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School Audience Members meet AV Ballet dancers after the performance!

Be sure to arrive early so that you have plenty of time to be seated.

If you wish to sit together, please arrive at the theater with your group all together. You will be checked in and seated by the ushers as a group.

Always be polite to the ushers, the dancers and the crew at the theater.

Turn off all cell phones, pagers, etc. during the performance. No recording or photography is permitted during the performance, but after the performance you are free to take your picture with the dancers!

While watching the performance please give the dancers your full attention.

It is appropriate to applaud when you see something you like, and to laugh when something is funny. Keep in mind that our version of Cinderella is very much a comedy!

It is NOT appropriate to talk loudly or be disruptive to those audience members sitting around you.

Remember that after the performance you will exit the theater to your right.

You get to meet the dancers on your way out and see them up close!

Theater Information

This study guide is a sample of information and activities that will be available on the full

Study and Activity Guide for AV Ballet’s Production of Cinderella. The full study guide will be

posted online at antelopevalleyballet.org on or before January 10, 2013.

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The Story of the Ballet Cinderella

ACT I: The House of Cinderella’s father

Cinderella sits alone by the fire. Near her Cinderella’s step-

mother is watching over her two ugly stepsisters who are sewing a

scarf. The two sisters soon are bickering about who will wear

the scarf which ends up torn into two. Left alone Cinderella

recalls the happy days when her father was still alive. An old hag-

gard woman comes to the house begging for money and Cin-

derella is the only one who takes pity and offers her some

bread. As the old woman leaves purveyors arrive to offer the

sisters their goods and services.

A dancing master comes to teach them

the gavotte but Cinderella is excluded from the lesson and

must keep to her chores.

The sisters hurry with their makeup and dressing and depart for the ball. In the back we see the shadow of

the beggar woman who now materializes as Cinderella’s

fairy godmother.

The room disappears and Cinderella is trans-

ported into the fairy godmother’s realm where she meets fairies of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Each of them dances a short solo where they offer Cin-derella their seasonal gifts. Cinderella’s rags are trans-

formed into a beautiful gown and a pumpkin turns into a splendid carriage. Cinderella sets off for the ball un-

der instructions of the fairy godmother that she must

leave before midnight when the magic will wear off.

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ACT II: The Ballroom at the Prince’s Palace

The guests are at the palace dancing. as

the stepsisters and step mother arrive they in-sert themselves in the dancing and merriment.

The Prince arrives just before we hear a myste-rious music which heralds the approach of Cin-

derella’s carriage. She makes a grand entrance. Everyone is captivated by her beauty, especially

the Prince with whom she dances a very re-gal Pas de Deux. Cinderella is dizzy with happi-

ness when the clock strikes midnight and her Fairy Godmother appears to remind her that

the spell will expire. Cinderella flees leaving

behind her slipper.

ACT III: The House of Cinderella’s Father

Cinderella is back in her father’s house, dressed in rags. She recalls the ball and wonders whether it was all a dream but when she finds a sparkling shoe in her apron she is convinced that it all must have happened.

After traveling far in his search for the beautiful girl who fits the slipper, the Prince ar-rives at the house of Cinderella. The Ugly Sisters try to squeeze their rather large feet into it. When the shoe fits neither sister Cinderella’s stepmother tries on the shoe desperately want-ing it to fit. The last to try it on is of course Cin-derella. The Prince, realizing she is the one, asks her to marry him. The stepsisters now try to atone for their bad behavior towards Cinderella who forgives them and touches them lovingly.

Cinderella and her Prince dance a trium-phant finale surrounded by the fairy godmother and her entourage. They walk off into their hap-py ever after ….

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Our full activity guide can be found at out website www.antelopevalleyballet.org beginning in Octo-

ber, 2012. Below are some samples of the activities that can be found in the Cinderella study guide.

Activities and Worksheets for the classroom

Samples from Math pages:

I. Count the number of items from the story Cinderella.

1. How many pumpkins are on this page? __________

2. How many mice will pull Cinderella’s carriage? _______

3. How many fairy godmothers can be found on this page?

________

4. How many ballet slippers can you find? _______

II. Addition and Subtraction.

1. 1 Fairy Godmother 2. 2 ballet slippers + 2 ballerinas = ________ballet slippers

+ 4 Fairies of the Seasons 3. 3 Clock chimes + 9 clock chimes = ______ clock chimes

= Fairies 4. 8 men at the ball + 20 women at the ball = ________

people at the ball

5. 12 hours 6. 2 slippers—1 slipper lost at the ball = _________slipper

—9 hours 7. 3 step sisters—1 step sister = _____________step sisters

= _________hours Cinderella can enjoy the ball! 8. 25 guests at the ball—Cinderella = _________ guests at the ball.

III. Multiplication and Division.

1. 6 mice x 1 fairy godmother spell = _______ horses to pull Cinderella’s carriage.

2.

3. Midnight (12 hours) / 3 hours at the ball = ______ hours left in the day.

4.

IV. Word problems.

1. The Fairy Godmother meets the other four fairies (one for each of the four seasons of the year). The twelve hours of

the day are also present. How many fairies and hours help Cinderella? _______ 2. 12 guests at the ball are each wearing 1 pair of pointe shoes. One guest (Cinderella) loses one slipper as she leaves the

ball. How many slippers are still on feet at the ball? ______

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Samples from English pages:

I. The following images tell the story of Cinderella, but they are out of order. Number them

in the correct order that they happen in the story beginning with the number 1.

______ ______ ______ ______ ______

II. Spelling. The words at the left are spelled incorrectly. Spell them correctly in the space

provided at the right.

1. Muose _______________________ 4. Crariage __________________________

2. Silpper _______________________ 5. Pirnce __________________________

3. Klock _______________________ 6. Caslte ___________________________

III. Alphabetize the following words.

1. Carriage 1. _____________________

2. Pumpkin 2. _____________________

3. Slipper 3. _____________________

4. Castle 4. _____________________

5. Fairy 5. _____________________

6. Sister 6. _____________________

7. Prince 7 _____________________

8. Broom 8. _____________________

9. Clock 9. _____________________

10. Midnight 10. _____________________

IV. Use each of the following words in a complete sentence.

1. Love __________________________________________________________________________________________________.

2. Slipper ________________________________________________________________________________________________.

3. Carriage _______________________________________________________________________________________________.

4. Castle _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

5. Midnight ______________________________________________________________________________________________.

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Samples from other pages:

I. Telling Time. Write down the time that is shown on the clock face.

1. _____________ 2.____________ 3.______________ 4. ______________ 5. _________________

II. Cinderella Maze. III. Cinderella Word search.

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IV. Cinderella Coloring Pages

V. Draw your own costume for a female dancer. VI. Draw your own costume for a male dancer.