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Heart of the Movement: Dance for Life Dances For A Cause

In the early nineties, a dancer with the Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre named Keith Elliott was, like many artists of the time, losing friends and colleagues to complications caused by HIV/AIDS. “If you...

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Preview: Stories in Motion/Joffrey Ballet

RECOMMENDED To whet audience appetites for the fall season, the Joffrey presents a special one-weekend amuse of short narrative ballets. Two pieces are from the Joffrey rep: Antony Tudor’s 1936 “Lilac...

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Preview: Nutcracker/Joffrey Ballet

RECOMMENDED The Joffrey presents five programs throughout their season, showing works by about a dozen leading choreographers of past and present, but there’s one show that keeps the lights on:...

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Players 2015: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago

The steady expansion of the performing arts in Chicago continues its marvelous pace, with more and better theater, dance, comedy and opera gracing more and better stages each passing year. The upward...

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Review: Unique Voices/Joffrey Ballet

RECOMMENDED “Unique Voices,” at the Auditorium Theatre, adds three strong contemporary pieces to the Joffrey rep in a program that strikes a gratifying balance between classicism and risk. The curtain...

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Imagination at Dusk: Nicolas Blanc Finds his Language For the Joffrey

Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Nicolas Blanc sits in a folding chair in a sunny studio room of the Joffrey tower, gently cueing the entrances and changes for five dancers in his short ballet entitled...

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Roll of Thunder: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Brings a Touch of Chaos to the Joffrey

Dances by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa have been performed in Chicago before—repertory for Luna Negra back in 2009 and this past year when Scottish Ballet visited with “A Streetcar Named Desire”—but this is...

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Preview: Sylvia/Joffrey Ballet

RECOMMENDED John Neumeier’s reimagining of “Sylvia” blesses the stage with images not often seen in story ballet: those of powerful, independent women en pointe. According to myth, Sylvia is a hunter,...

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Swan Song: Robert Joffrey’s “Nutcracker” Nears Its Final Curtain

By Sharon Hoyer Ashley Wheater sat down with me in his office in the Joffrey Tower shortly before the company hit the road to take Robert Joffrey’s “Nutcracker” to the Kennedy Center. Forty-five...

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Preview: Bold Moves/Joffrey Ballet

RECOMMENDED The title of the Joffrey’s winter program references not only a stylistic theme for the movement on the stage—three pieces by contemporary choreographers—but also the music accompanying it....

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Preview: Cinderella/Joffrey Ballet

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Stage Top 5: May 16-May 31, 2016

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One More Reason to Stay in Chicago in August

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Amidst Chaos, Love

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Bringing It Home

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Players 2017

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Preserving the Game, Changing the Game

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Ballet’s Happy Sea Change

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Dance Top 5

From Shen Wei Dance Arts to Visceral Dance.

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Dancing With The Stars: A Review of Orphée et Eurydice at Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera opens their latest season with this stunning collaboration with future resident dance company The Joffrey Ballet.

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