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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.
The Joffrey Ballet is celebrating the holidays with the return of Christopher Wheeldon's Chicago-set, The Nutcracker. Joffrey Ballet presents 'The Nutcracker' in Chicago's Loop [Video] Skip to ...
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (after Petipa) Company: Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow Premiere: 1919 Russian choreographer Alexander Gorsky, who staged a production of The Nutcracker in Moscow in 1919, is credited with the idea of combining Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy's roles (i.e. giving the Fairy's dances to Clara), eliminating the Sugar Plum Fairy's Cavalier, giving the Cavalier's dances to the ...
Built for the Chicago Civic Opera, it has been home to the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1954 and the Joffrey Ballet since 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of a complex with a 45-story office tower and two 22-story wings, known as the Civic Opera Building that opened November 4, 1929 and features Art Deco details.
The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part himself. The ballet is set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
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Single tickets go on sale July 22 for "Swan Lake," and sales start Aug. 5 for other regular season productions. To buy tickets, visit indyballet.org . Here's Indianapolis Ballet's 2024-2025 season:
The San Francisco Ballet is often called the first ballet company in America, probably because it never changed its name. The San Francisco Ballet was founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera, while Chicago Ballet (with various names) was established in 1910 as part of Chicago Grand Opera Company.