World Premiere:
February 7, 2018
Event:
Company:
The Joffrey Ballet
Venue:
The Auditorium Theater
Location:
Chicago
,
IL
,
USA
Choreography:
Nicolas Blanc
Music:
Mason Bates
Costume Design:
Katrin Schnabl
Scenic Design:
Mark Stanley
Lighting Design:
Mark Stanley
Sound Design
Projection Design:
ARTICLES & CRITICAL ACCLAIM
San Francisco Chronicle
March 7, 2020
Ballet dancers lift each other all the time. But the elevation achieved in “Beyond the Shore,” the glowing highlight of the Joffrey Ballet’s weekend repertory at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, seemed to untether one dancer from gravity itself. On Friday, March 6, the same night the San Francisco Ballet announced it was canceling all productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” due to coronavirus concerns, the Joffrey’s Victoria Jaiani floated in from the wings held high aloft by her partner Dylan Gutierrez. Her hips encircled by a disc-thin black pancake tutu as she rotated slowly through the spacious, spectral realm of Mark Stanley’s lighting, Jaiani turned weightless, like some human satellite orbiting far above Earth.
WTTW PBS News
February 8, 2018
How do you define the word “modern”? Is it connected to a specific date? A new concept? An altered look? A different sound? Is it whatever is of this very moment, or is it part of a long trajectory of evolution rooted in some profoundly revolutionary idea? These are just some of the questions you might find yourself asking as you watch (and listen to) the four pieces that comprise “Modern Masters,” the Joffrey Ballet’s altogether brilliant winter program at the Auditorium Theatre. Not incidentally, it is a program of extreme technical challenges that serves as a stunning showcase of the prowess of the Joffrey dancers, as well as the stellar talents of the Chicago Philharmonic and music director Scott Speck. But back to the whole notion of what is modern, and how the work of four choreographers created between 1946 and (quite literally, the past month), captures this quality.
“With the impressive, immensely ambitious world premiere of “Beyond the Shore,” Nicolas Blanc, the Joffrey’s ballet master, proves himself a choreographer with both a strong modernist inheritance and a voice very much his own. “
”Jaiani turned weightless, like some human satellite orbiting far above Earth.Everything in this section of choreographer Nicolas Blanc’s mesmerizing Bay Area premiere, co-commissioned by presenter Cal Performances, served the uncanny illusion.“
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