Luna Sasaki (Friday) presented a more demure and quiet role, using floating circular port de bras to convey her character’s dreams of love as her romance with the Prince became more and more a reality. Photo by Paul McGrath featuring Artists of Alberta Ballet. Reilley McKinlay is a featured dancer in Alberta Ballet’s Cinderella. Her natural movement signature easily translated waves of her delicate arms into a conveyance of her innermost feelings and her interpretation made for a successful characterization of her character’s rags-to-riches story. Heather Dornian (Thursday), who is rapidly emerging as a fine prima ballerina in multiple styles, made bold use of space, often with sinewy undulations and smoothly fluidic movement throughout all her solos. Article contentīoth Cinderellas offered complete characterizations of the protagonist.
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Both casts presented a Cinderella of fairy-tale felicities, complete with fairies and sprites, stepsisters and slippers, and nary a moment of tension or malice that easily allows family audiences to enjoy the show for all its lighthearted comedy. But the two shows had elements in common. jpgĪnderson and his dancers have stuck fairly close to a traditional, almost Russian (pre-Socialist, non-revisionist) approach to the work, co-creating the characters along the way to make slightly different versions of the tale. Hayna Gutierrez and Alan Ma in Alberta Ballet’s Cinderella. Each cast has its strengths and there are no real weaknesses, other than this is a reduced Cinderella that clocks in under two hours, a far cry from the original choreography by Rostislav Zakharov or the time-honoured classic version by Frederick Ashton. I took in both casts on Thursday and Friday and found at times it seemed two different Cinderellas were running. Not lost on those who live for classical dance was the original charm of Perrault’s fairy tale set to multiple hit tunes composed by Sergei Prokofiev, all danced with competent beauty. As for last week’s shows, partially filled houses returned for the family-oriented entertainment, which was enjoyable enough for public taste.
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