John Cranko resident choreographer for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's 1950–51 season. For the company's Festival of Britain season in 1951 Cranko choreographed the comic ballet "Pineapple Poll", to the music of Arthur Sullivan (newly out of copyright) arranged by the conductor Charles Mackerras. Another collaboration with Mackerras followed in 1954 with "The Lady and the Fool", to music by Verdi. In January 1954 Sadler's Wells Ballet announced that Cranko was collaborating with Benjamin Britten to create a ballet. Cranko devised a draft scenario for a work he originally called "The Green Serpent", fusing elements drawn from "King Lear", "Beauty and the Beast"
Joffrey Ballet as chief choreographer. Arpino's 1970 rock ballet "Trinity" was well received; Joffrey revived Kurt Jooss's "The Green Table" in 1967, followed by revivals of Ashton's "Façade", Cranko's "Pineapple Poll", Fokine's "Petrushka" (with Rudolf Nureyev), Nijinsky's "Afternoon of a Faun", also with Nureyev, and Massine's "Le Tricorne", "Le Beau Danube" and "Parade". In 1973 Joffrey asked Twyla Tharp to create her first commissioned ballet, "Deuce Coupe". The company continued as City Center Joffrey Ballet until 1977. From 1977, it performed as the Joffrey Ballet, with a second home established in Los Angeles from (1982-1992). In 1995, the company left New York