Tag: the joffrey ballet

Not Your Average 'Nutcracker': The World's Most Imaginative Productions

When most of us think of The Nutcracker, we imagine a growing Christmas tree, dancing mice, and a little girl named Clara (or Marie) traveling to the Land of Sweets. But companies around the world have been reinventing the holiday classic, changing the storyline or adding their own spectacular sets and characters. To get in […]

The Joffrey Ballet + Christopher Wheeldon + Swan Lake = Day Made

(Poster via Joffrey Ballet) What are you doing between 12:30 pm and 4 pm (eastern standard time) tomorrow? If you’ve got plans, cancel them (unless, you know, they’re super important), because The Joffrey Ballet is live-streaming tomorrow’s Swan Lake rehearsal! Here are a couple of reasons why this streaming is extra-strength awesome: It’s the company’s […]

Why We Love The Nutcracker

Like many of you, I’m guessing, seeing The Nutcracker every year was a major holiday tradition growing up. My studio never put on our own production, so my BFF Becky and I would go to a different show each winter with our moms. We started small by seeing a Nutcracker at St. Paul’s School in […]

The Rite of Spring Turns 100 Today

The Joffrey’s reconstructed”Rite of Spring” (photo by Herbert Migdoll) 100 years ago today, the Ballets Russes premiered Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, in Paris. It caused a riot. No—literally. The audience just didn’t know what to make of the work, which was dissonant and rough and not at all like […]