En Pointe

By Richard Mineards | March 14, 2019

Producers Circle member Lisa Reich (center right) with members of The Joffrey Ballet (photo by Grace Kathryn Photography)

A mandatory evacuation scuppered my chances of watching the first show of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet at the Granada, which featured George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, but I was able to catch the second day’s three-part performance under Scottish artistic director Ashley Wheater.

The show kicked off impressively with Justin Peck‘s In Creases featuring two grand Steinway pianos head to head and the monochromatically-costumed performers showing their considerable choreographed talents.

Nicholas Blanc‘s solo in Encounter was sublime, as were the show’s two other works, Joy and Mammatus.

They can’t come back soon enough…