Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Franca Ballet Stars Score in Premiere а came The Montreal Festivals opened company the gifted Celia Franca its season Aug. 8 at the Chalet with assembled for the Montreal ap what would seem a tryout of the pearance , was proof enough of the future national ballet which it is talent available in this country . hoped Canada will sponsor as one These are , admirably disciplined of the main artistic expressions of young dancers who , it would seem , this country . could challenge with their enthu Celia Franca , the noted English siasm and their earnestness the ballerina , choreographer and ballet majority of the touring companies mistress , came to Toronto last fall which have visited Montreal in to establish a Canadian National the past ten years . It must be re Ballet . She was married two weeks membered that ballet is enormous ago to a Torontonian . Miss Franca ly popular and like piano playing , presented several young dancers be- is producing according to the de fore the Montreal audience , in mand . what Laurette Thistle , of the Ot- " The program , we felt , was tawa Citizen stated was " a most little thin , understandably , of successful flight . " course , in view of the experimen " While Canada's national ballet tal nature of Miss Franca's under is not exactly a reality yet , ” Miss taking . It opened with a pas de Thistle said , " a trial balloon was deux from Gisele . Then sent up from Mount Royal . Celia dances from Les Sylphides . It end Franca , the Sadler's Wells dancer ed with the second act of Coppelia , who is being backed in Toronto which is one of the full - length bal by the National Ballet Guild of lets the Sadler's Wells Theatre Bal Canada , sent up the balloon and let will present on its Canadian her young Canadian dancers prov - tour this coming fall . ” ed that they had plenty of " balloon " ! " As Canadians , we got a big and other balletic virtues . lift ” out of the Gisele excerpt . Lois The company that Miss Franca Smith and David Adams where assembled for this Montreal Fes- completely disarming as well as tivals ' special production was small , knowing their business as ballet and chosen from leading Canadian dancers . The solo excerpts from ballet companies . David Adams , for- Sylphides were acceptable because merly of the Winnipeg Ballet , and the dancers who did them had been his wife , formerly Lois Smith of carefully trained to respond in their Vancouver , were foremost stars of measure to this incomparable ballet . the group . Other companies repre- “ But why did so enormous sented were the Volkoff Ballet of ly gifted a dancer Miss Toronto , represented by Sydney Franca choose the Ooppelia Vousden ; the Montreal Ballet , and second act for her first appear . Les Ballets Quebec . in Montreal ? It surely The dancers were all recruit . must be one of the most tri ed from the summer school vial scenes in ballet , an art that which Miss Franca conducted is always in danger of verg in Toronto last month and they ing on the trivial . may or may not be accepted " We wished we could have seen in the company proper which Miss Franca dancing and she will start training in Sep pantomiming less . The Montreal tember . Festivals , which has given the Can Miss Franca held auditions in adian · premieres of Pelleas and Montreal following the public pre- Tristan wanted to see a Sadler's miere and will soon tour Western Wells star who has decided to settle Canada , where she will hold audi- in Canada in more than the doll tions . She will select 28 dancers in Delibes . " to start intensive training in Sep- Jean Beaudet conducted the or tember . In one respect she will chestra for the performances . model her company on Sadler's ! Wells . be offered con as ance more tracts running from September to HALL to LET for meetings or recitals SHINN CONSERVATORY PHONE 30 279 or 64 688 January , to begin with , but most of them can expect work all sea son , if they measure up to the standards Miss Franca wants . " You don't have to go far out on a limb to predict that Miss Franca will certainly in . vite young David Adams , dancer and choreographer , to join the company " Miss This tle reported . " Mr. Adams , already well known from ballet festivals , danced Franz in Coppelia and also appeared in a pas de deux from Gisele . He had his old sense of timing , and had increased to the speed and accuracy of his turns and leaps . " Another likely member of the new company Miss Thistle stated , is Lois Smith , wife of Adams , " who was the other half in the " deux " in the Gisele excerpt , and showed excellent line as well as appealing sincerity and simplicity of man ner . ' Thomas Archer , critic of the