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The bold and beautiful Joffrey Ballet

By Jaime Robles, 19 November 2017
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“The Joffrey Ballet reimagines human and kinetic beauty.”
Reviewed at UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley on 17 November 2017
Programme
In Creases (Justin Peck)
Encounter (Nicolas Blanc)
Joy (Alexander Ekman)
Mammatus (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa)
Performers
Joffrey Ballet
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Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.