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Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
Presented by the Redlands Community Music Association, Inc.
State Street Ballet presents “Cinderella”
The Symphony, the Broadway musical, the opera, and now the ballet. The Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival continues its 82nd season, “A Tribute to the Greats,” as it presents Santa Barbara’s State Street Ballet performing the full length ballet of the classic fairy tale “Cinderella” on Friday, August 19.
Choreographed by State Street Ballet founder and Artistic Director Rodney Gustafson, the classical ballet “Cinderella” will be performed by 18 dancers to a recorded rendition of Prokofiev’s 1945 music which features his gifts of memorable melodies and strong rhythms.
Gustafson carries impressive credentials. A former dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, Gustafson can legitimately drop the biggest names in ballet: Baryshnikov, Ailey, Balanchine, Nureyev, Robbins, and Tudor. He also appeared in the films “The Turning Point” and Baryshnikov’s “Nutcracker,” and performed in several “Live from Lincoln Center” productions.
In 1994, Gustafson came to Santa Barbara to found the State Street Ballet to present excellent new works alongside the classics. Since then, the small company has rated the acclaim and high praise of critics, and toured the United States, China, and Taiwan with a repertoire of five different productions, ranging from the classical “Cinderella” to the charged and original production of “Carmen,” choreographed by William Soleau, and the foot-stomping “Tango and Malambo.”
Dancers Jennifer Batbouta from the Boston Ballet School, Taiwan’s Yuan-Ming Chang from the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, Russian Sergei Domrachev from the Perm Ballet Academy, and Autumn Eckman of the Houston Ballet Academy are among the company’s young and talented principal dancers.
The program begins at 8:15 p.m. Like all Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival performances, this event is free of charge, and a free-will offering will be collected at intermission.
The ushers will be representatives of the Kimberly-Shirk Association, Kimberly Crest Docent Auxiliary, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Redlands 2nd Ward. The intermission speaker will be Wayne Scott, founder and president of LifeHouse Theater.
The Redlands Bowl is located on Eureka Street just south of Brookside Avenue in Redlands. For information and directions, call (909) 793-7316 or visit the Web site at www.redlandsbowl.org.
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