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The Possibilities of the Art: Ashley Wheater and Jazz at the Joffrey

Johnny Nevin | Posted 04.21.2013 | Arts
Read More: Choreography, Ashley Wheater, Stanton Welch, Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, Dance, Chicago Around Town, Jerome Robbins, Joffrey Ashley Wheater, Arts News
Johnny Nevin

2013-02-19-NEVINPULL.JPGThe more dramatic the movement, the harder it is to stay balanced; the higher the leap, the more difficult it is to land it gracefully. Those may sound like universal principles of motion, but you'd never know it from watching Ashley Wheater move.

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The Australian Ballet's Infinity at the Koch Theater

Margaret Fuhrer | Posted 06.17.2012 | Arts
Read More: Steve Reich, Don Quixote, Divergence, Luminous, Stanton Welch, Petal Miller-Ashmole, Ballet, Amber Scott, Warumuk - in the Dark Night, La Favorita, The Australian Ballet, Infinity, Giselle, Dyad 1929, Molto Vivace, Dance, Wayne McGregor, Stephen Page, Daniel Gaudiello, Arts News
Margaret Fuhrer

Maybe TAB's dancers just needed to forget for a moment that they were ballet dancers, subject to ballet's oppressive standards -- because it was when they put on face paint and body paint, loincloths and headdresses, that they looked most like a world-class ballet company.

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