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 Madeline Schrock | Oct 17, 2018 | Cross-Training, Profiles
Joffrey Ballet Star April Daly shares how she stays conditioned throughout the season—and makes her summers intense. Sweet 16 This fall marks April Daly’s 16th season with The Joffrey Ballet. “Every year I learn more and more,” she says of how...
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 Amy Brandt | Nov 28, 2017 | Everything "Nutcracker", News
When we go to the Nutcracker, we expect to be transported to a world that’s both magical and familiar: the timeless Tchaikovsky music, the classic tale of a little girl and her Nutcracker prince, the sugary Land of Sweets. Yet when the Joffrey Ballet presented...