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Ballet 5:8 3/9/22 Ballet 5:8 3/9/22

Telling Truthful Stories: Ballet 5:8 Turns Ten

Ballet 5:8 celebrates it’s 10th Anniversary Season!

Ballet 5:8 11/1/21 Ballet 5:8 11/1/21

Upcoming ballet production to highlight sex trafficking issue in San Antonio

Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 is coming to San Antonio

Ballet 5:8 10/19/21 Ballet 5:8 10/19/21

Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 Is Coming to Houston

Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 is coming to Houston

Ballet 5:8 10/19/21 Ballet 5:8 10/19/21

Ballet 5:8 Presents Bold New Ballet On Human Trafficking At Irving Arts Center

Ballet 5:8 Presents a Bold New Ballet on Human Trafficking at Irving Arts Center

Ballet 5:8 10/13/21 Ballet 5:8 10/13/21

Ballet 5:8 Celebrates Their 10th Anniversary Season With Support From Illinois Arts Council Agency

Ballet 5:8’s tenth performance season is an exciting step back into normalcy as theaters across the country reopen and invite audiences to enjoy live art again. For the past ten years, Ballet 5:8 has created over 45 original works with a mission to engage communities in stories of life and faith through dance. For the fifth year in a row, an Illinois Arts Council Agency grant is helping the company continue their mission.

Amy Kozol Sanderson 3/18/21 Amy Kozol Sanderson 3/18/21

Ballet 5:8 Returns to the Stage with a Breathtaking Ballet and a Bold Story

Over the past week I've had two opportunities to see Ballet 5:8 perform Reckless, Julianna Rubio Slager’s newest full length work for Ballet 5:8. Last Saturday, I was privy to an up-close preview of the work at Ballet 5:8 studios; this Saturday, I saw it in its fullest form at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago…

Ballet 5:8 3/17/21 Ballet 5:8 3/17/21

A Review of Ballet 5:8’s Reckless

Walking toward the Studebaker Theater for Ballet 5:8’s premiere of Reckless, you couldn’t escape the gravity of this moment. The marquis of the Auditorium Theatre reads the sad statement of our times, #OneYearDark. One year of careers on pause, one year stepping back from performance art to focus on survival. But on this day, as the first signs of spring peer out through the dirt, you could also experience the first signs of the return of the arts.

Ballet 5:8 2/10/21 Ballet 5:8 2/10/21

Ballet 5:8 Addresses Modern Day Slavery in World Premiere

As many theaters around the nation remain dark, Ballet 5:8 sheds light on a different kind of darkness: the reality of modern day slavery. Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Rubio Slager’s newest full length ballet Reckless premieres at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago on Saturday, March 13.

Ballet 5:8 9/25/20 Ballet 5:8 9/25/20

Ballet 5:8 Presses Forward Locally and Nationally with the Help of Illinois Arts Council Agency Grant

Ballet 5:8’s Ninth performance season is not looking anything like the company had originally planned 10 months ago, but an Illinois Arts Council Agency grant is helping the company press forward, even into uncharted territory.

Ballet 5:8 3/31/20 Ballet 5:8 3/31/20

Ballet 5:8 School of the Arts Bringing Hope to Households Through Dance

March 31, ORLAND PARK - “Shelter-in-place” has turned life upside down across the South Suburbs, but Ballet 5:8 is providing an incredible online program that gives students a bit of normal in the midst of the chaos. Nonprofit Ballet 5:8 School of the Arts provides dance education for over 400 students in the Chicago south suburbs and northwest Indiana, and the studio has become a second home to many of them. So when in-person classes were postponed due to COVID-19, the staff at Ballet 5:8 made an ambitious change -- they would transform their organization to meet the changing needs of their students.