You Shall Go to the ball!

Resident ballet company of the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Pacific Festival Ballet present the timeless fairytale classic Cinderella is an expansive and lighthearted ballet tells the triumphant story of a young girl who encounters magic and love at the ball. With Sir Frederick Ashton's brilliant choreography and Sergei Prokofiev's delightful score this spectacular production is considered to be the greatest staging of the beloved tale.

An enduring folk story, Cinderella has seen many incarnations since first appearing in Europe 500 years ago. Whilst some versions follow a bloody, medieval theme, the most popular is that of the downtrodden step-daughter, cheated from her inheritance by her evil step-mother and her less than appealing sisters. But their careful shielding of 'Cinders', who they treat as a servant, is all for nothing, as she is saved by a doting and magical fairy-godmother, who transforms her from ash-covered maid to sparkling princess who captures the heart and the mind of the Prince at a lavish ball, who searches the Kingdom for the girl who left behind only a dainty glass slipper...