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Joffrey Ballet Receives $5M Gift from The Grainger Foundation

September 26, 2024 Fred Cummings Joffrey Academy of Dance, Joffrey Ballet, The Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet

The Gift will Endow and Rename The Joffrey Academy of Dance The Joffrey Ballet has received a historic $5 million

Arts

Joffery Ballet Announces New Abbot Academy Director

September 4, 2023 Fred Cummings Joffrey Academy of Dance

Ashley Wheater MBE, The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet, and Greg Cameron, President, and CEO, are

Ballet Dance

Joffrey Academy of Dance 14th Annual Winning Works Choreographic Competition

July 10, 2023 Fred Cummings Joffrey Academy of Dance

The Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School of The Joffrey Ballet, is seeking ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native

Dance

Joffrey Academy of Dance to Present New Slate of “Winning Works”

March 14, 2023 Fred Cummings Joffrey Academy of Dance, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Joffrey Academy of Dance, School of The Joffrey Ballet, will present four world premieres in the culmination of Joffrey’s national call for ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab and Native American) artists to submit applications for their Winning Works Choreographic Competition. This year’s Competition winners—Natasha Adorlee, Christian D’Ariano, Kameron N. Saunders, and Mike Tyus (Recipient of the Zach Lazar Winning Works Fellowship)—each have choreographed an original work created for the Joffrey Academy Trainees and Studio Company to a commissioned score by a chosen composer collaborator. An additional performance has been added to the program this year due to popular demand.

Ballet Dance

Joffrey Ballet Announces 2022 Winning Works Choreographers

December 7, 2021 Fred Cummings Joffrey Academy of Dance, Joffrey Ballet

offrey Academy of Dance has announced the recipients of the 12th annual Winning Works Choreographic Competition: Audrey Ipapo Baran, Joffrey Company Artist Edson Barbosa, Taylor Carrasco, and Derick McKoy. This announcement follows a national call for ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab and Native American) artists to submit applications, which began in June. The choreographers’ world premiere works will be showcased by the dancers of the Joffrey Studio Company and the Joffrey Academy Trainee Program in four performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from March 18 – 20, 2022.

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Ballet Dance Winter 2021

Out of the Ashes: A New Role At Joffrey Academy

January 11, 2021 Fred Cummings Abbot Fund, Joffrey Academy of Dance, Joffrey Ballet, Raymond Rodriguez

Queen Elizabeth dubbed 1992 “Annus Horribilis” (horrible year) because of the various tumultuous events that had wreaked havoc within her royal family that year. Annus horribilis might also be an accurate description of the year 2020, when a once-in-a-century global pandemic wrought havoc upon our nation’s economy and social distancing mandates forced the closure of most of the nation’s arts and cultural institutions.