Joffrey for All

Performance Details

When 5:30 PM
Where Millennium Park

Bring your family, friends, and a picnic basket to the great lawn of Millennium Park on Sunday, June 16, for the return of the Joffrey for All free public performance. Experience a series of fan favorites from all three pillars of our organization, featuring Company Artists, Academy, and Community Engagement students. Truly embodying Joffrey for All, we are ecstatic to revive this meaningful performance for a second time and honor the vibrant spirit of our city with a gift to all Chicagoans.

Join us for free movement classes prior to the performance from 4:15-5:15 PM on the Great Lawn. Classes will be offered by The Joffrey Ballet’s Community Engagement, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, Ensemble Español, and Natya Dance Theatre. You can also enjoy The Poetry Foundation’s Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand.

We are expecting hot temperatures and plenty of sunlight. Don't forget your sunscreen!

Let us know if you are coming! Register here.

Program Book

Joffrey for All Program Book

Read artistic bios, programming information, the Company Artist roster, and more!

Program Book

Programming

Heimat

Choreography: Cathy Marston
Music: Richard Wagner
Conducted by: Scott Speck
Live accompaniment by Members of Lyric Opera Orchestra

Performed by Joffrey Company Artists

Défilé

Choreography: Oğulcan Borova
Music: Johann Strauss Sr.
Conducted by: Scott Speck
Live accompaniment by Members of Lyric Opera Orchestra

Performed by Joffrey Academy of Dance Students

Andante

Choreography: Yuri Possokhov
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Live accompaniment by Members of Lyric Opera Orchestra

Performed by Joffrey Company Artists

Benteveo (saudade)

Choreography: Manoela Gonçalves
Music: Michael Wall

Performed by Joffrey Company Artist Stefan Gonçalvez

Jump Little Robot

Choreography: Michael Smith
Music: Jun Miyake

Performed by Joffrey Community Engagement Students and Alumni

Carousel (A Dance) Excerpt

Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon
Music: Oscar Hammerstein II
Conducted by: Michael Moricz
Live accompaniment by Members of Lyric Opera Orchestra

Performed by Joffrey Company Artists