Joffrey Ballet turns on the charm in superbly danced 'Princess and the Pea'

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Joffrey Ballet turns on the charm in superbly danced 'Princess and the Pea'

Mixed-repertoire programs typically give viewers a chance to focus more on dance for dance’s sake and to take a break from pervasive evening-length story ballets, and that was mostly true in the Joffrey Ballet’s “Golden Hour,” which opened Thursday and runs through March 2 at the Lyric Opera House.Narrative still suffused this program albeit in subtle, implicit ways in three of the selections. It was only front-and-center in the evening’s culmin…