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    Broadway World
    Sept 3 2014

    Joffrey Ballet Introduces Three New Dancers to Company


    CHICAGO (September 3, 2014) - Ashley Wheater, Artistic Director of The
    Joffrey Ballet, is pleased to announce the addition of three dancers
    to the Joffrey's international roster for the 2014-2015 season: Artur
    Babajanyan (Armenia), Edson Barbosa (Brazil) and Brooke Linford, a
    former Joffrey Academy of Dance Trainee (Alpine, Utah). The three new
    dancers officially began rehearsing with the company July 21.

    About the New Dancers

    Artur Babajanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. He received his
    training at the Armenian National Ballet School of Yerevan and at the
    Tanz Academy of Zurich under the direction of Ricardo Duze. He then
    became of member of Heinz Spoerli's Junior Zurich Ballet before
    becoming a Demi Soloist for the Zurich Ballet in 2006 and most
    recently a soloist at Aalto Ballett Theater of Essen. Throughout his
    career, Babajanyan has performed choreography by Heinz Spoerli, Hans
    van Manen, Uwe Scholz, Mauro Bigonzetti, Ji?í Bubení?ek, Nils Christe,
    William Forsythe, August Bournonville, Twyla Tharp, Ohad Naharin,
    David Dawson and Mats Ek.

    Edson Barbosa was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and began his
    training in ballet, jazz and tap at age 10 at Grupo Cultural de
    Danca-Ilha with Patricia Marques. Barbosa was voted Best Male Dancer
    at the Festival de Danca de Joinville in 2012, the biggest ballet
    competition in Brazil. He received full scholarship to study at the
    Miami City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Washington Ballet and The Harid
    Conservatory, among others. He was also a Top 12 finalist at the Youth
    American Grand Prix (YAGP) in New York in 2010 and 2012, Top 6
    finalist at the Beijing International Ballet Invitational for Dance
    Schools in China and performed at the Opening Ceremony as a guest
    artist at the Danzamerica in Argentina. Barbosa was also a prize
    winner at the prestigious Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland, receiving a
    scholarship to be a trainee at the San Francisco Ballet School.
    Barbosa has had the opportunity to work in the San Francisco Ballet's
    main company productions of Raymonda, Giselle,Nutcracker and Romeo and
    Juliet as well as Serge Lifar's Suite in Blanc, John Cranko's Eugene
    Onegin, Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella and Yuri Possokhov's
    Firebird.Brooke Linford was born in Alpine, Utah. She received her
    early training at Jacqueline's School of Ballet under the direction of
    Jacqueline Colledge, Heather Gray and Brittnee Squires. While there,
    she performed with Utah Regional Ballet and Utah Regional Ballet II.
    In 2011, Linford competed in the YAGP New York finals and was offered
    a scholarship to the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American
    Ballet Theatre, which she attended from 2011-2012. Linford then joined
    the Trainee Program at the Joffrey Academy of Dance, Official School
    of The Joffrey Ballet from 2012-2014 under the direction of Joffrey
    Academy Artistic Directors Alexei Kremnev and Anna Reznik. While a
    Joffrey Academy Trainee, Linford performed in The Joffrey Ballet's
    productions of Robert Joffrey's The Nutcracker, Stanton Welch's La
    Bayadère and Krzysztof Pastor's Romeo & Juliet.



    The Joffrey Ballet celebrates 20 years of the company calling Chicago
    home in the upcoming 2014-15 season. The season launches September
    18-21 with "Stories in Motion," a one-weekend-only engagement of two
    Joffrey repertory favorites - George Balanchine's Prodigal Son and
    Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden - along with the Joffrey/Chicago Premiere
    of Yuri Possokhov's Asian-themed RAkU.

    Following, for its fall production, The Joffrey Ballet brings a newly
    re-imagined Swan Lake to Chicago, choreographed by one of ballet's
    most acclaimed choreographers, Christopher Wheeldon. This production
    represents the first time The Joffrey Ballet has ever presented any
    Swan Lake in its almost 60-year history. Swan Lake runs October 15-26.

    Both "Stories in Motion" and Swan Lake are presented at Chicago's
    Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Parkway,
    and tickets are available via Ticketmaster at 800-982-2787 or online
    atwww.ticketmaster.com.

    For more information on The Joffrey Ballet and its programs, please
    visit joffrey.org.


    http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/Joffrey-Ballet-Introduces-Three-New-Dancers-to-Company-20140903



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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