The Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company will present “The Dancing Princesses” on March 28 at Blennerhassett School. The dancers include Amelia Auville, Helen Smith, Emma Holt, Millicent Fleak, Danae Tibbs, Tessa Barker, Bethnay Truax, Sylvia Smith, Violet Bevins, Meredith Craig, Sarah Harvey and Liliana Parsons. Not pictured is Meggan Starcher. (Photo Provided)

PARKERSBURG — The Mid-Ohio Valley Ballet Company will present an original ballet entitled “The Dancing Princesses” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28, at Blennerhassett School Auditorium.

Reserved seat tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children under 18. There will also be general admission seats available and additional information on how to buy tickets can be found at the website at movballet.com and click on the performances page.

Tickets can be purchased in person, with cash or check only, at the MOVB Offices, 1311 Ann St., Parkersburg, where box office hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Tickets will also be available at the door the night of the performance. Specially priced group tickets are also available. Visit the website at movballet.com or email movdance1@gmail.com

The ballet is based on the classic story “The 12 Dancing Princesses” written by The Brothers Grimm. It opens as two brothers discover they have become lost in the forest. A Golden Fairy appears to show them the way out, but first, they must go to the King’s castle to help him discover how his daughters are wearing holes in their slippers every night. The boys accept the task and set out to discover their secret.

The Golden Fairy has given each brother a cape to make them invisible so that they can follow the princesses every night. They discover that they go out dancing at a beautiful ballroom, a Charleston club and a gypsy camp. The King and Queen demand some answers but the brothers are having too much fun to give up the girls’ secret but in the end they all reveal the their love of dancing and the King and Queen give them all their blessing.

The cast includes:

* The Princesses: Bethany Truax, Sarah Harvey, Violet Bevins, Danae Tibbs, Liliana Parson, Millicent Fleak, Tessa Barker, Emma Holt, Helena Smith, Sylvia Smith, Meggan Starcher, Amelia Auville and Meredith Craig

* The King: Danny Bayer

* The Queen: Suzy Gunter

* The Gypsy Queen: Rebecca Segrest

* The Queen of the Charleston: Jolene Troisi

* The Golden Fairy: Kitri Held

* The Brothers: Keegan Marsh and Elliott Akeman

Twenty students from the MOVBallet Academy of Fine Arts, the official school of instruction for the MOVB company, will dance the roles of the royal flower girls and the gypsy children.

MOVB is a professional, non-profit dance group that performs concerts, lecture demonstrations and Arts in Education performances annually. MOVB has toured extensively throughout West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio since 1983 presenting specially produced one-hour versions of the current ballet through the “School Days Performing Arts Series.” This special arts in education program has allowed over 30,000 public school children to see a live arts performance who may otherwise never have the opportunity.