EVENT 8:
MIXED REPERTORY SUMMER AT RAVINIA
JUNE 16-17, 1999
CREATIVE FORCE (World Premiere)
(Laura Dean)
A world premiere by Laura Dean, who created NIGHT, her first work for a ballet company, for The Joffrey Ballet in 1980. Now 18 years and 7 ballets later, her new, yet-to-be-titled work, will be an ensemble piece, featuring high energy, repeating geometric patterns, and fast movement.
TENSILE INVOLVEMENT (JBC Premiere)
(Alwin Nikolais)
Alwin Niklolais joins our roster of distinguished choreographers with TENSILE INVOLVEMENT, an ingenious and spatially innovative dance theater piece, incorporating his original lighting, costumes, sound and movement designs.
FOOTNOTES FOR RJ
(Gerald Arpino/Ted Macero)
Gerald Arpino’s reflections on Robert Joffrey’s regard for Neo-Classical style. Music by Teo Macero.
LIGHT RAIN
(Gerald Arpino/ Douglas Adams & Russ Gauthier)
A sensual, powerful full-company signature piece with languorously passionate pas de deux set to an original score of “East-West fusion.”
The Complete 1998/99 Repertory
Joffrey Ballet