Agape Dance Academy Presents: Cinderella

Aptos High School Performing Arts Center • June 14-16 • Fri 7 p.m. • Sat & Sun 1 p.m.

Cinderella is a theatrically rich ballet with the amazing and intricate score by Prokofiev. Agape Dancers will bring to life this story of adversity meets a dream come true with exquisite choreography, masterful set and lighting design and stunning costumes. It’s a privilege to be staging full length, professional ballets and making them accessible to our local audiences!

It’s also a wonderful opportunity for the students of Agape Dance Academy to perform and grow as artists and technicians in lead roles of classical ballets before auditioning for professional companies. Masterful director and former professional ballerina, Melanie Useldinger, alongside her professional staff, is directing and choreographing this stunning, beautiful ballet with a contemporary look and feel. Professional lighting design is presented by Indigo Lighting!

This Cinderella Ballet presents a thrilling ballroom scene that will be one of the highlights! As in the past, Agape Dance Academy is committed to including strength and beauty that is added to their ballets by amazing Pas-de-deux, (partnering). The Agape Dance Academy is inviting men who have previously blessed Agape with their performing abilities or have expressed interest to be part of the clever Ballroom Scene. With a contemporary look and feel there will be something for everyone to love in this ballet!

Cinderella is a classic story of an orphaned and neglected young woman who finds love and happiness through her kindness and persistence. As all the Agape dancers, they strive towards kindness and powerful persistence in their commitment to training and performing with a depth of character and spirit that is truly palpable to audiences and the community that is benefitted by this beautiful art form.

Very importantly, Agape Dance supports the local, wonderful charity JACOB’S HEART CHILDREN’S CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES, that continues to bring families in our area together with kindness, provisions and counseling to support loved ones with children battling cancer.

Agape’s mission statement is to ‘Train Up Dancers for Great Purposes!’ With all the intense hours these dancers devote to technical training and rehearsing, we want to make sure they remember to also impact the world around them. Studying at Agape equips these students with the wonderful learned skills of perseverance, dedication, discipline, teamwork, and leadership and more that not only improves their own lives and performance but also can be applied to improve the world around them.

For our very young dancers and young audiences we also present two Petite Cinderella Shows that are brilliant miniature renditions of the great ballet that are created especially for young dancers and young audiences ages 3-7. These shows are shorter in length and designed to be the perfect “My Very First Ballet “ experience. A splendid introduction to ballet at it’s finest for young children! Petite Ballet Classes will perform Saturday, June 15th at 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at Aptos High Performing Arts Center.

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For more info & tickets: AgapeDance.com