Returning to the Steppenwolf Theatre stage after taking it by storm last year with a sold-out 2-week run, Season 48’s Fall Series showcases the full range of physicality and emotion of the Hubbard Street Dancers with an eclectic mixed-repertory program in this intimate theater.

Ohad Naharin‘s ritualistic quintet Black Milk—“by turns elegant and feral” (Chicago Tribune)—will grace the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre for the first time. Originally choreographed by Bob Fosse for his Broadway show Dancin’, the athletic, balletic tour-de-force solo Percussion IV returns to Hubbard Street, the exclusive repertory home for Fosse/Verdon works in partnership with The Verdon Fosse® Legacy. Resident Artist Aszure Barton’s mesmerizing duet A Duo kicks off the third year of her residency at Hubbard Street alongside audience favorite IMPASSE by Johan Inger, praised by the Chicago Tribune as “a weird and wonderful joy bomb.”

Photo: Hubbard Street Dancers Andrew Murdock, Elliot Hammans, Aaron Choate, Jack Henderson, and David Schultz in Black Milk by Ohad Naharin. Photo by Michelle Reid.