Sat 5/31 @ 6PM

This past March, the Cleveland Ballet performed a program called “Impressions of Picasso,” tied in with the Cleveland Museum of Art’s special show, Picasso and Paper.

That show closed at the end of March, but you have another opportunity to see how his works translated into movement when the Cleveland Ballet performs the program at the Akron Art Museum. Picasso himself had an interest in dance, and the sprawling show contained some of the images he designed for stage costumes, sets and curtains for ten ballet productions. The Cleveland Ballet program includes a pair of works inspired by Picasso’s Harlequin paintings and, more forebodingly, his 1937 masterpiece Guernica reflecting on the carnage among civilians during the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. They will also perform excerpts from Don Quixote and Paquita.

The company will perform outdoors in the museum’s Bud & Susie Rogers Garden; attendees can bring blankets or lawn chairs and their own food. Beer, wine and soft drinks will be available for purchase.

Get tickets here.