The Joffrey Ballet's blockbuster

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 20, 2003| Author: Hedy Weiss | Copyright information

'The Diaghilev Dynasty'

When:7:30 p.m. Feb. 26, 27, 28 and March 1; 2 p.m. Feb. 27, March 1 and 2

Where: Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress

Tickets: $20-$74

Call: (312) 902-1500

While those revolutionary masters of modern painting, Matisse and Picasso, duke it out these days in a blockbuster exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago is preparing its own blockbuster event about the birth of artistic modernism. And it promises...

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