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This leading U.S. troupe began as a small endeavor in 1956, a handful of dancers touring the country with station wagon and a U-Haul trailer, led by co-founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. For the next four decades, the Joffrey emerged as one of America's preeminent ballet troupes. By the 1980s, the troupe easily ranked third after the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre in terms of international prominence. In 1988, Joffrey died of AIDS. Arpino continued alone, although hard times nearly shut down the organization. Arpino re-located the troupe in the mid-1990s to Chicago, where it flourished and endures as a top arts organization.
This leading U.S. troupe began as a small endeavor in 1956, a handful of dancers touring the country with station wagon and a U-Haul trailer, led by co-founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. For the next four decades, the Joffrey emerged as one of America's preeminent ballet troupes. By the 1980s, the troupe easily ranked third after the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre in terms of international prominence. In 1988, Joffrey died of AIDS. Arpino continued alone, although hard times nearly shut down the organization. Arpino re-located the troupe in the mid-1990s to Chicago, where it flourished and endures as a top arts organization.
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Choreographer Edwaard Liang explores women's roles with 'Age of Innocence'
Special to the Chicago TribuneEdwaard Liang was born in Taiwan, studied ballet growing up in California, danced in New York and first dabbled in choreography in Holland. The 33-year-old mostly retired dancer, nothing if not international, also boasts stints with some of the most...Tags: Dance, Family, Dancing, Jane Austen, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry
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Dance schedule
September Sept. 8 Metro DC Dance Awards, Kennedy Sept. 8-29 Roadhouse, Kennedy Sept. 11 Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular, AACC Sept. 11-12 Witness, Kennedy Sept. 13 Pure, Dance Sept. 18-19 Drift, Kennedy Sept. 18-20 The Break/s, Kennedy Sept. 20-21 Eiko...Tags: Merce Cunningham, Towson University, University of Maryland, Warner Theatre, Martha Graham
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In the loop
Social studies . One hot C-House Add a dash of lithe dancers, a spoonful of Streeterville socialites and one hot star chef to get a recipe for success for the preview party of Affinia Hotel's glamorous C-House restaurant. The event benefited...Tags: Dance, Jazz Music, Pilsen, Streeterville, Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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A home to match the Joffrey's glitz
Special to the Chicago TribuneEverybody loves a new home. But when it's the Joffrey Ballet relocating to a shiny new skyscraper boasting the troupe's name, with full-length glass windows overlooking State Street, that theme from TV's "The Jeffersons" comes to mind: They finally...Tags: Jerome Robbins, Dance, William Forsythe, Ravinia Festival, Dancing
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Festival triumphs in its 2nd go-round
Special to the Chicago TribuneSome enchanted evening. No sophomore slump plagued the second annual Chicago Dancing Festival, which proved as exciting and varied as last year's well-received inaugural. Huge crowds mobbed the Pritzker Pavilion an hour before Wednesday's performance,...Tags: Dance, Twyla Tharp, Dancing, Steve Reich
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Benefit has 'Legs' to stand on
Special to the Chicago TribuneDance for Life, typically the art's most energized event of the year, is now behind us, after providing a mix of old and new at its 17th annual installment. Saturday's program and AIDS benefit at the Harris Theater boasted plenty of traditional...Tags: Dance, Twyla Tharp, Cyd Charisse, Dancing
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Chicago Dancing Festival opens to a packed house
Special to the Chicago TribuneAn easy lesson can be culled from the filled-to-capacity attendance at the first outing of this year's Chicago Dancing Festival at the Harris Theater: Make it affordable, and they'll come. The free event even attracted a long line of hopefuls waiting to...Tags: Dance, Jose Limon, Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Natural Resources
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Beaux Arts Trio
The "gold standard" of piano trios, disbanding after 53 years before the public, visits Ravinia for the final time as part of an international farewell tour. Pianist Menahem Pressler, violinist Daniel Hope and cellist Antonio Meneses perform signature...Tags: Jose Limon, Dance, Theater, Tony Danza, Ravinia Festival
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Christina Salerno takes an early bow, but local troupe benefits
Special to the Chicago TribuneWhat are you going to do, goes the question in "A Chorus Line," when you can't dance anymore? It's a question fraught with sadness, reminder of a grand accomplishment too briefly over. The best analogy comes from sports. Like Brett Favre, dancers...Tags: Rivers, Dance, Brett Favre, Dancing, Bodies of Water
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Can magic land twice?
Special to the Chicago TribuneSo they think they can dance. Well, they can. At least, that was the overwhelming conclusion from the adoring crowd last summer when Jared Matthews (right) and Yuriko Kajiya (left) took to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion stage to represent American Ballet...Tags: Dance, Dancing
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Joffrey brings the recent—and not so recent—past to Ravinia Festival
Chicago Tribune criticThe Joffrey Ballet's lineup for this year's outing at the Ravinia Festival boasts a couple of works seen last spring, but has its share of interesting pieces not seen downtown for a while, too. Among the latter, the Aug. 16 program will include an...Tags: Dance, Vaslav Nijinsky, Ravinia Festival, Jerome Robbins, Ravinia Park
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Free for all
THURSDAY Discussion: Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Claudia Cassidy Theater, 12:15 p.m. "What the Heck Are You Doing to My Yard?" Mike Nowak of WGN Radio and co-founder and president of the Midwest Ecological Landscaping Association explains how...Tags: Navy Pier, Katharine Hepburn, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid, Martha Graham
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