by Courtney Escoyne | Dec 28, 2018 | Profiles
During Alexander Ekman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, a singer croons: “By morning the dancers/Will start to wonder/Had it all been a dream?/Had it all been a blunder?” While The Joffrey Ballet’s performances of Ekman’s 2015 full-length...
by Anna Maples | Jul 8, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Three World Premieres at BalletX Philadelphia Summer Series Fresh off the heels of its Joyce Ballet Festival performances in New York, BalletX is launching its Summer Series...
by Anna Maples | Jul 1, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. ABT Wraps Up Its Met Season with Whipped Cream American Ballet Theatre’s eight-week summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House, will wrap up this Saturday. From...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 23, 2018 | News, Viral Videos
This spring, The Joffrey Ballet will present the North American premiere of Alexander Ekman’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Swedish choreographer is best known for his absurdist and cutting-edge productions. “This is not Shakespeare’s...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 25, 2018 | News
This week is bursting at the seams with ballet. Earlier this month multiple companies performed the same ballet (think Romeo and Juliet), but this week brings a truly eclectic mix of new works, company premieres and old classics all around the U.S. and Canada....
by Lauren Warnecke | Jan 8, 2018 | Career, Company Life
The first time Ashley Wheater was courted to be artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet, he said “Thanks, but no thanks”—he was very happy at San Francisco Ballet, where he’d spent eight years as a principal dancer and 10 more on the artistic...
by Laura Cappelle | Sep 25, 2017 | Career, Company Life
One of the first things you notice about Ingrid Lorentzen is her laugh—the Norwegian National Ballet director exudes warmth. It’s obvious why, in 2012, she was appointed for the job, despite the fact that she was a leading dancer at NNB with little...