

“I’m not just wearing a cape and running around the stage. “It’s different working with a costume piece like that,” Goforth said. Goforth moves with intensity and restraint, instantly transforming his velvet cape into an immense pair of wings before soaring across the stage.

With a score by Franz Liszt, the curtain rises to Dracula looming over the audience. “It’s balancing his nobility with who he is with his brides and the side of him that’s a vampire. “It’s intense,” Goforth said before an afternoon rehearsal last week. Set to eerie music and amid rich, immersive sets and costumes, the haunting world of Dracula takes on new life in Nevada Ballet Theatre’s first production of the iconic tale.įor company artist Steven Goforth, portraying the vampire is a welcome challenge. Cannon Las Vegas Review-Journal in time for Halloween, Nevada Ballet Theatre is reviving Dracula.īram Stoker’s vampire will saunter out of the shadows and into The Smith Center’s spotlight for four nights preceding Halloween. More information about the season will be available at Goforth rehearses Dracula at Nevada Ballet Theater studio in Summerlin Thursday, Oct.

Ballet West will then take the program to the Kennedy Center, to run June 18-22, 2024.

Two international guest companies, yet to be announced, will also take part. The festival is focusing on Asian choreographers this year, and will feature world premiere works, commissioned by Sklute, by Caili Quan and Zhongjing Fang.
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The Family Classics Series will return with “Beauty and the Beast,” performed by Ballet West II and members of the Ballet West Academy, March 29-30, 2024.The production is conceived and produced by Adam Sklute, Ballet West’s artistic director, after original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, with additional choreography by Pamela Robinson-Harris, Ballet West’s principal rehearsal director, and the late Mark Goldweber. Another ballet classic, “Swan Lake,” will be performed Feb.Before the Capitol Theatre run, Ballet West will take “The Nutcracker” to Washington’s Kennedy Center, Nov. C.” to those within Ballet West - first choreographed nearly 80 years ago, will make its annual holiday run, Dec. The Christmas tradition “The Nutcracker,” which Christensen - “Mr.3-11, the troupe will perform “Firebird,” a triple-bill of works honoring Christensen’s “scope and vision.” They include: Christensen’s revival of “The Firebird,” set to Igor Stravinsky’s iconic score the world premiere of “Fever Dream,” with choreography and music by Joshua Whitehead, a Ballet West demi-soloist and George Balanchine’s ensemble work “Stars & Stripes,” a patriotic work set to John Philip Sousa’s music.
