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The Artists in-school programs bring professional presentations of original story
ballets and highlights from the the generally well known classical repertoire.
Privileged to have received a superior artistic and academic education as well as
a vast professional expertise, Svetlana Caton-Noble and Venti Petrov are committed
to serve the Community, inspire children especially in underserved areas.
Lumiere Ballet has been conducting multi-faceted dance programs in public schools,
including Copiague, North Babylon, Brentwood and Wyandanch.
In affiliation with the Suffolk and Nassau BOCES, DSL - “Dance as a Second Language”
has been launched by the Lumière Ballet Company in 2008.
Guidelines and curriculum notes are given to the teachers prior to the
performance. With this simple step preparation, teachers are confident and
students enjoy sharing their observations after the performance.
DSL brings to life beloved stories from children’s literature and mythology:
Hansel and Gretel premiered in 1995, Snowmaiden premiered in 1997,
Alice’s Adventures, premiered in 2005, Narnia, premiered in 2007, The Little Prince,
premiered in 2008.
DSL brings the legacy of the European masters of the 19th century with highlights from the great ballets such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker. Paquita, Giselle and Bayadère.
DSL brings a variety of Classical and Character Dances with various ethnic and national styles to invite the young spectators to travel in various parts of the world and often back in time:
An Aragonaise - with music by Massenet can take the young audience to Medieval Spain.
A Tarantella - with music by Gottshalk will pay a visit to Italy.
A Mazurka - from the ballet Paquita is a Polish dance
A Gopak - to folk music is an Ukrainian dance
A Polovetsian Dance depicts nomadic horsemen and maidens in the 12th century Asian prairies. The music is from the Opera “Prince Igor” by Borodin. The melody is easily recognized for it has been used as background for TV series and animés.
Story Ballets
SNOWMAIDEN – Snegurotchka (SNE-‘GU-RO-CHKA)
Snowmaiden is a Russian “spring story” that has its origin in Slavic Mythology. Ostrovsky wrote a fairy play by this title. Rimsky Korsakov composed the music for the Opera Snowmaiden. The character of Snowmaiden has inspired painters, poets, musicians and choreographers. Lumière Ballet production is an adaptation of the fairy-play.
The Story
Winter and Spring have a child – her name is Snowmaiden. As she reaches adolescence, Snowmaiden experiences increasing difficulty; the obedience to her austere father and the awakening of emotional feelings.
Her father keeps his daughter in the cold land of snow, protected from all the mortals. Her mother, as the seasons permit, stirs Snowmaiden’s curiosity to live with the humans. Her desire to sing and dance like them is awakened and she pleads with her mother, the warm and joyful Spring, to go and live with people.
The drama unfolds as Snowmaiden is attracted to a young shepherd. The rays of the Sun reach Snowmaiden, who being a ‘living snowflake” melts. Snowmaiden does not die, she becomes, instead, a river and delivers the land from the gripping frost.
THE LITTLE PRINCE
The Little Prince was written on Long Island in 1942, by a French Aviator, Antoine de Saint Exupéry. With some narration and dialogue, the ballet depicts The Little Prince with the Rose on his planet, his stellar voyages and his encounters with various inhabitants: A proud Ruler, a Businessman etc…
Music by Satie, Debussy and Mozart. Choreography by Svetlana Caton-Noble.
The Story
The Little Prince represents a universe of dreams, poetry and simple truth about life and human nature. In this story the author tells us how he was stranded in the desert and how he meets an extraterrestrial being in the human appearance of a child, The Little Prince The essence of the story is contained within the words of the Fox which the Little Prince meets on the Earth: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”
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