Carlu Carter - Clippings

Added 19th Mar 2022 by Beth Dobson (Archives and Programming Assistant, DCD) / Last update 19th Mar 2022

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Carlu Carter - Clippings

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apie No : ing shi Lo 10 mi La cre bu fo si fi d V SU r n b V 1 Wilfred Doucette CHOREOGRAPHER GWENETH LLOYD ( CENTER ) & DANCERS * The boss started too late . MANITOBA coming , Choreographer Lloyd has turned out 35 original ballets , many of them , such Beer & Skittles Ballet as her earthy Shooting of Dan McGrew In Ottawa's gilt - lined Capitol Theater ( TIME , May 19 ) , drawn from Canadian last week a standing - room - only audience folklore . of more than 2,400 watched a new Cana- With its Ottawa success behind it , the dian ballet sweep to its moving climax . Royal Winnipeg Ballet is billed to move With vivacious choreography by Gweneth westward toward home , wind up its tour Lloyd and a powerful musical score by in Duluth , its first U.S. appearance . After Robert Fleming , Shadow on the Prairie that , Gweneth Lloyd will push her biggest presents the story of a young immigrant plans yet : a European tour this summer , couple who come to live in the treeless a swing around the U.S. Midwest early desolation of Manitoba's plains . Slowly next year and an assault on Manhattan overwhelmed by loneliness , the moody " when we feel we are really ready . ” Her wife at length goes mad , aimlessly darts objective , as ever , will be to convert curi about in terror , then creeps exhausted into ous audiences into permanent fans . Says her marriage chest to die . Ottawa's audi- she : " Ballet is no longer champagne and ence exploded into applause , demanded caviar but beer & skittles for the people . " five curtain calls of petite Winnipeg - born Ballerina Carlu Carter . The performance of the 23 - member Royal Winnipeg Ballet -its first in the capital since Queen Eliza beth II gave it the Crown's endorsement a fortnight ago — was a smashing success . For the Winnipeg company , the road to royal approval and nationwide acclaim was long and arduous . Pushing the troupe toward new triumphs for 14 years has been a small , greying woman who admits that she herself " started too late to be a good ballet dancer . " Moving spirit and director of the Winnipeg troupe , English born Gweneth Lloyd came to Canada in 1938 and started a ballet school in Win nipeg ( four lessons for $ 2.75 ) . Soon , draw ing on her pupils for the roles , she was thawing Winnipeg's initial coolness by pre senting her own ballet works . Pleasantly surprised to discover a dramatic species of dance very different from the old familiar types ( tap , toe , acrobatic ) , Winnipeggers kept coming back for more . To keep them 28