Spring Gala 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2008 at 8 p.m.
Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts
Admission - $20 Presale
(plus Leo J. Welder Center surcharge of $1.00 )
All seats reserved.
Tickets 570-TKTS
Visa & Mastercard accepted

Please join Victoria Ballet Theatre as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary with our presentation of Swan Lake Act II.

First performed by Victoria Ballet during it's opening year, Swan Lake Act II's story opens with Siegfried as he aims his crossbow at the swans and readies himself for their landing by the lakeside. When one comes into view, however, he stops. Before him is a beautiful creature dressed in white feathers, more woman than swan. Enamoured, the two dance and Siegfried learns that the swan maiden is the princess Odette. An evil sorcerer, von Rothbart, captured her and used his magic to turn Odette into a swan by day and woman by night.

A retinue of other captured swan-maidens attend Odette in the environs of Swan Lake, which was formed by the tears of her parents when she was kidnapped by von Rothbart. Once Siegfried knows her story, he takes great pity on her and falls in love. As he begins to swear his love to her - an act that will render the sorcerer's spell powerless - von Rothbart appears. Siegfried threatens to kill him but Odette intercedes. If von Rothbart dies before the spell is broken, it can never be undone.

This is a performance that the entire family will enjoy!