Modern Masters - February 7 - 18, 2018

This mixed repertory program will feature a world premiere by Joffrey ballet master Nicolas Blanc, set to an orchestral and electronic soundscape by Mason Bates (recently composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra); the Chicago premiere of “Kammermusik No. 2,” George Balanchine’s high-speed 1978 work for 12 dancers, set to a neoclassical score by Paul Hindemith; “Body of Your Dreams,” a tongue-in-cheek take on fitness by Myles Thatcher, a dancer and choreographer with the San Francisco Ballet, set to a score by the Dutch avant pop composer Jacob ter Veldhuis, and, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jerome Robbins,  the masterful ballet choreographer and Broadway director, his “Glass Pieces,” a full company work set to the music of Philip Glass, which Robbins created for the New York City Ballet in 1983.

All performances take place at the Auditorium Theatre located at 50 E Congress Parkway

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