The Joffrey Ballet
Ted Shawn Theatre
Wednesday, August 22 - Saturday, August 25, 8pm
Saturday, August 25 & Sunday, August 26, 2pm
2012 Festival Events
The legendary Joffrey Ballet, led by Artistic Director Ashley Wheater, closes the 80th Anniversary Season with style, substance, and phenomenal dancing. This knockout program includes the luxurious ballet Bells, by former Bolshoi Ballet dancer and resident choreographer for the San Francisco Ballet, Yuri Possokhov. The Chicago Tribune describes Bells as "passionately Russian, its various movements set to piano music by Sergei Rachmaninov...Possokhov embraces an often exhilarating tradition only to tease and tickle it whenever the mood strikes."
The company also performs Taiwanese-American dancer/choreographer Edwaard Liang's Age of Innocence, danced to music by Philip Glass and Thomas Newman. Liang drew inspiration from the 19th-century ballrooms of Jane Austen's heroines, where a glance or touch of the hand could ignite love, longing, and frustration. A world premiere by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch, commissioned by the Joffrey, closes out this sensational program.
Tickets are on sale now! Click the "BUY TICKETS" button on this page or call the Box Office at 413.243.0745 to reserve your seats. Under 35 Friday tickets and other specially-priced tickets are only available via phone or in person at the Box Office. Purchase a Subscriber Package of five or more shows to enjoy free exchanges and a 10% Subscriber discount on all tickets.
Performances:
Wednesday, August 22 - Saturday, August 25, 8pm
Saturday, August 25 & Sunday, August 26, 2pm
Prices:
Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 8pm: $70
Friday at 8pm, and Saturday and Sunday at 2pm: $65
Prices subject to change after June 1.
The company also performs Taiwanese-American dancer/choreographer Edwaard Liang's Age of Innocence, danced to music by Philip Glass and Thomas Newman. Liang drew inspiration from the 19th-century ballrooms of Jane Austen's heroines, where a glance or touch of the hand could ignite love, longing, and frustration. A world premiere by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch, commissioned by the Joffrey, closes out this sensational program.
Tickets are on sale now! Click the "BUY TICKETS" button on this page or call the Box Office at 413.243.0745 to reserve your seats. Under 35 Friday tickets and other specially-priced tickets are only available via phone or in person at the Box Office. Purchase a Subscriber Package of five or more shows to enjoy free exchanges and a 10% Subscriber discount on all tickets.
Performances:
Wednesday, August 22 - Saturday, August 25, 8pm
Saturday, August 25 & Sunday, August 26, 2pm
Prices:
Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 8pm: $70
Friday at 8pm, and Saturday and Sunday at 2pm: $65
Prices subject to change after June 1.