The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois. The Joffrey regularly performs classical and contemporary...
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Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known...
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Joffrey can refer to: Robert Joffrey (1930–1988), American dancer and founder of the Joffrey Ballet company Joffrey Bazié (born 2003), Burkinabé footballer...
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Twyla Tharp (redirect from Ballets by Twyla Tharp)
Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago (section Joffrey Ballet)
Neumeier; the production fused the musical and ballet elements of the opera and featured the Joffrey Ballet. The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center...
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the Joffrey Ballet. When the Joffrey Ballet refused to rename their company in Harkness' honor, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffrey dancers...
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The Company (film) (category Joffrey Ballet)
the Joffrey Ballet. Without focusing on a single main character, the film depicts a season of rehearsals and performances at the Joffrey Ballet. Its...
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dancers—for their use of contemporary ballet. Tharp also worked with the Joffrey Ballet company, founded in 1957 by Robert Joffrey. She choreographed Deuce Coupe...
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Maniya Barredo (category 20th-century ballet dancers)
performed for the Joffrey Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, and the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She has taught at the Mount Dora School of Ballet and is the Founder...
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Harkness funded Joffrey Ballet, but when they refused to rename the company in her honor, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffrey dancers for her...
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Cook County, Illinois, United States that is the permanent home of the Joffrey Ballet. It is located immediately south of the Chicago Theatre and directly...
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The Rite of Spring (category 1913 ballet premieres)
original choreography, long believed lost, was reconstructed by the Joffrey Ballet in Los Angeles. Stravinsky's score contains many novel features for...
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dancer with American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, and Harkness Ballet who had danced leading roles in several of her ballets, to begin staging Rodeo...
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Suki Lopez (category Joffrey Ballet School alumni)
Latin America. She studied dance at summer workshops with Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. The first Broadway musical she saw was Hairspray...
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Joffrey Academy of Dance's Winning Works Choreographic Competition, the only school and training program owned, operated, and endorsed by The Joffrey...
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Gerald Arpino (category American male ballet dancers)
the Joffrey Ballet and succeeded Robert Joffrey as its artistic director in 1988. Born on Staten Island, New York, Gerald Arpino studied ballet with...
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incorporating more hip hop into her style. Derek takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and, afterwards, she confides in him about her mother and her dreams...
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Christian Holder (category Ballet choreographers)
the Joffrey", Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance. "Joffrey Ballet documentary about the first truly American company. History of the Joffrey Ballet. |...
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School and $15Μ dollars to Marquette University. He has supported the Joffrey Ballet Bridge Program in the Chicago public school system. In 2016–17, Lemonis...
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Lana Condor (category Los Angeles Ballet dancers)
and New York City. Condor studied ballet as a child, training with the Whidbey Island Dance Theater, Joffrey Ballet, the Rock School for Dance Education...
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Fabrice Calmels (category Joffrey Ballet dancers)
(born 18 September 1980) is a French ballet dancer and model who performed as a lead dancer with the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, Illinois. Born and raised...
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York City and Miami. In New York, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer until a knee injury closed this career path...
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pre-professional program) with summers at American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia.[citation needed] She...
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dancers—for their use of contemporary ballet. Tharp also worked with The Joffrey Ballet, founded in 1957 by Robert Joffrey. She choreographed Deuce Coupe for...
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The same year, the Robert Joffrey Ballet became a resident dance company and was renamed the City Center Joffrey Ballet, relocating to 55th Street that...
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Auditorium Building (category Joffrey Ballet)
The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. Completed in 1889, the building is located at...
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dance training at the Harkness Ballet and Joffrey Ballet schools. The American choreographer Eliot Feld planned a ballet for Swayze and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
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Ivan Novikoff (category Ballet masters)
Shebass, a former principal dancer of Oakland Ballet Company. Anawalt, Sasha. The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company...
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choreography from the Joffrey Ballet. Sappington joined the Joffrey Ballet in 1965 at the personal invitation of founder Robert Joffrey. In 1969, she co-wrote...
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Peruvian Park Elementary and took advanced classes. She studied dance in a Joffrey Ballet summer program in Chicago and sang in the International Children's Choir...
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