began her classical training at the Susan Hayward School of Dance in San Francisco, CA, and continued her studies in North Carolina with Gay Porter and Bridget Porter Young at the Charlotte School of Ballet. In 2004, Delgadillo began studying full time with Daniel and Rebecca Wiley at Piedmont School of Music and Dance. She attended summer programs at Hubbard Street, The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Springboard Danse Montréal. Delgadillo graduated with honors from the Ailey School and Fordham University’s joint program in New York City in 2012 while she was a member of Hubbard Street 2. She was promoted to the main company in April 2014. Kellie Epperheimer began her dance training in 1988 at the Academy of Dance and Civic Ballet of San Luis Obispo, and attended training programs at the Joffrey Ballet School and The Juilliard School in New York City. A founding member of Cedar Lake Ensemble (later Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet), she joined Hubbard Street 2 in January 2005 and was promoted to the main company in January 2007. Michael Gross earned a BFA in dance from the University of Arizona and received much of his early training from Colorado Jazz Dance Company in Colorado Springs, followed by further studies at the American Academy of Ballet and Springboard Danse Montréal. Formerly a member of River North Dance Chicago and Visceral Dance Chicago, Gross has also performed with Elements Contemporary Ballet and in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s holiday production Welcome Yule! Gross joined Hubbard Street in August 2014 and thanks his friends and family for their love and support. Elliot Hammans began his formal dance training in 2008 with Robert Sher-Machherndl and continued his ballet and modern dance education with Moving People Dance in Santa Fe, NM under the direction of Curtis Uhlemann. Hammans joined Moving People Dance Company as an apprentice in 2010, trained on full scholarship at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center in San Francisco, and attended Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 2011 and 2012 Summer Intensives. Following one season with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance and studies abroad at Austria’s Tanzzentrum SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance), Hammans earned his BFA in dance in 2014 from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Choreographers whose work he has performed include Seán Curran, Gail Gilbert, Crystal Pite, Kendra Portier, and Nathan Trice. Hammans joined Hubbard Street 2 as a full company member in August 2014 and was promoted to Hubbard Street’s main company in August 2016.