When the groups first met, the players had to weather some culture shock.
Christopher Wheeldon’s Swan Lake first opened in 2004 as a special commission for the Pennsylvania Ballet. At the Joffrey this fall, it receives its third treatment. Though the English choreographer’s version isn’t his most acclaimed full-length ballet—that would be this year’s The Winter’s Tale, Wheeldon’s dance adaptation of Shakespeare’s play—his spin on the Tchaikovsky perennial is interesting.
Trade Winds/Aires de Cambio (“Air of Change”)
Thu 10/9-Sat 10/11, 8 PM, Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan, 312-369-6600, colum.edu/dance_center, $30.
