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Ballet Sun Valley will present the debut of The Joffrey Ballet. Learn about the performance and see how to purchase tickets.

The incomparable Chicago-based Joffrey Ballet returns for a dazzling evening at San Diego Civic Theatre. A crown jewel of America’s homegrown dance companies, Joffrey’s cutting-edge programs display the inestimable skill of their dancers. The program includes Liam Scarlett’s Vespertine, created for the Norwegian National Ballet in 2013 and inspired by the music of Arcangelo Corelli, creating an abstract, sensual work against a backdrop of hanging chandeliers. Joffrey ballet master Nicolas ...

This weekend in the arts: Bread and Salt pulls out all the stops; Charlene Mosley's "Pollinators" opens at Sparks Gallery; Melinda Lopez's "Mala" takes the stage at The Old Globe; the Joffrey Ballet comes to town and a free, kid-friendly opera in Balboa Park.

On March 5, audience members filed into Zellerbach Hall to watch a company whose reputation is synonymous with excellence. Presented by Cal Performances, the Joffrey Ballet showcased a riveting program that spanned genre, mood and style.

In an interview with The Daily Californian, Jeraldine Mendoza and Dylan Gutierrez, two company artists in The Joffrey Ballet and romantic partners outside of it, exalt the pathos of dance.

The Chronicle’s guide to notable arts and entertainment events includes Joffrey Ballet at Cal Performances, Shotgun Players Passing Strange and more.

With its ideally titled program, “Home: A Celebration,” the Joffrey Ballet finally made its pandemic-delayed debut as the resident dance company at the Lyric Opera House on Wednesday. And it did so by way of a beautifully constructed and exquisitely danced program.

Horsing around Arlington International Racecourse begins what could be its final season with Opening Day on Friday and Kentucky Derby Day on Saturday. See the horses run while you can at 2200 W. Euclid Ave., Arlington Heights. $10-$50. (847) 385-7500 or arlingtonpark.com. 2:25-6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1   Sharks at the drive-in! The McHenry Outdoor Theater reopens for the summer season with a double bill of "Jaws" and "Twister" at 1510 N. Chapel Hill Road, McHenry. Ticke...

Elegy: Snow in June. View here. Friday, April 30 12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s Reverie, and Kreisler’s 1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneide...

Print The La Jolla Music Society’s 2020-21 season will go on at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center but with livestreamed concerts replacing the performances in front of live audiences that were originally scheduled to take place between this month and late June. At least five of those performances, including by 21-year-old cello prodigy Zlatomir Fung and piano star Yefim Bronfman, will be livestreamed — sans audience — from The Conrad’s 513-seat Baker Baum Concert Hall. A few wi...