Overview

Choreography: Nicolas Blanc
Music: John Adams
Costume design: Nicolas Blanc
Scenic & Lighting design: Christine Binder

World Premiere: October 30, 2015 Joffrey Tower Chicago IL USA

Company

  • The Joffrey Ballet

Role

  • Choreography
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“Encounter was jazzy, sexy and smooth as the dancers effortlessly glided through jaw-dropping lifts, penchés and acrobatics.”

Hannah Jackson for Daily Nexus News

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“With the Adams prompts, Blanc swiftly yet sometimes gently (as in a charming love duet) draws parallels between the early anxieties of existence in the 20th century and those we find in the 21st.”

Janice Berman for San Francisco Classical Voice magazine