#TBT: Antoinette Sibley in "Cinderella" (1969)

#TBT: Antoinette Sibley in "Cinderella" (1969)

With its fairytale magic and ludicrous stepsisters, Sir Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella is full of whimsy and charm. The choreography is also playfully challenging with quirky, intricate phrasing that illuminates Prokofiev’s score. Antoinette Sibley, a...
Ballet’s Dramatic Entrances

Ballet’s Dramatic Entrances

Whether it’s an oh-so fashionably late arrival to a ball or an endless line of impressively in-sync penchés, ballets know the power of a dramatic entrance. (Appropriate, perhaps, that the word “entrance” has a double meaning, depending on how...
Ballet’s Dramatic Entrances

A Cinderella Story

Larissa Ponomarenko, long a revered principal at Boston Ballet, has been with the company through multiple versions of Cinderella—most recently James Kudelka’s in 2005 and 2008. Now, as ballet master, she’s guiding dancers through Frederick...
Ballet’s Dramatic Entrances

Cinderella's Evil "Stepsisters"

Last night, I saw American Ballet Theatre in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, a ballet that entered the company’s rep just this season. Of course, you’re at the theater to see the magical story of Cinderella and her prince unfold. And what magic it...