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The Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet 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 .
Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet will show us when it stages the U.S. premiere of Atonement, a dance adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel–turned–Oscar-winning film, at the Lyric Opera House (October ...
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.
Joffrey Ballet School alumni (6 P) D. Joffrey Ballet dancers (11 P) Pages in category "Joffrey Ballet" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
From 1950 to 1955, he taught at the New York High School for the Performing Arts, where he staged his earliest ballets. He founded the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City in 1953, where it remains as a separate organization from The Joffrey Academy of Dance in Chicago, which is the official school of the Joffrey Ballet Company. [3] [4]
The Joffrey Ballet launched its first Chicago capital campaign on March 7, 2007. [14] As of May 2008, it has raised $30 million towards a goal of $35 million for Joffrey Tower construction costs and an endowment. [15] When the purchase was finalized, the Joffrey had $2.5 million in reserves and the state had recently approved a $4 million grant ...
Ballet and Dance: The World's Major Companies, 1977. ISBN 0-312-06599-X; Whitney, Mary. Joffrey Ballet XXV: Celebrating 25 Years of the Joffrey Ballet from A to Z (Steelograph Co. Inc., 1981). 64 pages. Anawalt, Sasha (1996). The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company. New York, NY: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-19724-3.
Company City State Years active Web site Ajkun Ballet Theatre: New York: New York: 2000–present: www.ajkunbt.org: Alabama Ballet: Birmingham: Alabama: 1981–present