The Joffrey Ballet presents Don Quixote October 14, 2011

The Joffrey Ballet's 2011-2012 subscription season, titled New Generation, launches this fall with the World Premiere of Yuri Possokhov's re-imagined Don Quixote. For this new story-ballet, Possokhov returns to the Joffrey to present a fresh interpretation of the classic story written by Miguel de Cervantes. The Joffrey Ballet will perform Don Quixote at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway, in ten performances only, October 12-23.
Possokhov, a former principal dancer with Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, danced Don Quixote by famed choregrapher Marius Petipa many times and sections of Possokhov's own creation will be based on the original Petipa choreography. With this new production, Possokhov seeks to tell the traditional Spanish story - with familiar characters Kitri and her beloved Basilio, the foppish Gamache, side-kick Sancho Panza, plus toreadors and mythical Dryads - but from the perspective of Don Quixote himself.
Single tickets range from $25 to $149 and are available by phone at (800) 982-2787, or online at www.ticketmaster.com.
For more information on The Joffrey Ballet and its programs please visit joffrey.org.