by Lauren Warnecke | Sep 14, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Choreographer John Neumeier says his interest in “the outsider” is what draws him to dark stories—like Liliom, the 1909 play by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel. Liliom was first imagined as a ballet by...
by Lauren Warnecke | Jan 15, 2019 | News, Profiles
You might say, “You just had to be there,” about the Joffrey Ballet’s 2017 world premiere of John Neumeier’s reimagined Orphée et Eurydice with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. But on January 18, audiences from around the country will have a...
by Josephine Lee | Nov 5, 2018 | Training, Viral Videos
Earlier this summer, we followed master pointe shoe fitter Josephine Lee of the California-based The Pointe Shop as she made her on a pointe shoe fitting tour around the West Coast and California. Now she’s back, this time on a 45-day tour from California to...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 4, 2018 | News
From June 10–23, 119 competitors from 19 countries will gather in Jackson, Mississippi, for the 11th USA International Ballet Competition. Held every four years, the USA IBC has helped launch the careers of dozens of stars, including Daniil Simkin, Misa Kuranaga...
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 Claudia Bauer | Nov 8, 2017 | Company Life
The Joffrey Ballet and University of California—Berkeley’s Cal Performances have joined forces on a five-year residency series that offers the public in-depth, behind-the-scenes access to the art of ballet. The first installment runs Nov. 13–19 with...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 15, 2015 | Company Life
Joffrey Ballet dancers in Sylvia, photo by Cheryl Mann, Courtesy Joffrey This week, the Joffrey Ballet presented the U.S. premiere of John Neumeier’s Sylvia, a contemporary take on the mythological tale created for the Paris Opéra Ballet in...
by Hedy Weiss | Jan 31, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2015 issue of Pointe. The Joffrey Ballet has presented many narrative ballets during its 58-year history. But until last October, it had never waded into the waters of that quintessential test for any classical...