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 | 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...
by Rachel Hellwig | Sep 26, 2019 | Everything Nutcracker, Profiles, Training
Updated on 9/7/22. The end of summer can only mean one thing in ballet world: Nutcracker audition season. It’s the time of year when everyone at your studio is on edge with excitement, nerves and dreams. It’s when you rewatch DVDs of past performances,...
by Madeline Schrock For Dance Magazine | Feb 18, 2019 | Career
Building a full-length ballet from scratch is an intense process. For the world premiere of Anna Karenina, a collaboration between The Joffrey Ballet and The Australian Ballet, that meant original choreography by Yuri Possokhov, a brand-new score by Ilya Demutsky,...
by Marcie Sillman | Jun 21, 2018 | News
Pacific Northwest Ballet travels to Paris for the first time this summer, and artistic director Peter Boal couldn’t be happier. “I think we have a tremendous reputation, but people outside the greater Seattle area haven’t seen this company,”...