Old-fashioned entertainment combines with an “edgy steampunk” style as Modesto’s Central West Ballet returns to the stage.

CWB presents “A Steampunk Night of Outlaw Dances, Pirates, Cowboys and Damsels” at the Gallo Center for the Arts on Oct. 22-23. The show also will play Oct. 29 at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts in Tracy.

“’Pirates, Cowboys and Damsels’ is a new and exciting piece of fantasy that blends old-fashioned entertainment with an edgy steampunk style like in many science-fiction comic books,” according to a press release from Central West Ballet’s artistic director, René Daveluy.

Steampunk “comes from a sci-fi movement that started in comic books and has become beloved particularly as a fashion statement …” Daveluy said in an email. “It is mostly Victorian styled with a twist — where technology has matched today’s modern world using steam and gears as the foundation of everything that can fly and operate and everything that is technological.”

Only parts of the show feature a steampunk theme, he added.

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