En Pointe

By Richard Mineards   |   March 14, 2019
Producers Circle member Lisa Reich (center right) with members of The Joffrey Ballet (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)

A mandatory evacuation scuppered my chances of watching the first show of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet at the Granada, which featured George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, but I was able to catch the second day’s three-part performance under Scottish artistic director Ashley Wheater.

The show kicked off impressively with Justin Peck‘s In Creases featuring two grand Steinway pianos head to head and the monochromatically-costumed performers showing their considerable choreographed talents.

Nicholas Blanc‘s solo in Encounter was sublime, as were the show’s two other works, Joy and Mammatus.

They can’t come back soon enough…

A&L Miller McCune executive director Celesta M. Billeci, Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater, and event sponsor Sara Miller McCune (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)
Event sponsors Richard and Annette Caleel with artistic director Ashley Wheater and members of The Joffrey Ballet (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)
 

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