Queen's Hall audiences will take a journey with a carousel of classical performances on November 15 and 16. A Christmas Carousel promises to delight lovers of dance and classical music as the Cascade Festival Ballet with Bentley Potter School of Dance stages yet another repertoire of entertaining pieces to celebrate the joyous season.A Christmas Carousel will feature well-loved compositions by Tchaikovsky and Waldeufel, with his Skaters' Waltz, and other enchanting pieces performed by disciplined, highly skilled and versatile dancers.
The evenings' range of programmes will feature a m�lange of 12 dance pieces and will peak with the well-loved Christmas favourite, Waltz from the Nutcracker Ballet. The Festival Ballet promises to thrill audiences with elegance and poise of colourful costumed dancers, beautiful stage settings, and an entertaining blend of music.According to release, the Festival Ballet is an innovation of the Bentley-Potter School of Dance. It comprises talented students, some of whom have earned themselves a coveted place in the annals of T&T dance. Both the school and the Festival Ballet have long been associated with excellence in traditional classical ballet, and their concerts feature an interesting mix of ballet and modern dance.
The school has hundreds of loyal patrons who have enjoyed concerts such as the Nutcracker, Coppelia, Capriccio, Sleeping Beauty and excerpts from Les Sylphides, Swan Lake and Don Quixote.The primary aim of the Bentley-Potter School of Dance is to give children, from age four, a firm grounding in the rudiments of classical dance under the guidance of The Royal Academy of Dance, England, whose examiners visit Trinidad annually. Hundreds of children have attained excellent results in the Royal Academy examinations, placing them on an international level in the world of dance. It is a school that demands excellence.Tickets, all reserved at $150, are available at Cascade Studios from tomorrow, and from Queen's Hall Box Office during the week of the show.