Palmetto City Ballet opens its 26/27 Season with two performances of its chilling full-length “Dracula” ballet at the historic Sottile Theatre.
The production invites audiences to journey to the depths of Transylvania with ill-fated sisters Mina and Lucy as they face the Count and his Brides amid graveyards and dark forests.
Bloodlust, suspense and a cursed romance take center stage in choreographer Jonathan Tabbert’s telling, complete with hauntingly beautiful sets and costumes from the Victorian tale. With an operatic score that includes Verdi’s “Requiem,” “Dracula” unleashes the eerie and supernatural world of the Count and his vampires while viewers take a front-row seat to the unmatched storytelling that defines Charleston’s professional ballet company. The ballet closely follows Bram Stoker’s classic novel of the same name and offers a terrifying, rather than gory, way to consider the line between man and monster…