Dance, Stages

Review: In Studies in Blue, Joffrey Ballet Performs a Visual and Sensual Feast of Movement

Blue is a metaphor for emotions, music, sensuality, and an emotionally wrought period in the life of Pablo Picasso. Like Joni Mitchell’s “Blue,” the Joffrey Ballet’s Studies in Blue held […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Dance, Stages

Review: The Joffrey Ballet Flawlessly Dances the Frankenstein Story

I am still in awe from watching the Joffrey Ballet’s Frankenstein at the Lyric Opera House. Choreographer Liam Scarlett stayed closer to Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein or Modern Prometheus than […]

Kathy D. Hey /
Dance, Stages

Preview: Joffrey Ballet to Premiere New Work Adapted from Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

The Joffrey Ballet’s spring program will combine an iconic John Steinbeck story transformed into a modern ballet with Serenade, a classic George Balanchine ballet first performed in the 1930s. The program […]

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