Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s American Aerobicism

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has its own particular movement language down pat: It emulates the way Europeans have adapted the textures and rhythms of classic modern-dance vocabulary, but it has combined it with an American aerobicism. It’s not unsophisticated, but it’s also readily accessible. It has not only a style but even a culture of its own: When the entire company or most of it is onstage together one senses a particular cohesion among the dancers. But as vigorously as they danced all the works on view, it wasn’t often that one saw them really fulfill themselves.