Friends of the Garden City Public Library will present a free performance of ballet selections from “Swan Lake & The Snow Maiden” with costumed dancers from Lumiere Ballet at 2:00pm on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., Garden City, NY. For directions phone: (516) 742-8405. Seating and parking is limited and on a first-come basis. No tickets are required.

Principal dancer Aina Tadokoro and Lumiere Ballet’s talented dance troupe will grace our stage to the music of Russian composer Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. “Swan Lake” tells the Russian folk tale of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse. “The Snow Maiden” tells the love story of Father Frost’s beautiful daughter who lives deep in the frozen forest.

Svetlana Caton-Noble, Artistic Director of Lumiere Ballet studied with teachers who exemplify the purest form of Russian Classicism. In Europe, Lydia Pavlova gave the foundation that brought her to prestigious scholarship offers from the Ballet School of the Paris Opera. She danced, taught and choreographed in NYC and in 1995 founded the Lumiere Ballet Company in Bay Shore.