Rexburg ballet company to present Snow White

Members of Ballet Etude rehearse for nan preview capacity of 2024. They will coming “Snow White” this weekend. | Mary Boyle, EastIdahoNews.com

REXBURG — Rexburg’s ain Ballet Etude is presenting nan timeless communicative of Snow White Friday and Saturday. The original, narrated and family-friendly ballet promises to beryllium a magical and enchanting acquisition for nan full family.

Ballet Etude’s type of nan classical communicative is simply a small different than nan classical communicative audiences whitethorn person grown up watching.

“We’ve taken inspiration from nan Disney film, but we’ve besides taken a fewer liberties,” Co-director Madissen Fujimoto told EastIdahoNews.com.

To make nan show much kid-friendly, nan duo has made immoderate “little tweaks” pinch nan storyline, according to Fujimoto. She and her co-director Kiersten Lewis selected nan music, wrote nan narration and planned all-original choreography for a wholly unsocial experience.

Folks tin still look guardant to nan “Snow White” they cognize and emotion though.

“We wanted to instrumentality beautiful intimately to nan story. People emotion it,” she said.

Members of Ballet Etude rehearse to execute “Snow White.” | Mary Boyle, EastIdahoNews.com

Fujimoto and Lewis started Ballet Etude successful 2022 pinch nan extremity to make ballet much accessible to nan nationalist and grow nan professional-level dancing opportunities successful nan area.

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Now successful its 2nd season, nan ballet institution has doubled successful size. According to Fujimoto, complete half nan formed for “Snow White” are adults who wanted to proceed dancing beyond their teen years.

Although she and Lewis had hoped nan institution would turn quickly, Fujimoto told EastIdahoNews.com she didn’t ideate it would hap arsenic quickly arsenic it has.

“Of people I hoped for it, but it is decidedly quicker than I had anticipated,” she said. “If you had told maine past twelvemonth that we’d person this large of a cast, I would person said that you’re crazy.”

Ballet Etude dancers believe for nan upcoming Snow White performance. Mary Boyle, EastIdahoNews.com

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“Snow White” will beryllium presented astatine The Romance Theater connected Main Street, Rexburg connected Friday, May 31, and Saturday, June 1. Doors will unfastened astatine 5:30 p.m. each evening and performances will statesman astatine 6 p.m. The capacity will see a short history of ballet and nan creation of storytelling done pantomime. Tickets tin beryllium purchased here; kids nether 5 are free.

Dancers rehearse a segment for their Snow White production. | Mary Boyle, EastIdahoNews.com