On stage in July: Paris Opera Ballet tours in Los Angeles, Jacob’s Pillow celebrates its 90th anniversary, and more

July is filled with outdoor performances, long-awaited theater returns and tours across North America. Read and discover dance events in a city near you.

Joffrey Ballet/Miami City Ballet collaboration premieres in Chicago

The Joffrey Ballet presents the world premiere of Rita finds her home at Navy Pier Lake Stage July 9-10. The children’s ballet, commissioned in collaboration with Miami City Ballet, was developed by choreographer Amy Hall Garner, Chicago author Karla Estela Rivera and award-winning children’s book author Elisa Chavarri. The production explores a young girl’s artistic journey to redefine her home.

The family ballet, performed by the Joffrey Ballet Studio Company and interns from the Joffrey Academy, is free to the public and will be performed citywide as part of Chicago Park District’s Night out in the parks series. Following the Chicago debut, Miami City Ballet will announce a South Florida tour.

BalletX Summer Series and Saratoga Springs Tour

BalletX returns to the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia for the first time since December 2019 with its week-long summer series July 13-17. Performances will feature world premieres by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater resident choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano Jamar Roberts and New York City Ballet Principal Tiler Peck.

The company will next perform Peck’s work at New York’s Saratoga Performing Arts Center on July 27, marking their first collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra. The evening will feature composer Valerie Coleman Umoja, hymn to unity and will end with a fireworks display.

Pacific Northwest Ballet returns to the Music Center

The Pacific Northwest Ballet returns to The Music Center in Los Angeles from July 15 to 17. The program will feature PNB resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo Deadly little jumpCrystal Pites track point and Twyla Tharp Waiting at the station. Tickets start at $34 and can be purchased online.

Pacific Northwest Ballet in “Waiting at the Station” by Twyla Tharp. Photo by Angela Sterling, courtesy of Music Center.

Additional events include free PNB Dance Film Festival in association with Dance Camera West, as well as therapeutic dance classes for people with Parkinson’s and their care partners.

Jacob’s Pillow 90th Anniversary Season

Jacob’s Pillow Festival continues throughout the month of July. Modern and contemporary dance companies take center stage at the Ted Shawn Theatre, including Kyle Abraham’s AIM (July 13-17), Limón Dance Company (July 20-24) and Black Grace (July 27-31 July). New York-based company Nepantla Ballet, which fuses contemporary ballet with traditional Mexican folk dance, will perform July 13 on the Henry J. Leir Outdoor Stage as part of the One Night Pillow Series. The company will present valentinaa series of stories that speak of the strength and resilience of the women of revolutionary Mexico.

Dressed in baggy off-white pants, Taylor Stanley is pictured parallel facing to his left, bending his right knee and lifting his right foot off the ground. He puts his right arm on his head and pulls his left hand to his neck. He is standing in front of an off-white background. — Taylor Stanley, director of the New York City Ballet. Photo by Gioncarlo Valentine, courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow.

Another festival highlight includes Being Dichotomous: An Evening of Taylor Stanley, which takes place from July 27 to 31 on the Leir stage. The performances feature the New York City Ballet director’s collaborations with choreographers Jodi Melnick and Shamel Pitts, an adaptation by Andrea Miller sky to holdTalley Beatty’s mourning bench and a solo commissioned by William Forsythe.

And stay tuned next month when Jacob’s Pillow presents Alonzo King LINES Ballet (August 3 to 7) and the Miami City Ballet (August 24 to 28).

The Paris Opera Ballet on tour in Los Angeles

The Paris Opera Ballet will debut at hollywood bowl to celebrate the amphitheater’s 100th anniversary season on July 21-22. outdoor scene.

Sae Eun Park, wearing a white feather-embellished tutu, white feather headdress with tiara, pink tights, and pointe shoes, performs an arabesque with her right leg behind her. She raises her arms in a V-shape. Behind her, a body of women in white tutus and feathered headdresses pose with their arms at their sides. — Parc Sae Eun from the Paris Opera Ballet in “Swan Lake”. Photo courtesy of The Hollywood Bowl.

The program includes Sae Eun Park and Paul Marque in the Swan Lake Act II pas de deux, Ludmila Pagliero and Florian Magnet in Three Gnossiennes and Dorothée Gilbert in The dying swan. Dudamel will lead the live accompaniment of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the solo keyboard of Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

City Ballet of San Diego kicks off 30th anniversary season

July 21-23, City Ballet of San Diego On the move 2022 will feature world premieres by resident choreographer Geoffrey Gonzalez at the new Torrey Pines Performing Art Center. Performances will feature seven reimagined contemporary excerpts from classic ballets, including Swan Lake, Gisele and Grand Pas Classicas well as the world premiere Boudoir.

Iago Breschi is depicted shirtless from the waist down, arms outstretched to the side and elbows bent. He touches his middle finger and his thumbs together, spreading his other fingers. He stands in front of a black background and is bathed in bronze-colored light. — Iago Breschi performs a reinvented version of the Bronze Idol variation of “La Bayadère”. Photo by Jaroslav Richters, courtesy of City Ballet of San Diego

“There is a change in the wind,” Gonzalez said in a statement. “In the world of dance, traditional ballets are reinvented and revived with new choreography.”

Ballet stars land in Montreal

from Montreal Saint-Sauveur Arts Festival The festival will begin on July 28 and run until August 7. The festival, which is led by National Ballet of Canada Director Guillaume Côté and Principal Artist Etienne Levigne, features a wide range of live and virtual dance events.

Dressed in tights and gray ballet flats and a dark velvet tunic, Cesar Corrales performs an explosive sissone in a crossed attitude with his left leg behind him. He reaches for the sky with his left hand and looks up with an anguished look. Behind him on stage, a row of four women in long white tutus stand in B plus, forearms crossed at the waist, and gaze backstage to the right of the stage. — The director of the Royal Ballet Cesar Corrales. Photo by Dasa Wharton, courtesy of Saint-Sauveur Festival.

Ballet lovers won’t want to miss the festival night with the stars program on July 28 and 29. Performances will feature the best international dancers performing classical, neoclassical and contemporary pas de deux. Artists include Cesar Corrales and Francesca Hayward from the Royal Ballet, Sara Mearns from New York City Ballet, Côté from the NBoC, Thomas Forster and Cassandra Trenary from the American Ballet Theatre, Melih Mertel and Maude Sabourin from the Grands Ballets Canadiens, Angelica Generosa from the Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet Lazaro Corrales from the Ballet, Maeva Marcolini-Bowes from the Paris Opera Ballet and freelance dancer Sebastián Vinet.

Other highlights include Côté Danse (August 4), Ballets Jazz Montreal (August 6) and the Malpaso Dance Company of Cuba (August 7).