Ballet 5:8’s ‘BareFace’ at KSU Dance Theater on Marietta Campus March 24

From the venue:

Ballet 5:8, a Chicago-based female and minority-led premiere ballet company recognized for artistic excellence, innovation, technical precision and beauty is coming to Atlanta!

BareFace by Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Rubio Slager is a full-length and daring new story ballet retelling the classic myth of Cupid and Psyche for the 21st-century audiences from a distinctively female perspective, ambitiously placing female athlete artists in all leading roles!

BareFace reimagines this classic Greek myth in a distant future realm, carrying forward the timeless nature of humanity while shedding the trappings of our modern age. Wrestling with the meaning of beauty and the perceived necessity of hiding the ugly truth that resides in human hearts, BareFace presents a haunting mirror to the human soul as it lays bare the elements of love, jealousy and what it means to be beautiful.