In this brave new normal, ballet premieres come while you’re sitting alone on your couch, instead of in a glittering theater gathered with hundreds of other balletomanes breathlessly awaiting. Perhaps nowadays you […]
Rahm Emanuel himself, a longtime honorary board member, kicked off the Joffrey Ballet’s winter residency at the iconic Auditorium Theatre by congratulating the company on its 25 years as a Chicago […]
To open its final season in the glittering 130-year-old Auditorium Theatre before it moves across town to the Lyric Opera digs, the Joffrey Ballet doubled down on its recent commitment […]
Opulent lifestyles, unbridled passion, and endless joy…all the while a thread of darkness and deceit lurks underneath. Such is the tale of Leo Tolstoy’s 1878 novel masterpiece, Anna Karenina, adapted into […]
The bottom line is this: if you find yourself in any seat at the Joffrey’s production of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, it is a good seat. Being in the room for this […]
The midsummer night’s dream that choreographer Alexander Ekman and artistic director Ashley Wheater are alluding to in this contemporary ballet is not the Shakespearean comedy of marriage and interwoven plots, […]
This weekend marks the 26th annual Dance for Life Chicago, a celebration of dance and fundraiser for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and The Dancers’ Fund. While difficult to compete […]
This article was written by Savannah E. Dunn. The Harold Washington Library hosted Joffrey’s seventh annual performance of Winning Works March 11 and 12. This renowned program brings minority and emerging […]
This winter, The Joffrey Ballet turns its focus to current choreographers making their mark on the ballet world with Game Changers, which continues through February 26. Game Changers features the […]
Christopher Wheeldon is a visionary; there’s no doubt about that. When I learned that he’d be dreaming up a revamped version of The Nutcracker featuring the Joffrey Ballet, I couldn’t resist a […]
We all the know the story; two star-crossed lovers separated by their families, major fights and deaths in the streets, all leading Romeo and Juliet to tragically bring their lives […]
We all know the story; Cinderella, bound to cleaning the house and being excluded from all the privileges her family has access to, falls in love with the handsome […]