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[Jack Reed]

Here's a link to the 2012 Festival schedule.  Much of it consists of modern dance, public participation and so on, and all of it is free - and some of it isn't even ticketed - but the 22nd August program in the Auditorium Theater, "Dancing East and West of Chicago", includes performances of possible interest to ballet fans.  That's one of the ticketed programs, and those tickets will become available at noon on 18th July.

[Helene]

Ballet companies represented in the festival are:

Chicago Dancing-20 Aug 7pm (Harris Theater):

• The Joffrey Ballet (in the middle, somewhat elevated)

Dancing East & West of Chicago-22 Aug 7:30pm (Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University):

• Pacific Northwest Ballet (Afternoon of a  Faun)
  
• Ballet Arizona (Rubies)
  
• San Francisco Ballet (Sleeping Beauty Pas de deux -- Sofiane Sylve and Vita Mazzeo)

Celebration of Dance-25 Aug 7:30pm (Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millenium Park):

• NYCB (Don Quixote Pas de deux, Ana Sophia Scheller and Gonzalo Garcia)
  
• Houston Ballet (Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes)
  
• San Francisco Ballet (Continuum Pas de deux -- Sofiane Sylve and Vita Mazzeo)

[Jack Reed]

Thanks for amplifying my hasty post, Helene.

[Helene]

Thank you for your original post!  I was able to mine it for the Calendar

[Jack Reed]

It is clearer to me than it was that these events are all not only FREE but general admission.  So you can place your order - two tickets maximum per order - remotely, i.e. by phone or internet (rather than stand in line) until they're gone; the line to get on early may be the one at the door, so you can be near the front of the Oklahoma-land-rush-style seat-taking when the doors open.