Imagine this: twinkling holiday lights, the sound of a magical score filling the air and the feeling of stepping into a world where anything is possible. In this enchanting world, Clara, a young girl with a heart full of wonder, is whisked away on a moonlit adventure. She travels through forests of sparkling snowflakes, meets waltzing flowers and battles mischievous mice in a land of pure imagination.
George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins get top billing this weekend with the debut of Balanchine & Robbins by the Nevada Ballet Theater at The Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas. This weekend’s three-in-one ballet is a special curated experience by Artistic Director Roy Kaiser.
On Friday, Carmina Burana!—a massive production with over 120 operatic singers, dancers, and musicians, will make its official debut. The Las Vegas Master Singers are sending over 59 choristers who will remain on stage for the entire production. There will be a live orchestra featuring members of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, conducted by Donato Cabrera, and the company’s 18 dancers will be joined by three veteran vocal soloists flying in from Salt Lake City.
Ballet120’s 2021 dynamic season finale was a show-stopper all night long with its beautiful choreography. Expressions of the Stage debuted an assortment of 20 pieces to mesmerize the audience assembled in the Horn Theatre on September 4th.
Ballet120 pirouetted onto the Las Vegas arts scene in the fall of 2018, just a year before the pandemic whacked the world. Small but artistically mighty, the company is putting its fresh spin on classical dance.
Like so many cultural groups across the country, Nevada Ballet Theatre saw its new season upended and suspended overnight by an invisible, lethal virus.
