Carlu Carter - Clippings

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Carlu Carter - Clippings

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A - 16 THE EVENING STAR , Washington , D. C. TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 9 , 1954 The Passing Show Winnipeg Ballet Is Greeted With Warmth at National a oon By Jay Carmody Three national anthems , those of the United States , England and Canada , and an international audience greeted the Royal Winnipeg Ballet company in its debut performance at the Na tional theater last night . It was clearly an occasion for both groups , the company making its first appearance outside of its native land , the audience seeing for the first time a classi cal dance group which origi choreographed by Miss Lloyd , is nated on a frontier . As such a dance drama much closer to meetings should be , this one was the company's youthful bloom . full of neighborly warmth and An excerpt from Winnipeg's own satisfaction . Each apparently proud history , this might be , the came to the other as a pleasant story of a young bride who first surprise . embraces the freedom of the The Winnipeg company- prairie , then falls victim of its which so delighted the then terrifying loneliness . Princess Elizabeth on her Cana dian visit in 1949 that it was This is perfectly in the compa granted its Royal Patent - is ny's idiom and is danced with a largely the work of one wom - sharp sense of its highly colored emotions . Two especially color an's inspiration and zeal . This is Miss Gwyneth Lloyd who ful principals were revealed in this number , Carlu Carter ( not came to Winnipeg in the 1930s , from the Royal Academy of the as programmed Josephine An drews ) and Gordon Wales , as Dance in London , and set up a the young bride and the hus dancing school . | bånd . The eloquent pantomime It is out of this school that carried the company grew , through to the least young , character in this ballet with fresh vibrant troupe of which music by Robert Fleming and Winnipeg and Canada can feel decor by John W. Graham . proud . New and small , and shy of the classical patina of its The single diverting flaw , if seniors , it has the intelligence one could be so churlish , was a to accept what it does best . wayward zipper on the bride's This is theater ballet in which costume which kept reminding it evidences its closest of resem one spectator that zippers were blances to that of the American not a blessing of pioneers . Ballet Theater group . It is less blessed than the latter , older A Cimarosa Concerto for Oboe group in outstanding solo per formers but it makes dramatic and Strings provided the com use of those it has . In this type pany with its second technical of story dance the Winnipeg test , a modern ballet again by company finds its most con- Mr. Spohr . It is not without its tagious merit , a free - winging exuberance in which it is more visual and melodic charm and at home than in the disciplined served to introduce another of classics . the group's feminine principals , Two of the latter in last Miss Eva von Gencsy , an excel night's opening program indi- | lent dancer and as much at home cated Miss Lloyd's insistence here as she is as Lou in " The upon traditional technique , but Shooting of Dan McGrew . " neither SO congenial to the It is the latter that closed last company's quality nor the audi- night's program and one ideally ence's taste . chosen to show the group's robust Under the baton of Eric Wild , zest for comedy . Conductor the Winnipeg company danced a Wild's own music , full of hilarous four - number program its moods , is the score of this pan opener here . tomime and it could not be more It displayed a talented balle- perfectly tailored to the com rina in Jean Stoneham in the pany's measure . opening Ballet Premiere , a white Nor could the multitude of ballet in the old high fashion variations that Miss Lloyd has danced to Mendelsshon's Gworked into this dancing im Minor Piano Concerto . The pression of a Yukon barroom on number is choreographed by the season's highest night . Annold Spohr , the company's Dan McGrew and the Ballet principal male dancer and Miss Premiere will be repeated on to Stoneham's partner , and is inter- night's second program with esting chiefly as a display of the Visages , another story ballet in group's technical skill and train- the repertory by Miss Lloyd , and ing . the Pas de Dezux from Don " Shadow the Prairie , ” | Quixote completing the bill . * * * * as on