Tuesday, August 16

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The Joffrey Ballet Academy of Dance offers a new program.

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The Contemporary Ballet Trainee Program is modeled after the Joffrey Ballet’s current Trainee Program in classical ballet, a postsecondary alternative that prepares dancers for professional performance careers. Students aged 17 and older may spend up to two years in the full-time training program and are selected by audition. Contemporary ballet trainees will function independently from their classical counterparts. They will rehearse and take classes at Joffrey’s new South Loop studios, opened in 2021 at 1920 S. Wabash Ave.

 

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A story on the 2022 MoBBallet Symposium M.I.A.

“I am not trying to recreate anything,” said Theresa Ruth Howard, founder of MoBBallet. “I want to rearrange it explained.”

She says that Black figures in dance history must be brought forward, and that support for Black dancers isn’t there because it doesn’t exist – yet.

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 A review of the Scottish Ballet in Coppélia by Dominic Corr for The Reviews Hub.

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The skeleton of Arthur Saint-Léon’s Ballet exists, dressed in circuitry and silicon, but gone is the quaintness of Austrian villages, gone too are the pale ceramics of living dolls and their makers. Streamlined, cold and clinical – perfect for the Social Media generation, this time the Silicon Valley empire of NuLife treads the footsteps of folklore, breathing new life into the antiquated tale.

 

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  A preview of the Australian Ballet's new/old "Swan Lake."

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Delving into the Ballet’s archives, which are funded by Chanel, Hallberg found Anne Woolliams’ 1977 production, which became a part of the Australian Ballet’s repertoire for more than 20 years. “It was a beloved version, and there was a reason it stayed and a reason I kept hearing about it,” says Hallberg. “So why not bring back a version that really worked for Australian audiences?”