Name: Cleveland Ballet: In Vino Veritas
Start: 2025-09-26T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44106

While the exhibition In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth) celebrates the presence and meaning of wine in prints, drawings, textiles, and objects, Cleveland Ballet interprets the exhibition’s subject through movement with its performance of Walpurgisnacht.
Walpurgisnacht, a celebration on the eve of May Day, April 30, marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The night known for its debauchery involves celebrations, as well as rituals and bonfires to ward off evil spirits. Although the ballet does not directly depict the Walpurgis Night holiday, it does build on a sense of joyful revelry.
Cleveland Ballet continues the celebration with Picnic, a collection of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s dances for piano and violin choreographed by Cleveland Ballet’s artistic director Timour Bourtasenkov, as well as the lively and energetic “Dance of the Toreadors” from Don Quixote.