World Premiere June 5, 1999. Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, but is a World Premiere for the Antelope Valley Ballet June 5, 1999. Special guest appearance by John Gaylord. Sports premiered by the Oklahoma Festival Ballet in 1995. Basketball is a World Premiere June 5, 1999.
Sports is a comic ballet about the fun of athletics.
To Antelope Valley College, Nathan Brooks Burgess, Dance Magic, Dancin in Acton, Extensions Performing Arts Academy, Justin Burnett, J. Max Burnett, Bruce Holbrook, John Gaylord, Josh Look, Cady Lundgren, Bruce Brouwer, Mark Mewbourne, Marq Pendley, Julia Stalder, David Suppe, and the administration and staff of the Lancaster Performing Arts Center. Guest Artist Crystal Allen is currently a member of Cincinnati Ballet where she was selected by Frederick Franklin to be the Snow Queen in The Nutcracker . She was also cast as the Lilac Fairy in their recent production of The Sleeping Beauty , as the Captain in Con Amore , and also as the Solo Girl in Balanchine's Rubies . As a member of the Oklahoma Festival Ballet, Ballet Omaha, and Virginia Ballet, Miss allen danced the role of Aurora in T he Sleeping Beauty , Le Corsaire Grand Pas de Deux , and the Sugar Plum fairy in The Nutcracke r, as well as many other roles. This season she was offered a position with Ballet West in Salt Lake City.