The Joffrey Ballet danced along a fine line for several decades: The company could either take big artistic risks or die trying. On more than one occasion, death almost won. But, as any Chicagoan who ...

A festival at the Joyce Theater leaves out the Age of Aquarius work that made this choreographer popular, presenting surprisingly old-fashioned ballet instead. By Brian Seibert The choreographer’s ...

The Joffrey Ballet was founded in 1956 with a radical idea: that ballet was for everyone. In a new large-scale exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, The ...

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Uncover Robert Joffrey’s backstory and find out how he overcame physical ailments to create one of the most adventurous ballet companies to date Learn about important dance figures and performances of ...

Anyone who has been to the Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker in the last decade has seen choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s work in full artistic force. Now, the prolific English dancemaker, who is known ...

When Chicago's famed Joffrey Ballet performs at the Detroit Opera House this weekend, it will be something of a reunion for Michigan Opera Theatre Artistic Adviser for Dance Jon H. Teeuwissen, who was ...

“But first, a school.” Words mythically attributed to Georgiy Balanchivadze — George Balanchine — upon coming to the United States to build what would become an American empire of ballet. Some think ...

One of the first signs that the pandemic would impose serious consequences on Chicago dance was when the Joffrey Ballet postponed “Don Quixote,” originally slated for late April 2020. It was to be ...

The Joffrey Ballet was founded in 1956 in NYC by Robert Joffrey. Born to Afghan and Italian parents in Seattle, Joffrey set out to create “a quintessentially American ballet company. Today, the ...