CYB PRESENTS “ONCE UPON A TIME”
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
City Youth Ballet presents “Once Upon a Time”
Your favorite children’s stories told in ballet
Seeger Chapel, Milligan College campus
Saturday, March 29 at 2 p.m.
$5 general admission; tickets at the door
For more information call (423) 483-1181
A children’s luncheon to meet the characters and hear them read their stories is set for noon on March 29. Reservations are required by calling 952-0000. Admission is $15, which includes the admission ticket to the performance. A school performance will be held March 28.
Goldilocks, Little Red Riding Hood, the Ugly Duckling, and even the Three Little Pigs come to stage Saturday, March 29 at 2 p.m. when the City Youth Ballet of Johnson City presents its spring performance, “Once Upon a Time.”
Twelve children’s stories will be told in classical ballet. The $5 general-admission tickets are available at the door at Seeger Chapel on the Milligan College campus.
“We have created a ballet for our youngest audiences and those young at heart,” says Susan Pace-White, the CYB artistic director. “We will bring to life these favorite children’s stories and also show the beauty of ballet as we tell them.”
A storyteller will give a synopsis of each story before it is interpreted in ballet. Among the stories to be told are: Little Red Riding Hood, the Dancing Princesses, Puss in Boots, the Steadfast Tin Soldier, Lion and Mouse, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Hen, the Three Little Pigs, and others. The cast includes the junior and senior companies of the City Youth Ballet plus male dancers from the community.
A gigantic story book will set the stage along with colorful costumes and classical music. Choreography was done by Ms. Pace-White, Traci Honeycutt, CYB’s assistant director, and some of the senior members of CYB.