The Joffrey/Arpino Celebration

The year 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Gerald Arpino’s passing and the 30th anniversary of Robert Joffrey’s passing. The Foundation is honoring these two renowned innovators in American dance by having organizations nationally and internationally perform their works. Performances scheduled to happen during the 2018-2019 dance season will receive a very significant reduction in the licensing fee.

The Foundation is kicking off the celebration at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS. This year’s competition is honoring Robert Joffrey, the IBC’s first jury chair, and USAIBC has invited the foundation to participate in lectures, panel discussions, and master classes pertaining to Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino. The Joffrey Ballet will also be participating in the festivities and will be performing Arpino’s ‘Round of Angels‘.  USAIBC

We hope your organization will take this opportunity to be a part of this important celebration. Please consider honoring the legacies of these two men by licensing one of their many works from the Foundation.

To view some of the many ballets of Arpino and Joffrey, please click here.  Video excerpts can also be found on YouTube and Vimeo.  Please refer to the top right corner and click icons for access. For more information or if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us: info@arpinofoundation.org

Participating companies include:

Joffrey Ballet

Ballet West

Ballets de San Juan

Butler Ballet

Brigham Young University Ballet

American Repertory Ballet

Chicago Academy of the Arts

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Dayton Ballet

Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami

Oklahoma City Ballet

Franklin School for the Performing Arts

City Ballet of Boston

Fort Wayne Ballet

Eugene Ballet

Eglevsky Ballet

Joffrey Texas Workshop

Marymount Manhattan College

Nevada Ballet Theatre

New Albany Ballet

New Zealand School of Dance

NY Dance Project

St Louis Ballet

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati

Walnut Hill School for the Arts

Wayne State University

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Light Rain by Three Companies

photo credit: Nevada Ballet Theatre dancers in rehearsal

photo credit: St. Louis Ballet dancers in rehearsal

Gerald Arpino’s Light Rain will be performed simultaneously the weekend of Feb 16-17, 2019 with three different dance companies.  St. Louis Ballet and Nevada Ballet Theatre will present the iconic pas de deux in their mixed repertory program.  Butler Ballet/Butler University will present the ballet in its entirety utilizing a cast of fourteen dancers.  Gerald Arpino created this ballet to showcase the new young dancers of the company. “It is my gift to these talented youngsters…I am inspired by their modes and rituals, their passions.”  Middle Eastern rhythms fused together with an unusual combination of banjo, violin, mandolin, bass, drums and bamboo flute give Light Rain its distinctive mesmerizing and hypnotic sound.

Trinity revival at Dayton Ballet

photo credit: Charthel Arthur Estner, repetiteur for the Gerald Arpino Foundation rehearses Dayton Ballet dancers as Dermot Burke, former Artistic Director/former Joffrey Ballet dancer looks on.

photo credit: Dayton Ballet dancers in Trinity

Gerald Arpino’s Trinity makes its revival with Dayton Ballet’s Perspective program on Feb 14-17, 2019.  Considered culturally ahead of its time, Trinity is a ballet choreographed by the late Gerald Arpino, co-founder and former artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet. While the Vietnam War was raging, America’s youth united in protests and celebrations with a new sense of freedom and exhilaration. The word “trinity” in this work represents three sentiments prevalent in the culture of the late ’60’s and early ’70’s: love, power, and peace. Trinity became the most famous of the Arpino pieces called the Berkeley ballets. Created during the Joffrey’s residence at the University of California at Berkeley, Trinity is a joyful tribute to youth, their passions and rituals.