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Edgar Allan Poe is a favorite author for the Astra Dance Company. His story “Eleonora” is a Poe rarity—for although it contains the elements of love, death, betrayal and return, it ends in happiness and reconciliation. This tale of treachery and forgiveness lends itself to gorgeous illustration and intimate choreography. More information | 
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The Wonderful Tune
This nineteenth-century Irish fairy tale about a blind piper whose magical music enchanted the Queen of the Sea herself, not to mention her entire retinue of fishes, is ADC’s first step toward creating a children’s dance theater for Los Angeles.
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A medieval Scottish fairy tale tells how an elven knight who finds his match and his salvation in the love and stubborn will of a girl who will not let him be pried from her arms even by the beasts who guard the gate of Hell.
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