The Jazzy Sleeping Beauty
Fri. September 14, 8:00 PM
Sat. September 15, 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Jarson-Kaplan Theatre
Aronoff Center for the Arts

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A fresh, brand new view into Tchaikovsky's traditional classical Sleeping Beauty, this production will entertain audience members with the traditional story, classical choreography and Tchaikovsky music, with an exciting new jazzy twist.

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ballet tech cincinnati will present the World Premier of The Jazzy Sleeping Beauty to open the company’s Seventh Season Series at the Aronoff Center at 8PM on September 14-15, 2007 and 2PM on September 15, 2007. A fresh, brand new view into Tchaikovsky’s traditional classical Sleeping Beauty, with live accompaniment by three-time Cappie Award-winning Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy Electric Jazz and Student Orchestra under the direction of Conductor Dan Grantham, this production will entertain audience members with the traditional story, classical choreography and Tchaikovsky music, with an exciting new jazzy twist.

ballet tech cincinnati commissioned choreographer Waverly Lucas II, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Atlanta’s Ballethnic Dance Company, to spice up the ballet with jazzy contemporary choreography and composer Mark Lucas to re-score new jazzy arrangements of the traditional Tchaikovsky music in sections of the ballet. Traditional ballet audiences and dance neophytes alike will love the old, and thrill to the nuances of the new music and choreography of this innovative production of The Jazzy Sleeping Beauty.

Featuring a diverse cast of dancers of all ages, The Jazzy Sleeping Beauty will showcase very talented and polished young pre-professional dancers, adults and professional dancers performing various styles of dance from classical ballet to contemporary, modern and jazz. This landmark production will be the first presentation with a Black Sleeping Beauty, ballet tech cincinnati’s Epiphany Davis, and Black Princes, professional dancers from Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and Ballethnic Dance Company. The original Tchaikovsky score will be augmented by percussion and stylized jazz embellishments in certain parts of the ballet to update the presentation and make the ballet more relevant to today’s changing demographic: younger, more diverse in every aspect-ethnically, racially, and geographically. “While the core of the story is universal, how it’s told is not and we felt that making the story relevant to a larger, ethnically diverse community was important.” - Nena Gilreath, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Ballethnic Dance Company.