The El Paso Ballet Features "Opening Night Gala" This Weekend

The El Paso Ballet Theatre presents their latest spring production of Opening Night Gala, featuring excerpts from an original piece “Transcendence,” Don Quixote and Swan Lake.

Head out this weekend and support our local ballet company with their new production, “Opening Night Gala”, directed by Marta Katz of the El Paso Youth Ballet. The new production features over thirty dancers from El Paso and Cd. Juarez. The company will also feature Cuban dancer, Yosvani Cortellan former soloist with San Antonio Ballet, and invited guest “Human Nature” and Lesley Lopez and Ariela Katz will dancing the leading roles.

Tickets are on sale now and are available at the UTEP Ticket Center located at 2901 N. Mesa St., or by phone at 915-747-5234 and at Ticketmaster.com. Prices are $20 for adults and $10 for children 10 and under, plus a service fee.

The El Paso Ballet Theatre (formerly known as the El Paso Youth Ballet) is El Paso’s only full-time professional and pre-professional dance company. The name has changed, but El Paso Ballet Theatre is the same organization that has presented dozens of new and traditional dance works over the last eight years in our region.