Fri 10/1 @ 7PM
Sun 10/3 @ 2PM
The Cleveland Ballet takes advantage of what will hopefully be fine fall weather to present another pair of outdoor performances in beautiful locations before it moves back indoors to its home at Playhouse Square for the first time in a year and a half.
On Friday it will perform in Akron at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens’ Great Meadow, followed by a Sunday performance at Canton’s Gervasi Vineyard. They’ll be performing excerpts from the full-length ballet Don Quixote, based on the great romantic classic of Spanish literature. This version by company founder Gladisa Guadalupe takes a different approach to the story. Instead of treating Quixote as a delusion and impractical dreamer, she treats the story more realistically: “It is her view that we all have a little Don Quixote in us — dreams that once seemed wild and unattainable, challenges that once seemed daunting or insurmountable. Ultimately, it is how we overcome these obstacles and work to attain our dreams that define the person we become.”
For more information and tickets go to clevelandballet.org/excerpts-from-don-quixote/.