Rolling with the Stones

Ballet West brings Rolling with the Stones to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre this November, a contemporary ballet program that puts five different works on one bill. It runs from November 6 through November 14, with performances on Friday the 6th and Saturday the 7th at 7:30 PM, Thursday the 12th at 7:30 PM, and Saturday the 14th with a 2:00 PM matinee and a 7:30 PM evening show.

The program is built around two premieres. The first is the company's first staging of Ulysses Dove's Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, a moving elegy on love and loss set to music by Arvo Pärt. The second is the Utah premiere of Christopher Bruce's Rooster, a hip, stylish piece set to a fusion of Rolling Stones classics. Those two anchor the evening, and the rest of the bill fills in around them: Christopher Wheeldon's Je ne t'Aime Pas and This Bitter Earth—the latter set to Dinah Washington as arranged by Max Richter—and Ben Stevenson's Three Preludes, set to Sergei Rachmaninoff. It's a wide range of music to cover in one night, from Pärt's stillness to the Stones.

Ballet West describes the show as a cutting-edge contemporary program, and the five works together give you a good sense of where the company is working. Between the two premieres and the three returning pieces, you'll see a mix of new material and established work, with the Stones-inspired Rooster providing the high-energy side of the bill.

Tickets start at $30. The company recommends the show for ages 8 and up, with no babes in arms and no dress code, so you can keep it casual. Performances are at the Capitol Theatre, 50 W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101.