Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
Cinderella: State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara
"You're never too old to be young again." State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara returns to the Redlands Bowl for an original production in two acts of the classic story Cinderella.
TRANSCRIPT
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Festival at the Redlands Bowl is made possible by
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Rodney: I actually performed with American Ballet Theatre,
the company I worked with, in Santa Barbara one year.
And, thought it was such a beautiful community that after
my own dance career, I ended up starting my company
in Santa Barbara, California. It had a wonderful blend
of people who loved the arts, and the community
has some wealth and, really, appreciation. And
in 1995 I founded the company. Since then, it's been really-
I've been so privileged to have this company exist
for over 20 years now. We just came back from a tour,
a wonderful tour of Chile. A year and a half ago,
we were in China for two and a half months all over.
And, we toured quite extensively throughout the United States
as well. So, a lot of people don't realize. And, we've been-
one of myvery favorite, if not my favorite place to perform
is the Redlands Bowl! It's a venue where we can expose
so many people to the arts without them having to
pay a nickel to get in. So, it's just a wonderful venue.
And, we do a lot of story things. We do contemporary work.
We do classical. But, all the story things we do are
of our own creation. We don't go out and buy other people's.
We have choreographers that I work with, hand in hand.
So that's kind of the history of the company, and
we perform a lot and love being based in Santa Barbara.
I've got dancers from about seven other countries
represented within my company.
Deise: I started dancing because it's a very funny history.
I'm from Brazil, and I started- I was playing in the street.
I was playing soccer. Every young person
plays soccer in the street! And then,
you know? You play soccer, you use your foot. Right?
So, I was- the balls go all the wayhere. So, I put my leg
all the way uphere and my first teacher saw me,
and said 'how long have you done ballet?' I said
'ballet? What's ballet? I never heard of it before.'
And so, he invited me to his school.
So, that's how I started doing ballet!
Rodney: Well, the story of Cinderella is a classic,
as we all know in Cinderella. But, what I did is I made
the stepsisters amajor part of my production.
Of course, Cinderella and the prince is a beautiful
balletic part, and the fairies and everything.
But, I really focused a lot on the sisters,
and my sisters are two men! And then, the stepmother is
very wicked and mean, and the interaction between the
two stepsisters, the mother, and Cinderella
is just a wonderful blend that we find our
audiences have really been receptive to it.
It's almost slapstick! The humor is just really kind of
knock-down, drag-out funny! And, I just-
tome, it's- humor is the way
we bring people to us, a lot!
And then, we show them the beautiful dance and as the
ballet moves on, we give the beauty of thepas de deux
with the prince and Cinderella.
And, the touching parts of love and all that.
So, yeah. But, that's kind of the way my version
is a little bit different, and I focus
a lot on those characterizations.
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[audience applauds]
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♪ VO:This program from the Annual Summer Music Festival
at the Redlands Bowl is made possible by
support from these Inland Empire civic-minded
organizations concerned with the cultural
life of our communities.
♪
VO:The citizens of the Inland Empire that
patronize the Bowl and viewers like you
supporting local public television
in the Inland Empire. Thank you!
♪ VO:Support for the Redlands Bowl on KVCR
comes from BMW of Riverside.
There's no place like it.
Featuring new and pre-owned BMW models
in our showroom and online, all the time, at
bmwofriverside.com