Hubbard Street 2 (or HS2) was founded by Julie Nakagawa and Lou Conte in 1997 with the intention of preparing young adults for careers in contemporary dance. Serving as a valuable training ground for its parent company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, HS2 was under the direction of Terence Marling at the time of its Pillow debut in 2016. Choreographer Robyn Mineko WIlliams performed with Hubbard Street for 12 seasons and collaborated with Marling on a previous HS2 work for family audiences in 2010, Harold and the Purple Crayon. Manual Cinema is a performance collective, design studio, and production company for film and video, utilizing shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound to create immersive stories for both stage and screen. When it premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2015, Mariko’s Magical Mix was hailed as “wildly imaginative.”
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