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Artistic staff. Artistic Director. Ashley Wheater MBE. Music Director. Scott Speck, Chicago Philharmonic. Other. Official school. The Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet. The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois.
Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle , Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy.
The Green Table is a ballet by the German choreographer Kurt Jooss. His most popular work, it depicts the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930s. It was the first work to be fully notated using kinetography Laban (Labanotation).
With the Joffrey Ballet School's new partnership with UA, all incoming Joffrey trainee students starting a bachelor degree in dance this fall will enroll at UA.
Billboards is a ballet commissioned by Gerald Arpino for the Joffrey Ballet featuring the works of Prince. The premiere was on Wednesday, January 27, 1993, at Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
In the 1980s, Nijinsky's original choreography, long believed lost, was reconstructed by the Joffrey Ballet in Los Angeles. Stravinsky's score contains many novel features for its time, including experiments in tonality , metre , rhythm, stress and dissonance .
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