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The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary ballets during its annual performance season at the Civic Opera House, including its annual presentation of The Nutcracker. Founded in 1956 by dance pioneers Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino ...
Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle, Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy. [1][2]
Billboards. (ballet) Billboards is a ballet commissioned by Gerald Arpino for the Joffrey Ballet featuring the works of Prince. [1] [2] The premiere was on Wednesday, January 27, 1993, at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City. No new music was used, although Prince contributed a special extended ten-minute orchestrated version of ...
Astarte. (ballet) Astarte, choreographed by Robert Joffrey, was the first live, multi-media ballet with a specially commissioned rock music score composed and performed by Crome Syrcus. It received its world premier on September 20, 1967, and was performed by the Joffrey Ballet in New York City at the City Center Theater.
The Green Table. The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss. His most popular work, it depicts the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930s. It was the first work to be fully notated using kinetography Laban (Labanotation). It is in the repertoire of ballet companies worldwide, where it has been staged by Jooss ...
Ann Marie DeAngelo is an American choreographer, director, producer, teacher, consultant and former dancer - an expert in all areas of dance. She was leading ballerina with the Joffrey Ballet, where early on she was pegged by Time magazine as "one of America's most outstanding ballerinas" and where she later served as associate director [1] at ...
Christopher Wheeldon (2016) - Joffrey Ballet commissioned Christopher Wheeldon to create a working-class version of The Nutcracker. Author Brian Selznick was brought in to create the story. In this version, set in the 1893 Chicago's World's Fair, Marie is a daughter of Polish immigrants, and is raised by her widowed mother. The mother is a ...
Edward Morgan is an American dancer and choreographer. Morgan was a principal dancer at The Joffrey Ballet, and then a director of Joffrey II (1995-1997). He founded the MorganScott Ballet company with Daniel Scott in 1997; [1][2] it became The EdwardMorgan Ballet in 2007.
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