University of Connecticut
Jorgensen
Center for the Performing Arts
2132 Hillside Road Unit 3104
Storrs, CT 06269-3104
www.jorgensen.uconn.edu
RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE BRINGS
“CINDERELLA” TO LIFE ON JORGENSEN STAGE
Thurs, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:30 pm
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Dance Event
Cinderella – Russian National
Ballet Theatre
Date
Thurs, Mar 26, 7:30 pm
Place
Jorgensen Center
for the Performing Arts
2132 Hillside Road
UConn campus, Storrs, CT
Tickets
$37, $34, $32
Box Office
860.486.4226
Mon–Fri, 10 am–5 pm
The Box Office window is also
open for walk-up ticket sales
90 minutes before showtime.
For Immediate Release
MEDIA CONTACT:
Anja Majcen
Senior Publicist
The PR Group
727-447-4992 x202
[email protected]
The Russian National Ballet Theatre brings the world’s most beloved romantic fairy tale to
life with their highly-anticipated performance of Cinderella at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for
the Performing Arts on Thursday, March 26th. Under the artistic direction of the company’s
legendary founder, Elena Radchenko, the enchanting full-length ballet in two parts promises
to entertain and delight audiences of all ages with its company of 50 world-class dancers,
luminous costumes, dazzling sets, and composer Sergei Prokofiev’s timeless, magical score.
The performance begins at 7:30 pm.
Based on the fairy tale written by the great French storyteller Charles Perrault (1628 –1703),
(who also authored Sleeping Beauty and Puss and Boots), Cinderella is the endearing story
of a young girl with a tender heart who, despite being treated cruelly by her overbearing
stepmother and comically vain stepsisters, finds good fortune and happiness through her
acts of kindness. With some timely help from a Fairy Godmother who is able to magically
transform a pumpkin into a golden carriage, rags into an elegant gown, and sandals into
sparkling glass slippers, the tale shows that acting unselfishly with a clean heart is the best
guarantee for finding true love and living happily-ever-after with the prince (or princess) of
your dreams.
The charm of the Cinderella story so moved the legendary Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev
(1891–1953) that he wrote a timeless score to accompany it. The music he created was as
exquisitely beautiful, delicate, and full of life as Cinderella herself. The Russian Ballet Theatre’s
production of Cinderella also incorporates the highly expressive choreography of Rostislav
Zakharov (1907–1975), one of the most active and influential figures of Russian ballet while
the Soviet Union was in power. He choreographed Cinderella in 1945 while working with the
Bolshoi.
The Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded in Moscow during the transitional period
of Perestroika in the late 1980s, when many of the great dancers and choreographers of the
Soviet Union’s ballet institutions were exercising their new-found creative freedom by starting
new, vibrant companies dedicated not only to the timeless tradition of classical Russian Ballet
but to invigorate this tradition as the Russians began to accept new developments in dance
from around the world.
The company, then titled the Soviet National Ballet, was founded by and incorporated
graduates from the great Russian choreographic schools of Moscow, St. Petersburg and
Perm. The principal dancers of the company came from the upper ranks of the great ballet
companies and academies of Russia, and the companies of Riga, Kiev and even Warsaw.
Today, the Russian National Ballet Theatre is its own institution, with over 50 dancers of
singular instruction and vast experience, many of whom have been with the company since its
inception.
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CINDERELLA, continued
Dance Event
Cinderella – Russian National
Ballet Theatre
In 1994, the legendary Bolshoi principal dancer Elena Radchenko was selected by
Presidential decree to assume the first permanent artistic directorship of the company. Ms.
Radchenko is the founder of the Russian National Ballet Theatre, and she has focused the
company on upholding the grand national tradition of the major Russian ballet works and
developing new talents throughout Russia, with a repertory of virtually all of the great full
works of Petipa: Don Quixote, La Bayadere, The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Raymonda,
Paquita, Coppelia and La Sylphide, as well as productions of, among others, The Nutcracker,
Sylvia, and La Fille Mal Gardee.
Date
Thurs, Mar 26, 7:30 pm
Place
Jorgensen Center
for the Performing Arts
2132 Hillside Road
UConn campus, Storrs, CT
Tickets
$37, $34, $32
Box Office
860.486.4226
Mon–Fri, 10 am–5 pm
The Box Office window is also
open for walk-up ticket sales
90 minutes before showtime.
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts is located at 2132 Hillside Road on the UConn
campus in Storrs. Floor seating is $37, seats in the mezzanine are $34, and upper and
lower balconies are $32.
For tickets and information, call the Box Office at 860.486.4226, Monday through Friday,
10 am - 5 pm, and 90 minutes prior to events, or order online at jorgensen.uconn.edu.
Convenient free parking is included across the street in the North Garage.
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