The Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet & Voice is set to present its annual spring ballet on Sunday, May 21, at noon and 3 pm, at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Free to the public, the spring performance is part of the studio’s mission to bring educational, enjoyable performances to the Newtown community that are family-friendly and accessible for all ages. Like Nutcracker, the spring ballet unites dancers as young as three years old up to seniors in high school and helps them feel like they are all part of the magic of creating a show together as one company.

This year’s presentation is the comedic ballet Coppelia and the Toy Shop.

The ballet centers upon a girl and her suitor who are quickly at odds with one another when the girl catches him blowing kisses to a mysterious girl reading in the window of the toymaker’s home. The jealous girlfriend decides to sneak into the house at night after many an attempt of befriending the girl goes unacknowledged.

She and her friends discover that the girl is in fact a doll and have a great laugh over the whole thing while also winding up all the other dolls in the toy shop and watching them dance. The ballet concludes with forgiveness and an engagement between the two young lovers and the town celebrating a festival in honor of the new town bell.

Dances are performed symbolically for what the ringing of the new bell represents: time of day, time for prayer, time for work, time for war, time for peace, and time for celebration, especially for the newly betrothed couple.

The studio is set to say goodbye to three graduating seniors this season: Noelle Fogal and Jennifer Dushi of Newtown High School who are tandem playing the leads, Coppelia (the doll) and Dr Coppelius (the toymaker) at the two opposite performance times as well as Grayce Amos of Wooster School in Danbury who plays Swanhilda (the girl engaged to be married).

Returning as the male lead is Noel Bernard of Bridgeport who just finished his junior year at Fordham University in the Bronx.

Tickets do not need to be purchased in advance. Doors will open 25 minutes before each performance. Run time for the show is approximately 90 minutes, with a 10 minute intermission.

For more information, visit nccballetandvoice.com or contact Artistic Director Tory Gozzi at 203-241-5362.