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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Grants

2022 (3 years)
$150,000

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.

2017 (5 years)
$350,000

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.

2012 (5 years)
$315,000

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.

2009 (1 year)
$40,000

In support of artistic collaborations with Nederlands Dans Theater and Batsheva Dance Company.

2007 (5 years)
$290,000

In support of general operations (over five years).

2003 (4 years)
$120,000

In support of general operations (over four years).

2002 (2 years)
$250,000

In support of three funds within the New Movements Campaign (over two years).

2001 (2 years)
$70,000

In support of general operations (over two years).

2000 (1 year)
$35,000

To train Chicago elementary school teachers in the use of dance as a learning tool.

1996 (4 years)
$200,000

In support of general operations (over four years).

1995 (4 years)
$300,000

To support the Artistic Initiative campaign, to expand the repertoire with works by Twyla Tharp and other choreographers (over three years).

1995 (1 year)
$6,000

To support a fundraising campaign feasibility study.

1993 (3 years)
$150,000

In support of general operations (over three years).

1991 (1 year)
$80,000

In support of general operations (over two years).

1989 (1 year 1 month)
$100,000

To support the Next Move Campaign.

1988 (2 years 2 months)
$120,000

In support of general operations (over three years).

1986 (1 year 3 months)
$60,000

In support of general operations (over two years).

1984 (1 year)
$50,000

In support of general operations (over two years).

1983 (1 year)
$20,000

In support of general operations.

1982 (1 year)
$15,000

In support of general operations.

1981 (1 year)
$5,000

In support of general operations.