Les Patineurs

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Arkansas Festival Ballet

presents 

the winter ballet Les Patineurs @ Dreamland Ballroom

800 West 9th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas

December 4-5, 2026 @ 7 pm

Audience goers can expect to slip into an icy scene with "the skaters". A ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton "...perfectly crafted with complex structure...." to music composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer and arranged by Constant Lambert. It was first presented on February 16, 1937 by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London.

The ballet, in one act, depicts a Victorian skating party that takes place on a frozen pond on a winter's evening. The short ballet was designed to proceed scene to scene and from beginning to end without a narrative; simply by sweeping the audience into the movement as dancers enter and exit with choreography in continuum.