Overview

Choreography: Nicolas Blanc
Music: Mason Bates
Costume design: Katrin Schnabl
Lighting and Scenic design: Mark Stanley

World premiere:  The Joffrey Ballet February 7th 2018 The Auditorium Theater Chicago, IL

Company

  • The Joffrey Ballet

Role

  • Choreography

Beyond the shore

“With the impressive, immensely ambitious world premiere of “Beyond the Shore,” Nicolas Blanc, the Joffrey’s ballet master, proves himself a choreographer with both a strong modernist inheritance and a voice very much his own. “

Hedy Weiss NEWS WTTW

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“The unseen and unknown species that inhabit the ocean’s floors present more mystery and wonder than almost anything else, and Blanc’s “Beyond the Shore” extracts that same sense.”

Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune