Modern Masters Program Book by The Joffrey Ballet

Modern Masters FEBRUARY 7–18

2017–18 SEASON

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10 Years of Visionary Direction

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THE JOFFREY BALLET ASHLEY WHEATER Artistic Director GREG CAMERON Executive Director CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS Founder and editor in chief: RANCE CRAIN Crain’s Custom Media, a division of Crain’s Chicago Business, serves as the publisher for The Joffrey Ballet program books. Crain’s Custom Media provides production, printing and media sales services for the Joffrey program books. For more details or to secure advertising space in the programs, please contact: CRAIN’S CUSTOM MEDIA Director: FRANK SENNETT 312.649.5278 fsennett@crain.com Exclusive Agent: BRYAN DOWLING 773.360.1767 bryan@media8midwest.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS Modern Masters February 7–18, 2018

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Cover: Body of Your Dreams: Joffrey Artists Derrick Agnoletti, Anais Bueno, and Fernando Duarte. Photo by Temur Suluashvili.

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Modern Masters takes a vibrant look at ballet throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. We are thrilled to continue our 2017–2018 season with masterworks by two ballet legends and new creations by emerging artists. George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins shaped dance in America — Balanchine with his neoclassical style and Robbins by blending dance and theater with a nod to Broadway. Both prolific choreographers were mainstays in New York City Ballet’s repertoire and today their works are performed by every major ballet company around the world. We are honored to present the Joffrey premiere of Glass Pieces marking the 100th anniversary of Robbins’ birthday. In 2000, New York City Ballet founded the New York Choreographic Institute to promote young choreographers by giving them the opportunity to create and develop their talents. Joffrey’s own Nicolas Blanc and San Francisco-based Myles Thatcher have both been recognized by this program. We are committed to cultivating talent within our Joffrey family and are extremely proud to share Nic’s world premiere on this program. Mixed repertory programs allow us to showcase the work of different artists, different periods, different styles on a single stage. The Four Temperaments and Glass Pieces are recognized as works of genius. But dance is a living art form, and young choreographers such as Blanc and Thatcher show us the path forward. In celebration of our evolving art,

Ashley Wheater Artistic Director

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In 1946 when George Balanchine choreographed The Four Temperaments — the modern world as we know it was in its infancy. The Joffrey Ballet would be founded ten years later, during what was then referenced as a “cultural boom,” with a mission to honor the classics but to always push for and support the creation of the here and now. Joffrey’s leading-edge Artistic Director Ashley Wheater has created a program that is certain to express dance in a fresh way. Of course the latest cannot be realized unaccompanied by the with-it support of generous donors. On behalf of the entire Joffrey team I would like to thank Phil Blumenshine for making a gift to sponsor this program in memory of his parents Linda and Gary Blumenshine; Nancy and Sandy Koltun for sponsoring Nicolas Blanc’s world premiere Beyond the Shore; and Patti Selander Eylar for sponsoring The Four Temperaments — a ballet she danced many times as a company member of Chicago City Ballet in the 1980s. I invite you to embrace the present. Enjoy! Sincerely,

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SCOTT SPECK Music Director GERARD CHARLES Director of Artistic Operations | Ballet Master NICOLAS BLANC Ballet Master | Principal Coach ADAM BLYDE SUZANNE LOPEZ Ballet Masters GRACE KIM MICHAEL MORICZ Company Pianists Patrons are requested to turn off pagers, cellular phones, and signal watches during performances. The taking of photographs and the use of recording devices is not allowed in this auditorium. Program and artists subject to change.

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THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS Choreography by GEORGE BALANCHINE © The George Balanchine Trust

Music by PAUL HINDEMITH Lighting Design by MARK STANLEY Staged by COLLEEN NEARY WORLD PREMIERE: November 20, 1946, Ballet Society, Central High School of Needle Trades, New York JOFFREY PREMIERE: Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL Paul Hindemith Theme With Four Variations (according to The Four Temperaments). Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, publisher and copyright owner. The Performance of The Four Temperaments, a Balanchine Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style and Balanchine Technique Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

BODY OF YOUR DREAMS Choreography by MYLES THATCHER Music by JACOB TER VELDHUIS Costumes by SUSAN ROEMER Scenic Design by GLORIA CABRAL Lighting by SEBASTIÁN SOLÓRZANO RODRÍGUEZ WORLD PREMIERE: December 6, 2016, Rolex Arts Weekend, Centro Cultural del Bosque, Mexico City, Mexico JOFFREY PREMIERE: Thursday, March 30, 2017, David H. Koch Theater, New York, NY Body of Your Dreams composed by Jacob ter Veldhius. Used by arrangement with Donemus Publishing BV.

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BEYOND THE SHORE Choreography by NICOLAS BLANC Music by MASON BATES Costume Designs by KATRIN SCHNABL Set and Lighting Design by MARK STANLEY WORLD PREMIERE: Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL Additional rehearsal support for Beyond the Shore was provided by a Commission Initiative Grant from the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of New York City Ballet.

GLASS PIECES Choreography by JEROME ROBBINS Performed with permission of The Robbins Rights Trust

Music by PHILIP GLASS Scenic Design by RONALD BATES Costume Designs by BEN BENSON Lighting Design by JENNIFER TIPTON, recreated by PERRY SILVEY Staged by JEAN-PIERRE FROHLICH WORLD PREMIERE: May 12, 1983, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater JOFFREY PREMIERE: Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL Music: Rubric, Facades, Funeral by Philip Glass. Â©1981 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by Permission. Glass Pieces Scenery and Costumes courtesy of San Francisco Ballet.

Casting details for performances of Modern Masters can be found on the program insert.

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2017–2018 SEASON SPONSORS

LIVE MUSIC SPONSOR The Marina and Arnold Tatar Fund for Live Music

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS THE NUTCRACKER Margot and Josef Lakonishok

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Margot and Josef Lakonishok

Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa

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BEYOND THE SHORE Nancy and Sanfred Koltun

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Additional rehearsal support was provided by a Commission Initiative Grant from the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of New York City Ballet.

THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS Patti Selander Eylar MODERN MASTERS The Estate of Linda and Gary Blumenshine GLASS PIECES Jerome Robbins Foundation and Trust

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Jane Ellen Murray Foundation Bill and Orli Staley Foundation

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THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS A ballet with unceasing appeal, The Four Temperaments references the medieval concept of psychological humors through its classically grounded but definitively modern movement. The score for this ballet was commissioned by George Balanchine from Paul Hindemith in 1940. The ballet, together with Ravel’s opera L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, constituted the opening program of Ballet Society (the direct predecessor of the New York City Ballet) on November 20, 1946. In Complete Stories of the Great Ballets, Balanchine wrote of the ballet that it “is an expression in dance and music of the ancient notion that the human organism is made up of four different humors, or temperaments. Each one of us possesses these four humors, but in different degrees, and it is from the dominance of one of them that the four physical and psychological types — melancholic, sanguinic, phlegmatic, and choleric — were derived …. Although the score is based on this idea of the four temperaments, neither the music nor the ballet itself makes specific or literal interpretation of the idea. An understanding of the Greek and medieval notion of the temperaments was merely the point of departure for both composer and choreographer.” An accomplished pianist, Balanchine commissioned the score because he wanted a short work he could play at home with friends during his evening musicales. It was completed in 1940 and had its first public performance at a 1944 concert with Lukas Foss as the pianist.

The Four Temperaments: Dutch National Ballet. Photo ©Angela Sterling.

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Ballet Notes

BODY OF YOUR DREAMS

Thatcher’s Body of Your Dreams is a witty, inventive play on fitness crazes, but beneath the surface of the ballet is a cautionary message that may be relevant to many of us living in today’s society. Jacob Ter Veldhuis’s music is interlaced with sound bites from too-good-tobe-true fitness ads and infomercials, promising that the next fitness phenomenon is “so easy!” In today’s consumer society, it is easy to forget that most of the media surrounding us is trying to sell us something. Advertisers are ready to use any resource to make us purchase their product, even if it is cashing in on our insecurities or dealing out empty promises. We are saturated with images of “perfect” people, bodies, and faces. Of course, most of these images are whittled down and buffed out by manner of Photoshop, but it doesn’t stop us from defining this as our unachievable standard. When we realize we don’t fit these molds, we buy things that promise us the upgrade to perfection, and therefore, happiness. But it’s a dangerous line to tread — when we only cultivate what is on the outside, we will be left with nothing on the inside. Ballet Notes continued on page 34.

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Body of Your Dreams: Anais Bueno. Photo by Temur Suluashvili.

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BIOS ASHLEY WHEATER Artistic Director Born in Scotland and raised in England, Ashley Wheater was trained at The Royal Ballet School. Wheater began his professional career with The Royal Ballet and danced at the London Festival Ballet, The Australian Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. In 1997, he became Ballet Master at San Francisco Ballet, and in 2002, Assistant to the Artistic Director. In 2007, Wheater was appointed Artistic Director of The Joffrey Ballet. New work is the life blood of a company, and he has introduced numerous premieres to the repertoire. In 2008, the Boeing Corporation recognized his commitment to community outreach and diversity in the world of dance, presenting him the “Game Changer” award. In 2010, Wheater, representing The Joffrey Ballet, was named Lincoln Academy Laureate, the highest honor presented by the State of Illinois. The Chicago Tribune selected Wheater as 2013 “Chicagoan of the Year” for his contributions to dance. In 2014, Wheater accepted the Chicago Spirit of Innovation Award for The Joffrey Ballet and in 2015, he received the University of Chicago Rosenberger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the Joffrey Academy of Dance, the Official School of The Joffrey Ballet.

SCOTT SPECK Music Director Scott Speck has inspired international acclaim as a conductor of passion, intelligence, and winning personality. In addition to his position as Music Director for the Joffrey, he is the Artistic Director of the Chicago Philharmonic and Music Director of the Mobile (AL) and West Michigan Symphony Orchestras. He has led major orchestras at London’s Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, Washington’s Kennedy Center, San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, and the Los Angeles Music Center. He has been Conductor of the San Francisco Ballet; Music Advisor/Conductor of the Honolulu Symphony; and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera. He was named Principal Guest Conductor of the China Film Philharmonic in Beijing. Speck is the co-author of three of the world’s best-selling books on classical music and dance: Classical Music for Dummies, Opera for Dummies, and Ballet for Dummies. These books have been translated into twenty languages and are available around the world. A Fulbright scholar and summa cum laude graduate of Yale; Speck is a regular commentator on NPR, the BBC, ABC Australia, and Voice of Russia. He has been featured in TED talks and at the Aspen Ideas Festival. His writing appears in numerous magazines and journals.

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GEORGE BALANCHINE Choreographer — The Four Temperaments George Balanchine transformed the world of ballet. He is widely regarded as the most influential choreographer of the 20th century, and he co-founded two of ballet’s most important institutions: New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904, studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, and danced with the Maryinsky Theatre Ballet Company, where he began choreographing short works. In the summer of 1924, Balanchine left the newly formed Soviet Union for Europe, where he was invited by impressario Serge Diaghilev to join the Ballets Russes. For that company, Balanchine choreographed his first important ballets: Apollo (1928) and Prodigal Son (1929). After Ballets Russes was dissolved following Diaghilev’s death in 1929, Balanchine spent his next few years on a variety of projects in Europe and then formed his own company, Les Ballets 1933, in Paris. There, he met American arts connoisseur Lincoln Kirstein, who persuaded him to come to the United States. In 1934, the pair founded the School of American Ballet, which remains in operation to this day, training students for companies around the world. Balanchine’s first ballet in the U.S., Serenade, set to music by Tchaikovsky, was created for SAB students and premiered on June 9, 1934, on the grounds of an estate in White Plains. Balanchine and Kirstein founded several short-lived ballet companies before forming Ballet Society in 1946, which was renamed New York City Ballet in 1948. Balanchine served as the Company’s ballet master from that year until his death in 1983, building it into one of the most important performing arts institutions in the world, and a cornerstone of the cultural life of New York City. He choreographed 425 works over the course of 60-plus years, and his musical choices ranged from Tchaikovsky (one of his favorite composers) to Stravinsky (his compatriot and friend) to Gershwin (who embodied the choreographer’s love of America). Many of Balanchine’s works are considered masterpieces and are performed by ballet companies all over the wold.

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BIOS JEROME ROBBINS Choreographer — Glass Pieces Jerome Robbins is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies and television. His Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His last Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins=Broadway, won six Tony Awards® including best musical and best director. Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances At a Gathering, In the Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces and Ives, Songs, which are in the repertories of New York City Ballet and other major dance companies throughout the world. His last ballets include A Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996). In addition to two Academy Awards for the film West Side Story, Robbins has received four Tony Awards,® five Donaldson Awards, an Emmy Award, the Screen Directors’ Guild Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Robbins was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur. Robbins died in 1998.

MYLES THATCHER Choreographer — Body of Your Dreams Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Myles Thatcher trained at The Harid Conservatory, Ellison Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet School prior to being named an apprentice with San Francisco Ballet (SFB) in 2009. He was then accepted into the corps de ballet in 2010, where he still dances. At SFB, Thatcher has performed featured roles in Helgi Tomasson’s Giselle (Wilfred), Helgi Tomasson/Yuri Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Gamache), Cranko’s Onegin (Lensky), George Balanchine’s The Four Temperments (3rd theme), Symphony in C and Symphony in Three Movements (demi-soloist), Val Caniparoli’s Ibsen’s House (Oswald), Serge Lifar’s Suite en Blanc (pas de cinq), Liam Scarlett’s Hummingbird (soloist), and Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella (Benjamin), Ghosts, and Within the Golden Hour (soloist). He created a soloist role in Caniparoli’s Tears and corps de ballet roles in Tomasson’s Caprice and Scarlett’s Hummingbird. Thatcher was commissioned by SFB Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson to create a new ballet, Manifesto, for SFB’s 2015 Repertory Season. He choreographed In the Passerine’s Clutch for the SFB 2013 Repertory Season Gala and, for the SFB School Showcase, Timepiece, Spinae, Stone and Steel, and Spectrum in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively. In 2014, he was chosen by Alexei Ratmansky to participate in the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative. 18 | Joffrey Ballet

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NICOLAS BLANC Choreographer — Beyond the Shore Nicolas Blanc started his dance training in Montauban, France, continuing at the ‘Academie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace’ in Monte-Carlo. After winning a scholarship in the 1994 Prix de Lausanne, he completed his education at the Paris Opera Ballet School. He went on to dance for Nice Opera Ballet, Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Zurich Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet, where he was made Principal Dancer in 2004. In 2006 and 2007, he created two works for the trainees of San Francisco Ballet School. He also created After Having Been for the International Ballet Competition (IBC) in Jackson, MS. Blanc was awarded a special prize in performing arts by the city of Dusseldorf in 1998, a special Hometown Recognition Prize in 2004 and 2013 and was also named one of the “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2004. In 2010, he was nominated with Tina LeBlanc for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award. Blanc joined Scottish Ballet as Ballet Master in 2009 and has been Ballet Master with The Joffrey Ballet since 2011. Since then, he has created pieces for Embarc Chicago and the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In July 2014, Blanc received the choreographic award at IBC for his duet Rendez-vous. He created L’espace d’un Chapitre for a french dance festival in July 2013. It made its U.S. debut under the title Evenfall for the Joffrey during the 2015 Spring program. He was selected to participate at the 2015 National Choreographers Initiative (NCI) and created Orphee. In Fall 2015, he was chosen to participate in New York City Ballet’s (NYCB) New York Choreographic Institute where he created the work Mothership which premiered at NYCB’s 2016 Spring Gala.

PAUL HINDEMITH Composer — The Four Temperaments Paul Hindemith, (born November 16, 1895 — died December 28, 1963), one of the principal German composers of the first half of the 20th century and a leading musical theorist. He sought to revitalize tonality — the traditional harmonic system that was being challenged by many other composers — and also pioneered in the writing of Gebrauchsmusik, or “utility music,” compositions for everyday occasions. He regarded the composer as a craftsman (turning out music to meet social needs) rather than as an artist (composing to satisfy his own soul). As a teacher of composition, he probably exerted an influence on most of the composers of the generation that followed him. Hindemith earned his living at an early age playing the violin in cafes, dance bands, and theaters. His undertaking of almost any kind of musical job may have contributed to the facility and matter-of-factness with which he later composed. Studying music in Frankfort, at 20, he became leader of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra.

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BIOS PHILIP GLASS Composer — Glass Pieces Philip Glass was born in 1937 and grew up in Baltimore. He studied at the University of Chicago, the Juilliard School and in Aspen with Darius Milhaud. Finding himself dissatisfied with much of what then passed for modern music, he moved to Europe, where he studied with the legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and worked closely with the sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar. He returned to New York in 1967 and formed the Philip Glass Ensemble — seven musicians playing keyboards and a variety of woodwinds, amplified and fed through a mixer. The new musical style that Glass was evolving was eventually dubbed “minimalism.” Glass himself never liked the term and preferred to speak of himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry. Or, to put it another way, it immersed a listener in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns, surrounds, develops. There has been nothing “minimalist” about his output. In the past 25 years, Glass has composed more than twenty operas, large and small; ten symphonies (with others already on the way); two piano concertos and concertos for violin, piano, timpani, and saxophone quartet and orchestra; soundtracks to films ranging from new scores for the stylized classics of Jean Cocteau to Errol Morris’s documentary about former defense secretary Robert McNamara; string quartets; a growing body of work for solo piano and organ. He has collaborated with Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Yo-Yo Ma, and Doris Lessing, among many others. He presents lectures, workshops, and solo keyboard performances around the world, and continues to appear regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble.

JACOB TER VELDHUIS Composer — Body of Your Dreams Dutch “avant pop” composer JacobTV (Jacob Ter Veldhuis, 1951) started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatoire. He was awarded the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980 and became a fulltime composer who soon made a name for himself with melodious compositions, straight from the heart and with great effect. “I pepper my music with sugar,” he says.The press called him the “Andy Warhol of new music” and his “coming-out” as a composer of ultra-tonal, mellifluous music reached its climax with the video oratorio Paradiso, based on Dante’s Divina Commedia. JacobTV’s so-called boombox repertoire, works for live instruments with a grooving sound track based on speech melody, became internationally popular. With about a 1,000 performances worldwide per year, he is one of the most performed European composers. 20 | Joffrey Ballet

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MASON BATES Composer — Beyond the Shore Recently named the most-performed composer of his generation, Mason Bates serves as the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His music enlivens imaginative narrative forms with innovative orchestral writing, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno, and it has been the first symphonic music to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds. Leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Leonard Slatkin have championed his diverse catalogue. He has become a visible advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether through institutional partnerships such as his residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, or through his club/ classical project Mercury Soul, which transforms spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing over a thousand people. Mason Bates’ music’s novel realization of narrative forms has recently attracted the attention of artists in opera and film. He made his film composition debut in 2015 with the feature-length The Sea of Trees by director Gus Van Sant. He premiered an opera on the topic of Steve Jobs at Santa Fe Opera in 2017. Last season the Kennedy Center premiered Mason Bates’ new work celebrating the centennial of John F. Kennedy. The work juxtaposes the poetry of longtime JFK confidant Robert Frost with excerpts of the President’s own words. Other recent highlights include performances of Liquid Interface and Garages of the Valley by the National Symphony Orchestra, Alternative Energy with the Philadelphia Orchestra and performances by the Fort Worth Symphony of Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, which was recently recorded by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony. For more info, go to www.masonbates.com and www.mercurysoul.org.

COLLEEN NEARY Stager — The Four Temperaments Colleen Neary was born in Miami, Florida, and trained at The School of American Ballet and Harkness House, both in New York City. She danced as a soloist from 1969 to 1979 in the New York City Ballet (NYCB) under the direction of George Balanchine. She had numerous roles created for her by Balanchine, Peter Martins, Jacques d’Amboise, and others. Her rich repertoire at NYCB included Rubies, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, The Four Temperaments, Serenade, Agon, Concerto Barocco, Firebird, The Concert, The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony in C, Divertimento No. 15, and roles created by Balanchine in Kammermusik No. 2, L’Enfant et le Sortilege, Ondine in Gaspard de la Nuit and many others. In 2004, along with her husband and Co-Artistic Director Thordal Christensen, she founded Los Angeles Ballet. Bios continued on page 36. Joffrey Ballet | 21

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Bryony Winn

Patti S. Eylar Women’s Board President

Myrna Kaplan

Elizabeth Yntema

Ashley Wheater Artistic Director

Michael Larsen

Sonia Florian Anne Kaplan Vice Chairs

Greg Cameron Executive Director Kathleen Hechinger Assistant Treasurer DIRECTORS Kathleen Abbott Patty Perkins Andringa Mary Jo Basler Marc Berman Luann P. Blowers Roger Deromedi Pamella Roland DeVos Adam DeWitt Shelley MacArthur Farley Jamie-Clare Flaherty

Donna M. LaPietra Barry Litwin James McDonough Coco Meers Jess Merten

LIFE DIRECTORS Grace Barry Patricia H. Gerber Pamela B. Strobel Joseph H. Wender

Daniel L. (D.L.) Morriss

PAST CHAIRPERSONS

Susan G. Oleari

William M. Daley

Diane Patience

Fred Eychaner

Stephen Reiss

Gary E. Holdren

Jeffrey C. Rubenstein

Dr. David A. Kipper †

Bruce Sagan

C. Steve McMillian

Eric C. Schieber, MD

Bruce Sagan

Liz Sharp

Maureen Dwyer Smith

Courtney Shea

Pamela B. Strobel

Ross Shelleman

Jason J. Tyler

Ildefonso Alvim de Abreu e Silva

Ronald V. Waters III

Chuck Smith

As of January 17, 2018 † Deceased

PLEASE JOIN US IN THANKING board member Lorna Ferguson of Nuveen Investments for her many years of support of the Joffrey. In her roles on the Executive and Academy Committees, she ensures that we keep dancing.

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WOMEN’S BOARD OF THE JOFFREY BALLET | 2017–2018 Patti S. Eylar President Noren Ungaretti 1st Vice President Merritt DeWitt Kathy Kalesperis Smith 2nd Vice Presidents Dania Leemputte Secretary Courtney C. Shea Treasurer Jessica Steffensen Sandi Hartstein Emily L. Arch, MD Members-at-Large Elisabeth Adams Mrs. Keene Harwood Addington III Julie O’Donnell Allen Raheela Anwar Annie Atzeff Melissa M. Babcock Grace Barry Nancy Gottlieb Bauer Heidy Best Jetta Boschen Sophia P. Bross Marisa Bryce Mary Patricia Burns Mary Kay Mudd Bushonville Jenelle Chalmers Joan Colmar Sandra Deromedi Ellen Distelheim Jill Dodds Maia Dunkel Christine Du Boulay Ellis Beth Engel Shelley MacArthur Farley Jamie-Clare Flaherty Emily Follas Ellie Forman Katherine E. Freiburger Beth Fulkerson

Astra Gamsjaeger Patricia H. Gerber Darcy E. Goldfarb, MD Donna Greenberg Stephanie Grinage Shana Bear Guthman Mrs. Michael F. Harron K. Susan Heintz Mrs. John W. Higgins Leslie S. Hindman Dana Hokin Garvey Courtney A. Hoffmann Mrs. David Hoffmann Sherry Lea Holson Marci Holzer Brooke Hubbuch Melinda Jakovich Anne Kaplan Mrs. Brian Karaba Jackelyn Kastanis Elizabeth Ann Kasten Kathleen Kenehan Wendy Kilcollin Kathleen Klaeser Laura Kofoid Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel* Whitney Lasky Anne Lazar Anita E. Livaditis Leslie Logsdon Lisa Klimley Malkin Joan Malliband Dr. Elizabeth Marcus Heather Martin Kristina McGrath Astrid A. McKinnon Helen Hall Melchior* Amanda Merten Ms. Julianne Migely Patricia Miller Lucy Minor Anne Simon Moffat Brooks Morgan Linda Curtis O’Bannon, MD

Susan G. Oleari Christine Ott* Gigi Owens Mrs. John R. Pacholick Mary Ellen Pavone Judith Pierpont Ibby Pinsky Victoria Poindexter D. Elizabeth Price Hallie Blanchard Rehwaldt Emily Rubenstein Camille Kearns Rudy Elizabeth Dunkel Ryan Maggie Scheyer Sarah Schrup Andréa J. Schwartz Liz Sharp Anne Shea Carolyn Sheridan Ms. Veronica Siegel Amelia Silva Mrs. Howard Silverman Marilyn Slattery Maria Smithburg Rita Spitz Dawn Stanislaw Constance Steinhaus Liz Stiffel Carol J. Stone Cheryl Tama Oblander Lauren D.W. Tatar Marina D.W. Tatar Melissa Trandel Yolanda Tyler Laura Larsen Venkus Chrissie Walker Mrs. John R. Walter Mary Agnes Welsh Pam Phillips Weston Kim White Diana Weiss Widman Elizabeth Wippman Joyce M. Wippman Marcie L. Wright Leslie Zentner

Julie Zuckerman Supporting and Non-Resident Dora J. Aalbregtse Laura Ferris Anderson Melissa Anton Mary Jo Basler Dorothy Bousseau Mary Kay Burke Patsy Callahan Candace Collins Jordan Kelly Dettmann Pamella Roland DeVos Deborah Engle Katherine Fox Sue-Gray Goller Mrs. Marjorie E. Habermann Sharon King Hoge Kerrie Kennedy Donna M. LaPietra Brooks Morgan Mrs. Jay L. Owen, Jr. Maureen Dwyer Smith Kathryn Vail Victoria C. Verity Ann Waters Mrs. Thomas E. Wells IV Patricia J. Simpson Wright As of January 12, 2018 *Honorary Life Member

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SUPPORTERS

The Joffrey Ballet would like to extend thanks to those who provide us with funding that ensures quality and engaging experiences for a variety of audiences. The following is a list of those who made contributions in the amount of $300 or more between January 1, 2017–January 3, 2018. Although space does not permit us to list all of our friends, we are grateful for the support from each and every one of our loyal donors. $500,000+ Alphawood Foundation Chicago Clear Channel Airports Fred Eychaner The Grainger Foundation Margot and Josef Lakonishok $100,000–$499,999 Abbott Fund Chicago Athletic Clubs Daniel and Pamella DeVos Foundation Sonia Florian Paul Galvin Memorial Foundation Trust The Hearst Foundations Anne L. Kaplan Beth Levine The Reva and David Logan Foundation The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust NIB Foundation Bruce Sagan and Bette Cerf Hill The Satter Foundation Rose L. Shure Trust Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Tatar $50,000–$99,999 Athletico Physical Therapy Mary Jo and Doug Basler Estate of Gary and Linda Blumenshine BMO Wealth Management Audre Carlin Sandy and Roger Deromedi Patti S. Eylar and Charles R. Gardner The Julius N. Frankel Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hoffmann ITW Jewell Events Catering JHL Capital Group LLC JW Marriott The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Nancy and Sanfred Koltun The Edward and Lucy R. Minor Family Foundation Jane Ellen Murray Foundation 24 | Joffrey Ballet

Mr. and Mrs. John Patience Polk Bros. Foundation The Shubert Foundation Bill and Orli Staley Pamela and Russ Strobel Mr. and Mrs. Ronald V. Waters III Mr. and Mrs. Miles D. White $25,000–$49,999 Anonymous Abbott Laboratories Allstate Insurance Company Bank of America The Bill Bass Foundation Marc and Sharen Berman Bluhm Family Foundation Marlene Breslow-Blitstein and Berle Blitstein The Brinson Foundation Cheryl Broadhurst and Daniel Broadhurst Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Chicago Community Trust The Crown Family Janet and Craig J. Duchossois Mr. and Mrs. William Farley Lorna Ferguson and Terry Clark Mr. and Mrs. F. Conrad Fischer Fox Ford Lincoln Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Jill Garling and Thomas Wilson Grubhub, Inc. Sherry Lea and Richard Holson III Illinois Arts Council Agency Jerome Robbins Foundation and Trust J.McLaughlin Dennis and Kathleen Klaeser MacLean-Fogg Company Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. Mayer Brown LLP Merrill Lynch & Company Negaunee Foundation Alexandra Nichols and John Nichols The Northern Trust Company Nuveen Investments, Inc. Prince Charitable Trusts John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Shirley Ryan and Patrick Ryan Sage Foundation Eric C. Schieber, MD Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Smith, Jr. Maria Smithburg and William D. Smithburg Rita Spitz and David Blears Target Data Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Townsend Mr. and Mrs. Joel V. Williamson Elizabeth Yntema and Mark Ferguson for the Ferguson-Yntema Family Trust

$10,000–$24,999 Anonymous (2) Ariel Investments, LLC Avatar Corporation Nancy Gottlieb Bauer Baxter International Edward Beam The Boeing Company Rosemarie and Dean Buntrock Butler Family Foundation Greg Cameron and Greg Thompson Michael I. Cragg, Ph.D. DeSantis Foundation Jamee C. Field and Michael Kane Karen Frank and James Frank Jennifer and Patrick M. Gallagher Michelle Goodman and Larry J. Goodman, MD Sherry and Michael Guthrie Joan Hall Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hildy Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Hyatt Hotels Foundation Make It Better Media JPMorgan Chase Myrna Kaplan Olivia Kittle and Brian Kittle Margaret Kittle-Kamp and Thomas Kittle-Kamp Kovler Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Krueger Kryolan Professional Make-Up Julie and Guy Lakonishok Dr. Lynda Lane and Ben Lane-Korn Michael and Jennifer Larsen Latham & Watkins, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Zachary D. Lazar, Jr. Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Arie Leibovitz Elizabeth Liebman McGuireWoods Lynne McNown Coco B. Meers and Ethan Meers Stuart Miller National Endowment for the Arts Cathy and Bill Osborn Virginia Owens and James Owens Regions Private Wealth Management Stephen Reiss and Rena Hozore Reiss Jeffrey C. Rubenstein Cari and Michael S. Sacks Ms. Maggie Scheyer and Mr. Eric J. Scheyer Patricia Schmalzl and William Schmalzl Dr. Scholl Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Sharp Shea Family Foundation Ms. Courtney C. Shea Siragusa Family Foundation

SUPPORTERS

$10,000–$24,999 (continued) Jessica and Erik Steffensen Jeanette Stevens Andrew Thorrens and Donald Mizerk Tina Trott and Byron Trott U.S. Bank Foundation UMB Bank Mr. and Mrs. John R. Walter Wells Fargo Pamela Phillips Weston and Roger L. Weston William Blair Amanda Williamson and Matthew Johnson $5,000–$9,999 Anonymous (2) Emily Strobel Amiet and Michael Amiet Athene Annie Atzeff and Kristopher Atzeff Mr. and Mrs. Francis Beidler III Meta S. and Ronald Berger Family Foundation Luann Blowers and David Blowers Suzette Bross Bulley and Allan E. Bulley III CA Ventures Suzanne Cameron and Stephen Cameron Capital Group Companies, Inc. Lisa and Jim Challenger Mrs. Joyce Chelberg Paula Crown and James Crown Geoffrey Davis Dunham Fund Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Emily Follas and Timothy Jacob Elisabeth Geraghty and Robert Geraghty Richard and Mary L. Gray Karen Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel, Jr. Shana Guthman and David Guthman John R. Halligan Charitable Fund The Irving Harris Foundation Sandi and Barry Hartstein Janet W. and Robert A. Helman HOLLY HUNT Mr. and Mrs. Larry Langdon Dania Leemputte and Patrick Leemputte Susan Lichtenstein and John Rokacz Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship by Myrna Kaplan The Lyric Opera of Chicago Mr. and Mrs. E. Barry Mansur George Mariner and Michael Payette Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc.

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Patricia Miller and Christopher Miller David and Suzu Neithercut Nordstrom, Inc. D. Elizabeth Price and Lou Yecies Carol and Robert Rasmus Audrey Ratner and Albert Ratner Susan and David Ruder Judy A. Saslow Gallery Mr. and Mrs. David Sensibar Sidley Austin, LLP Amelia Silva and Alejandro Silva Melissa and Chuck Smith Maria Smithburg and William D. Smithburg Steak 48 Chicago, LLC Liz Stiffel Nathan Tannenbaum Foundation Inc. Lorraine Trachtenberg Richard and Diane Weinberg Hilary and Barry Weinstein Bryony and David Winn Elizabeth Wippman and Tom Wippman $2,500–$4,999 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William Adams IV Ada Addington and Whitney Addington Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Allen Evelyn Alter Patty Perkins Andringa Emily L. Arch, MD Carey August and Brett August Ms. Carolyn A. Blessing John Brazzale Burberry Jenelle Chalmers and Stephen Chalmers Paul Chasnoff and Joe Hopper Amina Dickerson and Julian Roberts Dr. Jill S. Dodds and Dr. Guriqbal Nandra Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Firsel Ross Nancy Follis Arthur Frank Beth Fulkerson and Joshua Kellman Christine Gallagher and Greg Gallagher Stacie R. Hartman Kathleen and Mark Hechinger Leslie Hindman Lauren Huefner Jackelyn Kastanis and Taki Kastanis Jeffrey Kerr Roberta Killeen and Timothy Killeen Elise Klein and Christopher Klein

Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Deej and Hunter Leggitt Mr. and Mrs. Barry Litwin Colleen Loughlin and John Sirek Lisa Klimley Malkin and Cary J. Malkin Holly and Matt Maloney Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Marks Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGrath John R. Menninger Pamela Meyer Mrs. Julianne Migely Barbara and Jonathan Moss The Neiman Marcus Group Linda Curtis O’Bannon, MD Marsha O’Bannon Thomas O’Keefe Susan G. Oleari One Winnetka Mr. and Mrs. John R. Pacholick Mary Ellen Pavone, MD and Christopher Novak Catherine Perez and William Perez Kathleen Pipala and Michael Pipala Victoria Poindexter and Joseph P. Gaynor III Carol Pollock Hallie Blanchard Rehwaldt and Thomas Rehwaldt Barbara and Donald Ruhman Amy Rule and Rahm Emanuel The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation Sandra Schmoll and Jon Schmoll Lois Scott and David May Anne Shonk Veronica Siegel Marilyn Slattery Shari Slavin and Mark Slavin Constance and Orin Steinhaus Susan Stern and James Elliott Melissa Trandel Leslie Warner and Stephen Warner Magnes Welsh Diana and Stuart Widman Joyce M. Wippman $1,500–$2,499 Anonymous (6) Dora Aalbregtse and R. John Aalbregtse Kathleen Abbott and Jeff Abbott Greg Albiero Mina Amir-Mokri Abbe Aron and Adam Aron Oliver Badgio Christopher Begy Jennifer Birmingham Margaret Block and Philip Block Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. L. Bogan, Jr. Joffrey Ballet | 25

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$1,500–$2,499 (continued) Cary Bomier and David Bomier Jetta Boschen and Dallas Boschen Ms. Evelyn Bosenberg Anthony Bruck Carolyn Bucksbaum Tamara and Robert Buday Mary Kay Mudd Bushonville and Art Bushonville Clark Chandler Raymond Coronado Pamela Crutchfield Dr. John Dainauskas Katherine Devers and William Devers Mr. and Mrs. Terence Donnelly Maia J. Dunkel Wendy Eager Deborah and Cody Engle Dr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Finder Christine Fisher Jamie-Clare Flaherty Francis Beidler III and Prudence R. Beidler Foundation Mimi Frankel and Bud Frankel Franklin Philanthropic Foundation Katherine and Richard Freiburger Dana Hokin Garvey and Robert Garvey Darcy Goldfarb, MD H. Goldstein and Rodney Goldstein Sue-Gray Goller Ann Gootee and James Gootee Jo Ellen Granson Stephanie Grinage and Richard Grinage Anthony and Susan Grosch Madeleine Grynsztejn and Thomas Shapiro K. Susan Heintz and Thomas Heintz Mr. and Mrs. John W. Higgins Courtney A. Hoffmann and Sebastian Hoffmann Sarai Hoffman and Stephen Pratt Julie Holland Marci and Ronald Holzer Alan J. Hommerding and Robert K. Personett Melinda Jakovich and Lucien Lagrange Sherry Kaplan and Barry Kaplan Masahiro Kasai and William Myers Marilyn Katz and Scott Chambers Wendy Kilcollin and T. Eric Kilcollin Polly Kintzel Laura Kofoid and David Ricci Sarah Ladgenski and Derek Ladgenski Lannan Foundation Robin and Jack Lavin Mr. and Mrs. L.J. Lawson III Sherren Leigh 26 | Joffrey Ballet

Dr. Richard E. Leithiser Linda Levie and Glenn Levie Ms. Dana Levinson and Mrs. Barbara Levinson Mia Levy and Paul Levy Beth Loeb Leslie Logsdon and Duncan Bourne Jim and SuAnne Lopata LoPrete Family Foundation Jessica Lundevall and Torjus Lundevall Victoria Lyman Judy and John MacLeod Elizabeth Marcus and Ira Belcove Kevin McGirr Martha Melman and Rich Melman Lois and Robert Moeller Prof. Keith and Anne Moffat Jazelle Morriss and Daniel L. Morriss JoAnne Nathan and Stuart Nathan Lee and Sharon Oberlander Mary Jane O’Connor Mrs. Abby McCormick O’Neil and Mr. Carroll Joynes Ibby Pinsky and Milton Pinsky Bonnie Price and Jack Hirsch Donald H. Ratner and Bruce A. Gober Harriet Ross and Irwin Ross Jennifer Ross Camille Kearns Rudy and Robert M. Rudy Sahara Enterprises, Inc. Sarah Schrup Terry Schwartz Thomas G. Sinkovic Craig Sirles Greg Sleight Beth Smetana and Gerard Smetana Brian Smith and Geyer Morford Ms. Kathy Kalesperis Smith and Mr. Dion Grimes Smith Patricia Smith Stephen Smith Dawn Stanislaw Shirley Stanley and Paul Stanley The Stebbins Fund, Inc. Patricia Sternberg Carol Stone and David Stone Dr. Lauren Streicher and Mr. Jason Brett Lauren D.W. Tatar and Scott Borstein Tawani Foundation Courtney Thompson Dana Shepard Treister and Dr. Michael Roy Treister Richard and Noren Ungaretti Robert and Etti Van Etten Debbie Wang and David Hoyt Michelle Wasson and Joel Farran Olga Weiss and George Honig

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Wells IV Angie Wilcox and Gary Wilcox Susan Wislow and Robert Wislow Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Zentner William Ziemann Julie Zuckerman and Daniel Zuckerman $1,000–$1,499 Amsted Industries Anne and Mark Bagan Christine Bakalar and John Bakalar Sandra Bass Judy Block Robyn Bowland Bradbury Family Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Anne Brody and Michael Brody Burke-Brunger Fund of Horizons Foundation Marion Cameron The Carmi Family Charitable Fund Wendy Lynn Chronister and Peter Rogers Mrs. John C. Colman Francesca Connell Lawrence Corry Patricia O’Neill Cox Bette Jane Crigger Earle Cromer Mr. and Mrs. Adam DeWitt Lois Eisen and Stephen Eisen Marilyn Fields and Larry Fields Norman Finch Victoria Galbraith and John Galbraith Ethel and William Gofen Betty Harris and Edward Harris Julie F. Harron and Michael F. Harron Heestand Foundation, Inc. Ross Heim James S. Kemper Foundation Janet Jentes and William Jentes Maryl R. Johnson, MD Beth Karmin and Kenneth Karmin Vicki Kaufman and Barry Kaufman Avril Klaff and Hersch Klaff Patricia Koldyke and Martin Koldyke Larry Krueger Karyn Kruschka and Edward Kruschka Jay Leibovitz Lew and Laurie Leibowitz Lori Litwin and Mark Litwin Thaddeus Makarewicz Puneet Mansharamani Heather Martin and Sean Martin Helen Hall Melchior Richard & Martha Melman Foundation Julie Moller and Scott Moller Mr. Jonathan F. Orser

SUPPORTERS

$1,000–$1,499 (continued) Marian Pearcy and Peter Jones Madeleine Plonsker and Harvey Plonsker Richard and Charlene Posner Janice Rodgers Emily Rubenstein and Angel Rivera Jana Schreuder and Eric Schreuder Joann Seagren and Scott Lang Mr. and Mrs. Larry Selander Jane Nicholl Sahlins Stephanie Sick and William Sick Marcey Siegel and Kenneth Siegel Lynda Silverman and Howard Silverman Julia Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Neele E. Stearns, Jr. Mary Summers and William Summers Peggy Swartchild and James Swartchild Carol Trapp and James Trapp Julie Valenti and Steven Valenti Mr. and Mrs. Todd Vieregg Annabelle Volgman and Keith Volgman Christina Walker and Joe Walker Dia Weil and Edward Weil I.B. Weil and Thomas Weil Eric Weinheimer Robin Zafirovski and Michael Zafirovski Helen Zimmermann $750–$999 Anonymous Don and Ky Hilliker Brooke Hubbuch and Nick Hubbuch David Israel Elaine Jaharis and Steven Jaharis Erica Kuhlmann Anita Livaditis and Stephen Livaditis Promojett Services Inc. Jeffrey C. Rubenstein Betty Seid and Richard Seid Karen and Richard Weiland $500–$749 Anonymous (2) Fillomena Albee Sara Albrecht Mr. and Mrs. James M. Amend Lynn Arensman and Robert Arensman Neda Ashourian Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Babcock, Sr. Jenny Barish and Robert Barish Rachel Bartunek and Jeremy Bartunek Susan Belgrad and Donald Belgrad Linda Bergonia and David Bergonia Thomas Berry Cynthia Berryman

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Marie Bousfield and Aldridge Bousfield Beth Sprecher Brooks Judy Bross and John Bross Myrtle Buchanan Frances Chapman Enid Collins and Donald Collins Doris Cook and Robert Cook Arlene Coustan and Harvey Coustan Sheryl Desanto and Ronald Desanto David Dranove Michelle Ervin Regina Murphy and Mark Etzel Nancy Evans and Jack Evans Krista Fiedler Forefront Erica Fornari Sara Friedle Suzanne and Albert M. Friedman Patricia Gentry Cidney Golman and Jeffrey Golman Amy and Michael Gordon Jack and Robin Graham Josh Green and Stewart Chapman Judie Green and Rich Green Donna Greenberg and Jack Greenberg Teresa Grosch and Thomas Roberts Colleen Grosz and Joseph Grosz Joel Guillory Geoffrey and Adrianna Hewings Ellen Horween Rose Houston James Hutchinson Kathleen Ihrig and Glenn Ihrig Nancy Jacobs Eric Jacobson Cher Keck and Sean Keck Russell Klein Susan Koltun and Thomas Koltun David Kundert Carol Kyros-Walker James Clark and Christina Labate JC Lapiere Kathryn and Douglas LeisterAnne Lerner and Alan Lerner Jessie and Douglas MacDonald Nichole Mann Kerber Marc Marin and Pejman Hanafi Jeanne Martinez and John Segreti Erika Maschmeyer and Jon Maschmeyer Michael and Linda Mason Mr. and Mrs. John C. McCarter Scott McCausland Jennifer McClary Dawn G. Meiners Lisa Mezzetti Barbara Moser and David Moser

Tania Castroverde Moskalenko and Alexei Moskalenko Drs. Marsha and Robert Mrtek Carol Mullins and Steve Mullins Maggie and Michael Murzanski Neapolitan, LLC John Nelson Joanna Norcross Sharon Olson and Fred Fleischbein Mr. and Mrs. Jay L. Owen, Jr. Lara Pappas Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Papuga Sharon Perazzoli and Paul Perazzoli Leland Hutchinson and Jean Perkins Sheila Pizer and Howard Pizer Linda Pladson Karine Provost Julie Pryor and A. Keith Housman Boyd Rice Christine Riker and Walter Riker James Rocks Janet Rohner Mr. and Mrs. Morton I. Rosen Barbara Ruben Joyce Salsburg Linda Scheuplein Dianne Schneider and William Schneider Cheryl Seder and John Seder Victoria Severson Anne Shea and John Shea Elizabeth Shepherd and Scott Kinsloe Cynthia Shewan Margaret Siber Caryn Skurnick and Gerold Skurnick Janet Smith and Mel Smith G. Bradley Sterrenberg Joanne Storm Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Cynthia Taylor and Gregory Taylor Robert Veasey Lynne Walton Jennifer Wanat Sherry Weiss and Albert Weiss Chad Williams Paula Wise Margaret Wolff Alice and Herb Zarov $300–$499 Anonymous (4) Margery Al-Chalabi and Suhail Al-Chalabi Ero Amiridis and Michael Amiridis Kristine Anderson and Tom Coonan Nancy Aversa Natali Balog Barbara Baran and John Baran

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$300–$499 (continued) Bryndl Bartter Steven Bashwiner Andrea H. Bauer Stephen Benson Heidy and Phil Best Leigh Bienen and Henry Bienen Lois and Stanley Birer D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Giovanna Breu and Joe Breu Joanne Brooks Mary Kay Burke Janna Caldarelli and David Caldarelli Linda Celesia and Gastone Celesia Sam Ciochon Katherine Clark Jane Clifford Tom and Bette Cogan Frederick Cohen Josephine Conlon and Jerome Conlon Mrs. Erin C. Court and Mr. Stephen Court Dan Crowe Terri and Alfred D’Ancona Robert Delaney Patty Delony Kelly Dettmann and Brian Dettmann Melinda Dickler and Michael Dickler Toni Diprizio Gary Drescher Maria Dubycky and Roman Dubycky Sandra Dumalski and Raymond Dumalski Frank and Faith Dusek Joan and Warren Eagle Rebecca Eby Larisa Elizondo Thelma Evans Dr. Robert A. Fajardo Adrienne and Robert Z. Feldstein Dr. W. Clinton Fisher and Lois Farrell Fisher Tiffany Flannagan and Chip Flannagan Ellie Forman and Jeremy Forman Katherine Fox and John N. Fox, Jr. 28 | Joffrey Ballet

Jenny Freidheim Mr. and Mrs. Jay R. Fried Ms. Loren Friend and Mr. Howard Friend Stephen Fussell Christine Geiger John Giragosian Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunn Glick Virginia Gluckman Hannah Goldberg Susan Goldman Marc and Carol Gordon Alanna Gordon and Robert Gordon Deborah Gubin Jacob Hamlin Dr. and Mrs. Alan G. Harris Joyce Hasmonek Marsie R. Hass and Scott D. Hite Ann Heide Richard Higginbotham Joanna Horsnail Caroline Huebner and Charles Huebner Joyce Ibers and James Ibers Giovanna Imbarrato and Mario Imbarrato Ira and Janina Marks Charitable Trust II Ellen Israel and Rich Israel Sarah and Michael Jacobs Meredith Janes John Jawor Gayle Jensen Candice Johnson Joyce Johnston Helen N. Kedo Shannon Kennedy Sandiya Killion Mary Kimble Sheila Kirscher and John Kirscher Sally Klarr Kirsten Klevar Agnieszka Klus Roger Kramer Lynn Kresch and Ari Kresch John Kurtz and Gerry Salvacion Maura Lennon and Kevin Lennon Jacqueline Lentz Dr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Sarah Lombardi

Kay Mabie and James Mabie Kathleen Madden and Joseph Madden Brittany Malone Sandra Mangurian George Mann Laura Martinez and Andrew Martinez Natalie Matwijiszyn Thomas McCaffer Renee Menegaz and R.D. Bock Jess and Amanda Merten Megan Mistarz Sanford Moltz Mr. and Mrs. C. Barry Montgomery Beverly Mook and Wallace Mook Dr. and Mrs. David D. Morimoto Steven Morris Marci Moses and Michael Moses Alice Moss Kathleen Mueller Michael and Adele Murphy Pixie Newman Laura Niekamp Ed Oldfield Ann O’Neill and Thomas O’Neill Craig Peterson John Pfeiffer Mary Pierson Laura Piwinski Nadine Pool and Thomas Pool Susan Poser Drs. Thomas and Cynthia Roberts Eleanor Rodini and Robert Rodini Linda Rosenson and Harold Rosenson Floyd Rueger Carol Ann Saikhon Elena Samokhina and Peter Kuo Lewis and Barbara Schneider Illeane Schwartz and Sheldon Schwartz Ravi Shah Mary Shea and Charles Shea Carolyn and Michael Sheridan

Elisa Shlofrock-Zusman Sarah Shu Carol Sladek Drs. April and Frank Smith Shirley Solomon Holly Stevens and Randy Stevens Alison Suzukamo Joani Tarsitano Sarah Torri Susan and Bob Underwood James Van Metre Marlene Van Skike Theodora Vanderzalm Arlene Wagner and Albert Wagner John Walcher Cliff Wallach Annie Wallis and Tom Whitehead Barbara H. West John Wheeler Thea M Whyte LaDonna Wicklund and Gary Wicklund Michael Worley Robyn Yochem Joylene Yoor and Brian Yoor Joan Zajtchuk and Russ Zajtchuk JOFFREY AUXILIARY BOARD GOVERNING COUNCIL 2017–2018 Emily Strobel Amiet Carolyn Blessing Co-Chairs Michael Amiet Rachel Bartunek Lauren Huefner Nichole Mann Kerber Jacqueline Lentz Sarah Lombardi Natalie Matwijiszyn Sarah Shu John Walcher

TRIBUTE GIFTS

The Joffrey Ballet is grateful for gifts made to celebrate the following individuals between January 1, 2017 and January 3, 2018. IN MEMORY OF Joan Armstrong Gary and Linda Blumenshine John E. Burke Frances Hunt Chapman Eric B. Eatherly Howard Goldstein John Henigbaum Burt Kaplan Paul Lutter Mahvash Amir-Mokri Dianne Nishimura Lilette Rohe Natalie Senoff Virginia Lee Tallman Don C. Waggoner IN HONOR OF Sara Albrecht Amanda Assucena Mary Jo and Doug Basler Marc Berman Nicolas Blanc Luann Blowers Adam Blyde Clare Brody Greg Cameron

2017–2018 SEASON | MODERN MASTERS

Gerard Charles Ellie Cotey Terri D’Ancona Sandy Deromedi Rose Dillon Ellen Distelheim Julia Doherty Becky Dorsey Erica Edwards Deborah Engle Patti Eylar Shelley Farley Joel Feldman Lorna Ferguson Jamie-Clare Flaherty Mary Galvin Astra Gamsjaeger Stephanie Grinage Sarai Hoffman Jerrilyn and David Hoffmann Bridget Holmes Bernice Horwitz Brian Johnson Anne Kaplan Cindy Kronman Michael and Jennifer Larsen Dr. Lizzie Mazzaferri Anne and Keith Moffat Karine Provost Diana Reczek Hallie Rehwaldt Steve Reiss Chelsea Robinson

Jeffrey Rubenstein Camille Rudy Bruce Sagan Elizabeth Salmonowicz Eric C. Schieber, MD Liz Sharp Courtney Shea Maria Smithburg Kathy Smith Miss Sofia Speyer Jane Strauss Pam Strobel Cheryl Tama Oblander Courtney Tan Dana Shephard Treister and Michael Treister Ashley Wheater Diana Widman Liza Yntema and Mark Ferguson THE JOFFREY BALLET STAR SOCIETY The Joffrey Ballet Star Society recognizes those individuals who have invested in the future of The Joffrey Ballet through a planned gift. We wish to thank the following for their commitment to our legacy.

Mr. D. Jeffrey Baddeley D. Jeffrey and Joan H. Blumenthal Mr. Paul Chasnoff and Mr. Joe Hopper Christine Du Boulay Ellis Deborah Gordon Engle Patti Eylar and Charles Gardner Dr. and Mrs. David L. Faulk Patricia H. Gerber Mr. Michael Goldberger Sue-Gray Goller Barbara and Henigbaum Marci and Ronald Holzer Ms. Darlene Johnson Ms. Linda Levey Mr. John McAllister Prof. Keith and Anne Moffat Drs. Bill and Elaine Moor Jane Ellen Murray and Ed Wentz Mr. Jonathan F. Orser Doug Schmidt Constance and Orin Steinhaus Elisabeth Wilcox Szegho Ms. Marilyn J. Ward Diana and Stuart Widman Andrea and Rich Winship Mrs. Anna Mary Zarrelli

Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Babcock, Sr.

THE JOFFREY CELEBRATES

NAN GIORDANO 33 YEARS AT THE HELM — 25 YEARS AS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & 55 YEARS OF GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO!

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DONORS

The Auditorium Theatre would like to thank our donors from December 1, 2016 through January 1, 2018. If you have questions or concerns, please call 312.341.2364. $100,000+ The Baryl Family Thomas Baryl Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund Elissa Efroymson and Adnaan Hamid Sonia Florian MacArthur Foundation Linda and Jim Mitchell NIB Foundation $50,000–$99,999 Floy and Lee Barthel Polk Bros. Foundation Denise Littlefield Sobel $25,000–$49,999 The Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation Exelon Patti Eylar and Charlie Gardner Illinois Arts Council Agency Morgan Stanley Pasquinelli Family Foundation Maria Pasquinelli Caryn and Jerry Skurnick Jill and John Svoboda $10,000–$24,999 Allstate Insurance Company Kathleen and Nicholas Amatangelo Avison Young Scott Bauer Virginia and Norm Bobins Amanda Brimmer and Scott Crawford Joyce Chelberg CIBC Marge* and Lew Collens The Colmar Foundation Deborah and Bruce Crown Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church Paula and Peter Fasseas Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis Suzan and Robert Held Richard Helldobler, PhD. and Robbie Brown Lauri S. Bauer Foundation Phil Lumpkin Suzanne Martin and Hart Weichselbaum Bill McIntosh Helen Hall Melchior Tania and Alexei Moskalenko Ann and Tom Nash National Endowment for the Arts National Trust for Historic Preservation Peter & Paula Fasseas Foundation The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation Nancy and Sy Taxman Anne Voshel The Walsh Group Patty and Dan Walsh Dia S. and Edward S. Weil, Jr. 30 | Joffrey Ballet

Elizabeth B. Yntema for The Mark E. Ferguson and Elizabeth B. Yntema Family Trust In Honor of Women’s Leadership in the Arts $5,000–$9,999 Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust Broadway in Chicago J. Kamala Buckner Marsha and Philip Dowd Shelley and William Farley The Grainger Foundation Sherry and Mike Guthrie Marguerite D. Hark Amy and John Jacobsson The Joffrey Ballet John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation, Inc. Renee and Mel Katten Graziela and John Kaufman The Lila H. Borgstrom Foundation Pamela G. Meyer Northeastern Illinois University Theatrical Stage Employees Union Local Two Ken and Marsha Tucker Betty Lou and Walter Weiss Sue and Bob Wieseneck $2,500–$4,999 Arts Midwest Touring Fund John P. Brazzale Geneva and Robert Calloway Tammy and Rob Campbell Chicago Cabaret Professionals Keith and Barbara Clayton Pamela Crutchfield Dr. Guy and Gisela Di Spigno C.J. Dillon and Steve Clements Catherine and Brent Gledhill Larry Glowczewski Judie and Richard Green Harrison & Held LLP David Hiller IBM International Foundation Dr. Jennifer R. Jackson Afsaneh and Ali Malekzadeh D. Elizabeth Price Roosevelt University Pauline M. Scharres Sofia Solomon Ginnee Tallman* and Bill Ziemann $1,000-$2,499 James L. Alexander and Curtis D. Drayer Gail Beedie Sondra Berman Esptein Linda and Eric Boasmond Douglas Bragan Crowe Horwath LLP Daniel and Pamella DeVos Foundation Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly Pam and Stephen Fitzell Fran and Henry Fogel

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The Honorable Rahm Emanuel Mayor of Chicago Honorary Chairman, Board of Directors

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Thomas R. Baryl | Secretary Amanda Brimmer Tania Castroverde Moskalenko Lew Collens Joan Colmar Henry Fogel Charles R. Gardner Immediate Past Chair Robert Held Richard Helldobler Mel Katten | Chair Emeritus John R. Kaufman Sidney Kerley Phil Lumpkin Tangella Maddox Ali Malekzadeh Suzanne Martin Helen Hall Melchior Ann Nash Danny Nikitas Maria L. Pasquinelli Denise Littlefield Sobel Edward S. Weil, Jr. Robert L. Wieseneck EMERITUS DIRECTORS

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Ballet Notes

BEYOND THE SHORE Beyond the Shore follows the score of Mason Bates’ The B-Sides and a soundscape serving as a prologue, originally composed by Bates for this piece. Through the ballet, as well as through the music, the piece makes us land in a new world different from the previous one — each movement inhabits a new environment. I thought it would be a great concept and challenge to build a piece in which I would treat each movement as six consecutive short stories, each time aiming to capture the essence and the mood of the music and the atmosphere it carries. For example (as Bates explains on his website): the second movement, Aerosol Melody (Hanalei), blooms on the Northshore of Kauai, while the third movement, Gemini in the Solar Wind, is a re-imagination of the first American spacewalk using actual communication samples from the 1965 Gemini IV voyage provided by NASA.”

The approach of Beyond the Shore is a metaphor for exploration inherent to human nature. It means not staying set at the dock, but taking off to new horizons and discovering new landscapes both literal and abstract. I explored my vocabulary as a choreographer by looking at new ways to think and interact with each other expanding how we communicate in the complex world we live in. The work doesn’t aim for a strict narrative, yet the atmosphere and mood of each piece is showing just beneath the surface like a watermark. As Balanchine said, Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves. Nicolas Blanc, choreographer

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Rory Hohenstein and Nicolas Blanc. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

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Expansive in scope and streamlined in style, Glass Pieces captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its charged, urban choreography, concluding in a finale that propels the corps de ballet across the stage at an electrifying pace. Although Philip Glass’s work is often labeled as minimalist, he prefers to call it “music with repetitive structures.” His early compositions were greatly influenced by Ravi Shankar and the hypnotic rhythms of Indian music. Some of his most notable work for theater includes the trilogy of operas comprising Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, and Akhnaten. Jerome Robbins, originally in line to direct Akhnaten, instead choreographed a ballet using music from the opera along with Rubric and Facades, both from Glassworks. In Glass Pieces, Robbins incorporated concepts from postmodern dance into the traditional ballet vocabulary, and he infused the work with a distinctly urban energy. The recurrent rhythms, driving momentum, and labyrinth of shifting patterns of the ensemble combine to create a physical architecture for Glass’s music.

Ballet Notes

GLASS PIECES

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BIOS JEAN-PIERRE FROHLICH Stager — Glass Pieces Jean-Pierre Frohlich was born in New York to French and Czechoslovakian parents, and began his dance training at the School of American Ballet. As a child he danced the role of the Prince in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker and in 1965, Balanchine created a role for him in his Don Quixote. In 1972, while a student at the school, he appeared in the premiere of Jerome Robbins’s Watermill. Later that year he joined the New York City Ballet (NYCB) and in 1979 was promoted to Soloist. Frohlich became a Ballet Master in 1990, assisting Robbins in staging many of his ballets, and now maintains and oversees his repertory at NYCB. Also upon Robbins’ death, he appointed Frohlich to be a committee member for the Robbins Rights Trust. Frohlich has staged works for numerous companies including The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and the Paris Opera Ballet, and is the recipient of two Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (1998, 2006). In 2010, Frohlich was appointed Artistic Administrator of NYCB’s “MOVES” touring company.

MARK STANLEY Lighting Design — The Four Temperaments, Lighting and Set Design — Beyond the Shore Mark Stanley is the Resident Lighting Designer for New York City Ballet, where he has designed over 200 premieres for the repertory, including Paul McCartney’s Ocean’s Kingdom choreographed by Peter Martins. He has worked with numerous choreographers: Susan Stroman, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck, Benjamin Millepied, William Forsythe, Kevin O’Day, Susan Marshall, Christopher d’Amboise, David Gordon, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Ulysses Dove, and many others. In addition, his designs are in the repertories of the Royal Danish Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, National Ballet of Canada,The Het Nationale Ballet, The Royal Ballet of Flanders, San Francisco Ballet, The Mariinsky Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet, The Norwegian Opera Ballet, The Berlin Opera Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, The Mannheim Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Ballet British Columbia, The Bayerisches Staatsballett, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, The Joffrey Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and numerous other international and regional ballet companies. Stanley is currently Head of the MFA Design and Productions Programs and the Lighting Design Program at Boston University, School of Theatre and has conducted Master Classes at universities across the USA and in Europe.

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JENNIFER TIPTON Lighting Design — Glass Pieces Jennifer Tipton (Lighting Designer) is well known for her work in theater, dance and opera. Her recent work in opera includes Roméo Et Juliette directed by Bartlett Sher at the Chicago Lyric Opera. Her recent work in dance includes Liam Scarlett’s The Age Of Anxiety for the Royal Ballet in London. In theater, her recent work includes The Room by Harold Pinter for the Wooster Group. Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2001, the Jerome Robbins Prize in 2003, and in April 2004 the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008, she was made a United States Artists “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow. KATRIN SCHNABL Costume Design — Beyond the Shore Katrin Schnabl is a fashion designer, artist, and educator. Trained as dancer, Schnabl has designed for numerous acclaimed contemporary dance and performance artists — two passions that inspire her design of sophisticated and timelessly modern fashions that move sensuously on the body. Through distinct capsule collections the German-born designer continues to refine her esthetic since launching her first collection in New York in the late ‘90s. In 2004, Schnabl followed an invitation to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is an Associate Professor and Sage-Endowed Chair in the Department of Fashion Design. She is delighted to be collaborating with Nic Blanc on his new work. For more information please visit katrinschnabl.com, schnabl.space, and katrinschnablprojects on Instagram and Facebook. PERRY SILVEY Perry Silvey has been working for New York City Ballet (NYCB) since 1977, as Stage Manager, Production Stage Manager (PSM), and Technical Director. Before joining NYCB he was PSM for the Martha Graham Dance Company. In addition to his responsibilities at NYCB, he has assisted other ballet companies around the world with the lighting and production of Balanchine and Robbins ballets. In 2013, he was a recipient of the Stage Managers’ Association Del Hughes Award for a Distinguished Career in Stage Management. He is married to Renee Estopinal, a former NYCB dancer.

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THE OFFICIAL ORCHESTRA OF THE JOFFREY BALLET MODERN MASTERS SCOTT SPECK Artistic Director JAMES BERKENSTOCK Artistic Advisor THOMAS MANNING Board Chairman DONNA MILANOVICH Executive Director VIOLIN Laura Park Chen Concertmaster Rika Seko Principal Second Violin Bernardo Arias Lori Ashikawa Jennifer Cappelli Injoo Choi Daniela Folker Renée-Paule Gauthier Sheila Hanford Kiju Joh Carmen Kassinger David Katz Helen Kim Kjersti Nostbakken Paul Vanderwerf

VIOLA Rose Armbrust-Griffin Principal

CLARINET Gene Collerd Principal

BASS TROMBONE Terry Leahy

Daniel Golden Matthew Mantell Claudia LasareffMironoff Benton Wedge

Elizandro Garcia-Montoya

TUBA Charles Schuchat Principal

CELLO Judy Stone Principal

E FLAT CLARINET Daniel Won

Margaret Daly Larry Glazier Edward Moore

BASSOON John Gaudette Nathaniel Hale

BASS Jeremy Attanaseo Principal

CONTRABASSOON Steven Ingle

Richard Edwards Doug Johnson FLUTE John Thorne Principal Karin Ursin PICCOLO Karin Ursin

BASS CLARINET Daniel Won

HORN Gregory Flint Principal Daniel O’Connell Melanie Cottle Jeremiah Frederick TRUMPET Kevin Hartman Principal Jordan Olive Christian Anderson

OBOE Anne Bach Principal Erica Anderson

TROMBONE Reed Capshaw Principal Rachel Castellanos

ENGLISH HORN Erica Anderson

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TIMPANI Robert Everson Principal PERCUSSION Joel Cohen Principal Michael Folker Jon Johnson HARP Marcia Labella Principal PIANO Grace Rose Kim, Principal, Company Pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, Principal MUSIC LIBRARIAN Danielle Ray PERSONNEL MANAGER Terrell Pierce

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ADMINISTRATION

ASHLEY WHEATER Artistic Director

ARTISTIC

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Gerard Charles Director of Artistic Operations/ Ballet Master

Erica Lynette Edwards Director of Community Engagement

Nicolas Blanc Ballet Master/Principal Coach

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Adam Blyde Suzanne Lopez Ballet Masters ACADEMY Karine Provost Academy Director Keesha Beckford Youth Division Liaison Allie Deaver-Petchenik Administrative Assistant Karin Ellis-Wentz Head of Pre-Professional Programs Bridget Holmes Communications Coordinator Grace Kowalski Academy Coordinator Annie Lyonswright Temporary Student Services Administrator

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Q&A

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WITH JOFFREY DANCER TRINET TE SINGLETON

The year was 1967 and the mantra was Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll. Turning that mantra into a ballet was something else. When Robert Joffrey’s Astarte premiered at New York’s City Center in September of that year, it was unlike anything the dance world had ever seen. So much so that it earned the Company a spot on the cover of Time magazine six months later — a first for an American dance company. This coming March, the Joffrey marks 50 years since the iconic issue first hit newsstands across the country. Cover star and former Joffrey dancer Trinette Singleton shares her memories of creating Joffrey’s “psychedelic rock ballet,” and what it was like to be part of such a legendary moment in dance history.

Time Magazine cover: Former Joffrey Artists Trinette Singelton and Max Zomosa in Astarte. Dancer photography and design by Herbert Migdoll, background photo by Barbara Kahn.

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Q. What are your earliest memories of Astarte? A. Looking at the callboard and seeing a rehearsal with Mr. Joffrey and another dancer. That was it. Just go in and work with him. We were on tour somewhere on the West Coast. The casting would go up for the next few days. I looked and thought — I’m not cast in anything. What the hell? Then the Company Manager came up and said, you and Max [Zomosa] are on the red-eye back to New York with Mr. Joffrey. We got on the plane and that’s when he told us we were going to be filmed.

Q. Do you know why Joffrey was so secretive? A. He didn’t want anybody to know how far out he was going with this crazy idea. I think he felt that we might be tempted to tell our friends, who would tell the next person. He wanted it to be a surprise and a shock to the dance community.

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Q. Can you talk about the multi-media component and why it was so revolutionary? A. Because it had never been done [laughs]. We had learned bits and pieces. The first thing we were told was that there would be films of us dancing — sometimes in sync, sometimes ahead or behind — and that it would be projected behind us. Then they told us the set was going to move. Then some of the images would be distorted. Finally, we got the whole picture during tech week. Former Joffrey Artists Trinette Singelton and Max Zomosa in Astarte. Photo by Herbert Migdoll.

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Q. Were you nervous performing it for the first time? A. Oh God yes. Once things started it was like, okay, we’re rolling. Then the curtain came down. The music [for Astarte] is deafening. When the curtain comes down, the music just stops. It’s like deafening silence. I remember standing there going, okay, nobody’s doing anything. Then the applause started, but there were those few moments of holy crap, we’re going to get booed.

Q. It seemed to be well-received. A. It sold out. Everybody on tour was asking for it. Some people liked it and some people hated it, but they went because it was so nuts compared to what they were used to seeing. The ballet stunned a lot of people. In fact, [the late New York Times critic] Clive Barnes’ first review was not very good. He was just shocked. Then he retracted it a couple days later and said he had seen it again and realized what a revolutionary thing it was for the dance world.

Q. A lot of people describe it as a psychedelic rock ballet. A. That’s what the ballet was. This was in The Sixties. What’s the mantra for The Sixties? Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll. It was of the times, and a different direction for dance.

Q. What was your reaction when you found out you were on the cover of Time? A. I had no idea. We were in season at City Center. Monday morning the phone rang and we were like, it’s our day off, who’s calling? It was an old high school friend of mine. She’s like, Oh my God, you’re on the cover of Time magazine! I hung up and ran down to the corner of 14th and 6th Avenue and stood in front of the newsstand and saw me on there. I was like, holy crap, that’s me! This news guy looked at me like Yeah, right lady. I bought a few copies and ran back to the apartment. Then the phone started ringing and the deluge came forth.

Q. Looking back, do you ever think about what it was like to be part of something so iconic? A. I get college kids saying, Hey you’re in my dance history book! The whole Joffrey was a part of dance history. Joffrey went out on a limb with a lot of things to bring the Company to the forefront and get it noticed. He had to take it in that whacko direction to push it forward. I got an email from someone recently who said, Do you realize what an icon you are? I’m thinking, oh please, I’m not a diva. But it was still neat.

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Season Sponsor

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Fill the shortest days with long-lasting memories.

Make the most of this season. Take Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois along for the ride and be covered with comfort and security from head to toe.

A Division of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

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