Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Ben Stevenson O.B.E.
Répétiteur: Dawn Scannell
Set and Costume Design: Jose Varona
Additional Costume Design*: Peter Cazalet
Lighting Design: Peter Jakubowski
Scenery and Costumes Courtesy of Milwaukee Ballet Company
*Costumes Courtesy of BALLET WEST Adam Sklute, Artistic Director
NBT’s pre-performance INSIGHTS is sponsored by C.A. Hartnell
Cygnets sponsored by Michael Brown
Turn off all cell phones. The use of any photographic or recording equipment in this theater is strictly forbidden. Please refrain from opening candy wrappers or eating during the performance.
See insert for casting. Program subject to change.
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SYNOPSIS
ACT I
THE LAKESIDE
Princess Odette is gathering flowers by the lake one day when the sorcerer Von Rothbart appears and transforms her into a swan.
THE COURTYARD AND CASTLE
Festivities are underway to celebrate the coming of age of Prince Siegfried. His mother, the Queen, enters and drinks a toast to her son, reminding him that he will soon be King. The Prince is dismayed by the thought of the responsibilities being forced upon him. The Queen presents him with the gift of a crossbow which excites him greatly. As he is left alone to contemplate his future, he suddenly sees white swans soaring overhead, and taking his crossbow, the Prince follows them into the night.
THE LAKESIDE BY MOONLIGHT
Discovering the swans by a lake, the Prince watches with amazement as one swan approaches and is transformed into a beautiful maiden. The maiden tells him that she is Princess Odette, and the spell cast upon her by Von Rothbart can only be broken by someone who swears his love for her.
Von Rothbart suddenly appears, and Siegfried attempts to shoot the sorcerer. Odette explains that if he succeeds, the sorcerer's spell can never be broken. Siegfried swears his vow of eternal love to Odette. She warns him that if he breaks his vow, she is doomed to remain a swan forever. At dawn, Odette returns to the lake and becomes a swan again.
ACT II
THE BALLROOM OF THE CASTLE
As the Prince dances with princesses
Ben Stevenson, O.B.E. Choreographer
Ben Stevenson served as Artistic Director of Houston Ballet from 1976-2003, raising the company from a regional troupe of twenty-eight dancers to an internationally acclaimed ensemble of over fifty artists.
For his contributions to international dance, Mr. Stevenson was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year’s Honors List in December 1999. In April 2000, he was presented with the
Dance Magazine Award. In July 2003, he was appointed Artistic Director Emeritus of Houston Ballet, and the company’s affiliated school was renamed Houston Ballet’s Ben Stevenson Academy.
Mr. Stevenson, a native of Portsmouth, England, received his dance training at the Arts Educational School in London. He appeared with the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet and English National Ballet where, as a principal dancer, he performed leading roles in all the classics.
In 1967, English National Ballet asked him to stage his first, and highly successful, production of The Sleeping Beauty which starred Margot Fonteyn. In 1968,
from countries around the world at the ball, his mind is filled with thoughts of Odette. Two uninvited guests arrive, Von Rothbart and his daughter Odile, disguised as Odette. Siegfried believes Odile to be his swan princess, and Von Rothbart forces him to swear that Odile is his chosen love. As Von Rothbart and Odile return to their true forms, the Prince realizes he has been deceived. Odette and her maidens appear as Von Rothbart destroys the castle.
THE LAKESIDE
Odette forgives Siegfried for his unwitting betrayal, and they agree to remain together until death. In his rage, Von Rothbart raises a storm, but the love of Odette and Prince Siegfried proves stronger than his magic. As the couple throw themselves into the lake, Von Rothbart too is destroyed. — Courtesy of Texas Ballet Theatre.
Rebekah Harkness invited him to New York to direct the newly formed Harkness Youth Dancers. After choreographing Cinderella in 1970 for the National Ballet in Washington, D.C., he joined the company in 1971 as co-director with Frederic Franklin.
Mr. Stevenson has received numerous awards for his choreography, including three gold medals at the International Ballet Competitions of 1972, 1982, and 1986.
In July 2003, Mr. Stevenson assumed the artistic directorship of Texas Ballet Theater in Fort Worth, Texas.
CINDERELLA
Choreography by Ben Stevenson, O.B.E.
October 18-20, 2024
THE NUTCRACKER
Choreography by James Canfield
December 14-27, 2024
PETER PAN
Choreography by Trey McIntyre
April 19-27, 2025
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