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Asian American Ballet Project

Once Upon Our Time

Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont Street

June 27 – June 28 2026

AABP’s fourth annual concert brings ancestral folktales to life through four vibrant ballets—beloved favorites and world premieres featuring live music.

Suho and the White Horse (2023 AABP Premiere) the Morin Khuur’s origin story set amongst the native animals and people of Mongolia. Gabi sa Gubat/Night Jungle (2025 AABP Premiere) return to the forests of the Philippines for even more fantastical creatures said to roam at night. Lon Po Po (2024 AABP Premiere), our Chinese Little Red Riding Hood ballet, updated for 2026 with new choreography, costumes, sets, and live quartet music by composer Julian Gau. Tấm Cám, our world premiere of the Vietnamese Cinderella story where good triumphs over evil, set to original, live piano music by Christopher Vu.

Asian American Ballet Project is donating 10% of the proceeds to Artists Standing With Immigrant Families

AABP’s fourth annual concert brings ancestral folktales to life through four vibrant ballets—beloved favorites and world premieres featuring live music.

Suho and the White Horse (2023 AABP Premiere) the Morin Khuur’s origin story set amongst the native animals and people of Mongolia. Gabi sa Gubat/Night Jungle (2025 AABP Premiere) return to the forests of the Philippines for even more fantastical creatures said to roam at night. Lon Po Po (2024 AABP Premiere), our Chinese Little Red Riding Hood ballet, updated for 2026 with new choreography, costumes, sets, and live quartet music by composer Julian Gau. Tấm Cám, our world premiere of the Vietnamese Cinderella story where good triumphs over evil, set to original, live piano music by Christopher Vu.

Asian American Ballet Project is donating 10% of the proceeds to Artists Standing With Immigrant Families

Venue

The Roberts Studio Theatre, 527 Tremont St.

Duration

75 minutes with ONE intermission

SUITABLE AGE

All Ages

 

Saturday’s 7:30pm performance is Pay What You Wish, Prices include:

 

$10 — Community Member
For those who love the arts and attend when discounted or free tickets are available.

 

$35 — Arts Supporter
For those who are able to budget for full-price tickets to their favorite annual events.

 

$60 — Arts Sustainer
For those who are happy to pay Boston’s average ticket prices in order to compensate artists fairly.

Select a performance

Roberts (Robert Benson)
The Calderwood Pavilion; 527 Tremont St.

Calderwood Pavilion/BCA, 527 Tremont St

The Calderwood Pavilion contains the Wimberly Theatre, the Roberts Studio Theatre, the Carol G. Deane Hall, and the Nicholas Martin Hall. You should navigate to the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA if you are seeing a show in any of those aforementioned spaces.

Directions and parking for the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA

Google Maps directions to 527 Tremont St, Boston MA 02116

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