When Redemption Story Dance Company comes to the Park County Fair’s Pepsi Free Stage this year, things are going to look a little different. The young dance studio owned and operated by Lorien Legler will be bringing 12 beginning and intermediate dancers who will be performing short ballets and tap dances for this year’s fair audience. 

One of the ballets, a piece called “The Courtroom” by Carmen, won’t just stick to typical ballerina movements. The story focuses on someone who has recently died and is waiting on their judgment from God. Satan is the prosecuting attorney. Because of the focus on the battle between good and evil, Legler wanted to have contrast in their performance so she borrowed a little jazz which is “more angular — the lines are less graceful,” Legler said.

For the dancers who are just starting out, Legler has a more classic performance in mind.

“There’s a little bit of narrative but [it’s] more of just dancing by rhythm,” she said. 

People who happen to see Redemption Story Dance Company tap dancing might be able to catch “Fingerprints,” which was choreographed by and will be performed by Sophia and Talum Scheving with Heidi Liggett. Another notable tap performance will be “Fury of Elise” which was partly choreographed by Rod Howell of UnitedTaps.com, while the other half was done by Legler.

All other dances were choreographed by Legler herself.

Since it is her first year she does not really have any certain expectations for the performances July 26 and 27 when her dancers grace the stage but her students have done “pretty well so far” as they prepare for their debut. 

Redemption Story Dance Company performs on the Pepsi Free Stage on Friday and Saturday at 2 p.m.