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Grants
21
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Total Awarded
$2,726,000
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Years
1981 - 2022
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Categories
Grants
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a contemporary dance company that combines modern, jazz, and ballet styles. It brings artists, audiences, dance students, and Chicago youth together through performances, classes, and programming. The company commissions new works and promotes talent at all levels, while offering specialized programs for disabled persons. This award provides general operating support to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as part of the Foundation’s Culture, Equity, and the Arts program.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago is a leading contemporary dance company that combines modern, jazz, and ballet styles. It brings artists, audiences, dance students, and Chicago youth together through performances, classes, and programming. Hubbard Street Dance is an innovator in the dance field, commissioning works and promoting talent at all levels, while offering specialized programs for disabled persons. This award recommends renewed general operating support to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
This grant provides renewed general operating support to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, one of the country’s premiere contemporary dance companies. Hubbard Street performs for over 80,000 people throughout the world each year, including over 17,000 in Chicago. It acquires and commissions new works by international choreographers and is committed to creating new contemporary dance choreography and cultivating the next generation of dancers and choreographers. In addition to performing, Hubbard Street aims to make dance a more accessible art form, enhance the learning process and change the arts environment in public school classrooms. It reaches 10,000 people through community performances, over 4,000 with in-school programs and over 5,000 dance students of all levels at the Lou Conte Dance Studio.
In support of artistic collaborations with Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Dance Company.
In support of three funds within the New Movements Campaign (over two years).
To train Chicago elementary school teachers in the use of dance as a learning tool.
To support the Artistic Initiative campaign, to expand the repertoire with works by Twyla Tharp and other choreographers (over three years).
To support a fundraising campaign feasibility study.
In support of general operations (over three years).
In support of general operations (over two years).
To support the Next Move Campaign.
In support of general operations (over three years).
In support of general operations (over two years).
In support of general operations (over two years).
In support of general operations.
In support of general operations.
In support of general operations.