Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Walter O'Hearn Comments Aren't We Surprised When Canadians Do Well ? sure e ex CUL " ULTURALLY , WE HAVE never quite dusted | own performers and choreographers are as good , colonialism out of our minds . ( At least I if not better ? haven't ) . Which is to say that we accept the That may be a bold statement but having existence of established painters and novelists seen some of the young talent produced and in our midst , but we remain a little incredulous shown forth in New York during recent years , when something at once original , Canadian and I need feel no shame for the young talent out of good is produced in any other art form . Winnipeg . As for I was reminded of this anomaly this week choreography , I would when I watched the Royal Winnipeg Ballet do trade the Agnes de two original numbers - Shadow on the Prairie Milles of this world for and The Shooting of Dan McGrew . The first is Gweneth Lloyd any delicate and tragic ; the second , a burlesque , day . Some of my high - spirited . Both have been seen here before friends have suggested but it was my first opportunity to see either . The to me that Miss Lloyd point is that each is solidly Canadian , in con isn't a strikingly orig ception , choreography , music and setting . Both inal choreographer . ballets were created by Gweneth Lloyd , the That may be — but she artistic director of the Winnipeg group . Robert has economy , preci Fleming wrote the score for the Prairie number sion , wit and a and Eric Wild improvised some delightful , pol sense of theatre . What ished nonsense for Dan McGrew . is more , she knows Nor do these people excel only in such breaks how to make the best with tradition . Arnold Spohr's Ballet Premier of her resources : it is is as much in the classic line as the other two CARTER rarely that the specta are not ; but it is equally sure , equally profes great promise tor , watching the sional and pleasant to the eye . Royal Winnipeg , will realize that this is really Now there would be no point in reporting my a small company . Every member is made to surprise at the count , cellence of these num * Apparently the New York critics agree . They bers ( or at the force were particularly taken with the possibilities and simplicity of John of one young Canadian girl , Carlu Carter , who W. Graham's settings does seem to be a dancer of great promise . ( As for Shadow on the somebody remarked the other night she even Prairie ) if it were a “ looks like a ballerina " and somebody else who purely original reac knew Alicia Markova when she was young was tion . But I am instantly reminded of her . ) * vinced that it was gen eral and there was One reason why we find it strange , I suppose , that artists are both Canadian and good is our enough surprise ex innate modesty . ( But it doesn't show in other pressed by other directions . ) Another is the impression that people to bolster that conviction . Americans must do better at these things be Why should it be ? cause they have more money . They do and None of this talk , money is important . Yet it does not confer a SPOHR please , about our being monopoly of brain and resourcefulness . Above interesting work all it may subsidize but it does not guarantee a pioneer people . Many of us have been soaking our roots here for cen- that relentless dedication which is the only way turies . Indeed one of our favorite attitudes is to keep a ballet company going . that we are a cultural leap and a bound ahead This tribute doesn't come , mind you , from a of our cousins , the Americans . theatrical revolutionary . As far as ballet is Ballet may be a slightly rarefied form of en- concerned I am an old chestnut - fancier and still deavor , the topping of the artistic cake . Yet believe that Petrouchka is pretty avant - garde . few people have shown astonishment at the An evening of Sylphides and Swan Lake topped amount of vigorous , indigenous ballet which has off by the Polovetsian Dances is my real speed . come out of the United States in previous years . But that needn't prevent me from recognizing Why should we really be astonished when our something both new and good . con .