LEXINGTON, Ky. ( ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – The Central Kentucky Dance Theatre is preparing for another ballet next weekend for it’s spring gala. This year they will be performing an original rendition of ...

The ballet’s score by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev has been praised for its variety and nuance, magisterial scenes contrasting with playful, antic and dark passages. Stevenson premiered the ...

Ballet West performed Sir Frederick Ashton's version of "Cinderella" in 2013 and 2018 ... with specific shades chosen to match the characters' personalities," Quick said. For "one of the largest ...

For BalletWest’s next performance, the tale of Cinderella will be told again, recreating the version Ashton premiered in 1948 at the Royal Opera House in London. Now, 77 years later, the same ballet ...

As soon as the orchestra strikes up in Cinderella, you hear grief, not glitter. Prokofiev composed this score during the Second World War, and Frederick Ashton created his ballet soon afterwards ...

Out of old tales, we must make new lives,” the great literary scholar Carolyn Heilbrun once wrote. For London audiences still ...