South Suburban Ballet 5:8 Looks to Heaven and Earth for Inspiration→

Every so often, Ballet 5:8 ventures into Chicago, sharing what might be the suburbs’ best kept dance secret. But it won’t be long until Ballet 5:8 is a secret to no one. The seven-year-old, faith-based professional ballet company is a decidedly robust operation serving dance fans and students across the south suburbs of Frankfort, Palos Heights and Beverly, and in Valparaiso, IN. 

In a two-act performance at the Athenaeum Theatre Oct. 20-21, the company looked to heaven and earth for inspiration, reviving artistic director Julianna Rubio-Slager’s “Four Seasons of the Soul” for the evening’s first half and premiering new work called “The Space in Between” in the second.