Article: Ballet Chicago to make debut // Resident company may be next step after benefit show

Ballet returns to the Civic Opera House on Saturday with the premiere performance of Ballet Chicago, complete with full orchestra and guest artists from the San Francisco, Houston and Pacific Northwest ballets as well as the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.

If the dreams of Ballet Chicago's small executive committee and its artistic director Daniel Duell come true, it also will mark the return of resident ballet to Chicago.

Many might give a cynical sigh at that last idea. How many times in recent memory have various groups tried to establish a resident ballet troupe here? How many ways have they managed to fail - through inept management, petty bickering, tired repertory and clashes of ...

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