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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Kyle MacMillan - For the Sun-Times

Joffrey Ballet tells ‘Frankenstein’ story with menace and beauty

Jonathan Dole dances as the Creature in the Joffrey Ballet’s Chicago premiere of “Frankenstein.” (© Cheryl Mann Photography)

Ethereal, elegant and uplifting. We know ballet can be all of those things. 

In his unexpected and perhaps unlikely adaptation of Mary Shelley’s famous 1818 novel “Frankenstein,” choreographer Liam Scarlett showed it could be so much more — dark, menacing, even shocking, yet still beautiful and alluring.

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