by Hana Le | Aug 12, 2025 | News, The Latest
We’re still feeling uplifted following our first-ever Pointe Live Classes & Conversations event in Chicago. On August 2, roughly 70 dancers filled The Joffrey Ballet’s sunlit studios for a day of dancing, learning, and connection sponsored by Cary Ballet...
by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 5, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Former American Ballet Theatre principal Julio Bocca has...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 30, 2024 | News, The Latest
Today, the Joffrey Ballet is among the 10 largest and most financially robust companies in the U.S., and very much associated with its home city of Chicago. But many young dancers may not know much about its founder, Robert Joffrey, the company’s long tenure in New...
by Linnea Swarting | Jun 27, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Adam Blyde enjoys starting his day with crossword puzzles—his natural affinity for problem solving suits his many duties as a rehearsal director for The Joffrey Ballet. “We teach class, we’re in the studio with the dancers for all...
by Sponsored by Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet | Dec 2, 2021 | From Our Sponsors, Summer Study, Training
As in-person auditions for summer intensives once again start to crowd your calendar, the multitude of choices can feel overwhelming. Should you return to a program you loved in the “before times,” or try someplace new? Is it better to go for a small, nurturing...
by Rachel Caldwell For Dance Magazine | Dec 4, 2019 | Everything "Nutcracker", News
Marie and Franz have a new guest at their Christmas Eve party this year. Emma Lookatch and Larke Johnson, both dancers in the Adaptive Dance Program at Joffrey Academy of Dance: Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, are alternating in the new role of Worker Girl. It...
by Dance Magazine | Nov 18, 2019 | News, Profiles
Christine DuBoulay Ellis, legendary figure in classical ballet, died on Saturday, November 9, of complications from Parkinson’s disease. She was 96. She was one of the last surviving members of the original Sadler’s Wells cast of The Sleeping Beauty, which...
by Lauren Warnecke | Oct 4, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
In Yuri Possokhov’s premiere of Anna Karenina at The Joffrey Ballet last February, Edson Barbosa opened the full-length with a thrilling solo. It’s a sweeping, grandiose passage for the ill-fated station guard, who foreshadows Anna’s tragic end. The...