Elsewhere in leisure, occasions and the humanities this weekend:

DANCE: Touring ‘Cinderella’

Los Angeles-based World Ballet Series’ 130-city tour of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” makes three Arkansas/Arkansas border stops:

• ◼️ 7 p.m. in the present day on the ArcBest Performing Arts Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $31.50-$91.50.
• ◼️ 7 p.m. Friday within the John Thomas Theatre on the Sullivan Performing Arts Center, 3941 Summerhill Road Texarkana, Texas. Tickets are $55-$89.
• ◼️ 7 p.m. April 11 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. Tickets are $35-$100. Visit Ticketmaster.com.

The manufacturing options unique choreography by Estonia’s Marina Kesler set in a multinational solid of 40 skilled dancers from 10 international locations, together with Italy, France, Poland, Japan, Belarus and the United Kingdom, in additional than 150 costumes that had been hand-sewn in Ukraine.

Principal dancer Ekaterina Malkovich dances the title function, with, as Prince Charming, Leonardo Celegato (in some cities, Konstantin Geronik). Angelina Zgurskaya dances the function of Cinderella’s stepmother with Ekaterina Lukianova and Ayzhamal Abdrakhmanova as her stepsisters.

Visit worldballetseries.com.

Silver ‘Riverdance’

The twenty fifth anniversary manufacturing of the Irish and worldwide dance present “Riverdance” might be onstage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Little Rock’s Robinson Center. Producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan “have completely reimagined the ground-breaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, video, stage and costume designs,” in keeping with a information launch, and composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded the soundtrack. Tickets are $24-$73. Call (501) 244-8800 or go to CelebrityAttractions.com or Ticketmaster.com.

    Husband-and-wife piano duo Naoki Hakutani and Jaeyeon Park provide a live performance titled “Symphonic Piano,” on Saturday on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)  MUSIC: Piano duo

Husband-and-wife piano duo Naoki Hakutani and Jaeyeon Park, college members on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, carry out a live performance titled “Symphonic Piano,” 3 p.m. Saturday within the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, UALR, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The program will embody two of Antonin Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances” — in e minor (op. 72, No. 3) and g minor (op. 46, No. 8); three actions — “Germany,”https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/mar/30/prokofievs-cinderella-tour-makes-stops-in-arkansas/”Spain” and “Hungary” — from Moritz Moszkowski’s “From Foreign Lands,” op.23; George Gershwin’s “Variations on ‘I Got Rhythm'”; and Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos. Admission is free. Call (501) 916-3291.

ART: ‘Women to Watch’

“Arkansas Women to Watch 2023: New Worlds,” a part of the National Museum of Women within the Arts’ Women to Watch exhibition sequence, opens with a 5-7 p.m. reception in the present day within the Merkle Gallery on the South Arkansas Arts Center, 110 E. Fifth St., El Dorado. The exhibit consists of works by 4 Arkansas artists — Anais Dasse, Hannah McBroom, Aimee Papazian and Heidi Carlson-Rogers. It stays up by April 27. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Admission is free. Call (870) 862-5471 or go to saac-arts.org.

ETC.: Cherry Blossom Fest

The Hot Springs Sister City Program hosts the Arkansas Cherry Blossom Festival, 12:30-5 p.m. Sunday at Bank OZK Arena, within the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd., Hot Springs. Taiko drum group Dallas Kiyari Daiko, which has been performing conventional Japanese drumming, also called “Taiko” or “Wadaiko,” within the Metroplex since 1992, has joined to the lineup. Arkansas Tech University teacher Kae Hashimoto Reed can even play and reveal taiko.

Other competition highlights embody cultural demonstrations, performances, displays and a wide range of conventional Japanese carnival video games. Prizes for the inaugural Arkansas Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Competition might be awarded with winners invited to learn their haiku. An anime costume contest is deliberate in partnership with the Garland County Library.

The competition additionally consists of lectures and workshops on Japanese flower association, referred to as ikebana; a Reed-lede anime workshop; and a sake class, with a tasting alternative, led by the sake professionals at Origami Sake.

Admission is free; there are charges for a few of the workshops. Visit ARCherryBlossom.org.

Competition finals

The Arkansas Arts Council hosts the state finals of the inaugural Arts Across Arkansas, showcasing “the talent, mastery and skill of young creatives statewide,” in keeping with a information launch, midday Saturday on the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free; refreshments might be served. The pilot program is “designed to encourage, enhance and expand high school students’ original thoughts, processes, personal experiences and artistic abilities,” in keeping with the discharge. Teachers throughout the state nominated greater than 100 college students in six inventive areas: dance choreography, movie, literary arts, music composition, images and visible arts. Student winners will earn a money prize of $1,000 for first place, $500 for second and $250 for third in every class. An entire checklist of contributors is accessible at arkansasarts.org.

Comedy Pet Theater

Comedian-juggler Gregory Popovich brings greater than 25 rescued pets for his Las Vegas-based Popovich Comedy Pet Theater, onstage at 7 p.m. Friday on the Forum Theater, 115 E. Monroe Ave., Jonesboro. Tickets are $30, $15 for senior residents and youngsters 3-12. Visit tinyurl.com/3b7fyjhk.

TICKETS: ‘My Fair Lady’

Tickets — $37-$93 — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Lincoln Center Theater’s touring manufacturing of Lerner & Loewe’s “My Fair Lady,” below the aegis of Celebrity Attractions, 7:30 p.m. May 19, 2 and seven:30 p.m. May 20 and 1 p.m. May 21 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Call (501) 244-8800 or go to CelebrityAttractions.com or Ticketmaster.com.