“Then there is a tap sequence with trumpets and horns and drums.”īallet choreography is by Neely while other new choreography is by instructors Price, Gabi Bryant, Julie Fox, Robyn Fox, Melodie Taylor-Mauldin, Jen Simpson, Leah Taylor, Kassidy Thompson and Anne Winton. “We have a Philip Glass piece for this with lovely atmospheric music that lends to the roses blooming, vines withering, and the gates opening to reveal Sleeping Beauty,” Neely said. Photo credit: Aubrey Stephens and Manon Gaudreau / Footlight Dance CentreĪt that point, when the prince discovers Aurora, he must break through thorns and vines covering the castle in order to wake her up.
Standing, left to right, are Bryn Downey, Emelia Morgan, Chloe Henderson and Sophia Schoen. In the front row, sitting, left to right, are Sam White, Laine Whittier, Abbie Heaphy, Isabella Cronin and Britta Heaphy. The Advanced Jazz class will be featured in “Endearment,” with Shea Slanetz jumping in the back. To show that passage of time, the scenes will go from a swing dance and a 1960s’ jazz piece to 1990s’ early hip-hop, and ending with pop music from the early 2000s. While Princess Aurora sleeps, 100 years goes by. Though a ballet, Footlight’s instructors created new pieces for this version of “Sleeping Beauty” to showcase an integrated performance of modern, jazz, tap and hip-hop. “It’s one of the grand ballet classics, a culmination of the entire story. “He’s returning to dance the pas de deux with Bryn,” Neely said. In this production, the prince will be played by Lem Reagan, an alumni of Footlight and now a theatre dance student at Boise State University. She can only be awakened by a handsome prince. The classic fairy tale concerns a princess who is cursed to sleep for 100 years by an evil fairy. Its first performance was at the Mariinsky Theatre, in St. No other work has so rich an idea of what ballet theater can be.”īased on the Grimm Brothers’ version of Charles Perrault’s 18th-century tale “The Sleeping Beauty,” Tchaikovsky wrote his second balled in a whirl of intensity. The New York Times wrote in 2016, “No other dance classic has a score so endlessly fragrant and varied. It’s very ambitious to do with young kids, exciting to see them step up and get there.” I needed strong leads, and the five or six grades beneath that. I’ve been waiting for the right time to bring it back. “It’s a difficult ballet, with integrated dances for the seniors. “The dances are so beautiful,” Neely said. “Sleeping Beauty” is considered one of the most treasured of the 19th-century ballets. She joined Footlight when she was about 8 years old. Bryn Downey, a graduating Wood River High School senior, will play Aurora in this production. Sunday, May 12, at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater at the Community Campus, in Hailey.įootlight Dance Centre also presented Sleeping Beauty in 2004, with the lead part of Aurora danced by Christina Arpp Price, now part of Footlight’s ballet faculty. Under the artistic direction of Hilarie Neely, “Sleeping Beauty” will be presented with 190 student dancers, at 7 p.m., Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, with a third show at 2 p.m. ‘Sleeping Beauty’ will be revived by Footlight Dance Centreīy Dana DuGan Bryn Downey, a senior at Wood River High School, will play Princess Aurora in Footlight Dance Centre’s “Sleeping Beauty.” Photo credit: Aubrey Stephens and Manon Gaudreau / Footlight Dance Centreįor 36 years, Footlight Dance Centre has brought dance to the youth of the Wood River Valley, culminating in one massive spectacular production every spring.
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