It's Your City: Sierra Nevada Ballet's steam punk spin on a Shakespeare classic
In this week's edition of It's Your City host Cortney Bloomer sits down with Ananda Bena-Webber, director of the upcoming production of "A Midsummer Nights Dream: The Ballet" with featured performances at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, the Pioneer Center in Reno and the Carson City Community Center.
This is an innovative, edgy ballet presentation of the famous Shakespeare tale, "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" with its own kind of costume, dance and set twist, as the production unfolds in a Steam Punk fantasy, with fairies as painted sculptures and human actors who will be in Steam Punk, a true spectacular visual art experience.
Bena-Weber is a New York director and interdisciplinary artist who has reimagined this traditional tale for a contemporary audience creating a steam punk fantasy that embodies the subtle insights into the many permutations of the love relationship.
The production features the Sierra Nevada Ballet full company of professional dancers with wonderful leading dancers from out of state.
See the video interview below or click here.
The production will be featured at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival's Monday Night Series on July 23 at 7:30 PM at Sand Harbor; a party August 3 at the Wilbur May Museum in Reno, a Sunday, August 5 performance at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 4 p.m., and at the Carson City Community Center on August 11, 7:30 p.m.
Go here for tickets and more information.
This week's edition of It's Your City is sponsored by Paradise Salon, Spa and Wellness, located at 3430 Executive Pointe Way.
It's Your City is a weekly program produced by Darla Bayer and hosted by Cortney Bloomer. The program features news, events and happenings around Carson City. If your business would like to sponsor a program, contact Darla at DarlaEdits2@gmail.com or (775) 830-7939.
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