Joffrey Ballet: Stories In Motion Tickets

Prodigal Son
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Based on the biblical parable about a
young man who leaves home, this is a tale
of sin and redemption from one of the
master choreographers of all time.
Lilac Garden
Choreographer: Antony Tudor
Music: Ernest Chausson
Tudor’s masterpiece explores the conflicting
emotions of a young woman, trapped by the
strictures of Edwardian culture, who is forced
to give up the young man she loves to marry
another she does not.
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Choreographer: Yuri Possokhov
Music: Shinji Eshima
Possokhov uses the burning of the Golden
Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan as the point of
departure for a story of love, treachery,
separation and tragedy. Set in Japan’s
past, a warrior and his beloved princess are
pulled apart by the schemes of a jealousy-crazed
monk.