Arts & Entertainment
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, Presented by the Talking Pictures Festival
Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival presents an exceptional lineup of independent films from March 8-11.
Since the Company’s early tours in a borrowed station wagon, its co-founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino revolutionized American ballet by daringly combining modern dance with traditional ballet technique, merging art with social statement and setting ballets to pop and rock music scores. Directed by Evanston filmmaker Bob Hercules and executive produced by Jay Alix and Harold Ramis, JOFFREY skillfully interweaves a wealth of archival footage and photographs with interviews featuring former and current Joffrey star dancers. Showing the full history of the Company from its founding to the present, this film is an extraordinary chance for ballet fans to see rare passages from Joffrey works such as Astarte, Trinity and Billboards, and ground-breaking collaborations with choreographers Twyla Tharp (Deuce Coupe), Kurt Jooss (The Green Table) and Leonide Massine (Parade).
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