Getting your player ready...
Saturday-Sunday. As spring invokes images of flitting butterflies and the melodies of classical music, so do its dance offerings take a light touch with the form. This weekend, a pair of ballets will showcase different sides of that same spring coin: Ballet Ariel premiers its version of the 1870 comic ballet “Coppélia” at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. May 10 at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. $16-$25. 303-987-7845 or . (Also at Leadville’s Tabor Opera House May 24). Not to be outdone, Boulder Ballet will debut its own “Coppélia” on Mother’s Day at the Boulder Theater. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. May 11. 2032 14th St. in Boulder. $17-$30. 303-786-7030 or . Which one to see? Consider where you live, and go from there.
