The household favourite ballet, Cinderella, executed solely as A&A Ballet can, returns to the Chicago stage for the primary time in six years, on Might 18. This distinctive efficiency and tackle the fairy story is colourful, brilliant and enjoyable, and options Asian American Tatiana Chen (Naperville) as Cinderella, and welcomes A&A Ballet and Joffrey Ballet veteran Amber Neumann again as Stepmother. The pair are supported by a various, worldwide solid.
The Cinderella we all know and love may be traced to the French story Cendrillon, first revealed in 1697 by Charles Perrault, though Chinese language and Greek variations of this basic story return to the ninth century CE and sixth century BCE, respectively.
The story revolves round a ravishing younger woman who’s mistreated by her merciless stepmother and jealous stepsisters who nickname her Cinderella. With the help of animal pals and the enchantments of a fairy godmother, Cinderella is ready to attend a royal ball, the place she has till the ultimate stroke of midnight to win the center of Prince Charming.
On this fantastical rendition choreographed by Alexei Kremnev, A&A Ballet provides audiences a contemporary tackle the basic story with vibrant costumes and characters and dynamic choreography. A&A Ballet carried out Cinderella at Competition Worldwide Bravissimo going down in Guatemala Metropolis on the Auditorium Juan Bautista Gutiérrez theater.
Picture courtesy of A&A Ballet.
Carried out in Chicago in 2012, by The Joffrey Academy, Kremnev’s fascinating Cinderella offered out to an exhilarated crowd. Kremnev, a Bolshoi skilled dancer and former Founding Inventive Director of The Joffrey Academy and The Joffrey Studio Firm, defines his choreography as “joyful and accessible” and provides that it’s “a distinction to the darkish seriousness that pervades a lot of right now’s ballet.”
Tatiana Chen (Cinderella), 16, of Naperville, was born within the U.S., however her father is from Fujian, China. She was the primary Asian American to carry out the position of Sugar Plum Fairy within the Artwork Deco Nutcracker in 2023.
Jasper Keck, (Prince), 19, of Niles, MI, and 2024 Youth America Grand Prix NY Finalist will dance the position of Prince in Cinderella.
Amber Neumann (Stepmother), 33, a Niles, MI native and now Chicago resident, was a long-time scholar of A&A founders Alexei Kremnev and Anna Reznik, and the primary ever scholar of Joffrey Academy who grew to become an expert dancer with the Joffrey Ballet. Neumann danced as Cinderella within the unique efficiency in 2007. She returns for the 2024 efficiency as Stepmother in A&A Ballet’s fashionable rendition. She was a number one artist with the Joffrey between 2010-2016, and later labored in Germany as a dancer and a ballet mistress.
Supporting solid members hail from all over the world. A number of dancers are of varied nationalities from Guatemala, Mexico, Belarus, Switzerland, Japan, China and Canada.
