Ana Lopez, Emilie Leriche, Jessica Tong and Alice Klock in "Falling Angels" Lovely dancers plus good works by celebrated choreographers make up the repertory company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. For their New York season at The Joyce Theater (May 12-24), they boasted works by Jiri Kylian, Alejandro Cerrudo (resident choreographer), Nacho Duato, Crystal Pite, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, plus former company member Robyn Mineko Williams. The gems in “Program B” are Kylian’s Falling Angels and Duato’s Gnawa which open and close the evening, respectively. Both Kylian and Duato have signature styles and these performers showed the difference. The cast of eight women in Falling Angels were like 1920s beach beauties in processions of angular movement in unison or in canon to a pulsing beat. And later, in Gnawa the ensemble is compelling in the way their accurately timed and many layered movements framed the seamless contortions in Kellie Epperheimer and Jason Hortin recurring duet. It was good to see Gnawa on stage after an equally lovely presentation at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater last year as part of the kick off for “Fall For Dance Festival”. Though resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo’s The Impossible was rather long and episodic, his upbeat Pacopepepluto for Johnny McMillan, David Schultz and Jonathan Fredrickson to songs by Dean Martin was delightful.
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