SUMMARY:
The story of Cinderella is timeless, appearing in one form or another in the literature of almost every culture throughout history, from the Grimm Brothers to Charles Perrault, to the Arabian Nights, and even within the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, which was notably expounded on by C. S. Lewis in his book Till We Have Faces. It is this retelling, with its two major themes of “goodness attracts goodness” and “love cannot exist without trust” that inspired the choreography for this project.

Excerpts from Cinderella include Cinderella’s Lament and a variation for Cinderella from Act I. Also, the Mazurka, the Jesters’ Dance and the Spanish Dance [Passepied].