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This weekend, as Oliver Sava has reported, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago returns to the Auditorium Theatre for the first time in 20 years for a retrospective of the work of its resident choreographer, Alejandro Cerrudo.
Cerrudo is a bit of philosopher: he told Sava about how he viewed the Auditorium’s large, deep stage as an inspiration, not a challenge. “If you have enough depth on the stage,” he said, “you can get the sense that there’s nothing but darkness behind them. It sounds scary, but it’s beautiful. You’re not focused on that, you’re focused on the dancers.”
In a longer interview in the 2012 People Issue, Cerrudo spoke in more depth to Laura Molzahn about his process
