JACOB'S PILLOW CLOSES
80TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON WITH
THE JOFFREY BALLET
IN A RARE EAST COAST APPEARANCE
FEATURING A WORLD PREMIERE
BY HOUSTON BALLET'S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR STANTON WELCH
SON OF CHAMBER SYMPHONY
80TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON WITH
THE JOFFREY BALLET
IN A RARE EAST COAST APPEARANCE
FEATURING A WORLD PREMIERE
BY HOUSTON BALLET'S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR STANTON WELCH
SON OF CHAMBER SYMPHONY
August 19, 2012-(Becket, MA) The Joffrey Ballet, one of America's pioneering ballet companies of the 20th century, makes a rare East Coast appearance to conclude the Jacob's Pillow 80th Anniversary Season August 22-26. The Joffrey Ballet returns for the first time since its high-profile appearances at the Pillow in the 1950s and 60s, presenting an impressive program that features Taiwanese-American choreographer Edwaard Liang's Age of Innocence, Russian choreographer Yuri Possokhov's Bells, and the world premiere of Son of Chamber Symphony by Stanton Welch, Artistic Director of Houston Ballet.
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