The 2009-2010 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center continues its seventh season with The Joffrey Ballet's return to the Music Center with Sir Frederick Ashton's "Cinderella" - considered one of his greatest full-length ballets. The rags-to-riches story comes to life in a dazzling full-evening ballet set to Serge Prokofiev's score, composed specifically for the work.

This $1 million presentation of "Cinderella" becomes The Joffrey Ballet's most sizeable production to date.

Valerie Robin, who joined The Joffrey Ballet in July 2000, will appear in this production alternately as the "Winter Fairy" and the "Fairy Godmother."

"This is such a huge production, the sets, the costumes, it is just a gorgeous production," she said. "The overall picture is quite an experience for the audience."

Robin said her favorite moment is when the pumpkin turns into a carriage.

"I get goosebumps," she said.

Robin said those who love classical ballet will enjoy this production.

"I don't think you can get more purely classically then this choreography," she said.

The Joffrey Ballet's "Cinderella" will have five performances 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28 and Friday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31. Thirty minute moderated pre-performance discussions begin one hour prior to curtain and take place in the same venue as the performance. Tickets for The Joffrey Ballet's "Cinderella" are available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-278 and online at www.ticketmaster.com.