Joffrey’s 'Winning Works' looks for the silver lining in a pandemic cloud
Mar 22, 2021 | By Lynn Colburn ShapiroOne year ago, no one at the Joffrey Ballet saw a silver lining in the cloud that COVID-19 cast over its 10th anniversary season of “Winning Works” choreographic competition which was set to open at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art mid-March of 2020: not the four young choreographers of color who had been chosen from among dozens of applicants to receive a prestigious showcase for their work; not the Joffrey’s Trainee and Studio Company dancers, who had been rehearsing exciting new works for the highly-publicized public performances; not the Joffrey administration.